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Guide to B Lab’s 24 Impact Business Models
Impact Business Models (IBMs) are business models designed by a company that create a specific positive benefit/outcome for...
B Academics Africa Event 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1OqLMHIMYY
B Academics Teaching Roundtable 2023: Closing
https://youtu.be/Nbk51eiimj4
B Academics Teaching Roundtable 2023: Keynote Conversation with Ryan Honeyman
https://youtu.be/6UQ8Pv5Cp3o
B Academics Teaching Roundtable 2023: Opening & Roundtable Discussion
https://youtu.be/xXidDqX5jnU
P4 Consultant Overview_2022_University of Arkansas
Net Impact University of Arkansas
Paul 670.04: B Impact Clinic – Students Using Business as a Force for Good
The B Impact Clinic offers UNH undergraduate students a hands-on learning experience that extends beyond the conventional...
UF Business for Good Lab: Sustainable Business Consulting – ENT6930/ENT4934
The objective of this course is to provide students with practical insights into the dynamic realm of innovation and...
USF Spring 2021 Course Overview
University of South Florida
Human Resource Management in Italian Family-Owned SMEs: Sustaining the Competitive Advantage through B Corp Transformation
This case revolves around Romano Lana, a 50-year-old family-owned medium-sized enterprise located in Tuscany, Italy....
B Corp 101 for B Corps Course
A Comprehensive Course on the B Corp Movement, Certification, Community, and Collective Action for B Keepers & B Corp...
La gestión de relaciones públicas en las empresas con propósito
Este estudio analiza la gestión de relaciones públicas (RP) en empresas con un enfoque en el triple impacto (económico,...
Ep. 113: Jay Coen Gilbert: B Corps & Fixing the Source Code Error in the DNA of Business
Within this episode, you'll have the opportunity to listen to insights from Jay Coen Gilbert, who serves as both the...
Delivering societal impact through supply chain design: insights from B Corps
This study investigates how purpose-driven organizations (PDOs) pursue various approaches to societal impact and how these...
About B Impact Teams (BITs) and BIT Directory
B Academics has developed a new open access B Impact Teams resource on our website describing the history and impact of B...
To B Corp or Not to B Corp? For Many Founders, There’s No Question High-growth startups are investing months–even years–to certify their businesses as B Corps.
Learn about the rise of B Corp certifications and B Academics Vice President, Joel Gehman, was recently quoted in this INC...
Online sustainability claims: lessons from high-scoring B corporations in the Canadian food and beverage sector
Certifications for sustainability can promote green innovation in critical consumer sectors like food and beverages. This...
How to Start a B Impact Team at Your College or University
Call For B Impact Teams Does your university have a B Impact Team? We’d love to hear from you as we compile additional...
A governance approach to stakeholder engagement in sustainable enterprises—Evidence from B Corps
Sustainable businesses can find themselves torn between financial sustainability and their mission to create a positive...
Keynote: Ryan Gellert – “Earth is now our only shareholder”
A Conversation About the Future of Business with Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert and Katie CouricRyan Gellert is chief executive...
Founder Commercial Imprint Interacts with Strategic Orientations in Affecting Social Enterprise Performance
Many social enterprises are founded by individuals with prior experience in commercial organizations, but the long-term...
Advancing the B Movement: A Review of Different Models of Engagement Between Academics and B Lab Offices
This white paper presents the emergent experiences of local engagement between academics and B Lab Offices i.e. local...
Mission statements and financial and sustainability performance: An exploratory study of Benefit Corporations certified as B Corps
The objective of this research is to pinpoint the elements within the mission statements of certified Italian benefit...
The Consequences of Financial Leverage: Certified B Corporations’ Advantages Compared to Common Commercial Firms
Typically, companies require debt to establish and expand their operations, but the increased financial leverage also comes...
Loan Forgiveness
Campus decision-makers are finding creative ways to cultivate the impact economy ecosystem through formal programs. Several...
Sustainability in Business
The Sustainability in Business Practicum equips students with the expertise and resources to evolve into business leaders...
B Corp Talking Points
This short slide deck gives talking points on B Corps and the B Corp movement.
How are B Locals Different from B Lab?
With feedback and insight from the B Corp community, B Lab – a non-profit organization headquartered in Pennsylvania – sets...
B Corp Networks
List of networks affiliated with B Corps.
Find a B Local Near You
B Local database from B Lab.
NC State University MBA 582: Sustainability in Business
This course syllabi was created by Jessica Yinka Thomas, Associate Professor of the Practice at North Carolina State...
MBA EDGE Markets to Watch Report: B Corporations
More than 6,500 companies (as of 2023) are certified as “B Corporations,” signaling their organizational commitment to...
Comunidad de Empresas B en La Sociedad Digital
Un análisis sociológico de la comunidad de Empresas B en la sociedad digital, como una evolución de la responsabilidad...
