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
Welcome from representative of B Academics Roundtable sponsor, Carolina Robino, International Development Research Center (IDRC)
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
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)
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)
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
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
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
Academia B – Knowledge and Tools for a New Economy in Latin America
Presenter: Maria Emilia Correa, co-founder, Sistema B
Resource: http://academiab.org/
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/
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
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
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
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
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
