Scenario: You are the CEO of a company that is heavily invested in pursuing corporate sustainability initiatives and have recently decided to explore becoming a Certified B Corporation. As part of this, you need to do some research to analyze whether this would be of value for your company to pursue, and then report your findings to your executive leadership team.

Step 1: Conduct research on Certified B Corporations and the B Lab certification process.

Step 2: Work on a detailed executive summary for your leadership team that addresses the following main points:

A summary of what a Certified B Corporation is, and how the B Lab certification process works. Any restrictions to certification that your company would need to consider. Whether the certification fee would be cost-prohibitive. The positive and negative aspects of undertaking B Lab Certification. How becoming certified can enhance your company's corporate accountability.