Cranfield University

Cranfield School of Management is one of the oldest business schools in Europe. As part of Cranfield University, the UK’s only wholly postgraduate and post-experience university, it is uniquely placed to connect technology and leadership. Cranfield SOM’s contribution to global innovation is world-leading, changing the way society thinks, works and learns. The School is deeply practice-focused and rooted in understanding real-world problems. We are deliberately not just about business, but for business, and the essence of the School is to engage with a world beyond academia to have a positive impact on business and wider society. We take a partnership approach to our research and teaching, delivering co-produced programmes and customised executive education where the clients’ needs are embedded in our curriculum, and our programme design and are often co-delivered. We are thus exceptionally close to practice in what and how we deliver to students and are highly applied and impactful in our research. Key to this is our faculty, who are actively engaged in consultancy and business-relevant research, putting them in close touch with the needs of business and government. They are committed to practicality, which means they are consistently current and topical in their teaching. They bring not only experience but rigour to their programmes. Organisations as diverse as Jaguar Land Rover, BAE Systems, Royal Dutch Shell, L’Oréal, UNICEF and the African Development Bank have benefited from our work, which ranges from management research projects, through staff talent management development on our MBA courses, to customised executive programmes.

The School is deeply practice-focused and rooted in understanding real-world problems. We are deliberately not just about business, but for business, and the essence of the School is to engage with a world beyond academia to have a positive impact on business and wider society. We take a partnership approach to our research and teaching, delivering co-produced programmes and customised executive education where the clients’ needs are embedded in our curriculum, and our programme design and are often co-delivered. We are thus exceptionally close to practice in what and how we deliver to students and are highly applied and impactful in our research. 

Key to this is our faculty, who are actively engaged in consultancy and business-relevant research, putting them in close touch with the needs of business and government. They are committed to practicality, which means they are consistently current and topical in their teaching. They bring not only experience but rigour to their programmes.  

Organisations as diverse as Jaguar Land Rover, BAE Systems, Royal Dutch Shell, L’Oréal, UNICEF and the African Development Bank have benefited from our work, which ranges from management research projects, through staff talent management development on our MBA courses, to customised executive programmes.