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Ready, Set, Grow! Three insights from our CASE i3CP project to grow your social enterprise
This post was written in April 2014 by CASE i3 teammates and Duke MBA students Clayton Avent, Aaron Gress, Francisco Jimenez, Jesse Johnson, and Sumit Sharan. A for-profit forestry social enterprise came to the CASE i3 Consulting Program (CASE i3CP) for guidance on how to scale their business model and attract new capital from impact […]
2014 Launch Pad Award
Creating a marketplace that matches entrepreneurs who need funding with investors Founder: Frederico Rizzo Venture: Broota (Brazil) Dan Heath: “Frederico is resourceful and resilient. Early on, he dodged a lot of the problems that can doom a startup: team problems, money problems, and timing problems. Every time, he faced into the problem directly and figured out a solution. […]
2014 CASE Award Goes to Living Goods
March 2014 CASE is excited to announce the 2014 winner of the CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation (ESI), Living Goods! Living Goods is a fantastic social venture that empowers the poor through networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling a broad assortment of […]
Laurie Spengler of Enclude: Capacity + Capital = Impact
This post was written by Duke MBA student Grace Webster in March 2014. As a part of the CASE i3 Speaker Series, Laurie Spengler, CEO of Enclude (formerly Shorebank International), visited Fuqua in December 2013 and shared some of her observations on global lessons for leveraging capacity with capital for impact. Enclude is a […]
In Memory of Greg Dees
January 2014, Erin Worsham We are deeply saddened that our dear friend and colleague, Greg Dees, passed away on Friday, December 20, 2013. Greg was not only the co-founder of CASE, but also considered by many to be the “father of social entrepreneurship education.” He was instrumental in founding and developing social entrepreneurship as an […]
Opening the Curtain on the New 2.0 Era of Impact Investing
This article by Cathy Clark and Ben Thornley was originally published on the Huffington Post in November 2013. Impact investing has not been growing as quickly as many practitioners might have hoped. Knowledge of what does and does not work in impact investing remains closely held. And because impact investing is unconventional (blending capital market […]
My Internship Creating Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Corporate Solutions
This post was written by Liza Schillo, a joint MEM/MBA student at Duke in October 2013. Liza worked with Natural Capitalism Solutions over her summer internship, made possible by the support of the Summer Internship Fund. This summer, I worked with Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS), a sustainability consulting firm located in Boulder, CO. This boutique consulting […]
Summer Internship: Using Mobile Technology to Distribute Affordable Healthcare in Kenya
This post was written by Colby Warner, a second year Duke MBA student, in October 2013. Colby worked with the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD) and Changamka this summer with support from the Summer Internship Fund. When I wrote my application essays last year, I romanticized about a career where I could use my […]
My Internship Assessing Charter School Networks in New Orleans
This post was written by second year Duke MBA student Venki Narayanan in September 2013. Venki interned at the ReNEW Charter Management Organization in New Orleans, LA. Venki’s internship was made possible with the support of the Summer Internship Fund. This summer I had the privilege of working as a Sustainability and Operations Growth Consultant […]