Hult Ashridge

The college was conceived at Ashridge House in 1921, when the house was acquired by a trust established by Bonar Law, a future UK Prime Minister; in 1929 it became a "College of Citizenship", established to help the Conservative Party develop its intellectual forces in struggles with left-wing organisations such as the Fabian Society.{{cite journal|title=A glimpse at the archives of a Conservative intellectual project|journal=Contemporary British History| volume = 19 |year=2005|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1361946042000303873|doi=10.1080/1361946042000303873|pages=79–93 | last1 = Berthezène | first1 = Clarisse|s2cid=144485487}} It became a cross between a think-tank and a training centre and had Arthur Bryant as its educational adviser.{{cite web|url=https://kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma/collection/b/br80-001/br80-0c|title=Correspondence of (Sir) Arthur Bryant, and related papers, 1919-84|publisher=King's College, London|access-date=2 August 2019}}

After the Second World War, the "College of Citizenship" was briefly re-established but in 1959 it was re-launched with a new focus on management training, taking the name Ashridge Management College.{{cite web|url=http://home.btconnect.com/peter-grainger/rhs/ashridgecollege.html |title=Ashridge College |publisher=Rural Heritage Trust |access-date=11 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305172054/http://home.btconnect.com/peter-grainger/rhs/ashridgecollege.html |archive-date=5 March 2012 }}

In 2015 the then Ashridge Business School operationally merged with Hult International Business School, an international business school with campuses in seven cities around the world. As part of the merger, Ashridge Business School changed its name to Ashridge Executive Education.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ashridge.org.uk/about-us/governance/|title=Governance|website=Ashridge.org.uk|access-date=5 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402171716/https://ashridge.org.uk/about-us/governance/|archive-date=2 April 2016|url-status=dead}}

Ashridge Business School is constituted as a registered charity, formally named the Ashridge (Bonar Law Memorial) Trust, and is one of the 150 largest UK charitable organisations ranked by annual expenditure.{{cite web|url=http://www.charitiesdirect.com/CharitiesSearchTop500.asp?sortby=E|title=Top 500 Charities – Expenditure|publisher=Charities Direct|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202024052/http://www.charitiesdirect.com/CharitiesSearchTop500.asp?sortby=E|archive-date=2 December 2008|url-status=dead|access-date=11 April 2014}} The trust has the following goals: (a) honouring the memory of a great statesman, (b) the preservation of the house and grounds as an historic building, (c) to create an educational centre (d) to train lecturers, speakers and writers to further the study of the subjects outlined above (e) provide lectures and/or discussions on these subjects open to the public or for those who had paid fees to attend, (f) provide a supporting staff, (g) to allow boarding by those attending the lectures and discussions.{{cite journal|last1=Berthezène|first1=Clarisse|date=Spring 2005|title=Ashridge College, 1929–54: a glimpse at the archive of a Conservative intellectual project|journal=Contemporary British History|volume=19|pages=80–95|doi=10.1080/1361946042000303873|s2cid=144485487}}

Ashridge employs approximately 95 full-time academic staff and has a further 100 associate faculty members. Faculty members are not traditional academics – the majority combine significant academic qualifications with extensive international business experience, enabling them to become fully involved with the issues and challenges faced by clients and individual participants. Academic staff regularly serve on the councils of international educational and advisory bodies, including the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and Association of MBAs (AMBA). They also share their expertise as visiting professors at many international business schools and universities.{{cite web|url=http://www.ashridge.org.uk/Website/Content.nsf/wFAR/Research+and+Faculty?opendocument|title=Business Research and Faculty|publisher=Ashridge|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802102525/http://www.ashridge.org.uk/Website/Content.nsf/wFAR/Research%20and%20Faculty?opendocument|archive-date=2 August 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=25 July 2014}}

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• Sanecki, K.A., Ashridge – A Living History, Phillimore & Co, 1996, {{ISBN|1-86077-020-7}}

• [http://www.ashridge.org.uk Ashridge Business School] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041128085009/http://www.ashridge.org.uk/ |date=28 November 2004 }}
• {{EW charity|311096|The Ashridge (Bonar Law Memorial) Trust}}

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