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B Academics Roundtable 2017

Our second annual Global B Corp Academic Roundtable was held at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto on Wednesday, October 4th, 2017.

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B Academics Roundtable 2017

Agenda

Wednesday, October 4

8:00 – 8:30 – Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 8:45 – WELCOME AND OVERVIEW

Welcome from Taryn Fisher, Assistant Professor of Management & MBA Program Director, Antioch University

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Welcome from representative of B Academics Roundtable sponsor, Carolina Robino, International Development Research  Center (IDRC)

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8:45 – 10:00 – SESSION 1 – Impact Evaluation Research Presentations

Maria Emilia Correa, Co-founder, Sistema B & Coordinator, Academia B

Joel Gehman, Assistant Professor, Strategic Management and Organization, University of Alberta, Alberta School of Business

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FULL PAPERS – 12 min presentations, 8 min Q&A

The Impact of B Lab Certification on Firm Growth

Presenter:      Oana Branzei, Professor

Authors:             Simon Parker (Ivey Business School), Edward Gamble (Montana State University), Peter Moroz (University of Regina) & Oana Branzei (Ivey Business School)

Benefit Corporation (B Corp) – Business beyond profits: A sustainable business model for the fashion industry?

Presenter:      Miriam Seifert, PhD Candidate

Authors:             Miriam Seifert, Michael S.W. Lee & Maureen Benson-Rea (all from the University of Auckland)

Employees as Conduits for Effective Stakeholder Engagement: An Example from B Corporations

Presenter:          Anne-Laure Winkler, Assistant Professor

Authors:             Anne-Laure Winkler (Baruch College), Jill Brown (Bentley University) & David Finegold (Chatham University)

RESEARCH SKETCH – 5 min presentation, 5 min feedback

The Certified B Corporation and Socio-Economic Constructions of Reality: A Case Study of Mountain Challenge, LLC

Presenter:          Emily M. Medley, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

10:00 – 10:30 – COFFEE BREAK

10:30 – 12:00 – SESSION 2 – Impact Evaluation Research Presentations

FULL PAPERS – 12 min presentations, 8 min Q&A

Positively Deviant: How Gender Role Identity and Sustainability Context Affect B Corporation Certification

Presenter:      Joel Gehman, Assistant Professor

Authors:             Matthew G. Grimes (Indiana University), Joel Gehman & Ke Cao (both from University of Alberta)

‘B’ the Change: Framework of Embedded Agency in Prosocial Organizing

Presenter:          Garima Sharma, Assistant Professor

Authors:             Garima Sharma (University of New Mexico), ‘Alim Bevridge (Nottingham University Business School China) & Nardia Haigh (University of Massachusetts—Boston)

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RESEARCH SKETCHES – 5 min presentation, 5 min feedback

Speaking the Same Language in Social Impact Measurement:

Integrating Lean Data into Traditional Models for Early-Stage Impact Investors and Social Startups

Presenter:      Vanessa Bedoya Becerra, Universidad Icesi (Cali, Colombia)

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A bottom-up empirical approach to B Corporations’ impact approach

Presenter:      Rodrigo Mobarec, Assistant Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Santiago, Chile)

Examining the Role of Human Resource Management Practices on Environmental Performance: The Case of B Corporations

Presenter:      Anne-Laure Winkler, Assistant Professor

Authors:         Anne-Laure Winkler, Florencio Portocarrero & Ivan Montiel (all from Baruch College)

Wholly Hemp: First of a Kind B-Corp Failure?

