Fuqua student internships in energy, sustainability, and climate in 2025

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:

ClimateCAP announces new Fellows, preps for Summit

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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 […]

Fuqua gets closer to eliminating single-use plastics

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 […]

Cultivating a learning community

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 […]

Alumni in NYC gather to talk climate tech, clean energy & sustainability

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 […]

What makes a transformative educational experience?

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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 […]

Five ways to launch your climate career in B-school

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, […]

Duke hosts first MEM/MBA alumni reunion

On April 12-13, Duke MEM/MBA and MF/MBA dual degree alumni returned for a special weekend of reunion activities. Alumni reconnected with faculty and staff, participated in career conversations, heard campus updates from leaders in the Nicholas School and Duke Office of Climate & Sustainability, joined current MEM/MBA students for a picnic in Duke Forest, and […]

Carbon accounting’s next phase: Reimagining carbon waste as an asset

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 […]