Creating shared value
A series exploring the opportunities, challenges and advantages of creating shared value, focusing on how a company can address a societal challenge while enhancing its profitability
Shared value: the questions investors need to ask companies
By asking the right questions, investors can factor shared value into decisions in a way that supports the financial bottom line, as well as benefiting society
The business of women and children's health
New innovative partnerships with the private sector are key to meeting the UN's millennium development goals
Sustainability fatigue: could healthy competition be the cure?
A bit of healthy competition among companies could help ease the fatigue and create a sense of urgency, says Dane Smith
Measuring the impact of shared value
To maximise shared value, companies should examine how long-term competitiveness can also help address critical social problems
Shared Value: how corporations profit from solving social problems
Shared Value is a corporate strategy, to fulfill it's systemic mandate sustainability needs more than business on side, argues Mark Kramer
Sustainability should not be consigned to history by Shared Value
If Shared Value is to offer real, long term transformation it must address the flaws of capitalism, look beyond incrementalism and not just align commercial and societal goals, says John Elkington
Transformational change doesn't have to come from new ideas
Scratchcards to check for counterfeit prescription drugs show how successful ideas in one industry can be used to solve huge problems in others, argues Geoff Kendall
GSK Medicine Bank: creating shared value in Thailand
The company's partnership with NGOs is improving access to medicine and saving lives in deprived areas of the country
Better ways of doing business: Creating Shared Value
Mark Kramer explains how CSV goes beyond sustainability by using business resources to drive social progress, profitably
Healthy competition can save lives through shared value
In our series on Creating Shared Value, Kyle Peterson explores how global healthcare companies are adapting to meet the needs of the developing world while turning a healthy profit
Latin America leads the way in creating shared value
Time and time again companies have found that the 'shared value' approach increases competitiveness, says Dane Smith
Indian companies' embrace of shared value project will boost inclusivity
Shared value projects will become an important milestone in the advancement of CSR, says Lalitha Vaidyanathan
How global healthcare firms are finding new ways to create shared value
Mark Kramer: Companies that once avoided responsibility for the fate of poor populations are now embracing the chance to serve them
