MBA Skillset: Sustainability Reporting

Sustainability reporting is a key tool for understanding and measuring social and environmental impacts, and is expected by many of a company’s stakeholders today. What’s more, climate and sustainability risk disclosure is also increasingly mandated by policy in many markets. This MBA Skillset paper, updated in 2025, gives you an introduction to how sustainability reporting is done, when it’s used, and what its limitations are.

Updated 2025. 2 pages. PDF.

Authors: Shehnaz Shergill, MBA ’25, EDGE Fellow, Duke University; Mingyi Chen, MEM ’22, EDGE Fellow, Duke University; Katie Kross, MBA, Managing Director, Center for Energy, Development, and the Global Environment (EDGE), Duke University. Special thanks to: Kate Rabernak, Aman Singh, Dan Vermeer, and Brad Sparks.