Meet the CASE team!
CASE Faculty and Staff
CASE faculty and staff all combine practical experience working in the social sector with experience as researchers, educators, and administrators in academic institutions. This blend of skills and perspectives allows CASE to ground our work effectively in practice while advancing the field within a leading university.
J. Gregory Dees, Founding Faculty Director and Adjunct Professor
Wendy W. Kuran, Executive Director
Paul N. Bloom, Interim Faculty Director and Adjunct Professor
Catherine Clark, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Matthew T.A. Nash, Associate Director
CASE Faculty Affiliates
CASE Faculty Affiliates are Duke University faculty who are engaged with CASE through teaching a course, participating in our faculty research pool, or serving on our faculty advisory committee.
Francis deVericourt, Associate Professor of Operation Management, Faculty Research Pool
Jennifer Francis, Associate Dean for Faculty/Professor of Accounting, Faculty Advisory Committee
Joel Huber, Professor of Marketing, Faculty Advisory Committee
Christine Moorman, Senior Professor of Marketing, Faculty Advisory Committee/Faculty Research Pool
Dhananjay Nanda, Associate Professor of Accounting, Faculty Research Pool
John Payne, Professor of Management and Marketin & Psychology/Senior Advisor to the Dean, Faculty Advisory Committee
David Ridley, Assistant Professor of Management, Faculty Advisory Committee
CASE Advisory Board Members
CASE receives support and strategic advice from a strong Advisory Board of leaders from business, philanthropy, and social entrepreneurship.
Rex Adams, Dean Emeritus, The Fuqua School of Business, Founding Co-Chair
Joel Fleishman, Professor of Law and Public Policy, Duke University, Founding Co-Chair
Mario Morino, Chairman, Venture Philanthropy Partners, Founding Co-Chair
Claire “Yum” Arnold, Founder and CEO, Leapfrog Services, Inc.
Michael Bailin, Former President, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
Roy Bostock, Chairman, The Partnership for a Drug Free America
Jeff Bradach, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, The Bridgespan Group
Douglas T. Breeden, Former Dean, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Josie Breeden, Founding Director, Square One Financial, Inc.
Wendy Kopp, Founder and President, Teach for America
Cate Muther, Founder and President, Three Guineas Fund
Les Silverman, Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company
Diana Wells, Co-President, Ashoka
CASE Faculty and Staff
J. Gregory Dees is a Professor in the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Management and is the founding Faculty Director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. In recent years, he also served as Entrepreneur-In-Residence with the Kauffman Foundation’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Greg has written extensively on social entrepreneurship. He is co-editor, with Jed Emerson and Peter Economy, of Enterprising Nonprofits (Wiley, 2001) and Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs, (Wiley, 2002). Prior to coming to Duke, he served as the Miriam and Peter Haas Centennial Professor in Public Service and co-director of the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Greg also taught for several years at the Harvard Business School, where he helped launch the Initiative on Social Enterprise. In 1995, Greg received Harvard Business School’s Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching for his new course on “Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector.” In 1996, he interrupted his academic career for two years to work on economic development in central Appalachia at the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development in Berea, Kentucky. Greg previously taught at the Yale School of Management and worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Greg currently serves on the boards of directors of the Bridgespan Group and SJF Advisory Services, as well as on the advisory boards for the Fast Company Social Capitalist Awards, REDF, Communities by Choice, and Management Leadership for Tomorrow. He holds a Masters degree in Public and Private Management from Yale and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins.
Wendy W. Kuran, the Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, comes to Duke after more than twenty years as an entrepreneur and intrapreneur in both the social and corporate sectors. A Stanford MBA, she has held numerous executive positions in non-profit and for-profit health care organizations; most recently at PacifiCare/UnitedHealthcare, she led start-up divisions in women’s health and later in new product development for people 50+. She was also VP of Marketing for the Medicare Prescription Drug Program (Part D), the largest public-private start-up in U.S. history. Throughout her career, Wendy has been deeply involved in the social sector, serving as a founder, business consultant and board member to organizations in community health, poverty alleviation, immigrant rights, education, and the arts. She was on the National Advisory Board for the launch of the AHA’s "Go Red for Women" campaign, the executive board (chair-elect) of the Orange County (CA) American Heart Association, and a business adviser to the Social Enterprise Alliance. Wendy earned her A.B. in English from Princeton University; at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, she was co-president of the forerunner to Net Impact, and part of the Public Management Program.
