Work with a Company

Develop collaboration with a business around shared challenges, capabilities, innovation, learning, or public value.

Your Pathway

1. Understand → 2. Identify Value → 3. Connect → 4. Explore → 5. Design → 6. Agree → 7. Activate

1. Understand

Learn about the company, industry, strategy, operating environment, social impact, and relevant challenges.

Look beyond its CSR program.

You're done when: You understand the organization well enough to identify substantive areas of potential collaboration.

2. Identify Value

Ask where ASG's capabilities intersect with real business or societal challenges.

Potential areas could include:

• executive learning

• research

• innovation

• climate and sustainability

• workforce development

• social investment

• government collaboration

• community engagement

You're done when: There is a plausible value proposition for both sides.

3. Connect

Identify the appropriate champions and decision makers.

Different opportunities may sit with strategy, sustainability, HR, corporate affairs, innovation, foundations, or senior management.

You're done when: The conversation includes people capable of moving the opportunity forward.

4. Explore

Understand the challenge together before proposing a solution.

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You're done when: Both sides see a potentially valuable area for collaboration.

5. Design

Develop the collaboration.

Possible pathways include:

[Start a Course] [Start Research] [Start a Design Project] [Start a Fellowship] [Start a Project]

You're done when: The proposed collaboration is concrete enough to evaluate.

6. Agree

Clarify scope, resources, responsibilities, intellectual property where relevant, communications, timelines, and expected outcomes.

You're done when: Both sides understand the arrangement.

7. Activate

Move into real work.

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