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Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility"... -
Succeeding at the "Social" Part of ESG
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFive lessons from a survey of more than 600 companies. -
Sharing Data Is a Form of Corporate Philanthropy
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleAcademics, government, and civic groups can all benefit from greater access. -
Philanthropy’s New Agenda: Creating Value
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleSatisfied with doing good, too few foundations work strategically to do better. -
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. -
The Problem with "Color-Blind" Philanthropy
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYou simply can't ignore the implications of race. -
Multiplication Philanthropy
Philanthropy Digital ArticleLeverage is the mantra of the times in philanthropy, and rightly so. People want to know that the charities they support are using donations as effectively as possible. Donors and institutional funders are more demanding, more discerning, and less detached. They’re no longer content with writing a check and securing their place in heaven. They […] -
How a New Generation of Business Leaders Views Philanthropy
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleThey’re taking multiple routes to social good. -
Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility"... -
Galvanizing Philanthropy
Organizational Development Magazine ArticlePhilanthropic organizations, exempt from the accountability imposed on business by markets or on government by voters, are free to experiment and take... -
An Apollo Program for American Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's time. -
How Wise Crowds Can Advance Philanthropy
Marketing Magazine ArticleMidsize nonprofits in the United States offer some of the most innovative solutions to our most pressing problems, but they are starved for growth funding because no efficient market mechanism exists to guide capital to them. In the absence of reliable information about the relative performance of nonprofits, billions of philanthropic dollars annually are distributed […] -
A Case Study in Strategic Philanthropy
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleSeven years ago, Bank of America launched Neighborhood Builders®, a program that provides grants and, more importantly, leadership training to managers of “high-potential” non-profit organizations in the communities where the bank does business. The rationale was straight-forward: thriving neighborhood groups create more vibrant places to live and work, which translates into a better environment for […] -
Q & A: Jane Wales on Global Philanthropy
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleThis week in Washington: the eighth annual Global Philanthropy Forum. Jane Wales is co-founder of the forum, the director of the Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation at the Aspen Institute, and the host of the nationally syndicated radio show It’s Your World on NPR. The Philanthropy Forum brings together influential individuals interested in enabling […] -
Why Shuttering AmazonSmile Was a Mistake
Organizational Development Digital ArticleResearch shows that the charitable benefits of such "giving-by-proxy" programs can extend beyond their direct impact. -
New Corporate Philanthropy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleForced to explain why businesses should continue to give money away while laying off workers, contributions managers in hundreds of companies have come... -
When Corporate Philanthropy Makes the Recipient Look Bad
Leadership & Managing People ResearchA study of theaters and their artistic reputations. -
Audacious Philanthropy
Organizational Development Magazine ArticlePrivate philanthropists have helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of the past century: Virtually eradicating polio globally.... -
How Texting is Changing Philanthropy
International business Digital ArticleWithin philanthropy circles, one of the major subtexts of the earthquake in Haiti was the phenomenal success of text-message fundraising appeals. Nonprofits are abuzz about it. The Red Cross alone raised more than $30 million via text donations by the middle of February, more than 10% of the total funds raised. This form of communication […] -
A New Type of Philanthropy: Donating Data
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleInformation is a public good.
