B Lab’s revised standards for B Corps currently omit ‘Impact Business Models’, one of the certification’s most promising tools for recognising the businesses that make the most meaningful impact, says Anton Simanowitz.
Running an impact-focused business “is a dance between priorities that compete for time and money”. When you add investors to the mix, the dance gets even harder, say Erinch Sahan and Julie Menter.
Bias toward capital is so deeply embedded in business thinking that few question its legitimacy. But next-generation enterprises are starting to shift the playing field.