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Details for Nottingham University Business School
Communicating Participant
Type of Organization
Business School
Type of Education
Undergraduate, Post graduate, Doctoral, Executive
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Location
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Website
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business.
Sharing Information on Progress (2010)
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As part of a global university with campuses in the UK, China, and Malaysia, we take very seriously our responsibility to educate future business leaders to take a broader ethical and societal perspective on business practices. Under the leadership of the School’s International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, our success in embedding CSR into our curriculum fully supports this objective. Nottingham brings a distinctive global awareness and perspective to these issues.
Achievements Curriculum Integration in the Field of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
New core modules:
• Business Ethics for 3rd year BA Management and BA Finance, Accounting and Management students;
• Sustainable Decisions and Organizations – an integrative module for the MBA
Various BA elective modules address key sustainability issues (e.g. ‘Marketing and Society’, ‘Auditing, Governance and Scandals’).
A dedicated MSc Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme has been offered since 2004 and a CSR Minor stream has been introduced in the MSc International Business programme. As a result, a number of other modules are available to other MSc students, including in some cases from outside the School (e.g. Geography, Chemical Engineering):
• Business Ethics
• Managing for Sustainability
• Social and Environmental Accountability
Two other modules are exclusive to the MSc CSR programme for reasons of cohort development and team-building:
• Strategies for CSR
• CSR and Global Governance
The School also contributes to the MSc Sustainable Energy and Entrepreneurship programme.
There has been a dedicated MBA (CSR) programme since 2003 with three core modules:
• Business Ethics
• Corporate Governance and Social Accountability
• Strategies for Corporate Social Responsibility
There are two specialist elective modules within the MBA (CSR) programme:
• Ethical Finance
• Social Entrepreneurship
All five of these modules are available to other MBA students.
All these modules are also available on the MBA Executive Programme and a number are also being offered in the Open Executive programme and in the MBA programmes delivered in Singapore, Malaysia and China.
Achievements Research Development in the Field of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
The School has developed a reputation as a leader in CSR and sustainability research. This is illustrated by the high rating of our research in the Aspen Institute’s Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranking: 5th globally in 2009.
Some of the research reflects individual research interests while other research reflects ICCSR projects, sometimes in collaboration with practitioner organisations, e.g.:
• CSR and Children: Mapping and Business Relationships (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children)
• Corporate Community Investment and Stakeholder Engagement (with the Charities Aid Foundation)
• Gender mainstreaming in CSR (with the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants)
• CSR in European Business School Education (with the European Academy of Business in Society)
• Accounting for Sustainability (with The Prince of Wales Trust)
• Key Issues in Sustainability Assurance (with the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants)
• CSR and Recession (with the Financial Services Research Forum)
In addition, other Business School staff members have contributed to research in the broad field of sustainability. For example:
• The Operations Management Division ran The Impact of Environmental Regulations on Innovation, Performance and Sustainability in the UK Manufacturing Sector project (ERIPS). This project assesses environmental regulations in the UK manufacturing sector. The findings were disseminated and discussed at a 2010 Business School workshop with delegates from industry, academia and the government.
• The Christel Dehaan Travel and Tourism Research Institute (TTRI) has particular research expertise in the analysis of economic development and sustainability through tourism. In 2009, a study for the Chambers Active for Sustainable Tourism (CAST) project was completed. Here the TTRI analysed tourism SMEs in six European regions about their sustainable energy, water and waste management initiatives and changing demand for sustainable tourism. On the basis of this CAST produced a methodology guide to assist tourism SME in implementing environmental initiatives and a leaflet of 10 eco-tips for tourism businesses.
The School is involved in international academic research collaboration. For example, the ICCSR is a partner in the IMPACT—Impact Measurement and Performance Analysis of CSR project with a network of EU research partners supported by an FP 7 EU Research Grant.
We have developed various forms of engagement with managers of business corporations and other organisations in order to extend our knowledge of our social and environmental responsibilities.
We have numerous long term research partnerships, e.g.:
• The Use of Sustainability Management Accounting for Strategic Decision-Making: Opening the Black Box (This is funded by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and brings partnerships with two MNCs, Alliance Boots and Halcrow, and one SME, The Commercial Group).
• How to make CSR calculable and corporations accountable? The institutional mechanisms of CSR metrics and corporate behaviour (This is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and brings a close partnership with the leading socially responsible investment organisation, FTSE4 Good)
• CSR in Civil Engineering (This is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council with Scott Wilson Consultants, a leading construction sector consultancy)
We provide MSc and MBA CSR researchers to partner organisations to conduct research on projects of shared interest. Findings not only contribute to the MSc dissertations and the MBA Management Projects but also our interns prepare short executive reports for the benefit of their host organisations.
the School hosts an annual series of high-profile speaking events, the Business Leaders Series, which are open to alumni, students, staff, and our business associates. Recent speakers include:
• Steve Holliday, CEO National Grid who discussed how the company’s green agenda related to company strategy
• Dr Peter Homa, Chief Executive, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust who spoke about the importance of integrity in leadership
• Dr Hamid Mughal, Executive Vice President, Rolls-Royce discussed the importance of long-term value for business success
• Srini Gopalan, Managing Director, Europe, Capital One who spoke about the importance of leaders confronting reality
• Alex Gourlay, Managing Director, Health and Beauty, Alliance Boots stressed the importance of understanding customer needs and of developing new capabilities to meet these
• Michael Queen, Chief Executive, 3i pointed to the need for private equity to take corporate social responsibility seriously.
