Rotimi Thomas proves how the right skills can lead to a rewarding and impactful career

Rotimi Thomas

After two years in a management rotation program with the industrials giant Siemens AG, Rotimi Thomas is now working in a role that marries his passions for energy, environment, and emerging markets.  As a Development Fund Investment Manager for Siemens Power & Gas, he helps steer the company’s investment in development funding investments in Africa. […]

Building better apparel: Alumna Liza Schillo shares sustainability career advice from Levi Strauss

Liza Schillo

Liza Schillo graduated from Duke’s business and environment MEM/MBA joint degree program in 2014. Now, she’s working as a Manager of Product Sustainability at Levi Strauss & Co. at their headquarters in San Francisco, allowing her to turn her lifelong passion for the environment into a career in sustainable business. In this Q&A, Liza reflects […]

Rising star Lisa Ganderson reflects on energy entrepreneurship

Lisa Huber Ganderson

Duke alumna Lisa (Huber) Ganderson, Senior Associate for Investments with GE Energy, was recently named to the prestigious Forbes “30 Under 30 in Energy” list.  Lisa graduated from Duke’s MEM/MBA joint degree program in 2014. We asked her to share her thoughts on energy technologies, entrepreneurship and her career in this Q&A. What got you […]

Leadership in practice: Creating an entrepreneurial career in the oil and gas industry

Jason Rebrook, Hilcorp Energy

by Dan Vermeer, PhD and Sarah Hoyt, MEM/MBA ’16   How can MBAs build a consequential career in a volatile and technically complex industry like oil and gas? What does it take to become a leader? While leadership can take many forms, Fuqua alumnus Jason Rebrook (CCMBA ’02), Executive Vice President at Hilcorp Energy Company, […]

Duke Energy’s Adrienne Lalle reflects on her education at Fuqua

Adrienne Lalle

Adrienne Lalle graduated from Fuqua’s Daytime MBA program in 2015 with concentrations in Energy Finance and Decision Sciences. She shares some of the highlights of her experience at Fuqua in this Q&A. What was your career path before Fuqua? I graduated from the University of Virginia in 2008 with my bachelors in Chemical Engineering and […]

Alumni network at Bay Area reception for MBAs and MEM/MBAs

Duke University alumni gather at San Francisco networking reception

On July 9, Fuqua alumni who share an interest in sustainability met up for a joint networking event in San Francisco with other MBAs from Stanford, Michigan, Yale, MIT, and Cornell.  The event, which was a collaboration between the six schools, was designed to facilitate more connections between Bay Area professionals who are working in […]

Pete Curtice, VP of Opower, speaks about changing consumers’ energy behaviors

Pete Curtice, Opower

Is cleantech a fad?  Pete Curtice (Duke MBA ’97), Vice President of Opower, talks about the Opower business model, consumer’s energy consumption, and what he sees for cleantech in the future in this EDGE Chats video.   — RELATED ARTICLES Watch more EDGE Chats videos with executives    

Waste Management’s Bill Caesar talks about waste reduction and sustainability challenges

Video: Bill Caesar, Waste Management

In this EDGE Chats video, Bill Caesar (Duke MBA ’97), President of Recycling Services and Organic Growth at Waste Management, speaks about waste reduction and new waste management technologies.  (Oct. 2014 update: Bill Caesar is now CEO of WCA Waste Corporation.)   — RELATED ARTICLES Watch more EDGE Chats videos with executives