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Capital + Ideas + People + Timing = Social Change
Professor Cathy Clark gave this TED-style talk as part of CASE’s 10th anniversary celebration in December 2012. How do social entrepreneurship and impact investing interrelate? And what does that have to do with Sesame Street? At CASE’s 10 Year Anniversary Celebration, Professor Cathy Clark used the example of Sesame Street to articulate a formula for […]
What is Impact Investing and How Does It Work?
Professor Cathy Clark explains impact investing in a January 2013 Fuqua Q&A. “Impact investing” – chances are it’s a term you have heard recently. What exactly is impact investing and how does is work? Fuqua’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) is leading the way on impact investing research. Professor Cathy Clark breaks down the trend in […]
Are you a Note Holder? Lisa Hall of Calvert Foundation
This post was written in April 2012 by second year MBA student and CASE Fellow Beth Bafford. Beth reflects on a recent visit from Lisa Hall, President and CEO of the Calvert Foundation. As we’ve mentioned on this blog before, there is a lot of excitement around impact investing both here at Duke and around the […]
“Building a Field That Has Really Been More of a Yard”: The Impact Investor at Oxford
This post was written in March 2012 by Mailande Moran, a first year Duke MBA and a student fellow with CASE i3. On Wednesday, the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing co-hosted a meeting of roughly 80 leading investors, entrepreneurs, academics and intermediaries from the global impact investing community in Oxford, before the start of the Skoll […]
Creating Financial Markets: Lessons from Finance Pioneer Ron Cordes of ImpactAssets
This post was written in February 2012 by first year MBA student Ian Cain. Ian reflects on a recent visit from Ron D. Cordes, co-chairman of Genworth Financial Wealth Management and founder of ImpactAssets. It was in 2004, on his 45th birthday, when Ron D. Cordes decided that by the time he turned 50 he would be on a different […]
Antony Bugg-Levine of Nonprofit Finance Fund on Getting in the Game
This post was written in December 2011 by second year MBA student and CASE Fellow Beth Bafford. Beth reflects on a recent visit from Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund and recipient of the 2011 CASE Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award. We had the distinct pleasure to present the CASE Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award to […]
Announcing Launch of the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing
September 2011 We’re pleased to announce that CASE is formally launching a new program focused on impact investing, the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing. This will be the first comprehensive global program at a top 10 business school in the US to blend academic rigor with practical knowledge on the emerging field of Impact Investing across three […]