Impact Investing
Multilingual Leadership: Cracking the Code
This post by Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson, and Ben Thornley was originally published on the SOCAP14 blog in September 2014. To visit the original post, click here.
Encouraging Investing Beyond Financial Returns: Q&A with Cathy Clark
This Q&A was first published on the Fuqua website in July 2014. Cathy Clark, Adjunct Professor and Director of Fuqua’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship Impact Investing Initiative (CASE i3), has performed extensive research into the best practices of impact investing, the practice of investing for both financial gain and societal good. After […]
Best Practices from Microfinance at Skoll World Forum
This post was written by MBA student and CASE and CASE i3 Fellow Grace Webster in April 2014. The Skoll World Forum brings together the brightest minds leading the way for social entrepreneurship, impact investing, sustainability, and much more. This year’s Forum highlighted ambitious, audacious innovators for good like Malala Yousafzai, Slum Dwellers International, Tony […]
Impact Investing and Global Finance: The Big Picture
This article by Cathy Clark and Ben Thornley was first published in the Huffington Post Blog in April 2014. Click here to read the original post. One of the interesting and important recent developments in wealth management has been the emergence of a group of clients committed to investing with impact across their entire portfolios, […]
Ready, Set, Grow! Three insights from our CASE i3CP project to grow your social enterprise
This post was written in April 2014 by CASE i3 teammates and Duke MBA students Clayton Avent, Aaron Gress, Francisco Jimenez, Jesse Johnson, and Sumit Sharan. A for-profit forestry social enterprise came to the CASE i3 Consulting Program (CASE i3CP) for guidance on how to scale their business model and attract new capital from impact […]
Laurie Spengler of Enclude: Capacity + Capital = Impact
This post was written by Duke MBA student Grace Webster in March 2014. As a part of the CASE i3 Speaker Series, Laurie Spengler, CEO of Enclude (formerly Shorebank International), visited Fuqua in December 2013 and shared some of her observations on global lessons for leveraging capacity with capital for impact. Enclude is a […]
Opening the Curtain on the New 2.0 Era of Impact Investing
This article by Cathy Clark and Ben Thornley was originally published on the Huffington Post in November 2013. Impact investing has not been growing as quickly as many practitioners might have hoped. Knowledge of what does and does not work in impact investing remains closely held. And because impact investing is unconventional (blending capital market […]
SOCAP13: The Demand Dividend
This post was written by Lila Cruikshank, recent Fuqua graduate, in September 2013. Social entrepreneurs, like any entrepreneur, struggle with the search for investors; investors struggle to find investments that provide sufficient returns. One of the most common tensions is the “exit” – how can social entrepreneurs return capital to investors without sacrificing their social […]
Impact Investing 2.0: What $3 Billion Tells Us About the Next $300 Billion
This article by Cathy Clark and Jed Emerson was originally published on the Huffington Post in September 2013. Earlier this month in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), Paul Brest and Kelly Born wrote avery thoughtful pieceabout the difficulty of achieving real impact alongside financial returns for impact investors. Their thesis was so provocative that over […]