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How Smart Tech Is Transforming Nonprofits
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleAutomation and AI can free up staff in fundraising, communications, finance, and service delivery efforts. -
The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhy is it that effective business start-ups frequently grow into corporate giants, but effective new nonprofits rarely reach national scale? Because,... -
Let's Be Realistic About Measuring Impact
Organizational Development Digital ArticleProving social impact is complicated and expensive. -
Should Nonprofits Seek Profits?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTwenty years ago, it would have been shocking for a children's choir to sell singing telegrams or for an organization serving the homeless to dabble in... -
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... -
Reimagine Your Nonprofit to Survive the Crisis
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFour key areas to focus on: impact, people, finances, and community. -
Should Your Nonprofit Charge Its Beneficiaries?
Nonprofit organizations Magazine ArticleNominal fees can help organizations have a greater impact. -
The Best Advice I Ever Got: Linda Mason
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe chairman and founder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions heeded the wisdom of visionary real estate developer James Rouse: Make your passions central... -
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... -
Life's Work: Salman Khan
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn interview with the pathbreaking online educator Salman Khan. -
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.... -
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... -
How Global Leaders Should Think About Solving Our Biggest Problems
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLooking ahead to Davos. -
Disaster Relief, Inc.
Global Business Magazine ArticleWhen disaster strikes, many corporations respond generously. After the 2004 tsunami, for instance, U.S. firms alone contributed more than half of a billion... -
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... -
Persuade Past Resisters
Communication VideoDon't be discouraged if your audience is resistant to your ideas. Identify and address these objections head-on. -
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... -
Triple-Strength Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleManaging resource constraints, controlling health care costs, training the 21st-century workforce, implementing smart-grid technologies--challenges of... -
Scaling Social Impact: Welcome to the HBR-Bridgespan Group Insight Center
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe traditionally separate domains of for-profit business and mission-driven social organizations are coming together in powerful new ways.
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Note on Pricing in Nonprofit Organizations
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Discuss different approaches to setting prices in a nonprofit organization. Includes a discussion of public and quasi-public goods. -
Knowledge Management at the World Bank
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case traces the history and evolution of Knowledge Management at the World Bank. While primarily a financial institution offering customized loans... -
Burning Man: Moving from a For-Profit to a Nonprofit, the Ultimate Act of Gifting
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case study focuses on Burning Man as an organization, and how its leadership intentionally moved from a for-profit limited liability corporation... -
Issues in Assessing the Impact of Social Investment: The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (A) (Epilogue)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details In the early 1980s, The Ford Foundation, among other funders, help create a new type of organization designed to finance the renewal of older, inner city... -
International Needs Canada: Transforming Child Sponsorship
Management Case Study8.95View Details In January 2022, the leaders of the Canadian charity organization International Needs Canada recognized that individual child sponsorship had serious... -
BeautifulCoffee and Fair Trade: Working with Local Farmer Co-operatives in Nepal
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Not long after John, BeautifulCoffee's (BC) newly appointed producer partnership manager, began his evaluation of the business relationship between BC... -
Goddard Space Flight Center: Building A Learning Organization (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details While reading the Wall Street Journal, Edward Rogers notices an advertisement for a knowledge management architect at the Goddard Space Flight Center... -
MP Maintenance: Developing a Marketing Strategy for a Social Enterprise
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details MP Maintenance was a social enterprise composed of several micro-businesses (landscaping, window cleaning, pressure washing, graffiti removal, litter... -
Daily Table
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Daily Table is a case about a grocery chain with two outposts in Boston neighborhoods Dorchester and Roxbury. Its mission is to provide healthy food at... -
Hamilton: An American Musical
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In July 2013, composer, writer, actor and rapper Lin-Manuel Miranda, director Tommy Kail, and producer Jeffrey Seller met to discuss how to launch Hamilton,... -
Retail Sales of Health Insurance: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The BCBS of Florida is contemplating whether to enter the consumer-driven health care market and if so, whether to target such groups--and individuals--and... -
The American Repertory Theater
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details When Diane Paulus, artistic director and CEO of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T. - also seen spelled as American Repertory Theatre) first started... -
Chinese Children Adoption International: Maintaining Sustainable Development of Non-Profit Agency
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details US-based Chinese Children Adoption International (CCAI), founded in 1992, was the world's largest agency dedicated to providing adoption services to abandoned... -
Ace Social Venture Fund: Estimating Social Value Creation
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The ACE Venture Fund case is a 501(c)3 social venture fund that hopes to invest in projects that help the poor around the world. The donors of the fund,... -
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Paul Nicholson, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) Executive Director, announced that he would retire at the end of the 2012 season, after a 32-year tenure... -
The Avahan India AIDS Initiative: Managing Targeted HIV Prevention at Scale
Technology & Operations Case StudyThis case is the second in a two-part series describing the Avahan Indian AIDS Initiative (Avahan), a large-scale HIV prevention delivery program of the... -
AIESEC in Lebanon: Volunteer Engagement Policies
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details On July 3, 2018, the president of AIESEC in Lebanon was pacing around the lobby of the conference venue before the morning plenary session. As one of... -
Ariadne Labs: Building Impactful Partnerships
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details In September 2018, the executive team at Ariadne Labs (Ariadne), a Boston-based organization dedicated to improving health systems through the discovery...
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How Smart Tech Is Transforming Nonprofits
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleAutomation and AI can free up staff in fundraising, communications, finance, and service delivery efforts. -
Dealing with a Changing Environment: Fundacion Peruana para la Conservacion de la Naturaleza (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTeaching Note for HKS199 and HKS164. -
Note on Pricing in Nonprofit Organizations
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Discuss different approaches to setting prices in a nonprofit organization. Includes a discussion of public and quasi-public goods. -
Knowledge Management at the World Bank
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case traces the history and evolution of Knowledge Management at the World Bank. While primarily a financial institution offering customized loans... -
Burning Man: Moving from a For-Profit to a Nonprofit, the Ultimate Act of Gifting
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case study focuses on Burning Man as an organization, and how its leadership intentionally moved from a for-profit limited liability corporation... -
Issues in Assessing the Impact of Social Investment: The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (A) (Epilogue)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details In the early 1980s, The Ford Foundation, among other funders, help create a new type of organization designed to finance the renewal of older, inner city... -
International Needs Canada: Transforming Child Sponsorship
Management Case Study8.95View Details In January 2022, the leaders of the Canadian charity organization International Needs Canada recognized that individual child sponsorship had serious... -
The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhy is it that effective business start-ups frequently grow into corporate giants, but effective new nonprofits rarely reach national scale? Because,... -
BeautifulCoffee and Fair Trade: Working with Local Farmer Co-operatives in Nepal
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Not long after John, BeautifulCoffee's (BC) newly appointed producer partnership manager, began his evaluation of the business relationship between BC... -
Goddard Space Flight Center: Building A Learning Organization (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details While reading the Wall Street Journal, Edward Rogers notices an advertisement for a knowledge management architect at the Goddard Space Flight Center...
