Erasing Institutional Bias

Foreword

by Jay Coen Gilbert, cofounder, B Lab,serving the B Corporation movement

Only 43 percent of B Lab’s staff who are people of color feel they can bring their whole selves to work, compared to 96 percent of their white coworkers.

The words hit me like a punch to the gut. As a person who cares deeply about equity, I have spent considerable time and resources and dedicated my professional and civic life for the last decade to building a more equitable society and a more inclusive economy, so reading this statistic from a recent staff survey devastated me.

It also shouldn’t have surprised me.

B Lab, the organization I cofounded in 2006, is the nonprofit behind the global B Corporation movement. B Corporations redefine success in business—they ...