8:30 – 9:00 am Opening Remarks

8:30 – 8:35 am Welcome from Roundtable Chairs- Emily Medley Landry, B Academics Chair for B Local and B Lab Engagement and Garima Sharma, B Academics Chair for Research

8:35 – 8:40 am Welcome from local sponsor – Maria Ballesteros-Sola, B Academics Chair for Events and Membership and Susan A. Andrzejewski, Interim Dean  & Associate Professor of Marketing MVS School of Business & Economics, California State University Channel Islands 

8:40 – 8:55 am Keynote from B Lab – Bart Houlahan, Co-Founder B Lab

8:55 – 9:00 am  Update on B Academics Strategic Planning – Jessica Thomas, B Academics President

9:00 – 9:45 am Session on B Lab Standards

9:00 – 9:30 am “Using the B Impact Assessment Data for Research” – Michele Bradley, B Lab Measurement and Evaluation Data Analyst

9:30 – 9:45 am Q + A – Michele Bradley and Courtney Morrissette from the B Lab Standards Management Team

9:45 – 10:00 am: Break

10:00 – 12:30 pm: Research Presentations and Discussion

10:00 – 11:00 am Paper Presentations 

• “Renewing Vows: Explaining Bolstering Commitment to Doing Good” ‘Alim Beveridge
• “Albatross or Secret Sauce? The Impact of Benefit Legislation on B Corp Certification” Joel Gehman
• “The Financing of B Corps versus Commercial Ventures” Ana Siqueira
• “The Mysteries of Hybrids Revealed:  A Survey on Social and Economic Objectives of B-Corporations” Martina Pasquini

11:00 – 12:30 pm Small group discussion

Table A: Facilitator: Rosanna Garcia

• “Benefit Corporation Legislation: Assessment of a U.S. Legal Export” Juan Diego Mujica Filippi
• “The Sustainable Business Movement: The Case of B Corp Certification in Thailand” Trin Thananusak
• “Assessing Benefit Corporation Legislation as a Model for Reform of Corporations Law in Australia” Apurva  Sharma
• “The Environmental, Worker and Overall Performance of Employee-Owned B Corps” Sarah Stranahan

Table B: Facilitator: Garima Sharma

• “ABC of social entrepreneurship in Chile: entrepreneurs’ definition/s of success” Ieva Zebryte
• “Opportunities and Obstacles for Innovation in B Corps and Other Social Enterprises” Jill Bernaciak
• “Comparing European vs. USA vs. LATAM certified B Corps” Maria Ballesteros-Sola 
• “Strategic Advantages through Social Responsiveness: The Case of Certified B-Corps” Youthika Chauhan

Table C: Facilitator: Chris Marquis

• “Governance Models for Sustainability: Comparing B Corps and Cross-sector Partnerships” Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce
• “The Prevalence of B Corp Movement: What Factors Influence Geographical Distributions of B Corporations?” Yon Jung Choi
• “De-certification of B Corps: Exploratory study” Aynur Nabiyeva
• “Local Challenges within an Emerging Institutional Field: B Corp Movement in New Mexico” Natalia Vidal

12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch served buffet style, included with paid registration 

12:30 – 1:30 pm: Working Lunch for Founding Board – Vote to Approve Bylaws and Board Roles

[1:00 – 1:40 pm: B Academics Facilitate Deep Dive on University Partnerships at B Local Summit – Rosanna Garcia, Emily M. Landry, Jake Mosley, Fiona Wilson] 

1:30 – 2:00 pm: Session on B Locals and B Academics – Cameron Madill, B Local Chair PDX

2:00 – 2:30 pm: Break (B Local Summit on a simultaneous break) & Group Picture! 

2:30 – 4:00 pm: Teaching Presentations and Discussions 

Case Study Discussion

• Sarah Stranahan, The Democracy Collaborative
• Justin Wolske, California State University, Los Angeles

Syllabus Presentations

• Jill Bernaciak, Bowling Green State University 
• Renée Carrelo, Instituto Universitario Escuela Argentina de Negocios
• Calvin Chung, Mary Baldwin University
• Martin Staubus, University of California San Diego
• Raúl Álvarez, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (online)
• Maksim Belitski, University of Reading
• Ron Dufresne, Saint Joseph’s University
• Fleur Fallon, Torrens University Australia Laureate International Universities (online)

4:00 – 5:00 pm – University and B Corp Engagement Session (B Locals invited to join)

• Fiona Wilson, Executive Director, Center for Social Innovation and Enterprise, Affiliate Clinical Associate Professor of Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, and Sustainability, Department of Management, The Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics, Faculty Fellow, Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire
• Kristin E. Joys, Director, Social Impact & Sustainability Initiative, Social Entrepreneurship Lecturer, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida
• Jake Mosley, Director, Full-Time MBA, MSBA Student Services, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia
• Jessica Yinka Thomas, Director, Business Sustainability Collaborative, Lecturer, Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University

5:00-7:00 pm – B Corp Champions Retreat Opening Reception

• DePaul University “Driehaus college of business”
• Channel Islands – California State University
• NC State – Poole College of Management

• Co-chair – Emily Medley Landry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Co-chair – Garima Sharma, University of New Mexico
• Maria Ballesteros-Sola, California State University, Channel Islands
• Maria Emilia Correa, Academia B
• Rosanna Garcia, University of Denver
• Joel Gehman, University of Alberta, Alberta School of Business
• Kristin Joys, University of Florida
• Jessica Thomas, North Carolina State University
• Maira Ruggi, Federal Technological University of Paraná – UTFPR / ISAE Business School
• Fiona Wilson, Peter T. Paul College of Business & Economics, University of New Hampshire

And a special thanks to our student volunteers at the Roundtable this year:

• Frances Klingenberger
• Briana Ramos from California State University Channel Islands!