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When Making Money And Making A Sustainable And Societal Difference Collide: Will Benefit Corporations Succeed Or Fail?, Joseph Karl Grant

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A quiet, but important, corporate revolution is afoot in the United States. Many of us, laypersons and corporate scholars alike, have not even noticed. Recently, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. became the first states in this country to pass legislation for the creation of a new type of corporation--the benefit corporation.

This Article explores benefit corporations as a tool entrepreneurs can use to make money, foster environmental sustainability, and create societal improvement.