Over the last decade, society has increasingly demanded that corporations (public and private) and their investors not only pursue profits but also strive to generate positive social impact. In the face of a global pandemic, economic uncertainty, and a heightened focus on inequality, this emphasis on social innovation has only accelerated.
You may have heard many different terms related to social innovation, including ESG, public benefit corporations, B-Corps, social entrepreneurship and social enterprise, CSR, greenwashing, conscious consumerism, impact investing, DEI/JEDI, regenerative models, net-zero, and stakeholder primacy. But what do these actually mean, and how are they related to each other?
Join Christopher Marquis, the Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management at the Cornell University Johnson College of Business and author of Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism, and Benjamin Stone, a corporate attorney at Mintz and veteran social entrepreneur, for a rapid-fire overview of the exciting, complex, and quickly evolving world of social innovation.
When
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET // 9:00 – 10:00 am PT
This is an online event.
Speakers
Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management, Cornell SC
Johnson College of Business
Corporate Attorney, Energy & Sustainability, Technology, and Impact Capital & Social Innovation Practices, Mintz
