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June 2017 Impact Q&A is our new series featuring insights from our CASE Advisory Council from their leadership in the social impact field. Download a printable version of Laura’s interview. Laura Callanan’s career has brought together social innovation, impact investing and the arts. She started working as a theater intern when she was 16, majored […]

May 2017 This month’s CASE Chat features Debra Schwartz, Managing Director of the MacArthur Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States. The MacArthur Foundation has been an important leader in the impact investing field, with $500 million in assets allocated to program-related investments and mission-related investments. You can learn more about their […]

This post was written by Kylie Johnston, CASE Fellow, Co-President of the Net Impact Club, and Candidate for MBA, in May 2017. I am an Australian from a middle-income nuclear family of six. I went to a good Australian public high school, a great public university and have worked since I was fourteen and a […]

This post was written by Pia Morante, a second-year Duke MBA student, CASE i3 Fellow, and a member of the Fuqua chapter of the Net Impact Club in April 2017. This month we had the pleasure to welcome Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui, CASE i3 Advisory Board member, to Fuqua. Alvaro is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of […]

April 2017 A big congratulations to Tom Mitchell (Fuqua MBA ’07 and CASE Scholar), Managing Director of Cambridge Associates, for being honored this year with the Fuqua Leader of Consequence Award! The award recognizes Fuqua alumni whose exemplary professional accomplishments are match by the significant positive social or environmental change they have created. Since 2007, […]

This post was written by CASE Executive-in-Residence and Sproxil Co-Founder Alden Zecha in April 2017. He has over 25 years of experience in more than 35 countries and has founded several companies, including SEAD Innovator Sproxil, Inc., a social venture that provides a consumer SMS and app product verification service to help consumers avoid purchasing counterfeit […]

Fuqua MBA Tim Scales wants you to be more politically engaged with new app Can a smartphone app increase civic engagement? Fuqua MBA and CASE Fellow Tim Scales aims to find out with his startup CivicRise. Since 2012, CASE awards one Fuqua MBA student with a budding social venture the CASE Launch Pad award. The […]

March 2017 Pomona Impact launched in Guatamala in 2011 and makes investments in small growing businesses in Central America, Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador. Pomona Impact particularly targets firms that improve the lives of people living in the bottom of the economic pyramid and/or benefit the environment, and has thus far made investments ranging from $50,000 […]

This post was written by Simone Pitre, Program Associate at Innovations in Healthcare, a partner in the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), in March 2017. The 2017 Sustainable Business and Social Impact (SBSI) conference focused on how business can tackle global challenges by exploring innovative models and collaborative partnerships that are already working to […]

This post was written by Raquel Lima, a second-year MBA student at The Fuqua School of Business in April 2017. The 2017 Sustainable Business and Social Impact (SBSI) conference focused on how business can tackle global challenges by exploring innovative models and collaborative partnerships that are already working to solve these challenges and discussing how these […]