The Fuqua School of Business
Especially Receptive to Embracing New Ideas
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Adjunct Professor J. Gregory Dees and CASE Managing
Director Beth Anderson at Fuqua’s new Fox Student Center.
The Fuqua School
Campaign Total: $91,641,058
The Fuqua School of Business added faculty members and facilities,
as well as a host of new programs, during the campaign. The
faculty grew to approximately 100, increasing by about a third.
The Magat Academic Center and the Fox Student Center were
built, and the Keller Center was renovated. Important new
programs such as case were funded, and all were supported
by record Annual Fund giving in excess of $10 million.
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In the fall of 2002, Greg Dees and Beth Anderson launched Fuqua’s
Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) with
a grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies. A pioneer in cross-sector
scholarship, Dees helped establish Harvard’s Initiative on
Social Enterprise and co-founded Stanford’s Center for Social
Innovation, and Anderson has collaborated on research with him since
she was his student at Stanford. “CASE,” Dees says,
“has a different spin. We are focused more exclusively on
social entrepreneurship: drawing on strategies and structures from
both the nonprofit and business worlds to develop and spread innovative,
effective approaches to social issues.” And rather than provide
general training in social sector management, any executive education
program CASE develops will address “strategic topics,”
such as the challenge of replicating nonprofit successes.
CASE offers a course, brings in guest lecturers, and supervises
student research. It also arranges service learning opportunities,
including summer internships at enterprising local and international
nonprofits and non-voting board positions at area nonprofits. According
to Anderson, “The goal of these programs is not to send Fuqua
graduates into nonprofit management, but to help students think
creatively about applying the skills they’re learning in business
school to other settings, particularly to social innovation.”
Dees says that “the opportunity to spread social entrepreneurship
to another leading business school” made Fuqua’s invitation
appealing to him, and he has found “an incredibly fertile
environment” for a new and unusual field of study. “Fuqua,
as a school, is entrepreneurial in nature,” Anderson adds,
“so its faculty and administration are especially receptive
to embracing new ideas.”
CASE, which has received additional funding from the GlaxoSmithKline
Foundation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, also has developed
ties to other Duke programs, including the School of Law’s
Community Economic Development Program and the Sanford Institute’s
programs on Civil Society and Multi-Sector Policy.
“The ease with which we can move across school and discipline
boundaries,” says Dees, was another attraction to Duke. “There’s
really a special culture here. It’s much more of a team environment
than any other place I’ve seen.”
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