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 […]
by Jessica Wingert, EDGE Associate Director and ClimateCAP Program Lead Last month, we piloted a new summer program for incoming MBA students. Before classes at most schools began, participating students signed up to join us for 3 days of virtual workshops on climate and business, diving faculty into climate science, energy fundamentals, the policy landscape, […]
by David Brown, PhD, EDGE Faculty Director and Snow Family Business Professor, Fuqua School of Business It seems like every day brings fresh headlines about the voracious energy demands of artificial intelligence. According to a recent IEA report, data centers alone will drive nearly half of the growth in U.S. electricity demand by 2030. Tech […]
The ClimateCAP Initiative, founded at Fuqua and managed by Duke’s EDGE Center, is gearing up for another banner year. This month, ClimateCAP announced the selection of a new class of 16 Fellows, chosen from a highly competitive pool of MBA applicants. “This year’s Fellows class is our largest and most diverse yet. We saw more […]
In July 2024, EDGE co-hosted an event in New York City to bring together alumni from eight top-tier business schools to discuss climate tech, clean energy, and sustainable business. MBA alumni from Fuqua, Harvard, Yale, MIT, UC-Berkeley, Stanford, Michigan, and Cornell met at the Yale Club for open networking and a chance to make new […]
by Dan Vermeer, Associate Professor of the Practice and Executive Director, EDGE I’ve just returned from leading a new course on “Climate and Sustainability in the Nordic Countries” in Copenhagen, Denmark and in the Norwegian cities of Tromsø and Oslo. The 23 participating graduate students from Fuqua School of Business and Nicholas School of the […]
By Jessica Wingert, Associate Director and Program Lead, ClimateCAP Initiative It’s an exciting time to be getting an MBA, especially if you are passionate working on climate solutions. The beauty—and, admittedly, sometimes the challenge—of embarking on a climate career right now is the diversity of career opportunities available to students—from clean energy to sustainable agriculture, […]
by Dan Vermeer, Associate Professor of the Practice and Executive Director, EDGE On February 28, Duke will host the largest climate-related event ever convened at Fuqua School of Business. We expect more than 500 public officials, business leaders, Duke faculty and students to attend this event, called “From Billions to Trillions: The Inflation Reduction Act […]
By Kunj Chheda, MBA ’24 This article was written in response to a seminar given by Akash Patel, CFO of NET Power, in an EDGE Seminar at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in Fall 2023. This article voices one student’s perspective and does not necessarily represent the views of either Duke University or the […]
By Andrew Shuffer, MBA ’25 This article was written in response to a seminar given by Trevor Best, Co-Founder & CEO, Syzygy Plasmonics, in an EDGE Seminar at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in Fall 2023. This article voices one student’s perspective and does not necessarily represent the views of either Duke University or […]