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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 […]
Stakeholder Capitalism: Intention is the First Step toward Accountability
This article was written by CASE Faculty Director Cathy Clark and originally posted on LinkedIn in August 2019. My inbox and twitter feed have been flooded since Monday. That is the date the Business Roundtable, a lobbying group composed of the nation’s leading CEOs, released a new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation signed by […]
Reflections from Skoll World Forum 2019
April 2019 Erin Worsham, Executive Director of CASE At the 16th annual Skoll World Forum, social entrepreneurs, funders, government officials, and others from across 81 countries gathered to explore the theme of Accelerating Possibility. It was an inspiring week discussing what we have accomplished in social impact and all that remains to be done. As […]
Feeling Uncomfortable: First Reflections on our DEI Journey
March 2019, Erin Worsham, Executive Director At CASE, we believe in the power of individuals and organizations to create positive social change. And there has been much progress (I often revisit the 2017 Gates Foundation annual letter when I need some reminding about all the progress being made). But we also know that many of […]
VillageReach: Committed to the Last Mile, and Evolving
This month, Scaling Pathways—a collaboration between USAID, the Skoll Foundation, Mercy Corps and CASE at Duke—released its second paper in the Theme Study Series, “Leveraging Government Partnerships for Scaled Impact.” Emily Bancroft, President of VillageReach, shares strategies and learnings from nearly 20 years of partnership with governments which are highlighted throughout the paper; the blog […]
Insider Insights on the Challenging but Rewarding Work of Scaling with Government
October 2018 Patient and powerful. Risk and reward. Necessary and challenging. If you had to summarize partnering with government in just two words, what would they be? Leaders of social ventures Build Change, VillageReach, and TriCiclos shared the words above during a panel session to launch CASE’s latest contribution to the Scaling Pathways series, “Leveraging […]
Scaling Pathways: Leveraging Government Partnerships
Introducing “Leveraging Government Partnerships for Scaled Impact,” the Latest Theme Study From Scaling Pathways Social enterprises driving toward systems change must undertake various partnerships along the way. The one partnership most reported as being key to the ability to achieve such change is one with government. So thousands of social enterprises embark, every day, on […]
Introducing the 2020 CASE Scholars
September 2018 We are proud to have four inspiring new CASE scholars join us at Fuqua this year. Selected through an application process, the CASE Social Sector Scholarship is awarded to Daytime MBA students who are committed to applying business skills in pursuit of social impact. Meet Our 2020 CASE Scholars Anurag Dusanapudi, as Co-founder […]