Our Mission

Trinity Business School’s mission is to Transform Business for Good. This means business which is:

01 Ethical and so ‘good’ from a moral perspective;
02 Impactful and so ‘good’ in terms of high-performance; and
03 Sustainable thereby invoking a permanent ‘for good’ interpretation.

As the Business School of Trinity College, Dublin, a world-renowned university located at the core of a globally orientated and European capital city, we seek to deliver our mission throughout our CORE: Civic Action, Organisation, Research and Education.

Our Values

We adopt a philosophy of being a positive force for good by seeking to ‘put in more than we take out’ of every area of activity. The UN Declaration of Human Rights and 17 Sustainability Goals are primary principles and objectives consistent with our values. To this end, our shared and fundamental values embrace:

01 Excellence: achieving our greatest potential
02 Eco-Sustainable: responsible and sustainable management
03 Ethical: practice with integrity and moral business standards
04 Humane: social, cultural, and humane business practices
05 Diversity & Inclusion: embrace and celebrate equal opportunity

Our Vision

We aim to become a European business school of choice for organisations and students committed to transforming business for good through delivering five key objectives:

01 Education focused on business performance for good
Programmes which create great careers for our graduates and enable their organisations to deliver excellent business performance for good. Our graduates learn cutting-edge management from leading researchers and business executives/entrepreneurs. This education aims to promote high-performance business which is humane as well as consistent with both the UN’s Sustainability Goals. 

02 A set of values – where we “put in more than we take out”
We take a deep and responsible view of the term ‘business performance’ which creates an awareness beyond profit to include the impact of business on the wider economy, society and the environment. We expect our graduates and staff to ‘put in more than they take out’ throughout their career so that they hand over a better planet, economy and inclusive free society to future generations.

03 Personal well-being & development
We provide opportunities for our students and staff to explore and develop their business and personal potential on our degree programmes and at work in order to sustain a healthy career existence in today’s dynamic but often challenging work environment.

04 A real-business educational environment
We are a business school which is at the heart of a university located in the centre of the vibrant Dublin City. We are adjacent to: the Irish Financial Services Centre (IFSC), Europe’s digital industries capital, government and public sector management headquarters, city centre retail, professional services industries and Ireland’s cultural industry sectors. We have cutting-edge global corporations and high-performance new ventures on our doorstep. We are based in a highly entrepreneurial university and equip students with the education needed to excel in both established and new businesses.

05 Rigorous, relevant & impactful research
Undertaking leading international research which addresses relevant questions for thought leadership, to better inform business and society. We provide both creative and critical assessment of real-business practice and public policy. To enhance impact, we ensure that these research findings are communicated in an accessible manner to a wider non-academic practitioner audience through appropriate publishing forms for multiple media channels, policy and for a events.

Our Environmental Targets

Trinity Business School inspires and supports organisations to move onto an eco-sustainable footing, and importantly, the School intends to ‘walk the talk’ by doing so ourselves. 

The School, in partnership with KPMG, conducted a Carbon Footprint Assessment for a base year of 2018-19, the most recent year of normal operations before the impacts of Covid-19. A summary of the assessment is available to download below. On completion of the assessment, a Carbon Management Plan was developed in 2022, and implementation began immediately.

Trinity Business School Carbon Management Summary Report 2022

Key elements of the plan include:

• avoiding any major construction work
• implementing a ‘vegetarian first’ catering policy
• forming three carbon emissions reduction groups (including the School’s Advisory Board, all School staff, and a representative implementation group)
• acting as a pilot school for the University in developing and implementing carbon emissions reduction initiatives.

The School was eager to include all emissions categories and to avoid any ‘Greenwashing’. Therefore, we decided to include Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions, and unusually for a business school or university, we included all categories of Scope 3 emissions, including capital goods, purchased goods & services, incoming international students, and student commuting.

International Partnerships: Guiding Principles

At Trinity we undertake education and research grounded in democratic values and where societal impact is a key priority. To these ends, we set out some basic principles and values in order to ensure that our combined impact with international partners remains true to our values and mission of Transforming Business for Good. 

Click here for Trinity Business School Guiding Principles for International Partnerships