Tag Archives: Africa

Impact Consulting in Africa

What is social entrepreneurship?

This post was written by second year Duke MBA, Deidre-Ann Nelson.  Deidre’s post originally appeared on Fuqua’s “Daytime MBA Student Blog” which has lots of great posts about the Daytime MBA experience from the student perspective. Needless to say, consulting …

Introducing CASE Scholar Jennifer Fluder

As noted in the previous post, Fuqua offers scholarships each year to individuals with nonprofit backgrounds who are looking to acquire business skills for use in their pursuit of social impact. In addition to Michelle Kirby, we are proud to announce our second CASE Scholar, …

From Fuqua to Rwanda: Global Health in Action

This post was written by second year student, Liz Charles. Liz interned this summer with the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD) with the support of CASE’s Summer Internship Fund (learn more about SIF at the bottom on this …

Duke MBAs Consulting in Developing Economies

We recently completed another exciting year of CASE’s Global Consulting Practicum in Social Entrepreneurship (GCP). The GCP is a field study course in which teams of Duke MBA students complete projects with social enterprises serving base-of-the-pyramid markets in developing economies. …

KickStarting the End of Poverty

This post was written by first year MBA student and CASE Fellow Greg Payne. Greg reflects on a recent visit from Martin Fisher, Co-Founder and CEO of KickStart International. CASE was honored to recently host Martin at Fuqua and award …

2012 Award Winner!

CASE is proud to announce the winner of our 2012 Enterprising Social Innovation Award: KickStart International! KickStart develops and promotes technologies that can be used by entrepreneurs to establish and run profitable small scale enterprises and help families improve their economic …

The Gift of Shelter

This blog was written by CASE Fellow Beth Bafford.  She was joined on the trip by CASE Fellow (and frequent CASE blogger) Dan Baum, CASE Scholar Meredith Driscoll, and other CASE enthusiasts.  Over winter break, I had the great honor and opportunity …