Creating Shared Value (Porter & Kramer, HBR 2011)

TL;DR — The Harvard Business Review article that introduced “shared value”.

How much weight it carries: A widely cited management article by two well-known authors. It is an argument with illustrative company examples, not an empirical study.

What is in it

Harvard Business Review, January–February 2011: “The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value. How to reinvent capitalism—and unleash a wave of innovation and growth”. Only the first page was read for this card. The article is in copyright and paywalled; the link goes to the publisher’s page.

Where this came from

• https://hbr.org/2011/01/the-big-idea-creating-shared-value — Harvard Business Review’s own page for the article (paywalled). Checked 2026-10-12.

Connections

• Michael Porter
• Walmart