The award selection 2005 was run by Ashridge Business School, in association with EABIS and the Guardian. The award, which has run for six years, recognises the most thought-provoking essays written by MBA students, on the changing role of business in society.

Peta Thompson from Cranfield School of Management has won this year’s Ashridge Best European MBA Essay Award with "A reflection on the Mining Paradox – can it be good for the environment". Paschal Nee, from the Smurfit School of Business in Dublin was runner up with the essay, "The changing role of business in society: why the emperor has no clothes".

Andrew Wilson, Director of Research and Development, Ashridge Business School, presented the winner and runner up prizes at the Annual EABIS Colloquium in Warsaw on 5 December 2005. 

For more information and to download the essays, please visit the Ashridge Award website.