Mark Kramer co-founded FSG with Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter in 1999. He co-authored the Harvard Business Review seminal article “Creating Shared Value” and Stanford Social Innovation Review seminal articles “Collective Impact” and “Catalytic Philanthropy.”
Mark is a senior fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a former senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and visiting lecturer at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley. He is also a cofounder and director of Maternal Newborn Health Innovations and a partner in the impact investing fund Congruence Capital. Mark has served as a Director of the World Benchmarking Alliance, on the jury of the CECP’s Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award, on the planning committee for the Clinton Global Initiative, and on the Aspen Philanthropy Group. He is also a member of the Creating Shared Value Advisory Board at Nestle. Mark can be reached at Mark@Kramer.Capital.
Prior to founding FSG, Mark served as president of Kramer Capital Management and as an associate at the law firm of Ropes & Gray. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Brandeis University and holds a Master’s of Business Administration from The Wharton School and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
