Updates & Insights

We stand at a crossroads where business, policy, and society must work together to secure a sustainable future. The EU has a pivotal role to play—but only if it upholds its commitment to sustainability.

In our latest report, we explore international awareness of the B Corp brand, highlighting generational patterns, regional trends, and the impact of the brand on consumer behavior.

Benefit corporations can help businesses move beyond shareholder primacy. But are they enough to balance the interests of profit vs. people in tech, AI, and other industries?

As global challenges escalate, impact-driven investors and purpose-driven businesses are uniting to direct capital toward solutions that benefit all stakeholders.

Apply to become a 1-year virtual research “fellow” at B Lab global, exploring our datasets on corporate sustainability and business governance efforts.

In conversation with colleagues across B Lab Global, we share context on the work happening behind the scenes to get ready for assessment on the new standards, why it takes time to get it right - and why we’re excited for the future.

B Lab aims to reshape the role of business for a more just and sustainable economy. In Spain, grassroots efforts and legislative changes highlight the power of collective action.

LGBTQIA+ leaders are driving diversity and inclusion, transforming workplaces, and championing stakeholder governance.

We’re in the midst of the biggest transformation in B Lab’s 17-year history. Read on to learn about the extensive work happening to prepare for the implementation of B Lab’s new standards, tools, and certification processes - and what this means for you.

From uplifting stories of empowered workers to sustainable practices benefiting our planet, this series will celebrate the positive changes B Corps are making for workers, consumers, communities, and beyond.

In today’s evolving business landscape, CEOs can align profitability with sustainability. Sarah Schwimmer, B Lab’s interim Co-Lead Executive, previews her remarks for the Economist’s Sustainability Week US and invites you to join her in New York.

From doubling our community size to refining our standards and mobilizing for collective action, B Lab's 2023 Global Annual Report celebrates the progress made in shaping an inclusive and regenerative economic future.

Sarah Schwimmer and Clay Brown, new Interim Co-Lead Executives at B Lab Global, discuss their vision for B Lab’s future and how co-leadership will further our mission to transform the economic system to become more inclusive, equitable, and regenerative.

How the standards for B Corp Certification will raise the bar for businesses.

Learn why, and how, our approach to defining the size of a company is changing, and what it might mean for your business as we evolve our standards.

Your opportunity to share feedback on the latest draft of the standards

In 2022, B Lab Global embarked on our first JEDI Strategic Plan. Now, we’re sharing what’s working, where we’ve struggled, and what we’ve learned.

Explore why the draft Complementary Impact Topics matter, and how they support holistic impact across business operations.

Planned transition follows handoff from longtime board members Debra Dunn, Lorene Arey, and Ommeed Sathe

Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion speaks to the heart of human rights. Read why it is integral to the draft standards for B Corps.

Learn why the draft standards inclusion of Government Affairs & Collective Action can help businesses to lead as a force for good.

Philanthropy enables us to keep social impact at the center of what we do, and to build the tools needed to scale this impact.

Explore the quiet power of Workplace Culture as an Impact Topic, and how it brings internal stakeholder governance to life.

Environmental Stewardship & Circularity is one of the core Impact Topics of the proposed new B Corp standards, learn more.

Fair Wages play a crucial role in the draft standards, find out more about this Impact Topic.

"When we create value for stakeholders, we are making our business stronger and more resilient." The second case study in our series about how stakeholder governance works in practice.

"We are generating powerful dialogue about the best ways to do business, putting stakeholder governance at the heart of our concerns." The final case study in our series about how stakeholder governance works in practice.

"People have always been the basis and the reason for everything we have built at Gerdau. We believe that putting people at the center of everything we do is what will keep us relevant over time." The third blog in our series about stakeholder governance.

"Stakeholder governance is how we show the world – our people, our beauty consultants, our customers, our investors - that our purpose is more than words on the wall." The first case study in our series about how stakeholder governance works in practice.

Take a look at the critical area of Climate Action as it pertains to the draft standards.

Learn about the Human Rights topic in the draft standards, and its importance for B Corps.

What is Purpose & Stakeholder Governance? Explore what this topic entails for B Corps, and why it matters.

We on B Lab Global’s Insights team are excited to share our latest report, examining the financial performance and resilience of Certified B Corps. Key things to know, with a couple of B Corp case studies to illustrate the story we saw in the numbers.

Ahead of the upcoming second consultation, we’re sharing a refresher on how the fundamental changes to the new standards would raise the bar for B Corps to continue to lead the way in business.

This special podcast mini-series navigates hard-hitting issues with hope and creativity.

B Lab Global is pausing support for a small number of companies while evaluating how best to support and sustain the growth of our B Corp community.

B Lab Global and Nasdaq OneReport have teamed up to help companies streamline their processes and to best showcase their ESG efforts.

