MAKE YOUR STUDIES COUNT THE CRANFIELD MSC IN MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY

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1 MAKE YOUR STUDIES COUNT THE CRANFIELD MSC IN MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY Transforming knowledge into action

2 COURSE PATRONS JOHN ELKINGTON John is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. In 2009, an international survey of the Top 100 CSR leaders placed John fourth after Al Gore, Barack Obama and the late Anita Roddick. John currently serves on some 30 boards and advisory boards. JOHN EHRENFELD John has written extensively about sustainability, arguing that current misunderstandings of its meaning have led to ineffective industry and government programmes that occasionally make matters worse. Before retiring John was Director of the MIT Technology, Business and Environment programme. He is author of two books laying out his critique. ROBERT SMART Having completed his Masters at Cranfield, Robert s early career involved oil pollution analysis and monitoring, development of community recycling and coordination of a community-based environmental participative consultation. Robert now develops environmental policy and practices within local government, achieving a 22% carbon reduction over five years. VICKY BULLIVANT Vicky leads the global sustainability programme at Rolls-Royce. In a sustainability career that spans twenty years in both the public and private sectors she has pioneered and implemented many forward-thinking projects and partnerships that have resulted in long-lasting change.

3 About the Cranfield MSc in Management and Corporate Sustainability The MSc in Management and Corporate Sustainability has been designed to develop practical, proactive corporate sustainability managers. The programme meets the growing demand for managers who have the ability, confidence and inspiration to place sustainability and responsibility at the heart of their profession. How will you learn? This one-year full-time programme will help you to make the link between understanding management and corporate sustainability theories, concepts, tools and techniques and to apply them creatively in real-life situations. Delivered in a varied, stimulating and experiential learning environment, all taught modules consist of formal lectures, in-class case discussions and self-study. The academic design of the course is strengthened by learning about real-world corporate sustainability business issues, so you can apply your skills directly into the workplace on completion of the programme. You will study one module with Cranfield's School of Applied Sciences, enabling you to learn about key areas of environmental science and technology, manufacturing and materials. you will have the opportunity to attend an exclusive international study tour. As one of the early signatories to the UN Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRIME), Cranfield is focused on teaching and enhancing long-term social, environmental and sustainable business practices.

4 IS THIS COURSE FOR YOU? The Cranfield MSc in Management and Corporate Sustainability is a one-year full-time course with a focus on 'real world' learning and on personal and professional development. It is designed for: Ambitious recent graduates with a good first degree who want to pursue a career in business management with a focus on corporate sustainability. Graduates from a related discipline such as environmental studies who want to apply what they have previously learnt in a business context. Professionals in the early stages of their career, who are keen to learn how to embed sustainability thinking into their future management career.

5 Why Cranfield? Close to business Cranfield bridges the gap between the corporate and academic worlds to promote sustainable business management. Our connections with organisations help create a community of practice in the field, in which we serve as researchers, mentors and educators. As an MSc in Management and Corporate Sustainability student, you will benefit from our close links to business in the following ways: You will learn from international case studies, which are used in class to help you engage with and discuss real business challenges. You will benefit from the knowledge and relationships developed in our many research centres of excellence. You will learn from faculty engaged with best practice across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, and from senior practitioners working sustainably in their organisations. You will have the opportunity to complete a consultancy project, working within a team to propose solutions to a real-life business problem. A live sustainability challenge project, carried out with a partner organisation over the course of a week, will allow you to research a real sustainability business issue. You can make use of the School's extensive network of faculty, students, alumni and corporate friends to support you in your future professional roles and with your career development.

6 MEET STRATEGIC CHALLENGES CRANFIELD ALUMNUS HARRY BULLARD, BRITISH, MBA, HEAD OF BRANDING AND MARKETING MENSWEAR, MARKS & SPENCER "The US currently uses two million gallons of oil every two minutes the realisation of the impact of business is crucial to the world we live in. Consumers and customers are becoming increasingly aware of their actions and demands, and companies that are reacting to this and have a clear sustainability strategy are standing out in the market place."

