Cranfield School of Management

About Us

The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility is an action-research centre within Cranfield School of Management. We work closely with academia, business, and other partner organisations and networks to teach, research, and publish (books, articles, reports and practical How-to guides).

To influence current and future business practice we engage with students and business through our CR network (CCRN, Alumni PIN), partnerships, and events.

As well as our core activities we undertake a limited number of consulting assignments and run bespoke course and workshops for business. We speak at and/or chair and facilitate conferences throughout the year.

The Doughty Centre was made possible by a donation of £3m from Nigel Doughty, a Cranfield Distinguished Alumnus and co-chair and co-founder of Doughty Hanson & Co.

Our Commitment:

  • To help others integrate corporate responsibility fully into management practice
  • To create, teach and inspire managers to engage fully with environmental and social issues in the workplace
  • To promote corporate responsibility research and development 

The Future:

The Doughty Centre aspires to be a leading centre for research, teaching and practice in corporate responsibility and sustainability. We are particularly interested in how businesses embed  corporate responsibility and sustainability.

To read news coverage on the Doughty Centre click here. 

To read the Doughty Centre's 2012 Annual Report click here.

What's New:

Doughty Centre Associate, Chris Marsden, has written a teaching module on Business and Human rights for use by business school faculty. Click here for more details.

 

Professor David Grayson has an essay published in the April 2013 edition of Ethical Corporation: “Carers: a business responsibility and social opportunity

 

Our latest Doughty Centre Occasional Paper, "Creating sustainable businesses through social intrapreneurism", highlights the features of the enabling environment for social intrapreneurism, including "culture that D.A.R.E.S. to innovate", as well as suggested practical C.H.A.N.G.E.S. - 7 Habits companies can cultivate to build successful social intrapreneurism. Click here to download a briefing note on this paper.

 

Dr Palie Smart is quoted in an article in The Times (18 March 2013) : Launch of Female FTSE 100 manufacturing board index. Full Article

 

Professors David Grayson and Andrew Kakabadse have an article "Sustainable Business Leadership. Take it from the top" published in the February 2013 edition of Ethical Corporation magazine.

 

This joint Doughty Centre publication with Business in the Community was launched at the Prince of Wale’s Seeing is Believing report-back session at St James’s Palace on January 29th by Phil Hodkinson who is a non-executive director of BT plc, Travelex Holdings and Resolution Ltd. Phil also wrote the foreword to the report. The report is both a summary of quantitative and qualitative research undertaken during 2012 into how boards organise oversight and governance of Corporate Responsibility; and a think-piece commentary inviting discussion and debate within and amongst corporate boards about how to improve oversight and governance in future. Read report

 

New publication: “Corporate Responsibility Coalitions. The past, present and future of alliances for sustainable capitalism” by David Grayson, director of the Doughty Centre, and Jane Nelson, director of the CSR Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, published by Greenleaf Publishing. Click here for a summary of the book and an interview with David Grayson

 


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