Examples of past CASE Summer Internships
Click on a Summer Internship to read the student summary or quote below.
2007
Chicago Public Schools (Aparupa Bhattacharya, MBA 2008)
CVE, Inc. (Veronica Cox, MBA 2008)
Education Pioneers (Neha Dixit, MBA 2008)
Banco Multisectorial de Inversiones (Rodrigo Dumont, MBA 2008)
The Pittsburgh Foundation (Murodjon Goziev, MBA 2008)
Common Good Ventures (Jenny Harms, MBA 2008)
Chicago Public Education Fund (Suzan Hazard, MBA 2008)
Agora Partnerships, (Gita Rebbapragada, MBA 2008)
International Business Ethics Institute (Jennifer Sonstelie, MBA 2008)
Common Good Ventures (Suzanne Steffens, MBA 2008)
Education Pioneers(Darrell (Butch) Trusty, MBA 2008)
Triangle Community Foundation (Emma White, MBA 2008)
Summer of 2006
Agora Partnerships (Tom Mitchell, MBA 2007)
Casey Strategic Consulting (Stephanie Nelson, MBA 2007)
Center of Research for Development (Veronica Baz, MBA 2007)
Education Pioneers (Samit Chhabra, MBA 2007)
Handmade in America (Chris Martin, MBA 2007)
Packard Foundation (Sarika Sangwan, MBA
2007)
Positive Coaching Alliances (Jason Ward, MBA 2007)
Rubicon Programs (Kyle Stanzel, MBA 2007)
NC Small Business & Technology Development Center (Josh Cohen, MBA 2007)
2005
Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership (Jill Homan, MBA 2006)
Emily K Family Life Center (Lauren Gardner, MBA 2006)
Ohio Health, Riverside Methodist Hospital (Jake
Fisher, MBA 2006)
REDF: Golden Gate Community, Inc. - Pedal Revolution (Avani
Khanna, MBA 2006)
SJF Advisory Services (Romy Parzick, MBA 2006)
U.S. Department of Energy (Nate Bellino, MBA 2006)
2004
TIAA-CREF (Isela Bahena , MBA 2005)
T.R.O.S.A. (Victor Zhu, MBA 2005)
United Nations (CJ Kitzer, MBA 2005)
Pan American Health Organization (Susan
Kansagra, MBA 2005)
Physicians for Peace (Cheng Li, MBA 2005)
World Bank (Tara Howard, MBA 2005)
Common Good Ventures (Greg Kunkel, MBA 2005)
National Park Service - Puerto Rico (Gail Brennan, MBA 2005)
2003
2002
Self Help (Patrick Gilbert, MBA 2003)
Common
Good Ventures (Greg Kunkel, MBA 2005)
"…I interned with Common Good Ventures in Maine last summer. Common
Good Ventures is a philanthropic organization that partners with nonprofit
groups to improve their performance. Focused on accountability and results,
Common Good Ventures provides nonprofits with the basics for success, ultimately
leading them to greater self-sufficiency…"
Emily K Family
Center (Lauren Gardner, MBA 2006)
"The Emily Krzyzewski Family Life Center is a 501c3 start-up not-for-profit
organization currently constructing a community center on West Chapel Hill
St. in South West Central Durham. I interned for 10 weeks this summer working
closely with the staff, Board and volunteers of the Center. The summer experience
was an excellent opportunity for me as an MBA student. I was exposed to the
inner workings of an entrepreneurial start-up non-profit during an exciting
stage of their development. Given the small size of the organization I benefited
from mentorship, relevant and challenging projects and extensive learning.
I was also offered a list of project options which involved research and presenting
deliverable items that covered a number of topics involving program development,
fundraising, and operations. See Attachment 1 for a more detailed description
of these projects. With these projects I was asked to present to the Board
as well as a number of other partners and stakeholders. This summer was also
a great opportunity for learning. This was a unique experience of working for
a small not-for-profit where I was mentored by a supervisor with extensive
business experience. I was encouraged to be at every meeting and event and
by the second week of the internship I was being asked to lead “pitch” meeting
with potential partner organizations. I was also asked to offer suggestions
in a number of projects which I wasn’t directly involved in so that I
was exposed to all aspects of the organization. The summer experience was an
excellent opportunity for learning and personal development as well as adding
value to a great organization."
