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Mining Gold in Not-for-Profit Brands
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleNonprofits are putting hard numbers on the value of their brands, many of which consumers trust highly. Such organizations are hoping brand valuation... -
How Philanthropists Can Diversify Their Grantmaking Portfolios
Investment management Digital ArticleIt’s about creating a balance of grant types, categorized by operations, growth, and risk. -
Let's Be Realistic About Measuring Impact
Organizational Development Digital ArticleProving social impact is complicated and expensive. -
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... -
How Nonprofits Can Encourage Donors to Give More
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Should Your Nonprofit Charge Its Beneficiaries?
Nonprofit organizations Magazine ArticleNominal fees can help organizations have a greater impact. -
What Happens When a Company (Like Patagonia) Transfers Ownership to a Nonprofit?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThis form of ownership may be new in the U.S., but it's relatively common in Europe. -
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. -
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,... -
Multiplication Philanthropy
Organizational Development 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... -
An Apollo Program for American Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's time. -
What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential
Global Business Digital ArticleCentral coordination. -
Philanthropy's New Agenda: Creating Value
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDuring the past two decades, the number of charitable foundations in the United States has doubled while the value of their assets has increased more... -
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... -
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. -
EBay's Founder on Innovating the Business Model of Social Change
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen eBay's IPO in September 1998 made Omidyar wealthier than he'd ever imagined, he and his fiancee, Pam (now his wife), decided to create a nonprofit... -
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... -
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... -
The Reluctant Social Entrepreneur
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleKathy Giusti never had any desire to be an entrepreneur, especially not one in the nonprofit sector. She was on the fast track at a huge corporation-and... -
How Smart Tech Is Transforming Nonprofits
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleAutomation and AI can free up staff in fundraising, communications, finance, and service delivery efforts.
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Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case follows the Children Cancer Hospital in Egypt, also known as Hospital 57357, as it goes through the roll-out of a new performance management... -
PSI: Social Marketing Clean Water
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Senior management at PSI, arguably the world's largest and most successful social marketer with impressive achievements in the field of family planning,... -
Job Corps
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Describes the efforts of the director of Job Corps to stave off the destruction of his agency by the Nixon administration. In this process, the director... -
Note on Not-for-Profits and Fund-Raising
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This note describes the importance of not-for-profit organizations in Canada, and compares the nature and level of Canadian charitable giving with those... -
Health Care Center for the Homeless: Changing with the Times
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Bakari Burns, CEO of the Health Care Center for the Homeless (HCCH), located in Orlando, Florida was faced with the daunting task of rebranding the organization... -
Artesanías de Colombia
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Upon becoming General Manager of Artesanías de Colombia (AC) in January 2007, Paola Muñoz faced the challenge of redefining the organization's strategy.... -
NGO Microfinance in the Tibet Autonomous Region, Epilogue
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details In 1998, the Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF), a small, US-based non-governmental organization, launched an initiative to bring the benefits of microfinance... -
Year Up: A Social Entrepreneur Builds High Performance
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Year Up, a nonprofit job-skills training program for low-income, urban youth has run four successful programs in four cities for the past seven years.... -
Pedigree Growth Strategy (B)
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Cycle for Survival (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Katie Kotkins, director of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's (MSKCC) Cycle for Survival fundraising event, had to determine the best avenue for... -
Still Leading (B3): Gerry House--Impact of a Different Scale
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Describes how Gerry House made the transition from head of a large school district to leader of a small nonprofit. -
DonorsChoose.org: Refining a Successful Brand
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details More than a decade after its launch, DonorsChoose.org is a successful, well-known and well-regarded charitable organization that supports U.S. public... -
American Cancer Society: Access to Care
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American Cancer Society. The new Access to Care strategy relies on advocacy to change... -
IDEAAS and PSA: Replication in the Amazon
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Describes two social ventures' experience of collaborating with each other through a replication project funded by Lemelson and the Schwab Foundations.... -
Willa Seldon at Tides Center (B)
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Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stove for Darfur
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The new country director of CHF International (CHF), a U.S.-based organization that initiated operations in Sudan with USAID funding, must review the... -
Dr. Jim O'Connell, Managing Crisis, and Advocating for Boston's Chronically Homeless Community
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details A deep sense of foreboding filled Dr. Jim O'Connell and his team at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) in October 2014. The Boston mayor's... -
Acumen Fund and Embrace: From the Leading Edge of Social Venture Investing
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Jane Chen (GSB '08) and Brian Trelstad (GSB '99) had known one another for years. Trelstad, the chief investment officer of the nonprofit global venture... -
NGO Microfinance in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 1998, the Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF), a small, US-based non-governmental organization, launched an initiative to bring the benefits of microfinance... -
New Schools Venture Fund (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In December 2000, New Schools Venture Fund was debating the role it should play in helping one of its for-profit investees, LearnNow, attract new capital....
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Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case follows the Children Cancer Hospital in Egypt, also known as Hospital 57357, as it goes through the roll-out of a new performance management... -
PSI: Social Marketing Clean Water
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Senior management at PSI, arguably the world's largest and most successful social marketer with impressive achievements in the field of family planning,... -
Job Corps
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Describes the efforts of the director of Job Corps to stave off the destruction of his agency by the Nixon administration. In this process, the director... -
Note on Not-for-Profits and Fund-Raising
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This note describes the importance of not-for-profit organizations in Canada, and compares the nature and level of Canadian charitable giving with those... -
Health Care Center for the Homeless: Changing with the Times
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Bakari Burns, CEO of the Health Care Center for the Homeless (HCCH), located in Orlando, Florida was faced with the daunting task of rebranding the organization... -
Artesanías de Colombia
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Upon becoming General Manager of Artesanías de Colombia (AC) in January 2007, Paola Muñoz faced the challenge of redefining the organization's strategy.... -
NGO Microfinance in the Tibet Autonomous Region, Epilogue
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details In 1998, the Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF), a small, US-based non-governmental organization, launched an initiative to bring the benefits of microfinance... -
Year Up: A Social Entrepreneur Builds High Performance
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Year Up, a nonprofit job-skills training program for low-income, urban youth has run four successful programs in four cities for the past seven years.... -
Pedigree Growth Strategy (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for Product KEL497 -
Mining Gold in Not-for-Profit Brands
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleNonprofits are putting hard numbers on the value of their brands, many of which consumers trust highly. Such organizations are hoping brand valuation...