At the heart of the Clinic is the B Impact Assessment, an opensource tool developed by the non-profit B Lab, widely considered to be the most rigorous and comprehensive assessment of a sustainable company.

Paul College alum Rob Bean ’96, the project mentor and chief financial officer at Orvis, lauded the “exceptional team of students” for quickly gaining “an intimate knowledge of the business” and “materially lifting the administrative burden” of completing the B Impact Assessment from Orvis’ operating team.
“Without their assistance, the process would have taken significantly longer,” Bean said.
Wilkinson said the students not only learned what constituted a truly sustainable business, how to communicate with busy professionals in a fast-paced environment and analyze business processes, they also got free fly-fishing lessons from Orvis staff.
Said Wilkinson, “I’ve always wanted to learn that!”