Tag Archives: social impact

This post was written by Mary O’Donnell, a second year Duke MBA student and a CASE Fellow. Mary, along with fellow Duke MBA student Blaise Cote, was the co-director of the 2015 Sustainable Business and Social Impact conference. As a …

This post was written by Diana Vining, a second year Duke MBA student and CASE Scholar. Diana reflects on the recent visit from Michael Brown, co-founder and CEO of City Year. Want to hear more from Michael Brown? Check out our …

The Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), of which CASE is a partner, is proud to announce the 2015 cohort of innovators. These eight innovators now bring the SEAD network to 25 innovators in East Africa, India, and Latin America. From …

By Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson and Ben Thornley The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism offers precise details on what, exactly, impact investing entails, embodied in the experiences and best and proven practices of some of …

By Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson and Ben Thornley This report, released on November 7, 2013, was created in partnership with InSight at Pacific Community Ventures and Impact Assets, and identifies twelve high-performing funds that have seen both financial and social …

Another year, another set of bittersweet goodbyes as our graduates throw their caps and hold their diplomas in hand. We send them off in to a world full of challenges that are ever changing and growing in complexity. But also a …

This post was written by Kirsten Hagfors, one of the SBSI 2013 conference co-directors. Kirsten will soon graduate from Duke with a joint MBA/MEM (Master of Environmental Management) degree. This past February the Duke MBA Net Impact Club held its …

This post was written by second year student, Carla Hickman. Carla spent her summer interning with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. I have always worked in the education sector, and arriving at Fuqua, it was a …

This article was originally published on the Harvard Business Review blog and is being reprinted with their permission. The post is written by CASE professor Paul Bloom.  Paul’s new book, Scaling Your Social Venture: Becoming an Impact Entrepreneur, was just …

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. …