Paul N. Bloom is the Interim Faculty Director and and Adjunct Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Marketing at CASE. Dr. Bloom leads CASE’s Scaling Social Impact research and teaches a course on Corporate Social Impact Management. He has had a long career researching how the field of marketing can contribute to societal welfare. He has examined how marketing thinking can help to design better consumer protection and antitrust policies and has also done considerable research on social marketing, which involves developing strategies to encourage people to engage in more socially-beneficial behaviors (e.g., healthier living). In recent years, he has been particularly focused on identifying ways to persuade young people to avoid smoking, drinking-and-driving, and unhealthy eating. He is also currently studying how to make partnerships between corporations and social causes more effective at mitigating social problems while at the same time helping the sales and profitability of brands. Throughout his career, Dr. Bloom has encouraged research by business scholars on social issues, chairing well-received conferences on the consumer movement, marketing and public policy, corporate social initiatives, and corporate responses to the obesity crisis. Dr. Bloom is the author or co-author of more than 100 published articles, papers, book chapters, and books; including the award wining article published in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing for 1987 to 1991 and The Handbook of Marketing and Society (Sage Publications, 2001). He formerly served as Professor of Marketing at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina (1984-2006) and held posts at the University of Maryland and the Marketing Science Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in marketing from the Kellogg School of Northwestern University an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. degree from Lehigh University.
Matthew T.A. Nash joined Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 2005 as the Associate Director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship. At CASE, Matt leads the Fuqua on Board program, provides career planning support, coordinates financial aid programs, and advises the student run chapter of Net Impact. Matt brings to Fuqua extensive domestic and international social and public sector experience in governance, strategic planning, organization development, performance measurement, business process transformation, and leadership development. Prior to joining the CASE team, he was a senior consultant in strategy and change management with the public sector practice at IBM Business Consulting Services (formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting). In this position and previous consulting capacities, Matt served a diverse set of clients ranging from community-based organizations, including a nonprofit resource center, a community housing board, and a disabilities rights coalition, to large agencies such as World Vision, UNICEF and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Previously, Matt led the Leadership Institute at Yale's Center for Public Service and volunteered with the U.S. Peace Corps in Romania. Matt is a graduate of the Yale School of Management (MBA) and Yale College (BA), where he received the graduation prize for public service.
Catherine Clark is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where she teaches Management 426, "Social Entrepreneurship." Cathy has been an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School since 2001 where she created Columbia’s graduate MBA course on social entrepreneurship, and is Founder and Director of Columbia’s Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE). Previously, she was Founder and Managing Director of the Flatiron Future Fund, a social venture capital fund, and Founder and President of the Flatiron Foundation, both incubated by Flatiron Partners, a JP Morgan Partners affiliate. Formerly, she was Vice President at the Markle Foundation, where for over seven years she helped manage the foundation’s portfolio of grants and program-related investments focused on the social benefits of media and communications technologies. She has also worked with or consulted to a diverse list of nonprofit and for-profit organizations, foundations and investment groups, including: The Aspen Institute, Baldwin Brothers, B Lab, the Carnegie Corporation, Commons Capital, Net Impact, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Springboard Enterprises, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and The US Agency for International Development. Cathy continues to serve as Columbia’s Faculty Advisor for the Global Social Venture Competition, a program that recognizes exemplary MBA student social ventures in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors around the world. In addition, she is Co-Chair of Investors’ Circle, a national membership organization of angel and institutional social investors, and Advisory Board Chair of Commons Capital, LP, a venture fund investing in health, clean energy, the environment and education. Cathy holds a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Ruth Tolman joined Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 2007 as the Program Manager of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship. Prior to joining the CASE Team, Ruth worked three years as the Program Manager at UNC Kenan-Flagler's Center for Sustainable Enterprise (CSE). In her role at the CSE, she managed events and various programs for Kenan-Flagler's MBA students and the CSE's other affiliates. She also provided key support to the center's communications, marketing, and outreach efforts. Before working with UNC, Ruth was at Duke University doing graduate work in biological chemistry. She has a B.S. in biochemistry from Brigham Young University. Her areas of particular interest include environmental management, community development and revitalization, and technology innovation applied to science.