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ERKE: Consumption Binge Caused by Donations
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Hongxing ERKE Industrial Co., Ltd. (ERKE), founded in 2000, was the first large Chinese sportswear company to list overseas. Despite the difficulties... -
The Incentive for Legacy: Tsinghua University Education Foundation
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Vivian Yuan seeks to bolster the Tsinghua University Education Foundation's fundraising efforts and investment goals in a new era of Chinese higher education.... -
Blue Meridian Partners (B): Pivoting in a Crisis
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details The (B) case situated in 2020 describes the many quick decisions taken by the fund in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the calls for social justice,... -
Ensuring Your Family's Future: The Alagil Family Office
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study15.05View Details Muhammad Alagil was a second-generation leader in the well-known Alagil Family Group of businesses in Saudi Arabia and co-founder and chairman of its... -
The Saboo Foundation Model of Philanthropy: How a Self-Made Man Created Thousands More
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Anand Saboo Foundation (ASF) is a philanthropic organization set up by an industrialist, Anand Saboo, with the aim of transforming poor people into entrepreneurs.... -
Janet Ames (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames... -
Kathy Giusti and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details What do you do when your rising professional career is cut short by an unexpected cancer diagnosis? Kathy Giusti shifted careers, built a new organization... -
Google.org: For-Profit Philanthropy
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Google.org: For-Profit Philanthropy case introduces a distinct social enterprise structure, a combination of a philanthropic division of a for-profit... -
George Soros: The Stateless Statesman
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case traces the business career and philanthropic activities of George Soros. The Hungarian-born Soros made a fortune as a hedge fund investor after... -
Dachser (A): Intelligent Logistics
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The case, based on extensive interviews with top executives and two generations of Dachser family owners, documents the genesis and spectacular growth... -
George Soros: A Life in Full
A compelling new picture of one of the most important, complex, and misunderstood figures of our time. The name George Soros is recognized around the... -
Maria Ahlstrom-Bondestam: Together Everyone Achieves More
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case presents the unique approach to philanthropy of the Ahlstrom family. A group of 25 fifth-generation female Ahlstrom family members founded the... -
Acumen Fund and WaterHealth International: The Role of Venture Philanthropy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Acumen Fund was founded in 2001 to provide modest amounts of capital, together with business expertise, to help build thriving enterprises that would... -
Community Solutions
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Community Solutions was an anti-homelessness nonprofit founded in 2011 after protagonist Rosanne Haggerty grew frustrated with the limited impact of traditional... -
Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: Venture Philanthropy Funding for Biotech
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2001, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated acquired the San Diego-based biotech company, Aurora Biosciences. The combination of Vertex's and Aurora's... -
Social Enterprise Spectrum: Philanthropy to Commerce
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details With the boundaries between philanthropy and commerce blurring, this note briefly gives nonprofit managers and social entrepreneurs a framework (the Social... -
Janet Ames (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames... -
How to Encourage Others to Give and When to Pass the Torch? Insights from The Philanthropy Connection
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case follows the co-founder and president, Marla Felcher, of The Philanthropy Connection (TPC). TPC is a nonprofit organization that centers around... -
Sun Hing: Keeping the Family Together through Philanthropy - an Update in 2020
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for #ST17. -
Friends of the Children: Innovating and Scaling to Meet the Moment(s)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Friends of the Children was founded by Duncan Campbell in 1991. Campbell grew up in extremely challenging circumstances and wanted to use his good fortune...
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Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility"... -
Succeeding at the "Social" Part of ESG
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFive lessons from a survey of more than 600 companies. -
ERKE: Consumption Binge Caused by Donations
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Hongxing ERKE Industrial Co., Ltd. (ERKE), founded in 2000, was the first large Chinese sportswear company to list overseas. Despite the difficulties... -
The Incentive for Legacy: Tsinghua University Education Foundation
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Vivian Yuan seeks to bolster the Tsinghua University Education Foundation's fundraising efforts and investment goals in a new era of Chinese higher education.... -
Blue Meridian Partners (B): Pivoting in a Crisis
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details The (B) case situated in 2020 describes the many quick decisions taken by the fund in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the calls for social justice,... -
Ensuring Your Family's Future: The Alagil Family Office
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study15.05View Details Muhammad Alagil was a second-generation leader in the well-known Alagil Family Group of businesses in Saudi Arabia and co-founder and chairman of its... -
Sharing Data Is a Form of Corporate Philanthropy
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleAcademics, government, and civic groups can all benefit from greater access. -
Philanthropy’s New Agenda: Creating Value
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleSatisfied with doing good, too few foundations work strategically to do better. -
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. -
The Saboo Foundation Model of Philanthropy: How a Self-Made Man Created Thousands More
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Anand Saboo Foundation (ASF) is a philanthropic organization set up by an industrialist, Anand Saboo, with the aim of transforming poor people into entrepreneurs....