What is a benefit corporation? A benefit corporation is a new corporate form allowing for-profit entities to pursue social and environmental goals along with the traditional objective of maximizing profits. The benefit corporation movement grew out of the business community – where social entrepreneurs felt that the traditional corporate forms did not allow them to […]

  Last month, North Carolina’s legislature rejected a benefit corporation bill, asserting that it would be a “move away from capitalism.” This reasoning seems misplaced. If our own history tells us anything about capitalism, it’s that its form is both dynamic and changing. The Oxford Dictionary defines capitalism as “an economic and political system in […]