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Posted 2014-02-17T23:06:52Z

Duke Memorial Events Summary

On February 11, 2014, despite inclement weather that disrupted the travel plans of many, several of Greg’s friends, family, and current and former students and colleagues gathered at Duke to celebrate his life and honor his legacy.  The events were co-hosted by Duke’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) and Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative with the goal of providing an opportunity for reflections, personal remembrances, and mourning, as well as a forum for discussing Greg’s work and looking to the future.  Together, we celebrated Greg as not only the pioneering “father of social entrepreneurship education” whose ideas and efforts helped define the field, but as the friend, mentor, and teacher he was to so many near and far. [...]