[2][3] Under the technical guidance of Professors Michael Porter from Harvard Business School and Scott Stern from MIT, the group formed a US-based nonprofit called the Social Progress Imperative[4] and launched a beta version of the Social Progress Index for 50 countries in 2013 to measure a comprehensive array of components of social and environmental performance and aggregate them into an overall framework.
[6][full citation needed] On July 11, 2013, Social Progress Imperative's chairman and professor at Harvard Business School, Michael Porter, addressed the United Nations 6th Ministerial Forum for Development and discussed the Social Progress Index.
[9] Fundación Paraguaya has integrated elements of the Social Progress Index into its Poverty Stoplight tool.
[13][14] Michael E Porter of Harvard Business School is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Social Progress Imperative.
Other members of its board include Judith Roden of the Rockefeller Foundation and Matthew Bishop of The Economist magazine.