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Collaborating for the Common Good
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleCollaboration among competitors is an unnatural act, but sometimes it's the best way to reduce costs, leverage strength, accelerate scale, or amplify... -
Dancing into a Turnaround
How to successfully manage finances, especially in a creative organization? Keep momentum, adhere to benchmarks, and don't neglect reporting. -
Lead from the Heart
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe president and CEO of the American Red Cross talks about changing its organizational structure, making processes more collaborative, and learning the... -
What Executives Should Remember
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn more than 30 essays for Harvard Business Review, Peter Drucker (1909-2005) urged readers to take on the hard work of thinking--always combined, he... -
How Philanthropists Can Diversify Their Grantmaking Portfolios
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleIt's about creating a balance of grant types, categorized by operations, growth, and risk. -
How Smart Tech Is Transforming Nonprofits
Digital transformation Digital ArticleAutomation and AI can free up staff in fundraising, communications, finance, and service delivery efforts. -
OpenAI’s Failed Experiment in Governance
Corporate governance Digital ArticleIn mixing the for-profit and nonprofit models, OpenAI hoped for the best of both worlds. Instead, it got the worst. -
Luxury Branding Below the Radar
Sales & Marketing Magazine Article"Inconspicuous consumption"--elite consumers' affinity for discreet rather than traditionally branded luxuries--has become a global phenomenon. Work by... -
What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential
Global Business Digital ArticleCentral coordination. -
An Apollo Program for American Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's time. -
Should Your Nonprofit Charge Its Beneficiaries?
Nonprofit organizations Magazine ArticleNominal fees can help organizations have a greater impact. -
Fulfill the Dream of Leading a Nonprofit
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThinking of a second career in the social sector? You're not alone. And your current employer would be wise to help you train for it. -
AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAfter the Great Recession, the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, needed to compete even harder for every dollar. Arthur C. Brooks... -
Persuade Past Resisters
Communication VideoDon't be discouraged if your audience is resistant to your ideas. Identify and address these objections head-on. -
A New Approach to Funding Social Enterprises
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleAn increasing number of social entrepreneurs and investors are realizing that social enterprises of all sorts, including many organizations regarded as... -
Lofty Missions, Down-to-Earth Plans
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost nonprofits make program decisions based on a mission rather than a strategy. They rally under the banner of a particular cause. And because their... -
Nonprofit Sector's $100 Billion Opportunity
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleImagine what an extra $100 billion a year could do for philanthropic and other nonprofit institutions. According to a new study, the nonprofit sector... -
Working on Nonprofit Boards: Don't Assume the Shoe Fits
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleContrary to popular perception, business people can be benevolent. For instance, one recent study notes that four-fifths of all Harvard Business School... -
Life's Work: Salman Khan
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn interview with the pathbreaking online educator Salman Khan.
