Colloquium Programme

Cranfield will be filming at various stages during the colloquium.

If you do not wish to appear in the film footage please contact the organisers.

Wednesday, September 10th

17:15	Pre-conference registration opens	CMDC Atrium
17:15	EABIS Supervisory Board	Main Board Room (CMDC 20)
19:15	End of Board meeting
19:30	Buffet Supper and Cocktail Reception	CMDC Atrium
	Welcome from Cranfield Vice Chancellor Sir John O’Reilly and Prof Michael Osbaldeston: Director, Cranfield School of Management (SOM) Speed networking led by young entrepreneur Oli Barrett
22:00	Close of Reception

Thursday, September 11th, Morning

8:00	Conference Registration Opens		Vincent Building

9:00	Welcome from Professor Michael Osbaldeston OBE, Director, Cranfield School Of Management and Professor David Grayson CBE, Director, Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School Of Management		Vincent Building Auditorium
	Video welcome message from HRH The Prince of Wales
	Address By Professor Gilbert Lenssen, President, EABIS

9:35	Plenary I:
	Embedding Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability - The Critical Challenges for Organisational Change
	Key Question:
	Building on recent academic and consulting literature highlighting the challenges of embedding ESG issues in the firm (McKinsey 2007 et al.), what are the vital knowledge gaps and research questions that need to be addressed to facilitate successful organisational change and the integration of CR & Sustainability into processes, systems and culture?
	Speakers:	Sir Michael Rake - Chairman, British Telecom Group Prof. Dexter Dunphy - University of Technology Sydney (via webcam from IBM, Sydney))
10:55	Commentary: Jane Nelson, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Facilitator: Daniel Franklin - Executive Editor, The Economist

11:00	Coffee Break
11:30	Plenary II: Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability - Innovation and New Approaches to Leading Successful Organisational Change
	Key Question: Given the lack of research focus and understanding around embedding CR and Sustainability in organisational change processes, what are the key success factors that enable corporate leadership to reposition the firm from an internal resource and systems perspective and drive the mainstreaming agenda?
	Panellists:	Peter White - Global Sustainability Director, Procter & Gamble Prof. Andrew Kakabadse - Vice President of EABIS and Professor of International Management Development, Cranfield School of Management
	Facilitator:	Peter Lacy - EABIS and Accenture (EALA)
12:30	Thought for lunch: John Elkington - Founder, Sustainability
12:45	Lunch		CMDC Main Restaurant
	By invitation - Business Members’ Networking Lunch: Frank Brown, Dean of INSEAD, and Lex Holst, former Global VP at Shell		CMDC Murray Room

Thursday 11th September, Afternoon

14:00	EABIS 2008 Knowledge and Learning Forum		CMDC Atrium
	A dynamic marketplace-style event profiling the current and future activities of EABIS and its members at the frontier of CR issues in collaborative knowledge development & learning.

15:30	BREAKOUT WORKSHOPS - Delving Deeper into CR and Sustainability: Leadership and Organisational Change		CMDC Lecture Rooms
	Session A:
	The Changing Role of Business in Society and the Challenges of Transforming Organisational Culture
	Key Question:
	While many organisations focus on the implementation of change processes at the systemic and structural levels, they often ignore the culture of the firm as a primary barrier or success factor. What are the leading insights and approaches that enable / empower an organisation to transform its culture and collective behaviour in parallel with systemic change around CR and Sustainability?
	Speakers:	John Elkington- Founder, Sustainability Janet Blake - Global CSR Director, BT Dr. Laura Quinn - Center for Creative Leadership Prof. Alfons Sauquet - Dean, ESADE Business School

	Facilitator:	Mark Wade - member of EABIS supervisory board


	Session B:
	Private Equity, Organisational Change and Sustainable Value Creation for Shareholders and Society

	Key Question:
	Through restructuring and enforced organisational change within their acquisitions, to what degree do private equity firms truly perceive and measure corporate responsibility and sustainability as drivers of both earnings / NPV and the intangible assets of the firm?
	Speakers:		Nigel Doughty - Chairman, Doughty-Hanson David Shepherd - Director, Haywood Securities Inc., Canada Dr. Danyelle Guyatt - Bath School of Management and Mercer Consulting
	Facilitator:		Dr. Lance Moir - CFO, Win Plc
	Session C
	Business in Society, the Climate Change Paradigm and Implications for Organisational Change

	Key Question:
	Given a general lack of foresight on the implications of climate change for organisational capability, what kind of leadership, knowledge & awareness development, and HRM innovations will be needed to re-engineer the organisational systems and culture of the firm? Will these change processes differ radically from other ones currently in place and use?
	Speakers:		Dorothy Mackenzie - Chairman, Dragon Brands Consulting Dr. Andy Reisinger - IGCC Panel (on web-cast from New Zealand) Chris Preist - Senior Systems Engineer, Hewlett Packard Prof. Ans Kolk - University of Amsterdam
	Facilitator:		Dr. Wayne Visser - Senior Associate, University of Cambridge Programme for Industry, and CEO, CSR International

	Session D:
	CR, Sustainability and Quality Management - Driving the Processes, Systems and Structures of Organisational Change

	Key Question:
	To what degree can Quality Management be viewed as a strategic framework that facilitates the successful embedding of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability in an organisation’s culture, structure, processes and systems? Is it a driver of incremental or transformational change, or even a process-rooted barrier to change?

