From Project To Movement: Unleashing The Potential Of Business Transformation

By Maril MacDonald, Founder & CEO of Gagen MacDonald and WPO board member; The Holmes Report Large companies today are contending with an astonishing array of challenges. They must simultaneously continually reinvent themselves to fend off disruption, deliver quarterly results to satisfy shareholders, compete for top talent in a brutal battlefield, confront political instability and uncertainty, protect their brand and reputation, and … Continue reading From Project To Movement: Unleashing The Potential Of Business Transformation

Is Your Business Structured to Achieve Your Purpose?

B the Change Weekly: August 2, 2019Delivered on Fridays, B the Change Weekly delivers the most important and most relevant stories about people using business as a force for good. The newsletter features a weekly note from the B the Change team alongsi...

The Power of Purpose in Driving Better Bottom-Line Business Outcomes

The Power of Purpose in Driving Bottom-Line Business OutcomesWhy Valuing People and Planet Positions Businesses for Success in the 21st Century and BeyondEncore Renewable Energy, a Certified B Corporation, works on renewable energy projects that create...

B Lab’s Vision for Systemic Change: How Champions Retreat Pushes the Movement Toward that Goal

Annual Gathering of North American B Corps Builds Movement of Business As a Force for GoodB Lab Chief Marketing Officer Anthea Kelsick, left, and Co-Founder Andrew Kassoy.When a company joins the community of Certified B Corporations, it signs onto the...

How the Sustainable Development Goals Provide a Framework for Impact-Minded Businesses

B Corp Strategies for a Sustainable Future: ‘Finding Real Solutions to the Problems That Matter’In the face of large-scale global challenges — from poverty and hunger to social justice and the climate crisis — businesses with an eye toward the future c...

Appointment of Director

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Structural Inclusion: What It Means and Why It Matters

Why It’s Vital to Review the Workplace Foundation Before Effective Diversity and Inclusion Work Can BeginLast year, when our team sat down to review our Inclusive Economy Challenge goals and metrics, an employee posed an honest yet blunt question: How ...

How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Investors into Champions

By Barbara Yastine, Managing Director of Golden Seeds Fundraising takes hard work and a lot of time. So, it is no surprise that once the checks clear, entrepreneurs are eager to get back to building their businesses. Their investors want that, too. However, once the money is in the bank, some entrepreneurs may forego building … Continue reading How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Investors into Champions

B the Change Week in Review

Around the globe, businesses looking for long-term success are turning toward practices that consider the impact of their operations on the environment and workers, customers and communities. By certifying as benefit corporations, these businesses take...

Upending Shareholder Primacy Around the Globe

B the Change Weekly: July 26, 2019Delivered on Fridays, B the Change Weekly delivers the most important and most relevant stories about people using business as a force for good. The newsletter features a weekly note from the B the Change team alongsid...

Conscious Capitalism: Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility?

The future of business will require companies to do more than add on a CSR program—purpose will need to be incorporated into the business model and integrated into the entire organization. Photo by Pixabay.Certified B Corporations have taken a bold sta...

B Corp on Track to Reduce Workers’ Carbon Footprint While Traveling

Better Places Joins Program That Encourages Trains Over Planes(Photo by Ryan Tang on Unsplash)Better Places, a Certified B Corporation and trailblazer in sustainable travel, recently joined the Climate Perks program that rewards workers for choosing tr...

Why Entrepreneurs Need to Do One Thing at a Time

By Aytekin Tank, Entrepreneur Back in 1897, Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal — winner of the Nobel Prize — wrote a book called Advice for a Young Investigator. He argued that instead of spending hours reviewing books, lectures and broad research, scientists should focus deeply on a single object of study. This state, he wrote, “refines judgment, enriches … Continue reading Why Entrepreneurs Need to Do One Thing at a Time

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