CASE Founder Greg Dees reflects on 10 years of CASE at Fuqua. This Q&A was originally posted on the Fuqua website (here). Social entrepreneurs are playing a key role in recognizing and resourcefully pursuing opportunities to create social value. They …
What a great night! Our CASE team and 180+ of our closest friends got together to celebrate 10 years of CASE and hear inspiring talks from our founder Greg Dees; student social entrepreneur Rachel Lichte; Fuqua alum and global health …
David Bornstein recently wrote about “The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur” in the New York Times. His blog notes the rapid increase in social entrepreneurship education – from only a handful of courses taught in 2002, to more than “350 professors …
CASE Founder Greg Dees was recently interviewed by Luke Miller Callahan, Founder of GroAction. The interview covers a variety of interesting topics so we pulled out some highlights below – but we also recommend watching the interview in its entirety! IMPACT INVESTING …
Greg Dees was quoted in an interesting NY Times piece on social business, “The Path from Charity to Profit”: For a social business, “the obstacles are similar to those of starting and running any new business,” said J. Gregory Dees, …
We blogged in a previous post about the nonprofit vs. for-profit decision that social entrepreneurs make as they are starting up their new venture. But even that difficult choice between nonprofit and for-profit is overly simplified. On the spectrum of …
Announcing a new publication from Greg Dees: “Social Ventures as Learning Laboratories” in Tennessee’s Business (Vol 20, No 1, May 2011). This publication was originally written for a special edition of Innovations distributed at the 2009 World Economic Forum meeting …
For entrepreneurs, the start-up phase is an exciting but challenging time. For social entrepreneurs, a major decision that needs to be made during this start-up phase is whether to launch as a for-profit or nonprofit (or hybrid in between)? Many …
Clark and Dees have posted their latest profile on the Social Edge, this time highlighting Simpa Networks. Simpa is a fascinating profile – a sophisticated business model, inserted in to a complex ecosystem, a bold mission (to expand clean, safe, …
Dees and Clark’s next post on the Social Edge is live! The first set of posts will be focused on Start-Ups. We often talk about Social Entrepreneurs’ passion, their stories and their unique ideas. But what happens when they take …
