Too often, business as usual increases wealth and income inequality, limiting economic mobility and security for low-wage workers while enriching corporate leaders and shareholders. B Lab believes in a different type of business, one that produces value for all through good jobs and an equitable distribution of profit. B Lab’s performance standards and stakeholder governance model create a blueprint for businesses to follow and many B Corps have experimented with implementing a variety of alternative ownership models that are shifting the corporate structures that otherwise entrench inequality. We’d like to invite a couple of B Corps to speak about their own journeys to implement some of these practices and the results they’ve observed.
Redistributing Power and Profit: B Corp Journeys with Alternative Ownership Models
Sarah Schwimmer
B Lab
Track
DEI, Ownership and Impact
Format
Panel (3 speakers)
Speakers
- NameJoachim Krapels
- TitleHead of Strategy & B Corp Movement
- OrganizationB Labs
- NameKaren Colberg
- TitleCEO
- OrganizationKing Arthur Baking Company
- NameEric Edelson
- TitleCEO
- OrganizationFireclay Tile
Description
Too often, business as usual increases wealth and income inequality, limiting economic mobility and security for low-wage workers while enriching corporate leaders and shareholders. B Lab believes in a different type of business, one that produces value for all through good jobs and an equitable distribution of profit. B Lab’s performance standards and stakeholder governance model create a blueprint for businesses to follow and many B Corps have experimented with implementing a variety of alternative ownership models that are shifting the corporate structures that otherwise entrench inequality. We’d like to invite a couple of B Corps to speak about their own journeys to implement some of these practices and the results they’ve observed.