National Park Service
- Puerto Rico (Gail Brennan, MBA 2005)
"…I spent the summer working for the National Park Service in Puerto
Rico. It was a great opportunity to learn about the park service and the operations
of a government office. As for full time, I'm researching non-profit opportunities
in the New York City area.…"
Ohio Health,
Riverside Methodist Hospital (Jake
Fisher, MBA 2005)
"My major project for the summer was to collaborate with the Process Excellence
team, the hospital’s own internal improvement division, and totally revamp
and develop new guidelines for the patient transport function. Patient transport
is essentially the movement of patients through the hospital and includes any
and all movement of patients within and out of the facility. The great thing
for me in my experience with patient transport was that it has an effect on
the entire hospital. On an operational level, I learned a lot about LEAN techniques
to improve efficiencies and evaluating processes that take out unnecessary
steps. More importantly however, I got the chance to think through business
and operational issues from a totally different perspective where the ultimate
goal isn’t simply to make the best operational changes and maximize the
bottom line."
Packard
Foundation (Sarika Sangwan, MBA 2006)
"I spent this summer working in Los Altos, CA at The David and Lucille
Packard Foundation, a private family foundation created in 1964 by David Packard
(1912-1997), co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Company, and his wife Lucile
Salter Packard (1914-1987). The Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations
in the following program areas: Conservation and Science; Children, Family
and Communities; and Population. I was hired to join the Conservation and Science
(C&S) Program area for a 10 week internship. The C&S Program is focused
on the challenge of sustainability, finding paths for human progress that protect
and restore the ecological systems upon which all life depends. The goal of
my summer position was to survey market strategies that have been used to accomplish
environmentally positive change (e.g., the dolphin-safe tuna campaign) and
highlight key success factors and recommend ways for the Packard Foundation
to develop and utilize these tools. The final outcome of my internship was
the launching of a new initiative within the C&S Program titled the Markets
Cross-Cutting Initiative. The aim of this new project was to develop a formalized
initiative aimed at harnessing the power of market-based strategies to advance
conservation. The task involved defining the project, developing a framework
for its implementation and creating future recommendations. In addition to
working in the area of market-based strategies, I also got an opportunity to
interface with the investment arm of the Foundation. I worked alongside the
CFO of the Foundation advising him on the benefits and opportunities related
to incorporating socially responsible investments (SRI) into the Foundation’s
$5.2 billion portfolio. Overall, my experience at the Packard Foundation was
enriching and full of many great lessons that I will carry with me as I embark
on a path to become a leader in the field of business and the environment."
Pan
American Health Organization (Susan
Kansagra, MBA 2005)
"…I worked at the Pan American Health Organization in D.C on two
projects. One was conducting research for a paper on public health care trends
and the other was helping to develop a management software system for hospitals
in Latin America…"
Physicians
for Peace (Cheng Li, MBA 2005)
"The last summer, I worked for Physicians for Peace, a not-for-profit
organization offering Continued Medical Education in developing countries.
The project, I worked on, is to build up an evaluation system to measure the
effectiveness of those programs."
REDF: Golden
Gate Community, Inc. - Pedal Revolution (Avani Khanna,
MBA 2006)
"This summer I was a REDF Farber Intern at Pedal Revolution, a bicycle
repair and sale shop in the Mission district of San Francisco. Pedal Revolution
is one of three social enterprises operated by Golden Gate Community, Inc.,
an organization which exists to provide job and life skills to at-risk youth.
My project focused on marketing for Pedal Revolution, and included designing,
executing and analyzing a customer survey; designing, testing and analyzing
and12 promotions; and making recommendations for ongoing and future marketing
activities. Working towards a social mission is incredibly fulfilling. I sprang
out of bed each morning to get to my internship. Making a difference in the
lives of youth was a great feeling. I had the pleasure of watching their skills
and confidence build over the 10 weeks I was there."