CASE Advisory Board
Organizing Co-Chairs
Rex Adams
Duke University - Dean Emeritus, The Fuqua School of Business
Rex Adams served as Dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University
from 1996 to 2001. As Dean he led the Fuqua School to a top five ranking
among peer institutions. Prior to that, he was Vice President, Administration
for Mobil Corporation, where he worked for 31 years. During his career at
Mobil, Adams served in a number of roles in its international operations,
including assignments in London, Istanbul, Hamburg, and Tripoli, and in human
resources on the corporate staff before assuming the Vice President, Administration
role in 1988. Adams serves on the boards of directors for Alleghany Corporation,
AMVESCAP P.L.C., and Vintage Petroleum Inc. He is the immediate past Chair
for Public Broadcasting Service. He is a Trustee of the Vera Institute of
Justice and the Committee for Economic Development, and a member of the Corporation
of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Formerly a Trustee of Duke University
and Virginia Union University, he now serves on Duke University's Board of
Visitors of the Fuqua School of Business and the Duke Athletic Advisory Board.
Joel Fleishman
Duke University -Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies
Joel Fleishman joined the faculty of Duke University, where he is now Professor
of Law and Public Policy, in 1971. Fleishman has also served the University
in various administrative positions including First Senior Vice President.
He was the founding director of Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute
of Public Policy. He is now the director of the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman
Center for Ethics, Public Policy and the Professions, and of the Duke Philanthropic
Foundations Research Program. From 1993 to 2001, Fleishman took a part-time
leave from Duke University to serve as President of the Atlantic Philanthropic
Service Company, the U.S. affiliate of Atlantic Philanthropies. Fleishman
also serves as a director of The John and Mary Markle Foundation, Chairman
of the Board of Trustees of the Urban Institute, Chairman of The Visiting
Committee of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and as
a director of Boston Scientific Corporation, Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation
and the James River Group, an insurance holding company. Mr. Fleishman received
A.B., M.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, and an LL.M. degree from Yale University.
Mario Morino
Venture Philanthropy Partners -Chairman
Mario Morino is chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners and the Morino
Institute. Before retiring from private industry in 1992, Morino was the
co-founder of one of the then 10 largest software and services firms. Since
leaving private industry in 1992, Morino has focused his efforts on philanthropic
innovation to benefit children and families of working poor or poverty backgrounds,
and has served in advisory roles with General Atlantic, one of the leading
global private equity firms investing in companies that provide information
technology or use information technology to help drive growth. In his philanthropic
work, Morino founded the Morino Institute in 1994 to advance the vision that
all children have the opportunity to grow into adults leading healthy, productive
lives. In 2000, Morino co-founded Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP) as
an innovative investor in social change that concentrates investments of
money, expertise, and contacts to improve the lives and boost the opportunities
of children of low-income families in the National Capital Region. It adapts
the relevant principles of venture and private equity investment firms and
applies them for investing in the nonprofit sector to build strong, high-impact,
lasting nonprofit institutions that generate high social returns for children,
families, and communities. It also brings together and informs high net worth
individuals and families as “philanthropic investors.” Morino
believes that VPP’s work will influence sector change to ultimately
help increase access to capital, talent, and other resources for nonprofit
organizations demonstrating the greatest potential for improving the lives
of children and families.
Charter Members
Claire “Yum” Arnold
Leapfrog Services, Inc. -Founder and CEO
Claire “Yum” Arnold is the Founder and CEO of Leapfrog, a managed
services provider (MSP) with a diverse clientele of professional services
firms, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. Prior to starting Leapfrog,
Arnold acquired and grew NCC LP, a distributor of consumer goods to convenience
stores and mass merchandisers. Before acquiring NCC, Ms. Arnold spent nearly
10 years with Coca-Cola USA, where she was the marketing manager for Coke's
first plastic beverage containers. Arnold served for many years as a Trustee
of Mary Baldwin College, most recently as Chair of its Board of Trustees.
