Investment advisor Graham Sinclair talks about the rise of “sustainable investment”–that is, investment that takes environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria into consideration in this EDGE Chats video. Sinclair is Principal at SinCo LLC and has 20 years of experience in the global institutional investment field. — RELATED ARTICLES Watch more EDGE Chats videos […]
Sustainability challenges are becoming more urgent, even within the last 5 years, said EDGE Executive Director Dan Vermeer in a recent interview on the podcast The Measure of Everyday Life. “I think people have a much more palpable sense of volatility and of disruption,” Vermeer said. He pointed to the California drought and recent super-storms […]
When it comes to careers, one of the areas of growing interest among MBAs is the sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) sector. Over the past 10 years, corporations have been increasingly focused on managing their social and environmental impacts and understanding the cost and revenue implications of initiatives that range from managing the human […]
EDGE executive director Dan Vermeer talks about global mega-trends, the business case for sustainability, and his outlook on the future in this new EDGE Chats video. — RELATED ARTICLES Watch more EDGE Chats videos with executives
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 […]
Which environmental risks pose the biggest threats to companies and how are firms thinking about mitigating climate risk? Fuqua professor Dan Vermeer discusses disaster risk mitigation and the R!SE Initiative with PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Nick Shufro in our latest EDGE Chats video. — RELATED ARTICLES Watch more EDGE Chats videos with executives
Rob Gaudette, Senior Vice President of NRG Energy’s Business Solutions group, discusses the changing utility business model and innovation in the energy sector in this EDGE Chats video. — RELATED ARTICLES Watch more EDGE Chats videos with executives
Do investors care about sustainability? Kurt Kuehn, Chief Financial Officer at UPS and a member of the company’s Corporate Sustainability Steering Committee. Kurt speaks about sustainability as a leadership issue and shares why managing sustainability is “enlightened self interest” for a firm in this EDGE Chats video. — RELATED ARTICLES Watch more EDGE Chats […]
Linda Fisher, Vice President of Safety, Health & Environment and Chief Sustainability Officer of DuPont, speaks about the evolution of corporate sustainability, environmental risk, and stakeholder engagement in this EDGE Chats video. — RELATED ARTICLES Watch more EDGE Chats videos with executives
by Janelle Kwan, MBA ’15 This article was written in response to a seminar given by Linda Fisher, Chief Sustainability Officer of DuPont, in an EDGE Seminar on Mar. 11, 2015 at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. This article voices one student’s perspective and does not necessarily represent the views of either Duke University […]