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CASE 2019-2020 Annual Report
We had another exciting year of impact at CASE! Read our 2019-2020 annual report to learn more about our accomplishments in our next gen, scaling and impact investing portfolios, as well as what we are looking forward to working on in the 2020-2021 academic year. Thank you to all of the donors, partners, advisory council […]
A Message from CASE on Racial Justice in America
June 2020 Dear CASE Community, Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. George Floyd. Whiteness weaponized against Christian Cooper. Disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on people of color. A global health pandemic layered on top of the pandemic of racism that has scourged our country for far too long. And to think that past weekend – May 31 – […]
Opinion: Paycheck Protection Program: Community Banks Prove ‘Actions Speak Louder Than Words’
Paycheck Protection Program: Community Banks Prove ‘Actions Speak Louder Than Words’ This familiar phrase could not be more appropriate today when contrasting the swift and responsive action taken by community banks in the wake of COVID-19 compared to the empty rhetoric of the big banks. Case in point – Southern Bancorp (http://www.banksouthern.com), a leading community […]
Welcome 2020-2021 CASE & CASE i3 Fellows
Each year, CASE selects an elite group of second-year Fuqua MBAs to become CASE and/or CASE i3 fellows and act as ambassadors for CASE’s work in social entrepreneurship and impact investing. These fellows come from a wide range of backgrounds and work with the CASE team to lead workshops and speaker sessions, as well as […]
Coaching Social Enterprises to Scale
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 […]
Ommeed Sathe of Prudential Financial
February 2020 When Ommeed Sathe, Vice President of Impact Investments at Prudential Financial, joined the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business on January 28 as part of the CASE Executive Speaker Series, the last thing anyone in the room of nearly 100 people expected was for […]
CASE Scholars: Cultivating the Next Generation of Social Impact Leaders
January 2020 On a sweltering hot southern day in October 2019, Nathan Hixson, a CASE Scholar and first-year Daytime MBA student at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, attended his first impact investing class. Having a professional background in impact investing prior to attending Fuqua, he found himself wondering how the class would approach the […]
Introducing CASE Scholar Utkarsha Bhardwaj
Utkarsha Bhardwaj Since childhood, I have been most passionate about exploring and solving the multi-faceted problems encountered by millions in a developing country like India. This is because I have always been around inspiring people who work together to address societal problems and, in the process, contribute to each other’s success. These interactions and experiences […]
Introducing CASE Scholar Patrick Pierson-Prah
Patrick Pierson-Prah I co-founded two related companies with the mission to more meaningfully improve the lives of others and to provide people with increased economic empowerment. The first company, Procap Investments, which is an investment management firm, focuses on raising and managing funds to invest in agriculture in Africa. The second company, Oyster Agribusiness, helps […]
Introducing CASE Scholar Meghan Spell
Meghan Spell I began my career as a healthcare attorney in a large defense firm in Louisiana. I left a comfortable, but unfulfilling, career in the corporate legal world to work in nonprofit, safety net healthcare systems, where I partnered with patients every day to help them become engaged, activated and valued consumers of healthcare […]