She has been active in YPO, WPO, The National Conference for Community and
Justice, Leadership Atlanta, CEO, The Committee of 200, and as a mentor to
younger women in the Atlanta business community. She serves on the Board
of Trustees of The Atlanta Rotary Club, The Westminster Schools and The Georgia
Conservancy, which she currently Chairs. She is also on the Board of Visitors
of The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, The Board of Councilors
of The Carter Center, and the Board of Directors of two NYSE firms and the
Technology Association of Georgia. Arnold was named the 2002 Small Business
Person of the Year by the Metropolitan Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the
Atlanta Business Chronicle and received the 2004 Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans
Award for outstanding performance as a corporate director.
Michael Bailin
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation -Former President
Michael Bailin served as President of The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
from 1996 to 2005. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor of the Practice
in the Foundation Impact Research Program at Duke University's Sanford Institute
for Public Policy. Previously, he was a founder, former president and chief
executive officer of Public/Private Ventures (P/PV), a nationally recognized
not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving opportunities for young
people in poor communities. Prior to launching P/PV in 1977, Bailin worked
as a consultant to the Ford Foundation, and before that he served as the
deputy director and counsel to the South Street Seaport Museum in New York
City. Bailin has also practiced law and taught at both Dartmouth and Franconia
colleges in New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1964 and
in 1969 received both a law degree and Masters in Urban Planning from Yale
University. Over the years he has helped to build and has served as a board
member and advisor to numerous not-for-profit organizations. His current
board memberships include serving as Vice Chair of the Board of Civic Ventures,
and on the Executive Committees of both the William Penn Foundation and The
International Trachoma Initiative.
Roy Bostock
The Partnership for a Drug-Free America -Chairman
Roy Bostock is Chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, a national
non-profit organization that oversees the development of advertising and
communications programs to encourage teens to lead healthy drug-free lives.
Bostock founded, and chairs, Sealedge Investments, LLC, a private equity
investment firm, and he serves on the boards of Morgan Stanley, Northwest
Airlines Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. He is a trustee of the U.S. Ski and
Snowboard Foundation and is a board member of Manhattanville College in Purchase,
New York. He worked in the advertising business for 38 years, including ten
years as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles
and its successor company, The MacManus Group. Bostock holds a Bachelor's
degree from Duke University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.
Jeff Bradach
The Bridgespan Group -Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Jeff Bradach is the Co-founder and managing partner of the Bridgespan Group,
a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization bringing leading-edge strategies and tools
to the challenges and opportunities facing nonprofit organizations and foundations.
Since its start in 2000 Bradach has guided the development of the organization,
and the Bridgestar initiative, which seeks to increase the flow of talented
leaders into and within the nonprofit sector. Prior to helping establish
the Bridgespan Group, Bradach served for seven years on the faculty of the
Harvard Business School. He began his career at Bain &
Company, working as a consultant until he left to pursue advanced degrees.
He received his BA from Stanford University, where he was elected Phi Beta
Kappa and his MA in sociology and PhD in organizational behavior from Harvard
University.
Douglas T. Breeden
Duke University - Dean, Fuqua School of Business
Douglas T. Breeden is the Dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
and the William W. Priest Professor of Finance. He has served on faculties
at the University of Chicago, Stanford, Duke and North Carolina. Professor
Breeden has published well-cited research on consumption and intertemporal
asset pricing, as well as on mortgage securities and hedging. He is the
Founding Editor of the Journal of Fixed Income and was elected to the Board
of Directors of the American Finance Association. He has served as Associate
Editor of Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial
and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of
Money, Credit and Banking. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Stanford and
a B.S. from M.I.T. He is the Chairman Emeritus and Co-founder of Smith Breeden
Associates, a money management firm, as well as Chairman and principal owner
of Community First Financial Group, a multi-bank holding company, and Old
Capital Golf Course. He is active in philanthropic endeavours and in community
development in his home area in Southern Indiana.