Self
Help (Patrick Gilbert, MBA 2003)
"My experience at Self-Help was a very meaningful and rewarding way to
spend the summer between the first and second year at Fuqua. I gained a much
stronger appreciation for the value of a social enterprise and the benefits
an MBA could bring to the organization. Self-Help is a $1 billion non-profit
financial institution headquartered in Durham, NC that focuses primarily on
helping low income individuals gain access to capital for home mortgages and
small business lending. My primary project this summer was to research the
current environment of the payday lending industry and develop a business plan/model
for a payday lending alternative product. Payday lending is widespread in the
U.S. and involves a financing company making a loan, typically to moderate
income individuals, against their next paycheck. In addition to payday lending,
I also had a chance to help out with other occasional work. My tax background
gave me a chance to provide Janeke and Katie some guidance on their “New
Markets”
tax credits program. Overall, in my experience with Self Help, I learned
that the co-existence of social enterprises and for-profits can often be
a long-term win-win for all involved if the mission of the social enterprise
is managed effectively."
SJF Advisory Services (Romy
Parzick, MBA 2006)
"SJF Advisory Services (SJFAS) was established in June 2001 to work in
partnership with SJF Ventures, specifically to enhance the workforce assistance
and sustainable business assistance capacity. SJF Ventures is a community development
venture capital fund that finances and assists rapidly growing companies. It
focuses on the clean-tech, business services, and consumer products industries
SJFAS aims to encourage self-sufficiency for low-income citizens by assisting
sustainable enterprises to create, preserve, and improve long-term jobs for
people of economically distressed communities. Activities include matching
SJF Ventures prospect and portfolio companies with job placement and training,
welfare-to-work, economic development programs and assisting with asset-building
and benefit programs such as stock option plans and individual development
accounts. The nonprofit only has one part-time employee, the Executive Director.
In the five years that the organization has been in existence, there has been
little time to slow down and conduct some strategic planning. Thus, this was
my main project this summer. I believe SJFAS is at a critical juncture, as
it facing a changing competitive landscape and shifting priorities by its partner,
SJF Ventures. Therefore, strategic planning is extremely important. Since SJFAS
has a unique and complex association with SJF Ventures, I had to take a critical
look at its current model to determine how to position itself strategically
to continue to have a mutually beneficial relationship while accomplishing
its mission. I presented my strategic plan to the Board of Directors, who thought
my approach was “insightful and practical,”
and therefore decided to make it the basis for their strategic planning meeting
this year. This summer was a fascinating first-hand look at the inherent
tensions between nonprofit and for-profit objectives.
While the theoretical partnership seemed extremely synergistic, it will take
strong leadership coupled with thorough strategic planning and execution
to truly leverage the assets of both sectors under one organizational umbrella.
For me personally, the experience helped me hone my understanding of not
only community development, but also the landscape of organizations working
in the Triangle to achieve similar goals."
TIAA-CREF (Isela
Bahena , MBA 2005)
"…Over the summer I worked for TIAA-CREF, an investment management
firm that provides retirement and pension products for those who work in education,
culture, and the arts. I analyzed potential investments and assisted in making
investment recommendations by building financial models and conducting company
and industry analysis…"
T.R.O.S.A. (Victor
Zhu, MBA 2005)
"…Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers Inc. (TROSA)
is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping drug and alcohol abusers change
their lives. TROSA builds citizens, not just sober individuals. It is a highly
structured and well-organized operation run by current residents and staff
members, many of whom are graduates of the program. I worked for TROSA this
summer as an operations intern…"
United
Nations (CJ Kitzer, MBA 2005)
"…I worked at the UN in the Office of Internal Oversight Services,
which evaluates UN programs for funding, objectives, and performance. One of
my main projects was to plan the evaluation of the effectiveness of the managerial
oversight of the World Trade Programme in Geneva. I would like to work in economic
development, either at the UN or with domestic/overseas nonprofits…"
The
World Bank (Tara Howard, MBA 2005)
"Over the summer I worked at the World Bank, an international development
agency. I worked with an internal consulting group that provided assistance
with IT projects, and was specifically able to contribute to a project in Ethiopia.
After graduation I expect to still work in technology consulting…"
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