Social Entrepreneurship Case Competition

The Social Entrepreneurship Case Competition aims to provide Wagner students with a hands-on opportunity to leverage classroom and experiential knowledge in addressing critical social challenges. Through the case competition, Bridge seeks to bring together like-minded individuals with diverse academic training and professional backgrounds to conceptualize and propose actionable solutions to real-life challenges. In so doing, Bridge envisions supporting meaningful collaborations across the private, public, and academic sectors in deploying projects with the greatest potential to initiate social change. Carlo Bolivar (carlo@bridgeatwagner.org) coordinates the Social Entrepreneurship Case Competition Committee.

Born and raised in the Philippines, Carlo has pursued a lifetime of community service at the intersection of academia, private industry, and the public sector. To date, he has facilitated collaborations across these sectors to conceptualize and execute projects in environmental sustainability, disaster preparedness and relief, and educational reform.

Carlo is the co-founder of TrueJewel, a non-profit initiative in the fair-trade sector. His most recent engagement involved laying the foundation for cross-border partnerships between indigenous women artisans from the Philippines and specialty retailers in the United States.

Carlo is currently an MPA candidate at the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. Previously, he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow and a Freeman Foundation Scholar at Wesleyan University. He was also a National Institutes of Health Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. Having a multi-disciplinary background, Carlo has completed consulting and research engagements in the pharmaceutical, non-profit, information technology, and investment banking industries.