	Speakers:			Dr. Madhav Mehra - Chairman, World Quality Council & President, World Governance Council Prof. Luk van Wassenhove - Professor and Director of Centre for Social Innovation, INSEAD Nikos Avlonas - Co-Founder & MD, Centre for Sustainability and Excellence Mike Patrick - Director Corporate Responsibility, TNT Express
	Facilitator:			John Swannick - CSR Manager, Lloyds TSB

	Session E:
	CR, Sustainability and the Strategic Case for Internal Integration: From External Engagement to Building Organisational Capability

	Key Question:
	Building upon key insights from EABIS’ Project RESPONSE on the correlation between internal embedding of CR and high corporate social performance, how can companies improve their integration of external expectations into core business processes, strategic decision-making and internal change initiatives?
	Speakers:			Prof. Maurizio Zollo - Bocconi University, RESPONSE Project Director Alexey Germanovich - Senior VP, Sustainable Development, Sevestral Richard Howitt MEP - Rapporteur on CSR, European Parliament Dr. Aileen Ionescu-Somers - Deputy Director, CSM Forum, IMD
	Facilitator:			Celia Moore - IBM and Vice-Chair of EABIS Business Network Board

	Session F:
	Systems Change, HRM and Embedding Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
	Key Question:
	How should organisations approach the integration of CR and Sustainability into core competency frameworks, and what are the change implications for internal HRM systems, ranging from recruitment, talent promotion, performance management and balanced scorecards, training and development?
	Speakers:	Prof. Chris Bones, Dean, Henley Business School Matilda Ventor, Director HR Consulting, PWC Alain Gauthier, Exec. Director, Core Leadership Development
	Facilitator:	Prof. Shaun Tyson - Emeritus Professor HRM, Cranfield

17:00	Town Hall Meeting				CMDC Atrium
	Key Insights from Day 1, facilitated by Colloquium Co-Chair David Grayson Prof Marc Epstein Distinguished Research Professor of Management at Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in Houston, Texas Launch of the Ashridge Sustainable Innovation Award, in association with EABIS and supported by HP and WWF - Matthew Gitsham, Ashridge and Jeannette Weisschuh, HP
17:30	Session closes

17:45	Buses depart to off-campus hotels

Thursday Evening Activities

18:45	Buses depart from campus for Gala Dinner

19:00	Buses depart from off-campus hotels for Gala Dinner

19:15	Reception	The Sculpture Gallery, Woburn Abbey

	Presentation of the EABIS-Aspen Faculty Pioneer of the Year Awards - Judy Samuelson, Executive Director, Aspen Institute for Business in Society and Gilbert Lenssen, President, EABIS Welcome from Richard Howitt MEP for East of England and European Parliament Rapporteur on Corporate Responsibility
20:00	Gala Dinner at Woburn Abbey

22:00-22:30	Close of Gala Dinner, buses return to hotels and campus

Friday September 12th, Morning

08:00-09:00	EARLY RISER Themed Breakfast & Network-Building Symposium on opportunities for RESEARCH PROPOSALS FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION FP7 RESEARCH PROGRAMME		CMDC Main Restaurant
	A network meeting for EABIS Academic Members to discuss collective responses to FP7 Calls for Project Proposals on CR Research
	Leaders:	Prof. Nigel Roome - Chair, EABIS Academic Network Board Prof. Gilbert Lenssen - President, EABIS Simon Pickard - Director General, EABIS
09:00-10:30	Parallel Sessions I Abstracts of all the papers being presented on Friday morning are posted by session at www.eabis2008.info and a list of the sessions and chairs is on page 18.		CMDC Lecture Rooms

10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
	Launch of 2008 Special Issue of Corporate Governance Journal - Prof. Andrew Kakabadse and Prof. Gilbert Lenssen
11:00-12:30	Parallel Sessions II		CMDC Lecture Rooms

12:45-14:15	Lunch		CMDC Atrium
	EABIS General Assembly		CMDC LR17

Friday September 12th, Afternoon

14:30	Plenary IV:		Vincent Building Auditorium
	Business in Society, Executive Development and the Leadership of Organisational Change

	Key Question:
	Given the urgency of defining new skills and competencies to manage the internal transformation of the firm, how must learning departments, educational institutions and external training providers adapt their own content and methods to embed the core issues of CR and Sustainability?
	Speakers:	Kai Peters - CEO, Ashridge Robin Blass - VP Global Learning, Unilever Michael Burkhardt - VP HRM (Northern Europe), IBM Prof. Kim Turnbull-James - Director, Centre for Executive Learning and Leadership, Cranfield School of Management
	Facilitator:	Stefan Stern, The Financial Times
16:00	Key Colloquium Insights and Take-Aways		Vincent Building Auditorium
	Speakers:	Jane Nelson - Director of CSR Initiative, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Simon Pickard - Director General, EABIS

16:30	Reflections, Future Agendas & Transfer to 2009 Colloquium Host
	Speakers:	Prof. David Grayson, Colloquium Co-Chair Prof. Gilbert Lenssen, EABIS President Prof. Nigel Roome, EABIS Academic Network Chair Prof. Joan Fontrodona, IESE

17:00	Conference close followed by farewell drinks and thank-yous to Cranfield		Vincent Building Atrium

18:30	BBQ for participants staying overnight at CMDC		CMDC

Saturday Morning

08:00

Coach departs for Ashridge