Tag Archives: social impact

How to Take a Social Venture to Scale

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 published by Palgrave …

The Bittersweet Goodbye: A Message to Our Graduates

Each year when the summer ends and the fall begins, the halls here at Fuqua begin to fill and the excitement is almost palpable.  The CASE team gets to meet a new group of bright, energetic students, hear about their …

Update on CASE Activities

Q3 has already come and gone – our 10th anniversary year sure is flying by fast!  As we do each quarter, we’ve summarized our recent happenings below: Our most recent newsletter is chock full – including a recap of the 7th annual …

BCG and Social Impact in Latin America

This post was written by Amy Snyder, a second year Duke MBA and current CASE Fellow.  Amy reflects on a recent visit from Jorge Becerra, Senior Partner and Managing Director in BCG’s Santiago office.  Jorge is the regional leader of BCG’s Community …

The “Surprise” Social Entrepreneur

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 …

Disrupting the Status Quo

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 …

Scaling Social Impact: A Literature Toolkit for Funders

By Cathy Clark, Cynthia W. Massarsky, Tamara Schweitzer Raben and Erin Worsham With support from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), the authors set out to document and analyze the currently available literature on scaling, in order to both highlight the …

Creating Financial Markets: Lessons from Finance Pioneer Ron D. Cordes

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.  …

Update on CASE Activities

Time for CASE’s quarterly check-in! Read about some of our recent happenings: Our most recent newsletter is chock full of goodies – an interview with Greg Dees, recaps of events with Antony Bugg-Levine and Benetech’s Jim Fruchterman, and our fun holiday video!  …