Marks & Spencer and the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility have launched of the 2012 Sustainable Retailing Challenge. The competition offers MBA students from Europe’s leading business schools the chance to win £5,000 and the opportunity to present to a prestigious panel of judges.

The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility is running the competition in partnership with M&S which has a target to become the world’s most sustainable major retailer by 2015. In the coming months, teams of MBA students from across Europe will compete over three stages to determine which five MBA teams will get through to the London final in April 2012.

Richard Gillies, director of Plan A, CSR and sustainable business at M&S, says: “This is a very exciting development and it will better prepare the students for what lies ahead in their career. Sustainability issues are going to be right at the top of the ‘to do’ list for the next generation of business leaders and by sharing knowledge, ideas and expert views, we can learn to innovate and challenge ourselves more. I can’t wait to meet the students and get started.”

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