B Corper
A database of all certified B Corporations that you can filter and sort.
5 Key Takeaways About B Corp Brand Awareness
This article highlights the importance of demonstrating purpose and credibility to attract customers and job seekers who...
Remaking Capitalism: The Strength of Weak Legislation in Mobilizing B Corporation Certification
Numerous initiatives aim to transform capitalism into a fairer, eco-friendly, and inclusive system. To understand how these...
Why Become A B Corp (Website)
The sole certification that evaluates a company's complete social and environmental performance is B Corp Certification....
B Corp Certification Process Overview
This brief video will outline the three essential prerequisites for achieving B Corp Certification.
An Introduction to B Corp Certification
This guide gives you a brief overview of B Corps and the B Corp movement.
B Hive Directory
The B Hive is a platform the B Corp community can use to connect, collaborate, access resources, share knowledge and offer...
B Locals Maintain Focus on Building a Better Business Community During the Challenges of 2020
B Corp Communities in Various Regions Discover Fresh Prospects for Networking and Empowerment through Virtual Gatherings.
B Corp versus ISO 9001 and 14001 certifications: Aligned, or alternative paths, towards sustainable development?
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) emerged with the aim of providing sustainable economic, environmental, and social...
Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism
In a capitalist society, businesses hold significant sway. They can either skew the system in favor of a select few,...
Danone and the B Economy: How Large and Multinational Companies Can Join the B Corp Movement
Within this manual, we delve into the continuous efforts undertaken by Danone S.A., a substantial food conglomerate with a...
The Value of B Corp Certification
Download this guide on the value of B Corp Certification and how your company can join a community of leaders driving a...
Pursuing B Corp Certification: Exploring Firms’ Entrepreneurial Orientation and Prosocial Motivation
Our research is driven by the empirical discovery that Benefit corporations (B corps) that seek certification tend to...
Business model innovation as a window into adaptive tensions: Five paths on the B Corp journey
B Corporation (B Corp) certification serves as an external validation of innovative business models driven by social...
GRI and B Lab team up on impact management
Facilitating the integration of the GRI Standards with the B Impact Assessment for companies.
Chris Marquis Better Business Teaching Event
Watch a conversation between Dr. Kristin Joys of University of Florida, Chair of the B Academics Curriculum Innovation...
Chris Marquis Better Business Teaching Event Q&A
Q&A session following the webinar featuring Chris Marquis author of Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is...
The Future Of Business 101: B Academics Network Connects Students With Real-World Lessons On Stakeholder Capitalism
B Academics featured in Forbes article on B Impact Teams. Business school professors and leaders are finding a receptive...
Comparison of Sustainability Assessment Frameworks
This free, open-source spreadsheet/table created by Bob Willard, founder of Sustainability Advantage and member of the B...
Better Business Teaching Guide
Review the teaching guide for Chris Marquis’ new book, Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism. The...
What is a B Local Community
B Locals are place-based communities of people using business as a force for good. At the core of every B Local are...
Community-Building Lessons from B Local Leaders
If your local community boasts numerous Certified B Corporations and shares a strong commitment to making a collective...
Cumplo.cl
Cumplo S.A. is a Chilean financial technology company that operates based on the principles of the sharing economy. Its...
Networking On Purpose: How B Corps Are Creating Connections And Building Their Community In The Southeast U.S.
Many people remain unfamiliar with businesses operating as a force for good. That’s why two Southeast U.S. business leaders...
Vital Farms IPO Shows Acceptance Of Stakeholder Versus Stockholder Values On The Market
Ethical food company and Certified B Corporation Vital Farms had an incredibly successful IPO earlier this year, raising...
Do Businesses Have A Role In Solving Poverty In The Time Of COVID-19? These B Corps Say ‘Yes’,
COVID-19 shook what was a fragile financial foundation for many. What is the role of business in addressing poverty during...
B Responsibly Different™
Corporate responsibility is increasingly paramount for consumers worldwide, cutting across demographics. A 2017 Nielsen...
3 steps to becoming a certified B Corp
B Corporations are highly successful and the main three steps to becoming a certified B Corp are believing in the power of...
Varieties Of Capitalism And The Future Of Stakeholder Management
Yesterday, American nonprofit B Lab announced an important step in the transition to stakeholder capitalism. Six...
Why it Pays to Become a Certified B Corporation
The article highlights the current era's significant global challenges, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, income...
The B Corp Movement Goes Big
The campaign to reform capitalism by making companies prioritize stakeholders could never succeed without getting large...
Innovative Workforce Programs Make Businesses Work For Employees
COVID-19 put the insecure and vulnerable plight of many workers in the spotlight. Employee practices at two B Corps provide...
Brands Are Only As Successful And Impactful As Their Stakeholders: Transparency And Brand Activism With B Corp Beautycounter
For Beautycounter, this includes advocacy at the federal and state level, investments in research, and a focus on issues...
