CASE students
Bridging Structural Inequities to Build Business & Community Resilience
May 2020 There are many things that routinely worry Courtney Smith and Erika Smith-Punches about owning Piri, an Afro-southern fusion family-run catering business in Durham, North Carolina. They worry about having enough customers. They worry about pricing their food affordably, while also being able to pay all of their staff a living wage. They worry […]
2020 Launch Pad Award
Using technology to increase financial inclusion and build community in Latin America MiLibreta is the winner of the 2020 Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Launch Pad prize, which awards $10,000 and mentorship to current MBA students with an idea for a social enterprise. MiLibreta is a mobile accounting system that allows small […]
Updates from CASE Launch Pad Winners
February 2020 If Tim Scales, a 2017 Duke University Fuqua School of Business alum and former CASE Fellow, could give one piece of advice to aspiring social impact leaders, he would tell them that they should start a social enterprise. This is because, while at Fuqua, Scales had the opportunity to start CivicRise, a mobile […]
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 […]
Cooking Up Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with the Culinary Femme Collective
December 2019 Good. Black. Food. Those are the three words Piri, a family owned and operated food business in East Durham, uses to describe the southern and Afro diasporic fusion of its menu that includes foods such as spicy lentils, crispy fried chicken and savory mashed potatoes. Taking joy in the fact that each dish […]
Learning Together: Announcing the 2019-2020 Fuqua Client Consulting Practicum and CASE i3 Consulting Practicum Clients
As Fuqua School of Business Daytime MBA student and Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Fellow and Launch Pad Winner Michelle Egger reflected on her summer 2019 internship at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she realized that the experience that most prepared her for the internship was her participation in the Fuqua […]
2019 Summer Internship Fund Recipients Feel Lasting Impact of Their Work
December 2019 For Fuqua School of Business Daytime MBA student and CASE Fellow Sarah Burns, 20 short minutes spent in a gym on a Friday night proved to be one of the most deeply impactful parts her summer. That evening, she got the chance to attend a ceremony for six young men celebrating their graduation […]
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 […]