Impact Investing

May 2016 This month’s CASE Chat features Eric Savage, Co-Founder and President of Unitus Capital. Based in Bangalore, India, Unitus Capital was founded in 2008 with the mission of accelerating capital markets for ventures serving low-income populations in Asia. In the CASE Chat, Eric discusses initial challenges they faced in starting a social investment bank, […]

February 2016 Ahead of our annual Advisory Council meeting held at the Fuqua School of Business, this month’s CASE Chat features one of our CASE i3 council members Sasha Dichter, Chief Innovation Officer at Acumen. Sasha has been a leader in social entrepreneurship and impact investing for many years and offers his insights on a […]

January 2016 During his visit to campus in December, Nick O’Donohoe, CEO of Big Society Capital, provided insight into the founding of the organization and its role in building the social investment market in the United Kingdom. Impact investing (as we know it in the US) or social investing (as it’s often termed in the […]

This post originally appeared on Next Billion on October 19, 2015 with the title “NexThought Monday: Four Steps to Unlock the Potential of Impact Investing: SOCAP15 conference highlights critical areas where the sector should focus.” You can find the original posting here. At the recent SOCAP conference, thousands of investors, entrepreneurs, academics and others gathered […]

July 2015, Cathy Clark, Faculty Director of CASE Why we are monitoring what happens through impact investing capital announced by the White House in 2014 Today at the White House, the Obama Administration announced private sector and executive action commitments of more than $4 Billion to climate change solutions. The White House is holding a […]

This post was written by Adelina Dasso, Duke MBA student, in April 2015 On March 24, 2015 I had the great opportunity to attend the presentation of our CASE i3 spring speaker, Maya Chorengel. Maya is Co-founder and Managing Director of Elevar Equity, a venture capital fund that helps innovative entrepreneurs bring financial services, education, […]

This post by Erin Worsham, CASE Executive Director, originally appeared on The Huffington Post March 4, 2015. Our team at CASE has studied social entrepreneurship and scaling social impact for over a decade. During that time, one thing that has been clear is that organizations striving to achieve impact at scale are most successful when […]

This post was written by Matt Hendren, Duke MBA student, in January 2015.

This review was written by Jem Hudson, founder of the Caldy Group, in December 2014. To read the original post and other insights, subscribe to the Caldy Group blog here. “The stakes are high. If impact investing spurs the socialization and growth in Collaborative Capitalism that we believe it will, for the first time in history […]