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Ashridge Business School

Location:
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
Website:
www.ashridge.org.uk

Ashridge is a place where tradition meets innovation – in one of the most beautiful locations in England.

Consistently ranked as a world leader in executive education, Ashridge is accredited by EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA and combines the best of a business school with an innovative organisation consultancy. We work with thousands of executives across the globe every year. Our faculty comprise business professionals, consultants and researchers, who bring in-depth industry knowledge and experience to the learning environment.

Key Facts

Ashridge Sustainability Programmes

Ashridge offers a MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility, as well as two shorter executive education programmes dedicated to sustainability and corporate responsibility: The Business of Sustainability and Integrating Corporate Responsibility.

MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility

A unique, innovative and exciting two-year, part-time programme for people who seek to address more deeply the question of how they or their organisation can operate in a genuinely sustainable and responsible way.

This highly practical programme provides a range of perspectives on business and organisations, all of which challenge traditional ideas about where ‘responsibility’ begins and ends.

You will understand the realities of the challenges facing us in the coming decades and learn about the practices and management approaches to address sustainability, organisational and corporate responsibility.

It will help you to address these challenges in your own context and will encourage you to play an active part in helping organisations, individuals and communities understand more about the issues concerned.

Who is it for? Business people, consultants, activists, public sector managers & NGO professionals

You will:

  • Explore sustainability, business and organisational responsibility from multiple perspectives
  • Engage with learning-edge practitioners and organisations featuring values-based business, leadership and organisational practices
  • Develop skills and apply disciplined action research and action-learning
  • Develop and apply your capacities as an informed and self-aware individual consciously contributing to organisational and social change
  • Inform and take part in the growing world-wide debate on the purposes and responsibilities of business
  • Benefit from strong peer support, shared learning and a conducive learning environment.

This course draws on a highly participative approach to learning and requires systematic engagement and collaboration at personal and professional levels. Using an action research approach, participants are encouraged to reflect and explore ideas via practical, action-based experiments. Action research incorporates a wide range of practices and ideas with a strong pedigree in the fields of organisational change and community development.

Programme start date: 01 November 2010
Programme fee: £14,500 excluding VAT & accommodation fees

Interested? Learn more at an open event

Meet MSc faculty and find out more about the Ashridge MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility. The dates are as follows:

  • Tuesday, 23 March 2010
  • Thursday, 27 April 2010
  • Wednesday, 19 May 2010
  • Wednesday, 09 June 2010
  • Tuesday, 13 July 2010
  • Thursday, 30 September 2010
  • Thursday, 14 October 2010

For further information or to reserve a place at an open day, please contact: Gabriele Silver on: +44 (0)1442 841142 or email: gabriele.silver@ashridge.org.uk

The Business of Sustainability

The programme brings together Ashridge’s leading insight into organisational change and engagement and the experience and know-how of global flooring company InterfaceFLOR – pioneers in sustainable business practice and ranked number one in Globescan’s Survey of Sustainability Experts worldwide. Participation in the programme will enhance your ability to accelerate your organisation’s journey towards more intelligent business growth. It will also help you identify and address important issues of brand and reputation as they relate to your practice in this area.

With participant numbers limited to 12 and dedicated individual support and coaching on strategy, engagement, leadership and change, you will have maximum opportunity to identify potential actions with strategic and operational impact for your organisation.

Who is it for? Senior Sustainability & CR Managers

You will:

  • have a better understanding of the issues, opportunities and urgency driving the need for businesses to adopt sustainable practices
  • have gained valuable insights and lessons from other organisations that are making sustainability central to their strategies
  • have worked with a suite of tools and interpretive models to scrutinise your current and potential business practice
  • have developed your understanding of your organisational opportunities and challenges with the help of expert practitioners in the field of sustainability, strategy and change
  • have produced a strategic action plan to begin to engage your organisation and take practical steps towards responsible, profitable, practice.

Programme start date: 29 - 30 June 2010
Programme fee: £3,000 excluding VAT, but inclusive of all residential costs

For further information please contact: Liz Ainslie on: +44 (0)1442 841405 or email: liz.ainslie@ashridge.org.uk

Integrating Corporate Responsibility

A three day intensive programme which has been designed to meet the real world professional development needs of sustainability and CR professionals. Working with your peers, Ashridge facilitators and practitioners from leading organisations, you will develop your ability to stimulate change, influence key stakeholders and integrate CR in your organisation.

Who is it for? Leaders & Strategic Decision Makers

You will:

  • Understand the changing agenda for sustainability and corporate responsibility and what this means for professionals in the field
  • Learn more about your strengths and your preferred styles and how you can build on these to maximise your effectiveness in this role
  • Deepen your understanding of how change really happens in organisations, and what this means for sustainability and corporate responsibility
  • Maximise your skills for engaging with and influencing key stakeholders within your organisation
  • Sharpen your strategic thinking to enhance your ability to speak the language of key decision-makers across your business
  • Gain insight from the latest practices adopted by leading companies including Novo Nordisk, Telefónica and National Grid.
  • Share experience and learn with peers from a range of organisations.

Programme start dates: 12 May - 14 May 2010 and 24 Nov - 26 Nov 2010
Programme fee: £2,300 excluding VAT, but inclusive of all residential costs

For further information please contact: Eileen Mullins on: +44 (0)1442 841026 or email: eileen.mullins@ashridge.org.uk

Ashridge and Sustainability

Ashridge has taken several steps to integrate consideration of sustainable development and corporate responsibility throughout its own educational and related activities, but recognises the limitations of what this can achieve, so has also entered into several partnerships to promote this approach throughout the management education sector.

Ashridge’s Centre for Business and Sustainability is constantly undertaking research in new areas surrounding sustainability and business, which are weaved through our qualification, open enrolment and customised executive management and leadership programmes.

United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education

In 2007, Ashridge became one of the first business schools globally to adopt the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education, having participated in the global taskforce convened to develop these. The principles recognise the role of business schools in shaping and influencing managers’ attitudes, values and behaviour and call on business schools to integrate into their teaching, research and thought leadership a consideration of questions of personal ethics and values, corporate responsibility and sustainable development.

European Academy of Business in Society

Ashridge is a founding partner in the European Academy of Business in Society, a unique alliance of companies, business schools and academic institutions, with the support of the European Commission, committed to integrating business in society issues into the heart of business theory and practice in Europe. EABIS was established in 2002 after CEOs and Deans across Europe agreed on the urgent need for more and better knowledge and skills on business in society issues. Ashridge’s CEO Kai Peters sits on the supervisory board.

Ashridge Sustainable Innovation Award

Since 1999, Ashridge has been challenging MBA candidates from across Europe and further afield to consider questions of corporate responsibility and sustainable development as part of the learning experience that prepares them for organisational leadership.

Ashridge recently announced the launch of the Ashridge Sustainable Innovation Award, in association with EABIS and supported by HP and WWF. The theme of last year’s award was sustainable innovation: creating value from the shift to a low carbon economy.

Contributing to the COP15 Copenhagen Climate Negotiations

Two weeks before the beginning of the COP15 climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009, Ashridge was invited to participate in a United Nations forum convened at Copenhagen Business School on climate change and the implications for management education, as a feed-in event to the COP15 negotiations.

Contact Details

Hannah Gardiner
Tel: +44 (0) 1442 841305
Email: hannah.gardiner@ashridge.org.uk
Address: Ashridge, Berkhamsted. Herts. HP4 1NS