People

 


 

Mark Kramer



Founder and Managing Director
mark.kramer@fsg-impact.org

Mark oversees FSG's consulting practice and action initiatives. He also serves as a Senior Fellow in the CSR Initiative of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business in Government at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Mark is a founder and served as initial Board Chair from 2000 to 2004 of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, a nonprofit research organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mark has spoken and published extensively on topics in philanthropy and Corporate Social Responsibility, including strategy, evaluation, leadership, social entrepreneurship, community foundations, venture philanthropy, cross-sector collaboration, and social investment. He is co-author with Professor Michael E. Porter of several influential Harvard Business Review articles, has published extensively in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and is a regular contributor to The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Prior to founding FSG, Mark served for twelve years as President of Kramer Capital Management, a venture capital firm, and before that as an Associate at the law firm of Ropes & Gray in Boston. He received a B.A. summa cum laude from Brandeis University, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, and a J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
 

REPRESENTATIVE Clients

California HealthCare Foundation

The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP)

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

Marin Community Foundation

Nestlé

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

 

Ideas

Strategy & Society
CSR as the new frontier of the competitive advantage, HBR

Catalytic Philanthropy
Measureable impact, meaningful change SSIR Fall 09

Trustee Evaluation Toolkit
New ideas and resources for effective evaluation

Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement
Innovations in performance & impact measurement


Speaking Engagements

Global Philanthropy Forum Conference
Next Generation Philanthropy – Strategy & Innovation

Aspen Institute Philanthropy Seminar
What Strategy Fits

Entrepreneur's Foundation of Central Texas
Strategy & Society