Managing Responsibly: Practicing Sustainability, Responsibility and Ethics 

offered by University of Manchester

Oliver Laasch, is the founder of the Center for Responsible Management Education. After his studies in business, economics and business education at Goethe University in Frankfurt, he has worked in topic areas related to business sustainability, responsibility, and ethics in academic institutions. He was a lecturer and researcher at Seoul National University, and director of the Center for Sustainability and Responsibility (CRSE) at the Monterrey Tec. As manager for a European Social Fund project, he developed a training program for Responsible Businesses. He also served as academic coordinator for e-learnings at the Institute of Corporate Responsibility Management of Steinbeis University Berlin. Currently, he is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research at the University of Manchester where he conducts research on business model innovation for sustainability, responsibility, and ethics. Oliver has published textbooks, cases, chapters, and journal articles. He is editor of the United Nations PRME book collection, and has worked extensively as coach and consultant with dozens of companies and universities. Oliver has designed and taught a variety of full courses on bachelor, master, PhD and executive education levels, such as “Innovation for Sustainability”, “Leadership for Sustainable Development”, “Social and Environmental Business Responsibility”, “Responsible Management across Functions”, “Environmental Economics and Management”, “Soc

Dr Sally Randles is Senior Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research at the University of Manchester UK where she leads the theme on Emerging Technologies: Dynamics, Governance and Responsible Innovation www.research.mbs.ac.uk and is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Organisations Research and Design (CORD) at Arizona State University, USA www.cord.asu.edu . Her current research focus and interests lie in understanding and researching how actors understand and embed understandings of ‘responsibility’ in research and innovation situations, contexts, organisations and governance processes. She is currently Principle Investigator for Manchester on the 3 year European Commission FP7 RES-AGORA project (2013-2016) tasked with designing a socio-normative governance framework for responsible research and innovation in Europe and has led the extensive empirical programme which supports this project. See www.res-agora/eu/about. She is a Principle Investigator on the 4 year European Commission Marie Curie project ‘Innovation for Sustainability, I4S ’ which supports the training and development of Early Stage Researchers (PhDs) across 7 European business schools and University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, co-ordinated by the Association of Business in Society www.abis-global.org/projects/i4s ; and Co-PI on the five year, £10million investment of the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council UK into the SYNBIOCHEM centre at the Uni