education
Introducing CASE Scholar Nikki Gusz
Duke’s Fuqua School of Business offers scholarships each year to individuals with social sector backgrounds who are looking to acquire business skills for use in their pursuit of social impact. TheCASE Social Sector Scholarshipbrings in amazing students who add a richness to the Fuqua student body and bring their unique perspectives to the classroom. We […]
Smart Impact Capital: Online Investment Modules for the Busy Entrepreneur
You’re a busy entrepreneur with an innovative venture that is making a real impact. But like many impact entrepreneurs you likely face questions and challenges in the capital-raising process. Many get the wrong kind of capital at the wrong time. The wrong capital for your business is “dumb money” – it can keep you and […]
CASE Change Academy: YES Prep Tackles Teacher Retention in Two-Day Program
This post was written by Evelyn Powery and Sarah Martin, both Duke MBA students and CASE Fellows, in April 2015. We recently had the opportunity to participate in the CASE Change Academy, a program that combines customized training, consulting and a laser-focused team retreat. CASE Senior Fellow Dan Heath uses the tools and frameworks from […]
Education, Global Health & Community Development at SBSI 2013
This post was written in April 2013 by Maddy Devine, a first year student at Fuqua and one of the track managers for the 2013 SBSI conference. As one of the track managers of the Net Impact Club’s Sustainable Business & Social Impact conference, I had been tasked with pulling together three panels that encompassed […]
Interview with Greg Dees: Reflections on Teaching Social Entrepreneurship
David Bornstein recently wrote about “The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur” in the New York Times. His blog notes the rapid increase in social entrepreneurship education – from only a handful of courses taught in 2002, to more than “350 professors and researchers focusing on the topic in more than 35 countries” by 2008, and continuing […]
Summer Internship with Gates Foundation: The Impact of Impatient Optimism
This post was written in October 2012 by second year student, Carla Hickman. Carla spent her summer interning with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. I have always worked in the education sector, and arriving at Fuqua, it was a passion and career path I knew I would continue to follow. During […]