Benefit Corporations: What They Are and Why We Became One
summary
Tangible modified its company statute in February 2021 to add explicit common-benefit objectives and a commitment to publish an annual Impact Report, thereby becoming a Società Benefit (benefit corporation). The talk explains the practical path taken: navigating certifications and assessments, the specific process steps and tools implemented, and which metrics they began tracking to measure effectiveness of their social and environmental objectives.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Benefit corporation history
- 10:15Generative vs extractive model
- 16:27Why become a benefit corp
- 22:01Goals and legal status
- 28:59Governance and internal metrics
- 35:30Inclusion and diversity
- 40:05Customer impact and accessibility
- 43:52B Corp certification process
- 44:14Q&A
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