Finding signals in the noise: Thriving in a world of polycrisis

Dan Vermeer, Executive Director, Center for Energy, Development and the Global Environment (EDGE), Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

by Dan Vermeer, Associate Professor of the Practice and Executive Director, EDGE At EDGE, we spend a lot of time helping current and future business leaders make sense of a world that feels increasingly chaotic. This year alone we’ve seen record-shattering global heat, more than $160 billion in natural disaster losses, rising food costs, and […]

Public funds should be spent on saving communities that consider Nantucket a home, not a vacation destination

By Tatiana Sokolova, MEM/MBA ’24 This article was written in response to a seminar given by Vincent Murphy, Coastal Resilience Coordinator, Town of Nantucket, MA, in an EDGE Seminar at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in Spring 2023. This article voices one student’s perspective and does not necessarily represent the views of either Duke […]

To tackle climate change, take a page out of the anti-smoking playbook

By Thomas Cheng, MBA ’24 This article was written in response to a seminar given by Vincent Murphy, Coastal Resilience Coordinator, Town of Nantucket, MA, in an EDGE Seminar at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in Spring 2023. This article voices one student’s perspective and does not necessarily represent the views of either Duke […]