Presenter:      Maria Ballesteros-Sola, Assistant Professor, California State University Channel Islands

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Networking lunch

1:00 – 1:45 pm Discussion: Academic Community’s future Research Agenda

1:45 – 2:00 pm  Coffee Break

2:00 – 4:30 pm Overview of B Lab’s Strategic Priorities

Fiona Wilson, Clinical Associate Professor of Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability & Executive Director of the Center for Social Innovation and Enterprise, Peter T. Paul College of Business & Economics, University of New Hampshire

Bart Houlahan, co-founder, B Lab

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6:00 pm – Networking dinner (“organized” by Rosanna Garcia)

Thursday, October 5

8:00 – 8:30 – Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 8:45 – WELCOME AND OVERVIEW

Rosanna Garcia, Faculty Director, Business Sustainability Collaborative, Poole College of Management, NC State University

Jessica Thomas, Director, Business Sustainability Collaborative, Poole College of Management, NC State University

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8:45 – 9:45 – SESSION 1 – Resources for Curriculum Development and B Impact Teams

10 minute presentations, Q&A and discussion at the end

B Lab’s Resources for Educators

Presenter:     Heather Van Dusen, Senior Associate, B Lab

Resource:     https://www.bcorporation.net/educators

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Academia B – Knowledge and Tools for a New Economy in Latin America

Presenter:     Maria Emilia Correa, co-founder, Sistema B

Resource:     http://academiab.org/

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Benefit Corporation Gateway

Presenter:      Summer Brown, Executive Director, Institute for Business and Professional Ethics & Scott Arakawa, Research Project Coordinator at the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, DePaul University

Resource:     http://www.benefitcorporationgateway.org/

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How Academics Can Successfully Engage with B Corps

Presenter:     Liz Tracy, Director, HQ Raleigh

9:45 – 10:00 – COFFEE BREAK

10:00 – 11:00 – SESSION 2 – Curriculum Development and B Impact Teams

10 minute presentations, Q&A and discussion at the end

The MBU For-Benefit MBA

Presenter:     Joe Sprangle, Dean of the College of Business & Professional Studies, Mary Baldwin University

Designing a B curriculum: The Latam Case

Presenters:     Tatiana Hernandez Rico, PhD, Universidad Del Norte, Raaida Mannaa, Co-Founder + CEO, socialBaq & Maria Jose Alessandri, CEO E3P, Granjeros

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B Impact Teams and the NC State B Corp Clinic

Presenter:     Jessica Thomas, Lecturer in the Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship & Director of the Business Sustainability Collaborative, Poole College of Management, NC State University

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Aim2Flourish

Presenters:     Claire Sommer, Director, AIM2Flourish & Crishelen Kurezyn Díaz, B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in Organizational Psychology, Ph. D candidate in Management, Flourish Prizes Student Community Coordinator, AIM2Flourish Professor, UPAEP in Puebla, México

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11:00 – 11:30 am COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 12:15 pm – SESSION 3 – Next steps for Global B Corp Academic Community

12:15 – 12:30 PM – Closing Statement

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12:30 – 1:30 pm – Working Lunch with B Local Communities and other B Corp Representatives

1:30 – 2:00 – Individual Transportation to Massey Hall

2:00 – 7:00 pm – B Inspired Talks and Street Festival

Location: Massey Hall

7:00 pm – Networking dinners with B Corp community, TBD

B Corp Academic Community Roundtable Planning Committee

  • Maria Emilia Correa, Co-founder, Sistema B & Coordinator, Academia B
  • Veronica Diaz, Coordinator, Academia B
  • Taryn Fisher, Assistant Professor of Management & MBA Program Director, Antioch University
  • Rosanna Garcia, Associate Professor in the Department of Business Management & Faculty Director of the Business Sustainability Collaborative, Poole College of Management, NC State University
  • Joel Gehman, Assistant Professor, Strategic Management and Organization and Nova Faculty Fellow, Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta; Associate Director of the Canadian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Rod Lohin. Executive Director of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
  • Jessica Thomas, Lecturer in the Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship & Director of the Business Sustainability Collaborative, Poole College of Management, NC State University
  • Fiona Wilson, Clinical Associate Professor of Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability & Executive Director of the Center for Social Innovation and Enterprise, Peter T. Paul College of Business & Economics, University of New Hampshire

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