This year marked the 20-year anniversary of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS) at the University of Bath School of Management. We held a special celebration to mark it, with the theme “Unfinished Business”.
This one-day event was dedicated to bringing together our many faculty and PhD alumni, friends and visitors from the past two decades to join a conversation with our current faculty and students on how far we’ve come in rethinking the role of business in a sustainable society, and where we need to go next to address the many challenges facing us today and in the future.
The day featured presentations and panel discussions with our past and current researchers, break-out sessions, posters, and lots of chance to meet, chat and network with friends old and new.
Programme
The programme of the day was as follows:
| Time | Activity | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 9.30 - 10am | Arrivals and Coffee | |
| 10 - 10.30am | Welcome: overview of CBOS at 20 – then and now | Andrew Crane, Stephen Brammer and Johanne Ward-Grosvold |
| 10.30 - 11.30am | Research on business and society: where have we come from and where are we going? | Gregory Jackson, Jill Brown, Thomas Roulet, Harry Van Buren and Grace Augustine |
| 11.30 - 12.30pm | Business and society in practice: what has changed and what can we expect next? | Lauren Branston, Jordan Graham and Dorothee Baumann-Pauly |
| 12.30 - 1.30pm | Lunch | |
| 1.30 - 2.30pm | Research rockets: CBOS PhD alumni | Fred Dahlmann, Alberto Willi, Michael Rogerson, Ayse Yorgancioglu, Zhifeng Chen, Amira Mukendi and Kerrie Howard |
| 2.30 - 3.30pm | Where do we go from here? Breakout sessions to discuss key challenges facing us as business and society researchers and practitioners | |
| 3.30 - 5pm | PhD poster session and drinks reception | Paul Bedford, Dessi Bocheva, Jason Jonathan, Tina Kimfumu, Elif Nur Duman Cogen, Jamie Powell and Archana Raghavan |
| 6pm | Drinks social at The Architect, The Empire, Orange Grove, Bath BA1 1LP |