Customers Care About How Your Supply Chain Functions—Time To Bring Its Impact Up To Higher Standards
People increasingly expect businesses to uphold higher social and environmental standards, and this includes a company’s...
How To Future-Proof Your Business For The New Capitalism
As demographics shift, purpose-driven businesses are thriving. Recent research shows companies focusing on multiple...
What Happens When COVID-19 Is Driving Demand? Grove Collaborative Delivers Soap And Sanitizer To Customers Without Sacrificing Mission
By valuing its existing customers, suppliers, and workers, the San Francisco-based household products business and...
Certified B Corps: Using Business as a Force for Good
A growing number of organizations are incorporating corporate social responsibility into their strategy and operations....
How Allbirds Is Reinventing Shoes: The Leader Driving The Industry Into A Circular, Purpose-Driven Future
Fast fashion is the dominant trend, but consumers expect more from companies, especially as the purchasing power of...
Global Food Giant Adopts Stakeholder Model To Survive COVID-19 And The Long-Term
While Danone has a long standing commitment to incorporating social and environmental factors in its decisions, COVID-19...
How A Toothbrush Could Help Solve Our Ocean Plastic Crisis
Preserve was ahead of the sustainability game in the late 1990s, when the business launched to transform recyclables into...
Through Worker Engagement, An Employee-Owned Flour Company Adapts To COVID
As COVID-19 continues to impact businesses across the nation, the baking supplies industry is seeing a surge....
Consumer motivations to purchase from benefit corporations (B Corps)
The aim of this research is to delve into the motivational drivers influencing consumers' decisions to buy from Benefit...
Does Benefit Corporation Status Matter to Investors? An Exploratory Study of Investor Perceptions and Decisions
Our study examines whether the public disclosure of a company's choice to structure itself as a benefit corporation (BC)...
Making an Impact with B Lab Australia & New Zealand
Hub Australia, a Certified B-Corporation, donates 1% of memberships to non-profits like B Lab Australia & New Zealand....
B Corp movement in BeNeLux
B Lab formulates criteria, regulations, resources, and initiatives to transform the conduct, values, and framework of...
The Bodhi Wave
Upon discovering her parents' recently acquired environmental consciousness following their vacation, a filmmaker embarks...
Business with Social Impact
Explore the transformative landscape of Mission and Purpose Driven businesses, where commerce becomes a catalyst for...
B Corp Handbook Instructors Guide
The B Corp Handbook Instructor's Guide is designed as a resource for academics who are interested in using the second...
Pending B Corp Status
B Lab. Outlines how companies that have been in business for fewer than 12 months, can apply for Pending B Corp status.
The B Economy
Certified B Corporation. Outlines what is “The B Economy” and ways that it can grow into an incredible network of leaders...
The SDG Action Manager
The SDG Action Manager, created collaboratively by B Lab and the United Nations Global Compact, is a dynamic...
B Corp Certification and Its Impact on Organizations Over Time
This study examines the impact of B Corp certification on four small to medium-sized Brazilian companies and their...
Inclusive Economy Challenge 2019
The Inclusive Economy Challenge, initiated by B Lab, provides a significant chance to create a positive impact on workers,...
B Corp in High School 1
2019 Global B Corp Academic Community Roundtable presentation
B Corp in High School 2
High school syllabus
Case studies in innovation purpose-driven companies and Sistema B in Latin America
Este artículo tiene como propósito registrar y divulgar la historia de Sistema B y el Movimiento de Empresas B en América...
Laureate Education, Inc. & the B Corp Certification: Always meant to ‘B’?
In 2014, Laureate Education, Inc. (Laureate) stood as the world's largest for-profit post-secondary education company,...
To B or not ot B: Etsy’s decision whether to re-incorporate as a public benefit corporation and maintain its B Lab certification
This teaching case explores Etsy, Inc.'s decision upon going public. To uphold its B Lab certification as a socially...
B Corporation Certification Advantages? Impacts on Performance and Development
B Corporations are profit-driven enterprises that adhere to specific social and environmental criteria. This preliminary...
Danone North America: The World’s Largest B Corporation
This case study delves into the B Corp certification journey of Danone's North American division, a Paris-based food...
Why We Care about Certified B Corporations: From Valuing Growth to Certifying Values Practices
There is currently a widespread interest in comprehending how organizations can contribute to achieving sustainability,...
The Impact of B Lab Certification on Firm Growth
We investigate how the adoption of B Lab certification, a rapidly expanding form of third-party certification for...
The Stakeholders’ Perspective within the B Corp Certification for a Circular Approach
The concept of a circular economy is gaining traction as an innovative business approach. This model, rooted in...
Eileen Fisher
In 1983, Eileen Fisher entered a fashion trade show without any prior experience, lacking garments, patterns, or sketches....
TOMS shoes
Before turning 30, Blake Mycoskie launched and divested four enterprises. However, it was in Argentina that he stumbled...