7 Why Cranfield? Personal and professional development The programme provides more than corporate sustainability knowledge and skills; there is also a strong emphasis on personal and professional development. This part of the programme is designed to develop your ability to manage yourself, collaborate with others and operate effectively within organisations. You will have the opportunity to use psychometric tests and self-assessment tools to understand more about who you are, how you work with others and what you value. Most modules will include an element of working together in small, multi-cultural learning teams. Each team will have a coach to mentor and advise them to help improve team working skills. You will learn from students of different nationalities and with diverse industry backgrounds, helping you to become more sensitive to contexts and cultures. You will work with Cranfield s Career Development Service to work out where you want to go professionally, what you have to offer, and how to pitch yourself to potential employers. You will have support to improve your communication skills, for example report writing, public speaking and presentation skills. The programme will help you to develop resilience so that you are able to cope with the challenges that your future professional life will present.

8 MAKING SUCCESSFUL CAREERS

9 Programme structure The MSc in Management and Corporate Sustainability incorporates a broad range of general management modules including strategic management, marketing, finance and management consulting. You will also study specialist corporate sustainability modules, perform a sustainability management consultancy project with a corporate partner and complete a thesis based on a real sustainable business issue of your choice. ORIENTATION WEEK TERM 1 Marketing Strategy and Planning Managing People and Organisations Managing Profitability, Liquidity and Asset Utilisation Improving Decision Quality with Management Science Economics for Managers Managing Operations TERM 2 Strategic Management Managing Corporate Sustainability Creating Sustainable Organisations Applied Science and Technology of Environmental Sustainability TERMS 3 AND 4 Management Consulting Sustainability in Practice Research Methods and Statistics Thesis

10 Module descriptions TERM 1 Marketing Strategy and Planning This module will familiarise you with the principles of strategic marketing and how to apply them to the marketing planning process. At the end of this practical module you will understand the marketing planning process, be able to structure and prepare a comprehensive strategic marketing plan and evaluate marketing plans prepared by others. Managing People and Organisations During this module you will be introduced to various aspects of people and organisations. It combines key ideas from organisational behaviour, psychology, sociology, and human resource management in order to provide you with an understanding and fluency in recognising and utilising what has been termed the "human factor" in organisations. We will also consider the impact of the external environment on organisations and address notions of organisational change. Managing Profitability, Liquidity and Asset Utilisation In this module you will learn about the role of finance within an organisation and familiarise yourself with a number of traditional and contemporary costing approaches. Upon completion of the module you will be able to identify how management decisions impact the financial performance of an organisation, appreciate the theoretical concepts that underpin cost accounting and compare the strengths and weaknesses of different costing approaches. You will also be able to interpret company accounts and apply financial tools and techniques to appraise project, product and customer profitability.

11 Improving Decision Quality with Management Science This module will introduce you to the management science approach by presenting a range of techniques that are used to support management decisions. The techniques that will be covered range from simple graphs to deterministic and stochastic modelling, including statistical analysis and forecasting methods. All lectures are designed to be interactive and the focus of the module will be on the practical application of methods and on the interpretation of data. Economics for Managers In this module you will be introduced to the concepts and techniques associated with managerial economics at both the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. You will learn to employ economic reasoning to make choices about the use of resources, recognise the importance of marginal analysis and diminishing returns in the context of business and consumer decisions, and analyse the external environment to understand the forces shaping the firm's competitive environment. Managing Operations This module will teach you about the strategic role of operations and how to design and manage the operations process. It will cover the tools and techniques of process improvement, capacity and inventory management, quality management, and performance management. You will learn to evaluate the contribution of operations to the development and implementation of successful business strategy, to appraise the critical issues faced by different operations, to select priorities for operational performance improvement, and plan the means to bring about that improvement.

