Global Perspective

Erin Worsham, Executive Director of CASEOctober 2025 Every September, global leaders, innovators, and activists converge in New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and Climate Week and engage in discussions on the world’s most pressing challenges and emerging solutions. Whether you’re a funder, policymaker, or impact leader, here are three takeaways from this […]

Erin Worsham, Executive Director of CASESeptember 2025 The world feels more uncertain than ever. From political polarization and economic instability to environmental crises and strained social systems, leaders today are navigating uncharted territory. And yet, where there is disruption, there is also immense opportunity. The question is: how do we lead in these uncertain times? […]

Audrey Choi has taken a rather circuitous route to her current role as Chief Sustainability Officer for multinational investment bank Morgan Stanley, with a common thread being a deep curiosity and commitment to learning.

November 2021 As a McKinsey consultant turned founder of a sports apparel company, turned co-founder of the benefit corporation movement, turned leader of an economic systems change movement, Jay Coen Gilbert sees his professional journey as a process of awakening and widening the aperture of his impact lens.  As the kickoff speaker for CASE’s 2021/22 […]

Originally posted 9.13.21 on ImpactAlpha. NEW: The United Nations Development Programme and CASE at Duke have released a free online training for global enterprises and investors on impact measurement and management for the SDGs.  CASE and ImpactAlpha will launch Optimizing for Impact, a multiweek selection of lessons and video clips from the course. We’ll kick it off with […]

March 2021 On March 10, Safeena Husain, Founder & Executive Director of Educate Girls shared powerful scaling lessons as part of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business’s  Executive Speaker Series. Based on her own story rooted in childhood poverty and dropping out of school, Husain […]

In 2019, CASE at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the United States Agency of International Development’s (USAID) Global Development Lab Center for Applied Innovation and Acceleration selected eight social enterprises from USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures Portfolio to participate in the Growth Readiness Assessment and Coaching Project (GRA). Launched with the goal of identifying […]