Tag Archives: social entrepreneurship

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 …

This post was written by second year Duke MBA and CASE Fellow Beth Bafford.  Beth reflects on a recent visit from Laura Callanan, CASE Advisory Council member and keynote at this year’s Sustainable Business and Social Impact conference.  Laura works with the Social …

This post was written by Amy Snyder and Beth Bafford. Amy and Beth are both second year MBA students, CASE Fellows, and the co-chairs of this year’s fantastic Duke MBA Net Impact “Sustainable Business and Social Impact” Conference.  Earlier this …

By Paul N. Bloom Social entrepreneurs are leaders of ventures that employ innovative approaches to address social problems. Their innovations can emerge in the ways the products or services of the venture function; the ways they are distributed and delivered; …

This post was written by first year MBA student Ian Cain.  Ian reflects on a recent visit from Ron D. Cordes, co-chairman of Genworth Financial Wealth Management and founder of ImpactAssets.  Cordes came to Fuqua as part of the CASE i3 speaker series on impact investing.  …

On January 26th at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Credit Suisse Research Institute, in collaboration with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, released a new report entitled Investing for Impact: How Social Entrepreneurship is Redefining the Meaning of Return (download pdf here). …

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 …

his post was written by second year MBA student and CASE Fellow Beth Bafford. Beth reflects on a recent visit from Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund and recipient of the 2011 CASE Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award.  We had the …

This post was written by second year MBA student and CASE Fellow Joanne Sprague. Joanne reflects on a recent visit from Jim Fruchterman, Founder of Benetech and the recipient of the 2011 CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation.  When you talk to Jim …

CASE is proud to announce the winner of our 2011 Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award: Antony Bugg-Levine, a leading figure in the emerging field of global impact investing. Bugg-Levine, CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), will receive his award …