Coordinates: 52°04′26″N 0°37′44″W / 52.074°N 0.629°W / 52.074; -0.629

Cranfield School of Management is part of Cranfield University and a leading business school in the world. Cranfield University has provided management training since the late 1940s. The first MBA programme was run in 1964, but the School of Management was founded later in 1967.

The School is located about 50 miles from London, midway between the towns of Bedford and Milton Keynes, in the village of Cranfield in Bedfordshire.

It has the triple accreditation of Association of MBAs (AMBA), EQUIS and AACSB. Its research training and degree programmes are recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

The average age or the student body is 33 years with on average 9 years of business experience, and from more than 40 different nationalities.

A one-year programme with four terms of teaching starts in September each year and has an intake of up to 150 students.

The programme starts in January each year and has a combined intake (Part-time and Modular) of up to 100 students.

Coordinates: 52°04′12″N 0°36′29″W / 52.0699°N 0.6081°W / 52.0699; -0.6081

Cranfield is a village and civil parish in north west Bedfordshire, England, between Bedford and Milton Keynes. It has a population of 4,909, and is in Central Bedfordshire District.

The hamlet of Bourne End is located just north of Cranfield, and is part of the civil parish. Wharley End was a separate settlement, but now forms the northern part of Cranfield village, by the university.

Cranfield has three public houses, a football club, hairdressers, several take-away restaurants, two small supermarkets and three car dealers. There is also a surgery and dentists practice along with a pharmacy. Cranfield has a university, two schools, two parks and a multi-use games area.

The village Post Office is now contained within the Co-op store; previously it was on separate premises near the centre of the village. Cranfield has one of only a small number of Morgan dealerships, in addition to a Ford dealer and independent used car dealer. There are further facilities at the university campus including a Post Office and bookshop.

Jonathan Chapman (January 23, 1807 – May 25, 1848) was an American politician, serving as the eighth mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from 1840 to 1842.

Chapman's father also named Jonathan Chapman served as a member of the Town of Boston's Board of Selectmen.

Chapman attended Philips Academy and he graduated from Harvard College and studied law under the direction of Judge Lemuel Shaw.

Chapman was elected Mayor in December 1839, he was sworn into office in 1840, he served three one year terms.

Because of a large increase of the debt of the city of Boston in the 18 years since it was incorporated, Mayor Chapman had as a chief aim of his administration the reduction of the city's debt.

Although land had been purchased for a new city hall, Mayor Chapman did not favor that project. Because Suffolk County was constructing a new building for the Registry and Probate offices, and was going to move out of the old courthouse building, Chapman instead recommended that the old Suffolk County Courthouse be remodeled for use as Boston's city hall.