Have you heard of the ‘The B Team’? The B team is a Richard Branson initiative he initiated to explore how people in business can develop a better version of capitalism that considers how people are treated and how businesses impact the cultures they are based in, economically, socially and environmentally.

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Go to http://bteam.org and find a B Team Project that interests you. Answering the questions below, prepare summary notes that would allow you to give a five minute in-class presentation on the project to your peers. You may like to prepare two to three PowerPoint slides to focus your talk.

1. What is the project about? Provide some background to the problem this project is aiming to address.

2. What are businesses being asked to do differently based on the objectives of this project?

3. What are social and environmental impacts — the intended benefits of this project? Have any been achieved?