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Flying through Interference
We believe that corporate changemakers need tools to properly diagnose interference and build enabling conditions for social impact strategies…
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Future of Social Impact: What to Watch for in 2024
What does 2024 mean for the future of social impact?
Shared Value: the Questions Investors Need to Ask Companies
September 4, 2012This post originally appeared on The Guardian's Sustainable Business Blog.
Shared Value in Côte D’Ivoire: Creating a Vibrant Cocoa Sector
June 26, 2012A few years ago, Mars was faced with the realization that we needed another Côte d’Ivoire to produce enough cocoa to meet the world’s growing choco…
Measuring Shared Value – The Cart Before the Horse?
June 13, 2012This post originally appeared on CECP's blog.If you don’t fully understand the concept of “shared value,” I can assure you you’re not alone.
A Shared Value Community of Practice
June 11, 2012Eighty-five individuals – mostly senior corporate executives – gathered at the Charles Hotel in Boston on May 31 to spend a day deepening their practice of Sha…
Shared Value in Boston: An FSG Event!
April 23, 2012One of my favorite things about FSG is our enchantment with ideas. FSG loves to noodle over, consider, go to the whiteboard, take time to reflect. We love to s…
Shared Value in Less Than Two Minutes
April 5, 2012The average elevator ride in New York City is 118 seconds. Per Jeffrey Hayzlett, writing in Harvard Business Review, that means you've got less than two minute…
Functional Shared Value
March 19, 2012I was playing a board game with my 6 year old niece last week and she told me she wants to grow up to be a ballerina. Or maybe a job working with animals. She …
Environmental Shared Value Opportunities
February 27, 2012There is a natural link between shared value and environmental issues: use less and create money. Reducing energy, materials, or natural resources used in prod…
Shared Value & Social Enterprise: A Match Made in Heaven
February 6, 2012There are many reasons why large corporations are challenged to capitalize on shared value opportunities. One that is frequently cited is the inability to look…
The Advantage of Family-Owned Businesses in Creating Shared Value
September 19, 2011Family-Owned multinationals are achieving big wins against climate change, sustainable agriculture, infectious diseases, and many other issues in ways that als…