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)
Student learning Outcomes
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.
This consulting engagement with the client contains a service-learning component that employs social innovation skills and knowledge related to course and project objectives. Students will be involved in the planning and implementation of the project and will spend time outside of the classroom.
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
