The Aspen Corporate Values Strategy Group (CVSG)  seeks to re-introduce long-term bias in corporate and investment decision-making.  CVSG is a forum for corporations and institutional investors to identify and promote changes in policy, business practice, and investment practice for long-term competitiveness. "Long-term competitiveness" includes the critical issues of managing to differing time frames, focusing on forward-looking, strategic metrics as indications of corporate health, and restoring trust in U.S. business.  The Aspen CVSG hosted a series of intense dialogues in the first half of 2007 that culminated in the publication of the Aspen Principles for Long-Term Value Creation in June. To learn more about CVSG, please contact rebecca.darr@aspeninstitute.org.

First Movers: When business managers and leaders with the right combination of courage and vision leverage business know-how and capacity in pursuit of solutions to our most complex global challenges, extraordinary things can happen.  Achieving positive, systemic change depends on better understanding how social innovation takes root in businesses.  In Nov. 2006, First Movers: Next Steps - Learning Together about Leading Innovation took place in Chicago, bringing together business executives and learning professionals to mine the best stories and examples of business-led social innovation.  Based on these discussions and a Planning Meeting held in New York December 2007, Aspen BSP is now designing a fellowship program for exceptional innovators in business who help their firms achieve financial success and contribute to collective well-being.  To learn more about this program, please contact nancy.mcgaw@aspeninst.org