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Poole College of Management 
Business Sustainability Collaborative

Sustainability Practicum

Help real companies, from startups to multinational corporations, strengthen their social and environmental impact. Develop real-world experience working with local and global companies.

About the B Corp Clinic

Have you ever wondered how companies become B Corps? B Corps—like Warby Parker, New Belgium Brewing, and Patagonia—are “for-profit companies certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.”

Since 2015, the NC State B Corp Clinic has engaged over 480 students to help over 90 companies from around the world improve their social and environmental impact. Since Spring 2021 the B Corp Clinic is offered as a graduate level practicum course, MBA 582.

Each company is matched with a team of graduate students from the Poole College of Management and across the University. The team uses the B Impact Assessment (BIA), as a tool to measure and drive impact. The BIA is a free, confidential platform designed to help measure and manage a company’s positive impact on workers, community, customers and environment.

Real World Impact.

The B Corp Clinic has worked with 480 students on 102 projects and helped companies make progress on over 2,500 points towards certification, including 34 companies that have become B Corp Certified.

B Corp Clinic Stories

ImpactKarma’s Experience in the B Corp Clinic

Learn about ImpactKarma’s experience in the B Corp Clinic and journey to become a certified B Corp!

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Darius’ Journey from Personal Injury Law to Sustainability Advocate

Learn about Jenkins MBA student Darius Rountree’s career journey from personal injury law to sustainability advocate.

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18 Semesters of the B Corp Clinic

For the last nine years, the NC State B Corp Clinic has helped over 100 companies from around the world improve their social and environmental impact. Learn about the outcomes, opportunities and challenges in our B Corp Clinic!

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Past Company Participants

Mountain Laurel Digital, Beautycounter, CAPTRUST, Cadence Cash, Greenbacker

Animal Experience International, Boomerang Water, Chimu Adventures, Cicil Home, Counter Culture Coffee, ECOmersion, Fair Game Beverage, Mountain Laurel Digital 

321 Coffee, Benchwarmers Bagels and Coffee, Carimus, Impact Karma (Karma Wallet), MSA Professional Services, New South Law Firm, Red Barn Mercantile

Bright Black Candles, Vanguard Furniture, Jet It, Crowd Capital,  Sugar Hollow Solar, AgBiome, CalicoSol, Natures Crop, Kennedy & Company.

One Earth Rising, Carolina Solar Services, JetIt, Interloop North America, Mananalu, BIOMILQ and Crowd Capital.

Loading Dock Raleigh, TS Designs, Prota Fiori, Crocodile Creek, Northwestern Mutual – Tom Morris, Amanda’s Best Friend, Birdcall, Green Sprouts.

360 Rocks, Lulu Press, Ocaquatics Swim School, Orora Global, Prota Fiori, YAP!

9miles Media, Boer Brothers Heating and Air, Get Spiffy, Inc., ndustrial.io, Prota Fiori, Spiritex/Asheville Apparel,Triangle Environmental and Unity Digital Agency.

Charles & Colvard, Haven Developers, Murphy’s Naturals, Recover Brands and Touchstone Essentials.

Counter Culture Coffee, HQ Raleigh, NARA collective, Project Shift, and SunSense Solar.

Why Participate?

Drive social and environmental impact

  • Open to undergraduate and graduate students, all disciplines, from across North Carolina
  • Work on a semester long consulting engagement with a local company
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary, cross-university teams to drive social and environmental impact
  • NC State students can receive credit for participation in the B Corp Clinic

The Spring 2024 B Corp Clinic is only open to students in MBA 582.