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- Corporate/CSR, Global Health, U.S. Health
The Power of Precision: How to Reveal What Blocks Health Equity Progress
The journey from surface-level solutions to structural change begins with the courage to confront what lies beneath and the…

- Foundation Strategy
Leading through Uncertainty: Three Questions for Funders
Here are three common questions that we've been hearing from our philanthropic partners during this time of uncertainty.
How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger
March 8, 2016In a new blog on Harvard Business Review, “How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger,” FSG’s Mark Kramer examines how corporations contributed to the ang…
One Size Doesn’t Fit All—Redesigning Employee Engagement
December 3, 2015Employee engagement is a topic that keeps many corporate managers up at night. Engaged employees are more productive and are more likely to stay longer with th…
New Resource: Corporate Societal Engagement Strategy Toolkit
September 28, 2015If you’re responsible for corporate societal engagement at your company, if your title is president of your corporate foundation, or VP of CSR, or Director of …
Fortune Ranks Top Companies Changing the World
August 20, 2015Business-as-usual is changing. The conventional wisdom that capitalism comes at great cost to society is being challenged. Instead, we’ve observed that the mos…
Healthy Communities, Healthy Companies: Engaging the Private Sector in Collective Impact
March 23, 2015In the three short years since FSG’s John Kania and Mark Kramer published Collective Impact in Stanford Social Innovation Review, we’ve been floored at the con…
Should All Companies Pursue Collective Impact?
May 21, 2014A hot topic at the CECP Summit this year was the role companies should play in collaborative efforts. In a jam-packed room, I had the pleasure of representing …
Why There’s a Difference between Shared Values and Shared Value
April 29, 2013This post originally appeared on the Guardian Sustainable Business blog. By basing CSR on social issues at the core of their business, companies can create soc…
Does Creating Shared Value Drive Corporate Reputation in Australia?
February 20, 2013The short answer: More than you might think.Porter and Kramer’s 2011 article “Creating Shared Value” spoke about the lack of customer trust in the corporate wo…
Creating and Measuring Shared Value: What’s so different about it?
November 27, 2012This post originally appeared on Intel's CSR@Intel blog.
Where Food and Funders Meet
September 21, 2012Imagine you are sitting down to enjoy a delicious meal at your favorite restaurant. Have you ever wondered how many workers helped get that meal to your plate?…