| Course ID: | BUSN 7850. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. |
| Course Title: | B Corporations and Social Impact Consulting |
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. |
| Oasis Title: | B Corp Consulting |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| 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 |