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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.

Corporate/CSR Economic Development Gender Shared Value
New in Harvard Business Review: 12 Practices for Advancing Women in Retail Jobs
March 4, 2019
Fay Hanleybrown Elizabeth Hawkins Sandra Medrano
Even though the women comprise half the workforce, they are overrepresented in frontline positions and consistently underrepresented in higher-paying managemen…
Corporate/CSR Shared Value
The Backlash to Larry Fink’s Letter Shows How Far Business Has to Go on Social Responsibility
February 1, 2019
Mark Kramer
Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest investor with $6 trillion under management, evoked heated controversy with his remarks last week that his com…
Collective Impact Corporate/CSR Economic Development Education & Youth Foundation Strategy Inclusive Markets Systems Thinking
FSG Staff Share Highlights from 2018
December 13, 2018
FSG
We are grateful and humbled to work alongside clients and partners around the globe on a wide range of pressing social impact issues. Below FSG staff share som…
Corporate/CSR Foundation Strategy
Moving Beyond Trade-offs in Impact Investing
October 31, 2018
Nikhil Bumb Harvey Koh Mark Kramer Chinyere Amanze
In the fast-growing impact investing sector, a contentious debate has been brewing. Does genuine impact always require a sacrifice of financial returns? Or sho…
Corporate/CSR
How Corporate Foundations and CSR Initiatives are ‘Being the Change’
September 17, 2018
Andria Seneviratne Nikhil Bumb
As corporate philanthropy and CSR initiatives experiment with new and more strategic ways to maximize impact on the issues they care about, organizations are i…
Corporate/CSR Shared Value
What Business Leaders Wish NGOs Knew about Transformative Partnerships
September 13, 2018
David Garfunkel Rahima Dosani
As a leader of an NGO, you know that public, nonprofit, philanthropic, and private actors must work together to make progress on the most pressing global issue…
Corporate/CSR
Are the Elite Hijacking Social Change?
September 5, 2018
FSG Mark Kramer
In the fall issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review, FSG’s Mark Kramer reviews Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharad…
Corporate/CSR Shared Value
Applauding the Changemakers Behind Fortune’s Change the World List
August 30, 2018
FSG Bobbi Silten
In a new article published by Fortune, FSG's Bobbi Silten discusses the annual "Change the World" list, which highlights 57 companies that are reinventing thei…
Corporate/CSR Economic Development Shared Value
Four Guiding Principles for Rethinking Your Workforce
August 9, 2018
Talia Alongi
With 46 percent of employers reporting difficulty filling jobs and looming uncertainty around how artificial intelligence and automation will impact the future…
Corporate/CSR Global Health Shared Value
How Companies are Improving Competitiveness by Addressing Health Challenges
July 9, 2018
Neeraja Bhavaraju Chinyere Amanze
Every pharmaceutical and medical device company in the world is trying to grow their markets and better meet the needs of medically underserved populations.Whi…

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