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Welcome 2022-2023 CASE and CASE i3 Fellows
Each year, CASE selects a group of Fuqua MBAs to serve as CASE and CASE i3 Fellows. These students have stood out to us in their passion and commitment to taking a deeper dive into their social impact or impact investing learning with their peers, and in their ability to act as ambassadors for CASE’s work within Fuqua and […]
Audrey Choi on Integrating Sustainability in Finance
Audrey Choi has taken a rather circuitous route to her current role as Chief Sustainability Officer for multinational investment bank Morgan Stanley, with a common thread being a deep curiosity and commitment to learning.
Fuqua students manage a portfolio with an ESG and sustainable finance strategy
October 2021 If we have one job at CASE, it’s to prepare our students to be leaders on a changing planet – one with significant social and environmental challenges. And through our CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing, we have been exploring emerging opportunities for addressing these challenges through finance for over 10 years. Two […]
Optimizing for Impact: Managing investments to meet goals for impact – and expectations of regulators
Originally posted 9.13.21 on ImpactAlpha. NEW: The United Nations Development Programme and CASE at Duke have released a free online training for global enterprises and investors on impact measurement and management for the SDGs. CASE and ImpactAlpha will launch Optimizing for Impact, a multiweek selection of lessons and video clips from the course. We’ll kick it off with […]
Stephen DeBerry of Bronze Investments
January 2021 On January 13, 2021 Stephen DeBerry, Founder and Managing Partner of Bronze Investments, led a joy-filled, virtual conversation on converting disparity into opportunity with the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business during the first CASE Executive Speaker Series of 2021. “Our work at Bronze Investments is […]
CASE Announces New Online Training Course in Impact Measurement and Management with UNDP
In June 2020, the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University, with funding from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) SDG Impact, began developing a new online global course to teach investors and enterprises how to apply impact management practices to demonstrate their alignment with, and contribution to, the Sustainable Development […]
Opinion: Paycheck Protection Program: Community Banks Prove ‘Actions Speak Louder Than Words’
Paycheck Protection Program: Community Banks Prove ‘Actions Speak Louder Than Words’ This familiar phrase could not be more appropriate today when contrasting the swift and responsive action taken by community banks in the wake of COVID-19 compared to the empty rhetoric of the big banks. Case in point – Southern Bancorp (http://www.banksouthern.com), a leading community […]
Opinion: Investing in a Resilient Future – Impact Investing Offers a Pathway
May 2020 By Laurie J Spengler, CASE Senior Fellow Laurie J Spengler serves as a non-executive director of the Impact Investing Institute, the CDC Group (the UK development finance institution) and Bridges Insights. She is the founder and CEO of Courageous Capital Advisors, a Global Ambassador to the Global Steering Group on Impact Investing and a Senior Fellow and […]
Learning Together: Announcing the 2019-2020 Fuqua Client Consulting Practicum and CASE i3 Consulting Practicum Clients
As Fuqua School of Business Daytime MBA student and Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Fellow and Launch Pad Winner Michelle Egger reflected on her summer 2019 internship at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she realized that the experience that most prepared her for the internship was her participation in the Fuqua […]
How to Invest for a Gender Equitable World: A 15-Step Guide
This article was written by Suzanne Biegel and originally posted on LinkedIn in June 2019. I started investing in women and girls in the early 2000s after I successfully exited the company I helped to build. As an entrepreneur myself, I was familiar with the challenges women founders face. Too often, they are underestimated, unseen, […]