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News Release from: Cranfield School of Management
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 June 2006
Corporate responsibility centre founded
Cranfield School of Management has announced a major donation which will be used to establish a world-leading Centre for the study of Corporate Responsibility.
Cranfield School of Management has announced a major donation which will be used to establish a world-leading Centre for the study of Corporate Responsibility The Centre will look at all aspects of business in society, including corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, sustainability and environmental management, community involvement and stakeholder activity
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 7 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The establishment of the Centre has been made possible through a personal donation by Nigel Doughty, Co-Founder of Doughty Hanson and Co, and an MBA alumnus from Cranfield.
Nigel Doughty is making an initial commitment of £3million to fully-fund the Centre for the next five years and to establish a Trust Fund to provide funding for subsequent years.
The search to appoint a world-class Chair to lead the Centre is underway.
In establishing a leading Centre for Corporate Responsibility, there will be close links with work in this area already being undertaken at Cranfield School of Management and the European Academy of Business in Society (EABiS), of which the School is a founding member.
Professor Michael Osbaldeston, Director of Cranfield School of Management said: "Cranfield School of Management will establish a world-leading reputation in the field of corporate responsibility, thanks to Nigel Doughty's generous donation.
He is giving something back to the School which helped establish his successful career and he has identified an area which he believes is crucial to the success of business.
Increasingly it is the case that business cannot be indifferent to how it creates value." Nigel Doughty co-founded Doughty Hanson and Co after completing his Cranfield MBA in 1984.
He became a Distinguished Alumnus of Cranfield School of Management in 2004.
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