12 TERM 2 Strategic Management This module will examine the key challenges that companies face and the range of approaches they employ as they seek to navigate complex environments. You will develop your ability to make strategic decisions, and apply various strategic management tools and techniques in practice. Managing Corporate Sustainability This module outlines the major sustainability challenges that are shaping the way businesses operate in the twenty-first century and explores how progressive organisations are responding to them in terms of organisational mind-set, leadership, value-chain, collaboration and change management. You will develop your understanding of how corporate action can be best configured to promote responsible and sustainable business strategies, encouraging you to think about the purpose of business. Creating Sustainable Organisations This module will further discuss some of the major sustainability challenges facing organisations today, and will explore how the leading organisations are managing their social, environmental and economic impacts. You will gain an understanding of how organisational action can be aligned to promote ethical, responsible and sustainable values and you will reflect on the emerging debates concerning the political economy. Applied Science and Technology of Environmental Sustainability During this module you will review the business case for environmental sustainability in terms of resource security, risk management, regulatory compliance and supply chain management. You will also learn about the key technologies for the treatment of water, waste, soil and air emissions, their characteristics and principles for operation. You will then be introduced to the environmental analytics and decision tools that are increasingly used to evidence good environmental performance across a broad range of business sectors.

13 TERMS 3 AND 4 Management Consulting Competing in teams over a week, you will play the role of a management consultancy presented with a real-life business issue from a case company. You will gather relevant data, use appropriate tools/frameworks to analyse the data, and propose innovative, pragmatic and achievable recommendations. A panel of experts, including practitioners and academics, will assess your proposed solutions and provide feedback. Sustainability in Practice You will work on a live sustainability challenge project for a partner/client organisation within in a team, over the course of a week. You will assess the client s problem, consider resolution, formulate recommendations and report to senior executives at the end of a mini consulting project. In doing so, you will investigate the organisational context and sustainability challenge in depth and discuss potential courses of corrective action and their implications. This module will allow you to gain a broader understanding of how organisational action can be best configured to promote responsible and sustainable business behaviours and strategies. Research Methods and Statistics This module will equip you to design, conduct and report on your research project. You will learn to articulate and define management problems and design research that will help you to make informed management decisions. Thesis For your thesis you will undertake a major research project based on a real sustainability business issue, for an organisation of your choice. You will apply your management knowledge, skills, and analytical abilities to real-life situations and demonstrate your ability to research issues, critically evaluate data and information, apply tools and techniques to solve management problems, and write a report concisely, informatively and persuasively.

14 YOUR CAREER The Cranfield Career Development Service will help you plan an effective strategy for your personal and professional development, and develop a set of career management skills that will remain with you throughout your career. We will help you: Increase your self-understanding Explore, research and test different career options Develop strategies and an action plan Implement your job search campaign

15 Career development The services available to MSc in Management and Corporate Sustainability students include: Interview skills workshop Career planning workshop etworking opportunities On-campus company presentations Employers The Cranfield MSc in Management and Corporate Sustainability ran for the first time in Companies that have recently recruited graduates from our other full-time programmes to management roles include: Accenture DHL Samsung CV and cover letter workshops Careers fair Amazon BMW IBM IKEA Schlumberger Sony Ericsson Bosch Marks & Spencer Tesco Online profile Sector events Carrefour Nokia United Nations Credit Suisse Rolls-Royce UPS Job matching service Individual career consultations Deloitte Diageo Sainsbury s Santander Vodafone Wal-Mart N

16 Life at Cranfield Sporting and social life Networking Accommodation benefits Cranfield is set in a leafy green campus in the heart of the Bedfordshire countryside in the UK. London Luton, Stansted and Heathrow airports are 30, 60 and 90 minutes away respectively, and offer connections to and from just about anywhere in the world. The School is easily accessible from London, Oxford, Cambridge and Birmingham, making it simple for recruiters and practitioners to visit us on a daily basis. The Cranfield Students Association runs a range of clubs and societies and hosts weekly social events throughout the year. Sports facilities include an indoor heated swimming pool at our conference centre, fitness centre with a gym and aerobics studio, indoor sports hall, large playing fields and courts for playing tennis, squash and badminton. Cranfield offers a wide range of accommodation on-site all within easy reach of the School of Management buildings. Living on campus is a great way for you to meet and socialise with other students and their families and benefit from the supportive infrastructure and sense of community spirit this brings.