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Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The B case documents the development of a strategy to achieve system-level impact in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape for a nonprofit focused on... -
Artesanías de Colombia
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Upon becoming General Manager of Artesanías de Colombia (AC) in January 2007, Paola Muñoz faced the challenge of redefining the organization's strategy.... -
Residential Child-Services Facility (A): A CEO'S Effort to Preserve Morale
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details In 2013, the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the Christian Children's Home of Florida (CCHF), a well-established, faith-based residential care facility... -
New Leaders for New Schools
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the founding, early growth, and expansion plans of New Leaders for New Schools, a nonprofit public education venture that recruits, trains,... -
Nehemiah Strategy: Bringing It to Boston (Multimedia Case)
Strategy & Execution Tool25.00View Details In 2003, Lee Stuart was working with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization to implement an affordable housing initiative in Boston. She and her colleagues... -
Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details A nonprofit in the healthcare arena explores strategies to achieve system-level impact. Founded in 1996 with a volunteer-staffed help desk at Boston Medical... -
Orchid Species Preservation Foundation: Choosing a Direction
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Orchid Species Preservation Foundation (OSPF) was a not-for-profit organization in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was dedicated to the preservation... -
SNA Educa (ex Codesser)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details SNA Educa (previously known as Codesser) is a non-profit organization which was created by the National Association of Farmers (Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura,... -
Trafalgar Bridge
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In the spring of 2004, an engineering inspection revealed that a 100-year-old historic bridge had serious maintenance problems. Several options were considered... -
Uncommon Schools (A): A Network of Networks
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case StudyIn 2013, Brett Peiser, CEO of the charter school management organization (CMO) Uncommon Schools, is reassessing the non-profit's strategy. For nearly... -
Brummer and the bracNet Investment
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details bracNet, a for-profit/nonprofit partnership, aims to establish Internet connectivity throughout Bangladesh. Venture capitalist Patrik Brummer invested... -
Akshaya Patra: Impact at Scale
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study15.05View Details Akshaya Patra, an Indian NGO, had set an ambitious goal of serving 5 million free meals daily to India's schoolchildren. Founded in 2000, Akshaya Patra... -
Too Many Parents? Part A: Governance of Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case study examines-through the lens of governance structure-the evolution of the Central Artery (or "Big Dig") in Boston, a public works project... -
AIME High: A Social Entrepreneur's Moon Shot
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the entrepreneurial leadership of Jack Manning Bancroft (JMB), a young Australian Indigenous university student who created the Australian Indigenous... -
Kwame Owusu-Kesse at the Harlem Children's Zone
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Do you-as leader, an individual within an organization, or running your own business-know when to say yes and when to say no? How do you make decisions... -
Social Finance, Inc.
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Scaling Social Enterprises: The Case of ENVIE and ACTIF in France (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details ENVIE and ACTIF are two French social enterprises that aim at creating employment opportunities for long-term unemployed people through refurbishing and... -
Uncommon Schools (B): Seeking Excellence at Scale through Standardized Practice
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case StudyIn 2013, Brett Peiser, CEO of the charter school management organization (CMO) Uncommon Schools, is reassessing the non-profit's strategy. For nearly... -
The Ethos Institute (B): Promises and Risks of Working with the Government
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details As Brazil's energetic but fractious democracy emerged in the 1990s, the Ethos Institute launched a movement for corporate social responsibility (CSR)... -
Uptown Cigarette
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details To recapture lost market share, tobacco giant R. J. Reynolds (RJR) developed Uptown, the first cigarette brand created and targeted specifically at a...
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Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The B case documents the development of a strategy to achieve system-level impact in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape for a nonprofit focused on... -
Artesanías de Colombia
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Upon becoming General Manager of Artesanías de Colombia (AC) in January 2007, Paola Muñoz faced the challenge of redefining the organization's strategy.... -
Residential Child-Services Facility (A): A CEO'S Effort to Preserve Morale
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details In 2013, the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the Christian Children's Home of Florida (CCHF), a well-established, faith-based residential care facility... -
New Leaders for New Schools
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the founding, early growth, and expansion plans of New Leaders for New Schools, a nonprofit public education venture that recruits, trains,... -
Nehemiah Strategy: Bringing It to Boston (Multimedia Case)
Strategy & Execution Tool25.00View Details In 2003, Lee Stuart was working with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization to implement an affordable housing initiative in Boston. She and her colleagues... -
Collaborating for the Common Good
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleCollaboration among competitors is an unnatural act, but sometimes it's the best way to reduce costs, leverage strength, accelerate scale, or amplify... -
Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details A nonprofit in the healthcare arena explores strategies to achieve system-level impact. Founded in 1996 with a volunteer-staffed help desk at Boston Medical... -
Orchid Species Preservation Foundation: Choosing a Direction
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Orchid Species Preservation Foundation (OSPF) was a not-for-profit organization in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was dedicated to the preservation... -
Acumen Fund and Embrace: From the Leading Edge of Social Venture Investing, Teaching Note
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SNA Educa (ex Codesser)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details SNA Educa (previously known as Codesser) is a non-profit organization which was created by the National Association of Farmers (Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura,...