As we head into the latter half of the year, hear from B Lab Global's Lead Executive, Eleanor Allen, on exciting achievements and upcoming projects..

Meet the academics launching our pilot Fellowship program inviting scholars to join us on our learning journey; researching the impact of the B Corp movement

Download the guide for small businesses, with step-by-step insights on implementing socially and environmentally responsible business practices.

Looking back at a pivotal year for B Lab and the B Corp movement

Learn how our global network advanced economic systems change through a year of record demand for certification

Transforming the economic system will take generations. We need more than project-restricted, short-term grants to drive the change we seek.

Discover how the B Corp community celebrated across the globe.

The B Lab Global Board of Directors is pleased to announce Janine Guillot as its newest member, effective April 2023.

Gain a better understanding of your business impact to drive meaningful societal change, improve decision-making, and build long-term resilience.

A new related standard is in development for 2024, with opportunity for stakeholder input later this year.

Heard about B Corp Month but curious to learn more? Discover how a community of inspirational businesses collaborate every year to champion a better way of doing business.

The goal for every B Lab employee, non-profit leader, and business we’ve talked to on this podcast is not perfection. It’s focusing on learning, accountability, transparency, and a commitment to getting better all the time.

In this episode of Forces For Good, we learn how companies create positive culture and a shared sense of purpose through stronger relationships and understanding between colleagues.

Apply to become a 1-year virtual research “fellow” at B Lab global, exploring our datasets on corporate sustainability and business governance efforts.

Businesses are usually seen as competitors but, in order to solve the crisis facing our planet they need to work together, collaboratively and collectively.

A message from Eleanor Allen, Lead Executive

On the show, we speak with businesses (both large and small) that are attempting to disrupt legacies of racism and oppression.

Food systems are critical to human wellbeing and to the health of our planet. Yet, the way we farm, process, package, and transport food is driving environmental degradation and climate change. So how do we fix our foodways?

In this episode, we speak to experts who help us understand the difference between a minimum and a living wage, dig into profiles of workers and industries that are at the greatest risk of falling below a living wage standard.

As we launch episode 4 of our podcast, we explore what it means to be a business activist — or an activist business — and why activism has a place in corporate boardrooms, and amongst employees.

In the third episode in our Forces For Good podcast, our host Irving is joined by guests from Fairtrade Africa, Sendle, and B Lab to discuss the role that business plays in combating the crisis.

Dr. Nyagoy Nyong’o and Mahlet Getachew to join this month

As part of our content series on multinationals, Standards, Certification & Verification, and Business Development experts from B Lab share insights on the challenges and opportunities of bringing these complex enterprises into the B Corp movement.

As the world becomes more environmentally concerned, businesses are increasingly leveraging green marketing to reach conscientious customers. But not all marketing is created equal.

“Purpose-driven company.” You've likely heard these words, but what does it actually mean for a company to act with purpose?

Catch up on B Lab’s pilot series with the Webby-winning podcast, examining the role that the business community can play in addressing pivotal challenges facing our world.

B Lab is excited to introduce the draft version of the new standards for B Corp Certification for a preliminary consultation.

Yvon and Malinda Chouinard gave away their company, Patagonia, to save our home planet, effectively asking every founder and business leader to look in the mirror and ask: What will be my legacy?

A conversation between the authors of “Becoming a generalized specialist: a strategic model for increasing your organization’s SDG impact while minimizing externalities,” a B Corp leader, and B Lab Global’s Insights Team.

B Lab’s Insights team looks to new research and data from the SDG Action Manager to understand what is holding companies back, and how they can evolve to truly support the 2030 Agenda.

B Lab Global’s Lead Executive addresses concerns about how B Lab is balancing growth of our community and the rigor of our standards.

An update on the moratorium in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

How the B Global Network is celebrating and sharing learnings from the 2022 Best for the World™️ B Corps across regions.

Some B Corps center their business models on bringing specific benefit to one or more stakeholders — workers, community, environment, or customers.

What impact are B Corps are having on the broader world — and how can analyzing this performance help companies of all kinds work towards economic systems change?

In this edition of Inside the B, B Lab Global’s new Lead Executive talks about her experiences as a nonprofit leader, civil engineer, ultra-cyclist, and Peace Corps volunteer.

Gelkha Buitrago, Delphine Gibassier, and Valentina Lira are the newest members of the independent multi-stakeholder group overseeing B Lab’s standards.

How our Global Partner team based in Nairobi, Kenya, is working to scale the B Corp movement.

How the living wage space is evolving, and our new application guidance for B Corps.

Wojciech Baginski, Francine Lemos, and Chris Turner join B Lab Global’s Board.

B Lab Co-Founders Andrew Kassoy, Bart Houlahan, and Jay Coen Gilbert share a reflection on 16 years of the B Corp movement, and the new chapter to come under the leadership of Lead Executive Eleanor Allen.

