Sustainability & Business: What Every MBA Needs to Know

Once an option for business, corporate sustainability is now a mandate for today’s companies. MBAs need to understand the drivers and opportunities for sustainability and be prepared to think about sustainability implications for their business department, no matter where they sit in the company. This briefing highlights key sustainability issues and summarizes some of the most critical risks and opportunities for business.

Published 2021. 6 pages. PDF.

Authors: Jacob Gwilliam, MBA ’21, 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: Dan Vermeer, Laura Gitman, Karina Hilton Spiegel, and Anna Epstein.