Business for Good,
Good for Business

Mutual Value Labs equips companies to drive superior value creation through the Economics of Mutuality operating model. Our digitally enabled consulting capabilities, proprietary tools, and leadership development programs empower you to enhance business performance by profitably addressing societal and environmental challenges.

OUR APPROACH

A Better Way of Seeing and Doing Business

The Economics of Mutuality is a proven operating model that drives superior value creation through impact-led management practices.

Powered by digital tools, it equips companies to generate enduring mutual value for the benefit of multiple stakeholders by addressing complex societal and environmental challenges.

Practical and scalable, the model enhances business performance by embedding purpose-driven strategies and metrics into day-to-day operations.

OUR APPROACH

A Flywheel for Superior Value Creation

With support from our consultants, you can implement the Economics of Mutuality operating model in your company, applying one or more of its four domains to deliver optimal results.

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From Idea to Impact

The Economics of Mutuality operating model emerged from a multi-year business innovation program developed by Mars that engaged a range of cross-sector partners including Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. The program delivered proof of concept practical application across business units, sectors, and markets along with teaching curricula and case studies.

The team behind the program spun out of Mars in 2020 to advance and implement the operating model more widely. Under the independent brand of the Economics of Mutuality Alliance, a partnership of two non-profits and two for-profits, they now collaborate with companies, investors, universities, and NGOs around the world to serve the common good.

The Economics of Mutuality shows us that we can do well and we can do good at the same time. The myth that ‘for us to win, someone else needs to lose’ must be busted."

Nuno Gonçalves
VP of Talent Management & Executive Development, Nike

Driven by the Economics of Mutuality model, Royal Canin has become the sector’s most valuable brand and the most successful Mars Incorporated business, tallying 20 years of double-digit revenue growth.”

Loïc Moutault
Global President of Petcare, Mars Incorporated.

The Economics of Mutuality has the potential to be a game changer in encouraging companies to optimize their cost of capital by lowering operational beta (via a more robust supply chain) and also raising the headroom for long-term growth."

Timothy Wong
Global Head of Group Strategy and Group Research, DBS Bank

OUR APPROACH

Thriving Business

An opportunity, not an obligation, the Economics of Mutuality hardwires mutuality into your day-to-day operations, leveraging the typically untapped value of Social, Human, and Natural capital.

strategic

Organizational alignment enables strategic transformation and innovation

organizational

Motivated, engaged colleagues are more productive and more loyal

reputational

Respected and trusted brands create preference and build intangible value

financial

Efficiency savings, risk reduction, and sustained growth enhance profitability

social and environmental

Healthier, flourishing communities and positive environmental impact ensure all thrive

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Flourishing Society

You no longer have to choose between building a thriving business and contributing to a flourishing society. The Economics of Mutuality is an engine of transformation that equips you to do both without having to trade returns for impact.

Creating value for your stakeholders and your shareholders doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive. It can be mutually beneficial.

Everyone wins when you address the problems of people, place, and planet… profitably.

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For Good Companies

Mutual Value Labs is a forward-facing management consulting firm owned by the non-profit Economics of Mutuality Foundation.

By equipping companies to embed the Economics of Mutuality operating model, we enable them to identify and meaningfully address societal problems… profitably and at scale. This supports agile business transformation, creates innovation opportunities, and delivers growth.

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What We Bring

We serve and support a range of companies, primarily business units within multinationals and SMEs. Working alongside front-line leaders, we adapt our services to each client’s unique context and requirements.

Our capabilities include:

Using digital tools to conduct and analyze research across business ecosystems
Identifying impact-led value creation opportunities that can drive performance
Mitigating risks that could become an invisible drag on both the top and bottom line
Developing leadership capabilities based on the principle of mutuality
Educating and certifying Economics of Mutuality practitioners

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Purpose Into Practice

An increasing proportion of companies want to be purpose-driven because they appreciate that delivering a higher corporate purpose can add meaning to their brand, create value for their stakeholders, and give rise to a more motivated and engaged workforce.

But many don’t know how to get from a lofty statement to practical implementation – to shift from staring into the ‘light of purpose’ to using it as a means of illuminating problems.

We help clients put purpose into practice by locating the challenge within their ecosystem that represents the best opportunity for growth and impact – the place where combined resources meet collective demand.

Let’s Discuss

If you’d like to explore how the Economics of Mutuality could drive transformation in your context, just reach out. We'd be delighted to start a conversation.

The idea of tracking the four types of capital — instead of just what everyone else seems to track: financial capital — and then to have rigorous, field-tested measurements that capture most of the value generated by the other three, is ingenious."

David Gardner
Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, The Motley Fool

The Economics of Mutuality has enabled me to see the capabilities my business has to engage with partners to bring profitable solutions to the problems of people and planet."

Mandikova Drahomira
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Asahi

The Economics of Mutuality offers freedom to realize optimal, sustainable success for business, its people, and the communities they operate in, as well as our planet."

Lim Siong Guan
Former Group President of GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund

Our Organization

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A partnership of two non-profits and two for-profits, the Economics of Mutuality Alliance works across the world to advance stakeholder capitalism through the Economics of Mutuality operating model.