Product Overview

This note provides background on a new certification process for B Corporations that enables companies to assess, compare, and protect the sustainability practices they integrate into corporate strategy. B Corporation status explicitly acknowledges stakeholder strategies and helps companies preserve triple bottom line accountability when and if they are sold/acquired.

Learning Objectives

This case is intended to -inform students about emerging trends in the sustainable business space and -help students understand the new pressures on, and opportunities for, companies that pursue sustainability strategies and want to institutionalize their stakeholder approach to growth