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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 […]
CASE i3 Consulting Program Client Profile: Quantified Ventures
June 2018 CASE often gets calls and emails from organizations wondering if there are ways to work with our fabulous students – and the answer is YES! One way for organizations working in the impact investing field to take advantage of the expertise and passion of our Duke MBAs is through the CASE i3 Consulting […]
CASE’s Year in Impact 2017-2018
It’s June, another school year has gone by and another group of CASE and CASE i3 Fellows have graduated. We had another exciting year of impact at CASE. Here are some of the numbers from 2017-2018. If you are interested in learning more about our 2017-2018 year you can read CASE Executive Director, Erin Worsham’s […]