The 2009 CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation -
Inaugural Award for ESI Winner:
The CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation (ESI) recognizes outstanding individuals, organizations, or companies whose innovations blend methods from the worlds of business and philanthropy to create sustainable social value that has the potential for large-scale impact. E+Co has earned this award through their tireless efforts to provide lasting solutions to climate change and poverty through clean energy investments in developing countries.
As a public purpose investment company, E+Co blends best practices from the philanthropic, venture capital, public and private sectors in an industry long dominated by intransient stakeholders. E+Co’s innovative, market-based and flexible "enterprise centered business model" fosters an emphasis on decentralized, renewable energy and energy efficiency, through private sector led businesses, leading to real results that are nothing short of a new energy finance paradigm. Read more about E+Co.
Philip LaRocco, E+Co's Founder and Chief Executive Officer delivered the inaugural ESI Lecture and accept the CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation on behalf of E+Co at the Duke Fuqua School of Business on Thursday evening, March 19, 2009. Watch streaming video of Phil's talk at Duke.
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(above left) CASE Managing Director, Matt Nash introduces the CASE Award for ESI. |
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(above) E+Co founder and CEO, Philip LaRocco delivers the inaugural Enterprising Social Innovation Award Lecture. |
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(above left) E+Co founder and CEO, Philip LaRocco. |
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