Mark R. Kramer is a Venture Partner in the Sustainability Practice of RIDGE-LANE LP.

Mr. Kramer co-founded the social impact consulting firm FSG with Professor Michael Porter and serves as a Managing Director responsible for leading three areas of practice: the Shared Value Initiative, the Collective Impact Forum and Talent Rewire.

Previously, he served as President of the venture capital and private equity firm Kramer Capital Management and as an Associate at the law firm of Ropes & Gray.

He is a leading researcher, writer, speaker and consultant on strategies for social impact, best known as the co-author of seminal articles on Creating Shared Value in Harvard Business Review and Collective Impact in Stanford Social Innovation Review. He has also written extensively on impact investing, systems change, and strategic evaluation.  His most recent research is on moving beyond ESG by communicating the economic value of corporate social impact to investors.

Mr. Kramer is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, a member of the Aspen Philanthropy Group, a member of the Supervisory Board of the World Benchmarking Alliance, and serves on sustainability advisory boards for Nestle and Kimberly-Clark.

He holds a BA from Brandeis University, a MBA from The Wharton School, and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.