Advancing a more sustainable energy industry: Alumna Liz Turnbull shares her work at PG&E

Elizabeth (Liedel) Turnbull graduated from Duke’s 3-year MBA/Master of Environmental Management joint degree program in 2011. Since then, she has worked for Pacific Gas and Electric Company, California’s largest investor-owned utility. Passionate about environmental and social responsibility, Liz started with PG&E in their Corporate Sustainability department. Today, she works in the Office of the Vice […]

Alumna Jana Holt discusses the challenges and rewards of a career in sustainability consulting

When Jana Holt graduated from Duke’s business and environment MEM/MBA joint degree program in 2013, she took her passion for business and environment to Context, a boutique sustainability consultancy with offices in New York, London, and Los Angeles. Jana is now a Client Director with the firm, where she works with clients including JetBlue, Morgan […]

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

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 […]

Lisa Shpritz shares Bank of America’s sustainability goals

Lisa Shpritz (Duke MEM ’97), Senior Vice President and Environmental Operations Executive with Bank of America, talks about the company’s sustainability goals and its results to date in this EDGE Chats video.   — RELATED ARTICLES Watch more EDGE Chats videos with executives    

Dan Vermeer discusses business response to climate change

Dan Vermeer, Executive Director of the Center for Energy, Development, and the Global Environment (EDGE) and Associate Professor of the Practice at Fuqua School of Business discusses how leading companies should respond to the threat of climate change in a new video.  Climate change trends present very real risks to companies, but as Vermeer sees […]

Turning a commitment to the environment into a career

EDGE managing director Katie Kross is driven by the desire to help connect students who have a passion for changing the world with rewarding career options that let them do just that.  Many of the students she speaks with go on to careers in corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability consulting, impact investing, and clean energy […]

Mitch Jackson discusses sustainability at FedEx

Mitch Jackson, Vice President of Environmental Affairs and Sustainability at FedEx, talks with Duke University’s Dan Vermeer about implementing sustainability in a company as a large and complex as FedEx in this EDGE Chats video.  The biggest opportunities for sustainability, he says, lie in finding value-add ways to integrate it into the business strategy.   […]

AMD’s Director of Corporate Responsibility discusses sustainability trends and prominent issues

Tim Mohin (Duke MEM ’94), Director of Corporate Responsibility for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and author of the book Changing Business from the Inside Out, shares his perspectives on corporate social responsibility (CSR), trending social and environmental issues, and why business should care about sustainability in this EDGE Chats video.   — RELATED ARTICLES Watch […]

Aligning corporate social responsibility with profitability

by Idris Dosunmu, MBA ‘16 This article was written in response to a seminar given by Mitch Jackson, Vice President of Environmental Affairs & Sustainability with FedEx at Duke University in an EDGE Seminar on Nov. 4, 2015 at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. This article voices one student’s perspective and does not necessarily […]