Cranfield School of Management

Search for Britain's Best Factory begins

1/17/2012 6:32 AM EST

Cranfield School of Management has launched the 2012 Best Factory Awards, its nationwide search to find the best manufacturers in Britain. The thirteen award categories include People Management, Skills Development, Health & Safety as well as the coveted overall prize of Best Factory of the Year.

The awards are run by Cranfield School of Management in partnership with manufacturing magazine Works Management and aim...

Ousedale wins Inter-County Schools Challenge

12/8/2011 5:51 AM EST

Five sixth-formers from Ousedale School in Newport Pagnell fought off competition from Harlington Upper, Denbigh High and Cardinal Newman to win this year’s inter-county schools challenge, organised annually by Cranfield School of Management. The event brought together four winners and runners up from two previous county challenges run by the world-class business school.

Pupils got to apply what they have learnt in...

Cranfield establishes Evergreen Fund to support growing businesses

11/22/2011 9:23 AM EST

The newly launched Evergreen Fund which has been established through the generosity of past participants of Cranfield’s Business Growth and Development Programme (BGP), will enable aspiring entrepreneurs, who might not otherwise be able, to participate in the Cranfield BGP in order to grow and develop their businesses.

A donation from serial entrepreneurs Paul Tombs, who attended the Cranfield BGP in 2006, and his...

Launch of the Marks & Spencer MBA Sustainable Retailing Challenge

11/1/2011 10:52 AM EST

Leading sustainable retailer Marks & Spencer and the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management are delighted to announce the launch of the 2012 M&S Sustainable Retailing Challenge. The competition offers MBA students from Europe’s leading business schools the chance to win £5,000 and the opportunity to present to a prestigious panel of judges.

The Doughty Centre for Corporate...

Cranfield School of Management and Tilburg University launch International DBA

10/27/2011 8:42 AM EST

Cranfield School of Management announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TiasNimbas Business School of Tilburg University in the Netherlands to offer a joint dual degree International Executive Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) programme tailored to the needs of senior managers around the world.

The International Executive Doctorate (DBA) is the highest level business...

New EU-funded project to improve capacity of EU freight transport

10/13/2011 9:57 AM EST

Identifying and implementing freight transport collaboration opportunities in Europe is the aim of new research started last month by a pan-European team of researchers from 18 institutions including Cranfield School of Management. The project, titled CO3 (Collaboration Concepts for Co-modality) has received EU funding under the Coordination and Support Action Thematic area of the Seventh Framework Programme...

Signs of improvement but boards still need to be bolder when it comes to appoint...

10/12/2011 4:18 AM EST

In the six months since Lord Davies launched his independent review into women on boards, only 33 FTSE 100 companies have heeded his recommendation to set themselves targets for the number of women they aim to have on their boards. Of these 33, only ten have set themselves targets of greater than a 10% increase.

The Lord Davies’ review (published in February) recommended that UK listed companies in the FTSE 100...

Parker Hannifin wins Britain's Best Factory Award

10/3/2011 10:21 AM EST

A factory that provides filtration solutions to help prevent the spread of infection in hospitals and remove yeast and bacteria from sparkling wine, has been named the Best Factory of the Year at the 2011 Best Factory Awards. Now in their 20th year, the awards are run by Cranfield School of Management in partnership with the magazine, Works Management. Parker Hannifin Manufacturing’s Domnick Hunter process...

Why CRM fails and how to fix it

9/28/2011 11:30 AM EST

Writing for the MIT Sloan Management Review, Cranfield School of Management’s Dr Stan Maklan, Professor Simon Knox and Professor Joe Peppard reveal why investing in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is not always a silver bullet for addressing marketing challenges and recommend what needs to be done to get results from such investments.

Their extensive research reveals that in endeavors to increase revenues,...

Developing animal instincts for business survival

9/22/2011 11:25 AM EST

A better understanding of animal survival instincts could improve a company’s chances of business survival according to a new study by Cranfield School of Management. The research explores what business leaders preparing for hard times can learn from solutions that have evolved in the animal kingdom over billions of years.

Dr Tazeeb Rajwani, Lecturer in Strategic Management at Cranfield is one of the report’s...

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