Ashridge Centre for Business and Sustainability

Integrating Corporate Responsibility, a programme for Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility leaders, 12 - 14 May 2010 and 24 - 26 Nov 2010

Our three day programme, Integrating Corporate Responsibility, which helps individuals leading the sustainability and corporate responsibility agenda understand how change really happens in organisations and builds their skills and capacity to stimulate real and meaningful change. Drawing on insights from organisations including Telefónica and National Grid, the next programmes are 12 - 14 May 2010 and 24 - 26 Nov 2010.

Ashridge MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility

Ashridge is delighted to announce the launch of the new Ashridge Masters in Sustainability and Responsibility – a two year part-time MSc programme of eight intensive residential workshops, each of five days duration. The programme began on 12 October 2009.

The MSc programme directors form the core of an extensive community of practice in sustainability education developed over the past 15 years. Gill Coleman, Chris Seeley and Tim Malnick were all involved in the New Academy of Business founded by Anita Roddick and subsequently directed the MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice at Bath. Chris Nichols has taught extensively with Gill, Chris and Tim while also leading the Strategy Engagement practice at Ashridge. The MSc is further connected into a community of practitioners, both within and beyond Ashridge, with more than 250 members who have studied these topics and learned together, and who now operate a very active global network with leading roles in business, the public sector, academia and NGOs.

New Ashridge research on sustainability and organisational change

To explore the question – How do we successfully effect change towards sustainable business practice? Ashridge has launched an action research inquiry, bringing together sustainability and CSR professionals from sector-leading businesses to research effective practice within their own organisations and identify actions for achieving more ambitious and far reaching change.

Alexandra Stubbings, the inquiry's facilitator, says "taking an Action Research approach to this inquiry enables us to not only explore, in detail, the conditions that lead to successful change, but also uncovers new opportunities for experimentation and innovation. The very process of asking new questions in our organisations can prompt new thinking, and that's what successful engagement with environmental and social responsibility requires".

So far the inquiry group includes representatives from Banking, Technology, Manufacturing, FMCG, Retail and Media, as well as Ashridge itself. The group is planning to publish its initial findings towards the end of this year.

If you'd like to know more about the research or are interested in participating, contact Alexandra at alexandra.stubbings@ashridge.org.uk.

Thoughts on Sustainability: Volume 1 Principles leaning into process

In this the first volume of Ashridge sustainability thought-pieces, some of the principles and big ideas that can help us meet the profound challenges currently facing us all are explored. Perspectives on intelligent growth, happiness and wellbeing, ecological mindset, and relational sustainability are offered.

Call for papers: Special issue of the Journal of Public Affairs

Deadline: 1 December 2009

We are editing a Special Issue, of the Journal of Public Affairs, with the title: Looking into the Abyss: Global Unethical Leadership . The focus is on international reflections on leadership in the face of corruption and manipulation: what is our need for corporate and public accountability and transparency?

Editors: Carla Millar, Roger Delves and Phil Harris

Call for papers

For further Author guidelines see http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/110484432/home/ForAuthors.html

Deadline: 1 December 2009

Publication Date: Issue 10.2, May 2010

Please submit your papers to eileen.mullins@ashridge.org.uk

Ashridge launches new research on developing the global leader of tomorrow at the United Nations, New York, 4 December 2008.

New Ashridge research, conducted in partnership with the European Academy of Business in Society and in support of the UN Global Compact Principles of Responsible Management Education, was launched at the United Nations in New York on 4 December 2008.