Course Description
Enable students to apply MBA coursework to a real-world consulting engagement, guiding businesses in measuring and scaling their impact across all stakeholders. To learn hands-on what a B Corp is, how they apply “business as a force for good” principles to their foundation, day-to-day decision making, and overall company DNA.
Athena Title
B Corp Consulting
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students will combine MBA skills with social innovation principles as consultants in a real-world consulting engagement to assist companies scale and grow their impact across the five areas of the B Impact Assessment: Workers, Governance, Environment, Community, and Customers. Students will complete a Discovery and Statement of Work to summarize key objectives, deliverables, and outcomes of the consulting engagement utilizing effective communication and project management skills to meet client needs. Students will complete a final presentation to the client highlighting their learning in regards to the statement of work while also providing a Client Implementation Roadmap, a list of next steps providing a detailed explanation of their relevance and how their client can achieve them.
Topical Outline
Where We Started: Milton Friedman, Monetarism, and Shareholder Primacy Greenwashing and Corporate Social Responsibility Greenwashing: What is it? Why is it? And why it’s not such a bad thing Corporate Social Responsibility: Origins and Beginnings B Corps: The Gold Standard of CSR B Corps: The BIA and the 4 Core Tenets B Corps: The Business Case Consulting Discovery Statement of Work Project Alignment BIA Point Possibility Discovery and Implementation Plan Client Implementation Roadmap
Syllabus