Mark Kramer

Business Strategy & Social Impact Authority; Co-Founder of FSG; Co-Creator of Creating Shared Value; Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School

San Francisco, CA, USA
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Business, Business Consulting, Business Leadership, Civil Rights, Corporate Strategy, Disruptive Thinking, Economy, Entrepreneurship, Environment, ESG, Ethics & Integrity, Finance, Futurism, Health & Wellness, Healthcare, Innovation, Inspirational, Nutrition, Science, Social Activism, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Justice, Strategic Leadership, Sustainability, Thought Leadership, World Affairs
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Mark Kramer Biography

Mark R. Kramer is an authority on business strategies for social impact and a leading thinker in the evolution of corporate, foundation, and nonprofit roles in society. Kramer co-founded FSG with Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter, establishing it as a global social impact consulting firm with offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. FSG develops social impact strategies for major foundations, corporations, and nonprofit organizations, with clients including Walmart, Target, Google, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Kramer is recognized as the co-creator of the Creating Shared Value concept and co-author of three significant publications: the Harvard Business Review article "Creating Shared Value" and the Stanford Social Innovation Review articles "Collective Impact" and "Catalytic Philanthropy." A two-time McKinsey Award winner, his work has influenced how investors and business leaders approach the relationship between corporate performance and social good, advancing the conversation beyond traditional ESG reporting to emphasize competitive advantage in addressing societal challenges. FSG also operates the Shared Value Initiative and the Collective Impact Forum, two communities of practice that originated from his work.

Kramer serves as a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's CSR Initiative of the Center for Business and Government and has held positions as a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and visiting lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide and publishes regularly in Harvard Business Review and Stanford Social Innovation Review. His work has been cited by Financial Times, The Economist, and NPR, establishing his position as a thought leader on the intersection of business strategy and social responsibility.

In addition to his work at FSG, Kramer co-founded the Center for Effective Philanthropy, a nonprofit focused on improving foundation performance, and has served as a director of the World Benchmarking Alliance, which tracks corporate progress on sustainable development goals. He has participated on the jury of the CECP's Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award, the planning committee for the Clinton Global Initiative, and the Creating Shared Value Advisory Board at Nestlé. Kramer is also a co-founder and director of Maternal Newborn Health Innovations and a partner in the impact investing fund Congruence Capital.

Prior to his work in social impact consulting, Kramer served as president of Kramer Capital Management, a venture capital firm, and as an associate at the law firm Ropes & Gray. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brandeis University, an MBA from The Wharton School, and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an articles editor on the Law Review and received the Order of the Coif and the Gemmill Prize in Tax Research. Kramer's multidisciplinary background in law, finance, and strategy informs his perspective on purpose-driven business and social impact.

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Mark Kramer Speaking Topics

  • Impact Investing

    Philanthropy has fundamentally changed in the last decade from generating headlines about generosity to an explicit focus on results. We’re asking not “How much money was given?” but “What did the money accomplish?” More than ever, investors and entrepreneurs are deploying capital in solutions designed to generate a positive social or environmental impact, while also having the potential for a financial return – rejecting the notion that they must choose between making a profit and contributing to a good cause. Mark Kramer shares his views on the promise and challenges of impact investing, and explores the emerging and expanding “tool kit” supporting and driving its growth, from new financial tools to better metrics for social impact to new impact investing funds. He also discusses the various impact investment opportunities – found in any country, across all asset classes, and at many different levels of risk and return: backing local social entrepreneurs, capitalizing microfinance providers, pooling funds to finance construction of charter schools, or developing better delivery channels for medical technologies.

  • Do More than Give: How to Solve Social Problems While Making Money

    Despite spending vast amounts of money and helping to create the world’s largest nonprofit sector, U.S. philanthropists have fallen short of solving America’s most pressing problems. What the nation needs, argues Mark Kramer, is “catalytic philanthropy”— individuals igniting social change around a specific issue through more strategic giving. Pointing to several examples of the approach in practice by some of the world’s most innovative donors, he examines how it helps catalyze social change and discusses four distinct reasons why catalytic philanthropists are so effective: 1. They have the ambition to change the world and the courage to accept responsibility for achieving the results they seek; 2. They engage others in a compelling campaign, empowering stakeholders and creating the conditions for collaboration and innovation; 3. They use all of the tools that are available to create change, including unconventional ones from outside the nonprofit sector, and 4. They create actionable knowledge to improve their own effectiveness and to influence the behavior of others.

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Mark Kramer Videos

Mark Kramer - 2018 Africa Shared Value Summit Keynote Address

Mark Kramer - 2018 Africa Shared Value Summit Keynote Address

Mark Kramer, economist, Co-Founder & Managing Director at FSG and co-creator of the Shared Value business model, spoke on the first day of the 2018...

Mark Kramer: The Importance of Creating Shared Value - YouTube

Mark Kramer: The Importance of Creating Shared Value - YouTube

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Mark Kramer is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Impact Investing, Do More than Give: How to Solve Social Problems While Making Money and Creating Shared Value: Redefining the Role of Business in Society . The estimated speaking fee range to book Mark Kramer for your event is $30,000 - $50,000. Mark Kramer generally travels from San Francisco, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Ray Kurzweil, An Phung, Calvin Trillin, Jeffrey Israel and Seth Berkley. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Mark Kramer for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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