Cultivating the Next Generation of Social Impact Leaders

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Tara Schoenborn Nathan Hixson with three other CASE Scholars in his cohort (left to right: Utkarsha Bhardwaj, Patrick Pierson-Prah and Ineza Mutimura) On a sweltering hot southern day in October 2019, Nathan Hixson, a Center for the Advancement for Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Scholar and first-year Daytime MBA student at Duke University’s Read more about Cultivating the Next Generation of Social Impact Leaders[…]

Press: Clark quoted by ImpactAlpha on Wharton Study

WHARTON: GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR FINANCIAL RETURNS, BUT QUESTIONS ABOUT MISSION PRESERVATION By Dennis Price, ImpactAlpha Impact is in the eye of the beholder, or at least in the eye of the fund manager. A new study on the financial performance of private equity impact investments provides fresh data that suggests at least some segments are indeed Read more about Press: Clark quoted by ImpactAlpha on Wharton Study[…]

Impact Investing Goes to School

Cathy Clark at Duke’s CASE i3 initiative, on what we’ve learned about the sector – and how much we still don’t know By James Militzer (This post originally appeared on Next Billion here.) The i3 Initiative on Impact Investing is part of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE), a prominent research and Read more about Impact Investing Goes to School[…]

Blog: A Year of Impact and Progress for CASE

This blogpost was originally published in the CASE Notes blog by Erin Worsham. Click here for the full post.  If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~ Thomas Edison A university-wide Ebola Innovation Challenge that inspired 160+ students to think about how they can use their Read more about Blog: A Year of Impact and Progress for CASE[…]

Blog: Investing for a Social and Environmental Impact

Investing for a Social and Environmental Impact – originally posted on the Fuqua Daytime MBA blog Matt Hendren – February 17, 2015 Professor Cathy Clark speaking on impact investing and the book she co-authored on the subject   Fuqua has excellent resources for anyone interested in impact investing. To those of you for whom this Read more about Blog: Investing for a Social and Environmental Impact[…]

i3 Speaker: Michael Dorsey

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Matt Hendren This post was written by Matt Hendren, a first year Duke MBA student and Associate in the CASE Initiative on Impact Investing (CASE i3) program. We welcomed Mike Dorsey, CASE i3 Advisory Board member, to Fuqua in November as part of the CASE i3 Speaker Series.  Mike Read more about i3 Speaker: Michael Dorsey[…]

Press: Which Impact Investing Funds Do It All?

Which Impact Investing Funds Do It All? November 18, 2014 • Leila Boulton This post originally appeared in Private Wealth. It’s not always easy for advisors to determine which impact funds achieve the best social and environmental outcomes while meeting financial expectations—especially since most impact funds are private and have no disclosure obligations. After two Read more about Press: Which Impact Investing Funds Do It All?[…]