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Shared Value in Côte D'Ivoire: Creating a Vibrant Cocoa Sector

Andy Harner, Global Cocoa Director for Mars Chocolate, discusses working with FSG on a shared value initiative to support farmers and cocoa production in Côte D'Ivoire.

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Creating Shared Value: It's the Future

FSG illuminates the potential of shared value in this short motion graphic. See how GE, IHG, and Nestlé are using this approach successfully.

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Better Outcomes, Lower Costs:
How Community-Based Funders Can Transform U.S. Health Care

Mark Kramer, Dr. Atul Gawande

Mark Kramer and Dr. Atul Gawande discuss the untapped potential for community-based funders to transform the cost and quality of healthcare in the United States.

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Executive Insights with Gary M. Cohen

Gary M. Cohen, Executive Vice President at BD discusses creating shared value in global health at the "Competing to Save Lives" conference.

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Executive Insights with Anuj Pasrija

Anuj Pasrija, Head, Social Business, Group Emerging Markets, Novartis discusses creating shared value in global health at the "Competing to Save Lives" conference.

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Competing by Saving Lives: How Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies Create Shared Value in Global Health

Kyle Peterson, Matthew Rehrig, Mike Stamp, Samuel Kim

How health technology companies are creating shared value around unmet health needs

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Executive Summary

Catalytic Philanthropy In India

Nidhi M. Reddy, Lalitha Vaidyanathan, Katyayani Balasubramanian, Kavitha Gorapalli, Sharad Sharma

This collaborative report from FSG and the Indian School of Business explores how India's largest givers can help solve critical social problems.

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Collaboration and Connection: How Foundations Partner Effectively to Address Their Community’s Information Needs

Ellen Martin, Katelyn Mack, Hallie Preskill, John Kania

This report highlights the strategies and approaches that Knight Community Information Challenge grantee foundations have used to develop and maintain productive partnerships.

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A Market for Success: How a Robust Service Provider Market Can Help Community Colleges Improve Student Completion

Jeff Kutash, Kate Tallant, Matt Wilka, Kevin Connell

This report draws on the perspectives of community college leaders to explore how external service providers can best help colleges improve student completion.

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Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work

Fay Hanleybrown, John Kania, Mark Kramer

Despite the difficulty of getting collective impact efforts off the ground, those involved report a new sense of optimism that dawns early on in the process.

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Creating Shared Value

Michael Porter, Mark Kramer

The concept of creating ‘shared value’ focuses on the connections between societal and economic progress and has the power to unleash the next wave of global growth.

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Collective Impact

Mark Kramer, John Kania

Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

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Catalytic Philanthropy

Mark Kramer

Despite vast spending, philanthropists have fallen short. What we need: Catalytic Philanthropy.

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Strategy & Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility

Michael Porter, Mark Kramer

Moving past generic CSR principles, learn how societal influence is becoming the new frontier of competitive advantage.

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Leading Boldly

Ronald Heifetz, John Kania, Mark Kramer

Foundations can enhance the impact of their traditional approaches to social change by harnessing imaginative and even controversial leadership. This Stanford Social Innovation Review article focuses on how Adaptive Leadership can be applied to complex social challenges.

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Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement and Social Impact

Mark Kramer, Marcie Parkhurst, Lalitha Vaidyanathan

To achieve the dramatic results necessary to solve today's largest social challenges, coordinated evaluation approaches involving multiple stakeholders are required.

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The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy

Michael Porter, Mark Kramer

The authors argue that CSR should be a win-win situation – for society and the corporation.

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From Insight to Action: New Directions in Foundation Evaluation

Mark Kramer, Rebecca Graves, Jason Hirschhorn, Leigh Fiske

After a year of research and nearly 100 interviews with foundation leaders and evaluation experts, FSG has released a report that identifies a fundamental transition in the way foundations use evaluation. 

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Volunteering for Impact: Best Practices in International Corporate Volunteering

Greg Hills, Adeeb Mahmud

This report highlights effective practices for international corporate volunteering (ICV) by examining two principal models: local and cross-border volunteering.

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Philanthropy's New Agenda - Creating Value

Michael Porter, Mark Kramer

FSG founders Porter and Kramer make the case for foundation strategy in this seminal piece. If foundations serve only as passive middlemen, as mere conduits for giving, then they fall far short of their potential and of society's expectations of them.

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The Power of Strategic Mission Investing

Mark Kramer, Sarah Cooch

To foster dramatic change, foundations need a fundamentally different approach to mission investing: making mission investments that complement grantmaking.

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Collective Impact

Mark Kramer, John Kania

Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

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Creating Shared Value

Michael Porter, Mark Kramer

The concept of creating ‘shared value’ focuses on the connections between societal and economic progress and has the power to unleash the next wave of global growth.

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Creating Shared Value: It's the Future

FSG illuminates the potential of shared value in this short motion graphic. See how GE, IHG, and Nestlé are using this approach successfully.

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Strategy & Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility

Michael Porter, Mark Kramer

Moving past generic CSR principles, learn how societal influence is becoming the new frontier of competitive advantage.

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Creating Shared Value in India

Veronica Borgonovi, Simon Meier, Manjari Sharda, Lalitha Vaidyanathan

“Creating shared value” is gaining traction worldwide; examine how companies in India are contributing to inclusive growth – and gaining competitive advantage.

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Executive Summary

Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement and Social Impact

Mark Kramer, Marcie Parkhurst, Lalitha Vaidyanathan

To achieve the dramatic results necessary to solve today's largest social challenges, coordinated evaluation approaches involving multiple stakeholders are required.

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Executive Summary

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Creating Shared Value: Connecting Business, Societal Value and Opportunity

Michael Porter, Mark Kramer and Jane Nelson discuss creating shared value and give examples from HP, Nestlé and Novartis on how corporations can put this approach into practice.

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Creating Shared Value: A How-to Guide for the New Corporate (R)evolution

Valerie Bockstette, Mike Stamp

This report explores how corporations can translate Creating Shared Value into action.

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Collective Impact - John Kania

John Kania, Managing Director at FSG talks about Collective Impact.

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Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work

Fay Hanleybrown, John Kania, Mark Kramer

Despite the difficulty of getting collective impact efforts off the ground, those involved report a new sense of optimism that dawns early on in the process.

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