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Eighty nine million Americans avoid buying at least one of the top-9 allergen food products. Of these 89 million, 25 million have a severe or moderate allergy, 7 million have a mild allergy, 32 million have food intolerances. Twenty-five million …

2021-2022 F. M. Kirby Impact Prize Finalist Spotlight: Benetech We are thrilled to share why we are so excited about the five finalists for the 2021-2022 F.M. Kirby Impact Prize. Check the CASE blog for posts on the other finalists. The Problem EarthEnable …

By Cathy Clark and J. Gregory Dees From starting-up through scaling, social entrepreneurs are constantly redesigning their business models to increase their financial stability, efficiency and ultimate impact. Building on their global study of social entrepreneurial business models, the authors …

By Matthew T.A. Nash Few concepts in the social sector have caught on as quickly and have captured the imagination of so many, or have been the subject of such intense debate, as has social entrepreneurship. We need to create …

By Paul N. Bloom The idea of ChildFinance – offering children access to, and the capability to use, safe financial products and services – emerged from Jeroo Billimoria’s early experiences working with poor families in rural India and with “street” …

By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson [This is an edited excerpt from a longer paper by the same authors entitled “Framing a Theory of Social Entrepreneurship: Building on Two Schools of Practice and Thought.” The original paper was …

By Rajesh K. Aggarwal, Mark E. Evans and Dhananjay Nanda We study the relation between board size and managerial incentives in non-profit firms. We present a model where board membership is granted to parties that wish to direct the manager’s …

By Cathy Clark and Selen Ucak This first-of-its-kind exploratory study aims to take a snapshot of the landscape of U.S. for-profit social ventures, focusing on emerging companies that started within the past 30 years. Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE), …

By J. Gregory Dees In the lead chapter in a “how-to” manual for social enterprise produced by the Yale-Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures, Greg Dees lays out cautionary words about the challenges, costs, and risks associated with nonprofit …

By Rajesh K. Aggarwal and Dhananjay Nanda We study the impact of the size of a firm’s board of directors on managerial incentives and firm performance. We present a model where a risk-averse agent (the top management team) performs multiple tasks …