Deloitte’s Kristen Sullivan discusses sustainability reporting

Kristen Sullivan, Deloitte Partner and Lead for Deloitte US’s Sustainability Reporting, Assurance & Compliance Services practice, discusses corporate sustainability reporting, why it matters to businesses and investors, and the hallmarks of best practice in this EDGE Chats video. — RELATED ARTICLES: Watch more EDGE Chats videos with executives    

Carlos Fernandez-Aballi talks about renewable energy investment in Cuba

In this EDGE Chats video, energy expert and Cuba native Carlos Fernández-Aballí Altamirano, PhD, discusses the challenges and opportunities inherent in Cuba’s plan to expand its renewable energy portfolio and modernize its energy infrastructure.                     — RELATED ARTICLES Watch more EDGE Chats videos with executives  

DOE’s Sanjiv Malhotra talks about clean energy investment

Sanjiv Malhotra, PhD, Director of the  Clean Energy Investment Center at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) talks about clean energy technology investment, why the center was founded, and the most promising areas of innovation in clean energy in this EDGE Chats video.                     — RELATED […]

We need sound energy policy

by Chris Barry, MBA ’17 This article was written in response to a seminar given by Jim Rogers, Former CEO and Chairman of Duke Energy, at Duke University in an EDGE Seminar on Sept. 7, 2016 at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. This article voices one student’s perspective and does not necessarily represent the […]

“Triple convergence” of trends shape the future of leadership in the electric utility industry

The utility sector is in a period of reinvention. In the coming decades, nearly the entire power generating fleet in the U.S. will be replaced (no small feat for a sector with approximately $1.5 trillion in assets). Almost as dramatic as this infrastructure turnover is the leadership challenge facing the industry: more than half of […]

Lisa Shpritz shares Bank of America’s sustainability goals

Lisa Shpritz (Duke MEM ’97), Senior Vice President and Environmental Operations Executive with Bank of America, talks about the company’s sustainability goals and its results to date in this EDGE Chats video.   — RELATED ARTICLES Watch more EDGE Chats videos with executives    

Duke Energy SVP Peter Toomey talks about utility industry transformation

In this EDGE Chats video, Duke Energy’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Peter Toomey, talks about the transformation happening in the utility industry and how Duke Energy thinks about managing talent amid this industry change.   — RELATED ARTICLES Watch more EDGE Chats videos with executives    

Dan Vermeer discusses business response to climate change

Dan Vermeer, Executive Director of the Center for Energy, Development, and the Global Environment (EDGE) and Associate Professor of the Practice at Fuqua School of Business discusses how leading companies should respond to the threat of climate change in a new video.  Climate change trends present very real risks to companies, but as Vermeer sees […]

Mitch Jackson discusses sustainability at FedEx

Mitch Jackson, Vice President of Environmental Affairs and Sustainability at FedEx, talks with Duke University’s Dan Vermeer about implementing sustainability in a company as a large and complex as FedEx in this EDGE Chats video.  The biggest opportunities for sustainability, he says, lie in finding value-add ways to integrate it into the business strategy.   […]