Corporate Social Responsibility

Guided by FSG’s co-founder and Senior Advisor Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School, FSG has worked with dozens of corporations to build competitive advantage and social value through innovative corporate social responsibility practices and corporate philanthropy.

FSG’s staff, experienced in corporate planning, social sector strategy, and evaluation, works with corporate professionals to integrate business interests and social needs — often bridging the agendas of corporate executives and those of the CSR and philanthropic staff.

Instead of calling on generic and unfocused standards for corporate responsibility, FSG takes an individualized, company-specific approach. FSG experts will map out your company’s value chain to understand how your business activities impact society while factoring in the surrounding social factors that can influence your company’s ability to improve productivity and execute strategy. After analyzing relevant societal needs, FSG experts apply their social sector experience and the same frameworks that guide a company’s core business to develop a proactive corporate social agenda for the company.

EXPERTISE

FSG offers the following services for corporations:

• Shared Value Strategy - integrating social dimensions into competitive strategy
• Philanthropic Initiative Design
• Identifying New Business Opportunities that Meet Social Needs
• Evaluation of Corporate and Societal Impact

EMERGING ISSUES

• Society’s Relationship to Corporate Strategy:  Moving past generic CSR principles and integrating social aspects into core business decision-making to gain competitive advantage  Read article>> 
• Cross Sector Partnerships:  How corporations are evolving their role and relationships to nonprofits and government  Read article>>
• Strategic Corporate Philanthropy:  Using philanthropy to invest in “business context”  Read article>>
• Social Investing:  An innovative way to make funding dollars go further  Read Shell study>>