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Cranfield Corporate Responsibility Network

The Cranfield Corporate Responsibility Network (CCRN) is a club we run for students, faculty, alumni, and external practitioners and academics. The CCRN operates mostly through seminars we arrange with guest speakers from across academia and industry, where expertise and research is shared. This is followed by the opportunity to discuss and debate. The forums are an ideal opportunity to share new ideas and network with other students and the faculty.

Meetings are held regularly throughout the academic year
Students and faculty can present research and test ideas
Visiting speakers give insight into their field of experience and expertise
Exploration of new ideas and potential research topics
Great networking opportunities

If you wish to attend any of these events please reserve your free place by clicking here and mentioning the event in the email subject box, or telephone Thea Hughes on +44 (0)1234 754410.

For details and slides of past speakers please go to our Archive.

Our most recent events:

On 18 January Sir Andrew Witty, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline gave the annual Pears Business Schools Partnership lecture at Cranfield. .Sir Andrew reflected on the role of business and business leaders in today's globally connected market place and discuss the changing role of business in society. He offered new perspectives on how businesses of the future can create long-term sustainable value. Please click here for a summary of the lecture.

On 7 March, Clare Melford, CEO of the International Business Leaders Forum gave a talk on "Beyond sustainability: how smart companies are redefining growth to ensure their future." Click to view the presentation. click here to view a recording of the lecture.

On 16 May Stef Kranendijk, CEO, Desso, gave a talk on"How going Cradle to Cradle boosted innovation and shaped a responsible business."

Stef Kranendijk is chief executive of Desso, a Netherlands-based manufacturer of carpets for home and commercial use, and artificial grass for sports. Since his appointment in 2007 he has spearheaded the integration of a “cradle-to-cradle” approach into Desso’s value chain. Cradle-to-cradle takes its concept from nature. In nature everything goes in cycles. There is no material waste in nature because everything is being reused by micro-organisms or plants. The end objective is to make products whose materials are pure enough to be disassembled after use and made into new products or returned to the biosphere. Prior to joining Desso, Stef was a senior executive with Procter and Gamble. Click here to see the presentation.

Forthcoming events:

The 2012 Cranfield Corporate Responsibility Network lecture series: CEO perspectives

David Levin, CEO, UBM plc, 27 June, 1800 in CMRI

Since 2005, UBM has reshaped its portfolio significantly through approximately £800m of disposals (magazines/newspapers, TV interests and so on) and over £750m on over 90 bolt on acquisitions (events, specialist data and news distribution). As a result of this process, face to face events and exhibitions now account for around two thirds of UBM's profit while the Group’s data and services business and PRNewswire activities each now account for something between 15 and 20% of profit. Print, which accounted for nearly half the business in 2005 is now responsible for less than 5% of group profits. In addition the business has shifted significantly towards emerging markets which now account for approximately 27% of profit (2005 : 15%) and has built significant operations in China, India and Brazil along with new businesses growing in Turkey and SE Asia.

David Levin was appointed Chief Executive Officer of United Business Media plc in 2005. He joined from Symbian, the mobile phone operating system company, where he had been chief executive for three years. He joined Symbian from Psion plc, the handheld computing company, where he was chief executive from 1999. Prior to that, he spent five years with the international business publishing group Euromoney Institutional Investor as chief operating officer and CFO (where he led the acquisition of, among others, Institutional Investor, Internet Securities Inc and the creation of Euromoney’s Exhibition business). Previously he worked with the venture capital group Apax Partners for 4 years, as MD of a portfolio UK engineering company and with the consultancy firm Bain and Company, mostly in the Asia, West Africa and the USA over the period 1983-89.

David was born in Zimbabwe, brought up in the UK, read PPE at Oxford and completed his MBA at Stanford and lives in London with his wife and three sons.

Past events:

To view presentations, audio and video recordings of past events please visit the Library database.

Clare Melford	Beyond sustainability: how smart companies are redefining growth to ensure their future.
Sir Andrew Witty	The role of business and business leaders in today's globally connected market place and the changing role of business in society.
Stefan Stern	Business as usual
Dr Stephan Rothlin	Corporate Responsibility in the Chinese Context
Professor Henri-Claude de Bettignies	Developing Responsible Leaders, China: a challenge but a survival imperative
Professor Simon Bolton	Exploring new innovation agendas for Bottom of the Pyramid Consumers
Jessica Sansom	The Future of Sustainable Capitalism - what is the future of green brands?
Paul Druckman	Integrated Reporting
Ros Tennyson	Tri-Sector Partnering - Paradoxes, Pitfalls and Prizes
Professor Malcolm Harper	Micro-finance
Patrick Laine	Is Business Meeting the Scale of the Sustainability Challenge?
Steve Killelea	The Institute for Economics & Peace and the Global Peace Index
Stephen Green	The role of corporate responsibility within the financial sector and in education
Professor Joe Nellis	Is it time for our underlying economic model to change - what should we have learned from the financial crisis?
Sir Crispin Tickell	Development: what should it mean?
Vincent de Rivaz	Tone from the Top - leading business sustainably and responsibly
Professor Kirk Hanson	Should ethics matter for modern managers?
Amy Fetzer and Heiko Spitzeck	Social Intrapreneurship - The Yunus Inside
Robert Nuttall & Mike Barry	Creating Marks and Spencer's Plan A for Sustainability
Sara Holmes	Innovating from business NGO partnerships
Gabriela Alvarez & Mercedes Tallo	A sustainable cup of coffee
David Logan	Has CSR got a future?
Professor Patrick Reinmoeller	Responsibility and Internationalization: Developing CR Strategy to Prevent Crises
Professor Simon Pollard	Risk Governance: towards improved accountability in the environmental goods and services sector
David Logan	Why CR? From data to decision making
Dennis Pamlin	Sustainable Innovation
David Logan	Why CR? Making the case from righteousness to riches
Judy Greevy	Corporate Responsibility in the Public Sector - practical examples from Her Majesty's Customs and Excise
David Logan	Corporate Responsibility: from Babylon to Bhopal
Philippa Foster Back	A Matter of Language - Practical Business Ethics
Jonathon Porritt	Corporate Responsibility in a Collapsing World
Dr Iain Davies	Is fair-trade labelling fair?
Dr Ruth Bender	Reporting Sustainable Performance
Rob Gifford	China Road. A journey into the future of a rising power
Professor Andy Neely	Performance Measurement and Disclosure
Susan Vinnicombe & Richard Kwiatkowski	Principles of Responsible Management Education
Katie Stafford	Marks and Spencer's Plan A
Geoffrey Bush	Embedding Corporate Responsibility in a Global Business
Najeeb Al-Ali	Corporate Responsibility and Islamic Values
Patrick Mallon	CRI - an untapped goldmine of how FTSE 100 companies are integrating Corporate Responsibility

What's New:

Annual Report

The Doughty Centre’s 4th annual report to stakeholders covers the academic year 2010-2011. If you would like to receive a hard copy please email thea.hughes@cranfield.ac.uk

The Business Case for Responsible Business

Joint publication with BITC, a report for business identifying 7 current and 2 new business benefits from responsible business. Includes description, facts and figures from our research, and company examples.

Engaging Employees in Corporate Responsibility

6th in our How to series, this guide helps you engage your employees in CR, from identifying your objectives, understanding context, diagnosing enablers and barriers, choosing suitable strategies, and measuring success.