Cranfield School of Management

Teaching and Sharing Knowledge

Sharing knowledge and supporting today’s student and manager in structuring a sustainable approach to business is at the forefront of the work we do at the Doughty Centre. Our culture is one of support and guidance to ensure that corporate responsibility is placed at the heart of an organisation rather than a bolt-on. As one of twelve research centres based at Cranfield University, our objective is to support students and business people through enabling ongoing and future teaching at Cranfield and by connecting academia and practitioners so that valuable knowledge can be shared.

The scope of work is wide ranging and there is a wealth of reading material, conferences and access to knowledge on the subject of sustainability and responsibility. Whether a student of the Cranfield MBA or MSc or manager looking to change the approach of particular organisations’ environmental responsibilities, we can help connect you to emerging practice and research.

For further information on how you can benefit from our knowledge dissemination:

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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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