Continuations: The B Corporation

continuations:

I attended an interesting lunch yesterday on something called the B Corporation. It is an effort to formally write the idea of triple bottom line businesses into corporate law and provide the standards to go along with that. Today’s common form of organization is the C Corporation which has as…

Read this; really interesting. So much of corporate behavior is tied to the rules under which the company operates—for instance, management at large corporations has the incentive to lay off people to make their numbers, and then hire new people the next year to do the same jobs. These rules aren’t natural law; they can be changed, and changed for the better. 

Notes

  1. best-value-graphics-card-2012 reblogged this from continuations
  2. google--tv reblogged this from continuations
  3. aredridel reblogged this from continuations and added:
    really good idea....think we’ve needed
  4. tedr reblogged this from sawickipedia and added:
    tedr: very very interesting.
  5. sawickipedia reblogged this from continuations and added:
    were started a company, then I would seriously look...shareholders Uber Alles
  6. monkeyairplane reblogged this from continuations
  7. earlybirdwords reblogged this from continuations
  8. huff reblogged this from continuations
  9. sandersak reblogged this from marksbirch and added:
    So here’s the thing with...Corps: Any C Corp could theoretically structure itself as a B...
  10. marksbirch reblogged this from continuations and added:
    value companies. This...getting away from...short term...
  11. mementomori reblogged this from continuations
  12. arishahdadi reblogged this from continuations and added:
    Interesting stuff.
  13. ethicalecon reblogged this from markcoatney and added:
    Thank you for sharing this.
  14. markcoatney reblogged this from continuations and added:
    Read this; really interesting. So much...rules under which
  15. continuations posted this