As part of the ongoing improvement of B Lab’s standards, B Lab is pleased to announce plans to update our standards for the financial services sector.

How we are scaling impact and strengthening accountability towards net zero through the B Corp Climate Collective

Talking to LGBTQIA-led B Corps about how to practice inclusion and build credibility all year long.

Your questions about B Corp Certification explained.

KK Tse, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of B Lab Hong Kong & Macau, discusses how his own doubts about his success in the corporate world brought him to early retirement, his breadth of experience in social impact, and why he held his own funeral last year.

How our global network has advanced economic systems change through a year of record demand for certification.

Policy leaders from around our global network talk about coalition-building for stakeholder governance within the B Corp movement and beyond.

Voices from around our global network reflect on the milestone and the growth of the movement.

Communications Coordinator Jero Cúneo talks about his work on the team at Sistema B Internacional in Buenos Aires, and how his social communication background and love of fiction inform his work.

Social and economic inequity and climate change are linked. Business has a responsibility to uplift the leadership of communities most impacted.

How we’ll implement justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion principles in our internal policies, ways of working, and external Global Strategies and Programs.

As B Corp Month 2022 draws to a close, B Lab, Sistema B, and B Corp community voices come together for a conversation on systems change.

While quarantining in a hotel in Adelaide, South Australia, Mindy Leow, Head of Community Building at B Lab Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand, reflects on her journey to B Lab, teaching her colleagues Manglish, and what reminds her of home.

B Lab is instituting a moratorium on new B Corp Certifications for any entities, including subsidiaries, operating in Russia and Belarus.

It is imperative that all businesses behave with purpose, accountability, and transparency. Here’s how B Lab’s policy work is changing the rules of the game.

In honor of B Corp Month 2022, we went #BehindtheB with B Lab’s Strategic Growth team to talk about philanthropy at B Lab, why it’s key to our work, and how our standards and certification process remain accountable and independent.

How data from the SDG Action Manager and B Impact Assessment helped uncover positive outcomes for workplace gender equality at B Corps in the region.

B Lab & Sistema B condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Read our statement on the ongoing conflict, and find resources from our global partners at B Lab Europe.

Customer Support Specialist Ailanit Davydova talks about her move from the Certification & Verification team to the Technology team, and how a first-hand look at sustainability issues in the New York City Department of Sanitation lead her to B Lab.

Following multi-stakeholder feedback and guidance from the Standards Advisory Council, B Lab will develop new performance requirements for the B Corp Certification on topics spanning environmental, governance-related, and social impact.

A reflection from B Lab Head of Standards & Insights Dan Osusky on our evolving performance requirements.

B Lab is looking for qualified individuals with expertise in sustainability assurance or ESG indicators and metrics to provide input on the ongoing evolution of our standards and governance.

Kali Gibson, Co-Director of Certification & Verification at B Lab Global, reflects on the extraordinary growth of interest in B Corp Certification over the course of 2021 — and the challenges we have faced responding to this increased demand.

An economic system based on profit maximization drives racial, economic, and environmental injustice. Here’s how changing corporate governance can change the rules of the game.

How to make our digital lives more sustainable, by fighting planned obsolescence, e-waste, and more.

Food loss and waste contributes to some of the most pressing health, environmental, and economic challenges of our day. How can business evolve to address this crisis?

In the first episode of B Lab’s podcast with Finding Humanity, we explore how inclusive hiring practices remove barriers to employment and unleash human potential by uplifting populations that have been historically excluded from the workforce.

A resource developed to provide guidance on Baseline Requirement interpretation and application for US$5billion+ companies that are engaging in the B Corp Certification process.

Our monthly Insights newsletter, highlighting happenings and initiatives around the B Global Network and showcasing thought leadership from B Lab’s Insights team.

Without business action, there is no achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. And without the right tools for businesses to map their impact strategies to ambitious yet measurable benchmarks, how will we know if we are making progress?

Developed by B Lab and the United Nations Global Compact, the SDG Action Manager is a free web-based impact management solution to enable businesses to take action on the SDGs through 2030.

B Lab is pleased to announce the selection of 25 new members to its Regional Standards Advisory Groups in the UK, Latin America, East Africa, and Australasia, as well as to its recently launched groups in Europe and Asia.

In July 2020, B Lab Global made an organizational commitment to justice and anti-racism. We're sharing an update on progress made, and the work that remains.

Results of our a survey to gather early community feedback on the idea of taking action on specific environmental and social issues and identify some of these issues and key considerations for the B Corp Certification standards.

B Lab is excited to request your input on the structure of the B Corp Certification requirements.

As an organization, we stand against anti-Black racism and all forms of oppression including transphobia, classism, sexism, and xenophobia.

Version 6 (V6) of the B Impact Assessment marked the culmination of B Lab’s most extensive stakeholder engagement and testing process in the Assessment’s over-10 year history,