Seeing Just How Far an MBA Education Can Take You: My Summer Internship in Social Impact

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This post is written by Jehan El-Gabri, a second-year Duke Fuqua, in October 2017 During my first year at Fuqua, I fully embraced the opportunity to be a student again. Having worked in education and policy, my transition to business school meant embracing the feeling like I was drinking from a firehose and learning as […]

My summer internship working on healthcare in Rwanda

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This post was written by Emily Mason, a second-year Fuqua MBA student, in September 2017. Here is a scenario of two girls. The first girl has access—to a smartphone, strong education systems, and routine health exams— and thus, access to the potential of a healthy life. The second girl lives in a slum and is […]

How Do We Erase the Lines of Divide? Hearing from Aaron Walker of Camelback Ventures

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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 […]

2017 Launch Pad Award

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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 […]

Breaking the Paradigm: Nonprofit (Good) vs. For-Profit (Evil)

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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 […]

Supply & Demand in Impact Investing at Sustainable Business and Social Impact Conference

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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 […]

Being Unreasonable at the Sustainable Business and Social Impact Conference

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This post was written by Kylie Johnston, CASE Fellow, Co-President of the Net Impact Club, and Candidate for MBA, in February 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 […]

Recap of the 2017 Sustainable Business and Social Impact Conference

This post was written by Danny Suits, a second-year Duke MBA student and co-chair of the Net Impact Club SBSI team, in February 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 […]

Investing in the Environment: From Niche to Mainstream at SBSI17

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This post was written by Pia Morante, a second-year Fuqua MBA student, CASE i3 Fellow, and member of the Fuqua chapter of the Net Impact Club, in February 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 […]

3 Lessons From My Internship With The Hill Center

This post was written by Nicole Page, a second-year Fuqua MBA in January 2017. She has a background in consulting but is excited and passionate about growing her career in the education space. Nicole sits on the cabinet of the Association of Women in Business on the Leadership team, on the cabinet of the Net […]