Our Mission

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

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

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

To be a leading incubator of transformative ideas, pioneering innovative and sustainable business solutions for global challenges. Our vision is to inspire and equip a diverse community of students, alumni educators, and partners to create lasting impact through responsible and forward-thinking practices.

We strive to foster an ecosystem where innovation meets sustainability, preparing the next generation of business leaders to navigate and shape the future with integrity, creativity, and a deep commitment to the betterment of society and the environment. Our vision is supported by a sense of purpose illustrated though the five words that forms our DNA:

01 Sustainable: an education focused on sustainable business development 

We place economic, environmental, and social sustainability at the heart of our educational offering. Our programmes create great opportunities 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 the UN’s Sustainability Development Goals. 

02 Positive: a set of values – where we “put in more than we take out”

We expect our graduates and staff to ʻput in more than they take outʼ throughout their career so that they hand over a better planet, economy and inclusive free society to future generations.  We consider that ʻbusiness performance must move beyond shareholders’ value and focus on the impact of business on the wider economy, society and the environment. We value Nature Positive approaches.

03 Innovative: embracing innovative curriculum through technology integration and industry partnership

We embrace innovations in our teaching approach (e.g. including Generative AI and online delivery) as well as our curriculum.  We deliver cutting edge programmes focusing on topics such as business analytics, digital marketing strategy, and sustainable finance that serves the vibrant business ecosystem of Dublin. We are adjacent to the European Headquarters of multinational digital companies such as Google, Salesforce, HubSpot, Meta, Microsoft, and the Irish Financial Services Centre (IFSC), professional services industries, and Ireland’s cultural industry sectors.  We develop innovative and industry relevant programs with our neighbouring key stakeholders.  We are based in a highly entrepreneurial university and equip students with the education needed to excel in both established and new businesses and organisations.

04 Impactful: relevant, impactful & rigorous, 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. Our research centres (the Trinity Centre for Social Innovation and the Trinity Centre for Digital Business & Analytics) work on impactful and relevant projects (e.g. Nature Positive Economy) and actively cooperate with government, local authorities, and industry partners. To enhance impact, we ensure that our research findings are communicated in an accessible manner to a wider non-academic practitioner audience through appropriate publishing channels, policy fora and events. 

05 Humane: 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. We engage with businesses which respect the UN SDG’s including human rights and workers’ rights.

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