Building CESR & B Corp Relationships
Recently, CESR MBA Instructor David Sanders Payne was invited to speak at the (CSIL) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) for their first ever Millennial Impact Speakers Series Presentation: 鈥淏 Corps:听People Using Business as a Force for Good.鈥澨�
The one-hour panel discussion on November 2nd included three other distinguished B Corp specialists: Marcello Palazzi, co-founder of , Craig Dalen, B Corps Senior Fellow, and Vincent Suich, a MIIS graduate, U.S. Veteran, and founder of Sox Box, the first B-Certified B-Corp听in Monterey County.
Moderated by Lyuba Zarsky, Professor of International Environmental Policy at MIIS, the discussion focused on the basic functional elements of B Corps, the ins and outs of becoming a B Corp, and how how MIIS can help local businesses become Certified B Corps. The panel was open to both members of the MIIS campus and Monterey Valley community in hopes of growing both educational and community involvement in starting and operating sustainable, responsible businesses.
When asked about the origins of the event, CESR鈥檚 Payne said
鈥淐SIL鈥檚 Director Jerry Hildebrand came to Colorado late in the summer to see what all the buzz was about鈥� 鈥� Colorado has the first and only state office for B Lab, and Dave Payne was recognized as the recipient of B Lab鈥檚 first annual 鈥淏 Corps on Campus鈥� award 鈥撎�渁nd what he found was a thriving ecosystem of company, university, and NGO stakeholders changing the course of business; which led him to ask 鈥榟ow can we replicate that in Monterey?鈥�
Based on the overwhelmingly positive response to the November 2nd debate, it appears that Monterey is on its way to creating their own community of change makers seeking to use business as a force for good.
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