Fashion & Sustainability: What Every MBA Needs to Know

The $2.5 trillion fashion industry has a big footprint. Sustainability issues including water, waste, emissions, chemical/microfiber pollution, and human rights concerns pose reputation and brand image challenges, supply chain risks, and regulatory risks to the industry if not addressed amid changing consumer sentiment. This briefing summarizes the issues as well as the innovations that fashion industry companies and entrepreneurs are pioneering.

Published 2022. 5 pages. PDF.

Authors: Ashley Finke, MBA ‘22, EDGE Fellow, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and Katie Kross, MBA, Managing Director, Center for Energy, Development, and the Global Environment (EDGE), Duke University. Special thanks to: Liza Schillo, Natalya Wallin, Juliana Collamer, and Alex Marchyshyn.