Updated Sept. 2025 Are you interested in incorporating sustainability into your career? EDGE Managing Director Katie Kross has compiled a slide deck of resources for students and job seekers. The deck includes example career paths, job search strategies, and recommended books, job boards, and industry news sources. While it won’t answer every possible question, the […]
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 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 […]
Despite plenty of industry turmoil amid policy changes, the market for energy, sustainability, and climate internships has remained strong. Fuqua MBAs are working in a wide range of interesting roles. Here’s a list of where some of our students are interning in 2025. — RELATED ARTICLES:
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 […]
Of the estimated 11 billion metric tons of plastic that have been produced since the invention of plastic, only 9% has actually been recycled. Plastics end up in our waterways, our oceans, and even in our bodies. An estimated 95% of tap water in the U.S. is contaminated with microplastics. While plastics provide plenty of […]
by Dan Vermeer, Associate Professor of the Practice and Executive Director, EDGE If there’s one thing that has been constant in the 14 years since EDGE’s founding, it’s perpetual and disruptive change. The energy sector has faced one upheaval after another—from the fracking boom to industry contraction, changing geopolitics, workforce transition, project finance and fundraising […]
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 […]
The scale of energy and climate investment and changes in the regulatory and consumer landscape make it an exciting time to tackle energy and sustainability leadership careers. Here’s a list of where some of our students are interning in 2024. — RELATED ARTICLES
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 […]