Meghan Ennes

Community Coordinator at Shared Value Initiative, FSG

United States of America

Writer, editor, and content strategist with experience planning campaigns for online audiences and functional expertise in blogging and website management. Diverse background in multiple industries, including publishing & media, consulting, nonprofits, and financial services.

Portfolio
Shared Value Initiative
06/21/2016
Changing the World by Changing Business

Three reasons why your company should aim to tackle social issues. While the Great Recession put a dent in the public's trust in corporations, faith in business is now gradually on the rise. According to the 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer, no other institution recorded a larger gain in trust among the general population last year. In the same survey, 80% of respondents agreed companies should take the lead on solving the world’s most pressing social problems.

Shared Value Initiative
06/06/2016
5 Companies Finding Purpose in Solving Global Challenges

How Coca-Cola, Mahindra, and more are redefining business success as delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals. From last year's Paris Climate Talks to the UN's newly announced 2030 Agenda, the world is coming together on urgent issues like climate change and global health crises - and no matter the sector in which you find yourself, these issues affect all of our futures.

Shared Value Initiative
03/31/2016
3 New Leaders Who Are Living Shared Value

Who are the up-and-coming business leaders making real social impact? At the Shared Value Leadership Summit this May, you'll hear from established leaders in the business-in-society space-from the President of the World Bank to business unit heads at CVS and Mastercard.

Shared Value Initiative
02/02/2016
Shared Value: How Davos leaders will translate ideas into action

Business leaders are starting to see the value in addressing global challenges-and not just for PR reasons. We're talking tangible revenue in new markets, customers, and innovation. At last month's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, CEOs across the board discussed how their companies should take more responsibility for the greater good.

Shared Value Initiative
07/21/2015
The Unexpected Market Potential in the SDGs

How more companies are moving to cash in on the UN sustainable development goals. In September, UN member states will adopt 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the next 15 years - including ambitious targets to end world poverty, achieve gender equality, and combat climate change.

Shared Value Initiative
06/24/2015
Get Ready for the Hybrid Organization

A new kind of company is bridging the goals of business and society - and taking the corporate world by storm. (Photo by Unsplash) The most recent issue of California Management Review is cover-to-cover about hybrid organizations. What are they, and how do they create shared value?

Corporate Eco Forum
04/05/2015
Saving Water as a Business Imperative

Ghostwritten by Meghan Ennes | By Justin Bakule, Executive Director, Shared Value Initiative Our water supply is depleting. In the next ten years, two-thirds of the world's population may face water shortages. And more and more we're finding that it's not big technological innovation that will save us from running out - it's pricing.

Shared Value Initiative
12/11/2014
At CJ Group, Social Good Is Good Business

Korea's largest food maker, CJ Group, made history last week when it became the first Korean winner of the CSV Porter Prize. Prof. Michael Porter himself presented the award to CJ Group vice chairman Lee Chae-wook, whose company has integrated shared value into its core business model with dedicated staff and several successful projects.

Shared Value Initiative
10/24/2014
New Research: What Could Win Over Your Boss on Sustainability

Managers know that responsible business practices that benefit the environment and society as a whole will eventually help them financially in the long run. So why is it still so hard to convince corporate leaders of socially-conscious strategies?

Shared Value Initiative
08/22/2014
Building a Sustainable Supply Chain for a Remote Island Paradise

This is Miches. The small town is located in the northeast region of the Dominican Republic-beautiful, lush, nearly inaccessible; the kind of place where the rich and famous would spend a luxurious holiday. "It's kind of a paradise," says Sofia Perazzo, executive director of Fundacion Tropicalia, part of the sustainable tourism / real estate venture Tropicalia based in Miches.

Shared Value Initiative
07/21/2014
How Goodwill's New Donation Bin Will Cut Waste and Boost Business

The mantra of Goodwill Industries is to offer "a hand up, not a handout." And the Goodwill chapter of San Francisco, San Mateo & Marin counties-one of 165 independently-run branches of the nonprofit-is embodying that mantra in a new product concept called the goBIN.

Shared Value Initiative
07/07/2014
Novo Nordisk's Journey to Shared Value

Even after two decades of diabetes work in China, Novo Nordisk is still learning new lessons. Last week I spoke with Ole Kjerkegaard Nielsen, who runs their Blueprint for Change program and recently summarized Novo's experience (and results) in China here on sharedvalue.org.

Harvard Business Review
10/18/2013
How "Dilbert" Practically Wrote Itself

To mark his contribution to the hallowed halls of management comedy, we profiled Dilbert creator, Scott Adams, in the November 2013 issue of HBR. He was kind enough to lend us his 550-page tome Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert, where he reveals that more than a handful of the comics documented in his legendary workplace strip actually came straight – sometimes verbatim – from his readers’ work-lives, and his own.

Harvard Business Review
11/01/2011
It's Hard to Be Good

On the following pages, HBR profiles five "good" companies that do more than just pay lip service to community engagement, labor relations, environmental protection, corporate governance, and supply chain accountability. Neither our editors nor the academics we consulted have voted them the world's most socially responsible corporations.

Business Insider
05/26/2011
Most Companies Are Still Clueless About Social Media

Social media has arrived, but companies still aren't sure what to do with it. Fifty-eight percent of companies are currently engaged in social networks like Facebook, microblogs like Twitter, and sharing multimedia on platforms such as YouTube - but research from the Harvard Business Review Analytics Services report " The New Conversation: Taking Social Media from Talk to Action" [Report PDF; sponsored by SAS] finds that much of the investment in social is future-oriented.