Shared Value
FSG offers a range of shared value services to companies, from targeted efforts to address specific questions about how a company can create shared value to in-depth multi-year engagements that accompany clients from early-stage vision through implementation to realize business opportunities. FSG also provides measurement services to enable tracking and learning.
Expertise
Industry sectors with which we have extensive experience and representative clients include:
- Food & Agriculture
- Financial Services
- Health Care & Pharmaceuticals
- Retail & Consumer Goods
- Chemicals
- Energy and Extractives
How We Work
Build a coherent vision of where and how your company can create shared value, that is, increase competitiveness and profitability by helping to solve a social or environmental problem, and how to structure a process to get there—through analysis, visioning, and coaching.
Identify and seize key opportunities for your business and effective ways to use them—through collaborative strategy development.
Determine how to proceed from strategy to action—through landscaping, benchmarking, and initiative design, and by tapping FSG’s extensive stakeholder networks.
Support implementation through internal alignment, partnership brokering, and coalition building to improve the relevant market ecosystem.
Design measurement and learning systems to help the company understand how creating social impact drives business results, to enable incremental value creation, and to understand and manage the Economics of Impact.
Case Studies
- The Dow Chemical Company
Creating a Business and Social Impact Fund
FSG helped Dow connect its corporate citizenship and business opportunities.
- Eli Lilly
Fighting Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
FSG worked with the Lilly MDR-TB Partnership to develop a strategy for the third phase of its investments addressing…
- Mercy Corps
Creating Innovative Shared Value Partnerships
FSG helped Mercy Corps explore new corporate partnerships and develop shared value opportunities.
- Becton Dickinson
Developing a Shared Value Executive Education Curriculum
FSG co-developed and delivered a shared value executive education curriculum to build the capacity of BD senior executives and…
Work with Us
Explore Shared Value
The Shared Value Initiative believes in the transformative power of business to effect social change at scale and enhance competitive advantage.
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Shared Value Readiness Assessment
This assessment is designed to gauge how prepared your organization or team is for shared value planning or implementation.
The Ecosystem of Shared Value
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