Josie Breeden
Square One Financial, Inc. - Founding Director
Josie Breeden is a Founding Director of Square One Financial, Inc. and Square
1 Bank in Durham, North Carolina, a de novo bank focused on providing financial
services to venture capital firms and emerging technology, life science and
medical equipment companies. Other banking interests include Community First
Financial Group, a multi-bank holding company in Corydon, Indiana. She is
also the Co-Founder and Vice President of Wyandotte Community Corporation
in Leavenworth, Indiana. WCC focuses on community development and includes
business such as the Overlook Restaurant, The Dock Restaurant, the Leavenworth
Inn, and the Old Capital Golf Club. She was President of Provisions, Inc.,
retail stores for gifts and specialty foods, located in Chapel Hill, NC and
Leavenworth, Indiana. Breeden is also active in numerous civic and charitable
efforts supporting educational and community organizations. She is the Executive
Vice President of the Breeden Family Foundation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
as well as an Advisory Board member for Habitat for Humanity-Orange County,
NC. She received a BA and an MA degree in Studio Art from San Jose State.
Wendy Kopp
Teach For America -Founder and President
Wendy Kopp founded and leads Teach For America, which aims to build the movement
to eliminate educational inequity between low- and high-income areas by enlisting
some of the nation's most promising future leaders in its national teacher
corps. Since its inception in 1989, Teach for America has fielded more than
14,000 outstanding recent college graduates as teachers in low-income rural
and urban communities. Kopp serves on the Board of The New Teacher Project,
and the Advisory Boards of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government and the National Council on Teacher Quality.
Kopp holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University, where she participated
in the undergraduate program of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs.
Catherine S. Muther
Three Guineas Fund -Founder and President
Catherine S. Muther is the founder of Three Guineas Fund, whose mission is
to create access to opportunity for women and girls in the economy. Prior
to founding Three Guineas Fund, Muther held Vice President and Officer positions
in leading Silicon Valley companies in the computer networking industry,
including Senior Marketing Officer at Cisco Systems. At Cisco, she developed
the marketing strategy, industry positioning and organization to lead the
company from $25Million to over a Billion in sales with dominant share of
a global market. Muther earned an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School
of Business, MA from Cambridge University and BA from Sarah Lawrence College.
She has served as a Trustee of Mills College, Sarah Lawrence College, Cambridge
University America and the Women’s Sports Foundation. She is a founding
Board member of Acumen Fund and The Foundation Incubator, and currently serves
on the board of PolicyLink.
Les Silverman
McKinsey & Company -Director Emeritus
Les Silverman, the Director Emeritus at McKinsey & Company, is leading
an initiative to enhance connections among the firm's 16,000 alumni in their
roles as board members, volunteers, and employees of nonprofit organizations.
Previously, he led the international management consulting firm's Nonprofit
Practice, which supports the firm's work with nonprofit service providers,
philanthropies, and public sector organizations across McKinsey. Silverman
joined McKinsey in 1982 to help build the firm's energy practice. Prior to
joining McKinsey, Silverman served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Policy and Evaluation at the US Department of Energy from 1980 to 1981.
He also served as Director of Policy Analysis at the US Department of the
Interior from 1978 to 1980. Silverman holds a PhD in economics and a master’s
and undergraduate degree in industrial administration—all from Carnegie
Mellon University.
Diana Wells
Ashoka -Co-President
Diana Wells joined Ashoka in the 1980s after graduating from Brown with a
BA in South Asian Studies. Her intrapreneurial drive quickly led to the creation
of Fellowship Support Services, which links Ashoka social entrepreneurs to
one another and to a wide array of information and supports. After a leave
to do her Ph.D. in anthropology, she returned — and has provided her
characteristic quiet, strong leadership ever since. She tactfully but firmly
strengthened Ashoka’s leadership in a number of countries. She helped
systematize management of the key Fellow selection process as the number
and types of selections increased. Wells also conceived and developed Ashoka’s
widely respected Measuring Effectiveness program.