17 Our Our alumni alumni network network Everyone who studies at Cranfield becomes a part of the Everyone who studies at Cranfield becomes a part of the Cranfield Cranfield University alumni network, our diverse, dynamic and University alumni network, our diverse, dynamic and unique unique community of 55,000 alumni across 166 countries. community of 55,000 alumni across 166 countries. The Cranfield experience is lifelong is lifelong and so, and so, has been designed to to serve serve as an as invaluable an invaluable no matter where they they are, are, alumni alumni can expect can expect lifelong resource and and also also to encourage to encourage support from Cranfield through through an extensive an extensive intellectual and and emotional engagement engagement range of of alumni services. services. Our Our programme programme between alumni, their their peers peers and and Cranfield. Cranfield. 100 alumni events per year Exclusive online access to the alumni directory 55,000+ alumni Alumni in Alumni in 166 countries 166 A range of lifelong learning resources

18 MAKE YOUR STUDIES COUNT OUR CARBON BRAINPRINT Cranfield is participating in the Carbon Brainprint project, sponsored by the HEFCE 'Leading Sustainable Development in Higher Education' programme. The Carbon Brainprint is a measure of the impact of a higher education institution through its intellectual contribution to reducing the carbon footprint of other organisations. The project is using a series of case studies from Cranfield and the universities of Cambridge and Reading to develop a life-cycle assessment approach to assessing the Brainprint.

19 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS A 1st or 2nd class UK honours degree or equivalent bachelor s degree; or a professional qualification plus 5 years relevant work experience. A good standard of English. IELTS an overall result in band 6.5 with writing of 6.5 Having taken your application into consideration, the course director may also require you to take GMAT and achieve a minimum score of 600, or GRE and achieve an 75th percentile in both the verbal and quantitative reasoning sections. TOEFL minimum score of 92 (internet-based test) ESOL CAE or CPE grade A to C PTE (academic) overall score of 65 FEES The tuition fees for the Cranfield MSc in Management and Corporate Sustainability starting September 2015 are: UK/EU students: 11,000 International students: 17,500 You will be required to pay a nonrefundable deposit of 1,000 on acceptance of your place. The remainder of the tuition fees are payable either before, or on the day of registration, which is the first day of orientation week. BURSARIES AND SCHOLARSHIPS Bursaries and scholarships may be offered at the discretion of the Course Director. These are awarded on merit as well as considerations of financial need. Please indicate on your application form, in the Financial Details section, if you would like to be considered. DATES The course starts on 28 September Although we do not have a formal deadline for receiving applications, to secure your place on the course and in on-campus accommodation, we advise that you apply as early as possible as places are limited. HOW TO APPLY To apply, please complete the application form on our website and include the following: Transcripts Degree certificate GMAT score if taken Two references English language test score if required Once your application has been submitted, it will be processed by our admissions team within four to six weeks. You will then be advised by if you are successful, unsuccessful, or whether the course director would like to interview you before a decision is made. If you are successful, an offer letter will be ed to you within two weeks. You will then have a further four weeks to confirm your place and pay your deposit.

20 MY SUCCESSFUL CAREER CRANFIELD ALUMNA JANE ASHTON, BRITISH, WOMEN AS LEADERS HEAD OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, TUI TRAVEL My company is one of the largest in the travel and tourism industry, which in turn is one of the world s largest industries. Our dependency on nature and its resources is key to the quality of our product, so addressing sustainability challenges head-on is fundamental to shaping a better future for our business, for our market and for my children s world that s what motivates me!

21 Cranfield School of Management is one of the oldest and most prestigious business schools in the UK. We are part of Cranfield University, the UK s only wholly postgraduate university specialising in science, technology, engineering and management. We are a Financial Times Top 40 school with 40 years experience in awarding MBAs and are triple accredited by EQUIS, AMBA, and AACSB. We are known for our excellence in leadership development, and for our powerful industry links and real world focus.

22 Talk to an alumnus To be put in touch with someone for an informal chat, please Liz Broderick (contact details below). Visit our website Meet us We look forward to meeting you at one of our events we host around the world as well as at Cranfield. Any questions? If you have any questions about the Cranfield MSc in Management and Corporate Sustainability, please contact: Liz Broderick +44 (0)