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Cranfield University prides itself on creating knowledge and translating it into action. The Doughty Centre fully endorses this link between academia and industry, with a specific focus on the practical application of the knowledge we create and teach. By engaging in application of knowledge we gain further insights into topical challenges and opportunities, which is fed back into our teaching and research.

We aim to support you on your journey of development through the complexities of corporate responsibility. The Centre is there for guidance and adopts an advisory approach in helping its partners and stakeholders. Our aim is to offer you - as a student or executive - the opportunity to obtain the knowledge, tools and inspiration you need to take a fully sustainable and responsible approach to management and business practices.

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Partnership development, where together with a company, NGO/charity or organization we research and explore real-world issues, challenges and solutions

The Doughty Centre has a wide range of supporting material and advisors available to help and support you with your adoption of a sustainable and responsible approach to business. We offer advise with the opportunity to gain exposure to our team of experts who will guide you through a particular project in conjunction with your management team.

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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