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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... -
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... -
Should Your Start-up Be For-Profit or Nonprofit?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleYears ago the line between nonprofit and for-profit enterprises was clear, but that has changed. Nonprofits now offer products that compete with those... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
An Apollo Program for American Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's time. -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Life's Work: Salman Khan
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn interview with the pathbreaking online educator Salman Khan. -
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... -
When You've Made Enough to Make a Difference
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany philanthropists have big ambitions, but even the richest individuals and largest foundations don't have enough money to end poverty, reverse climate... -
Dancing into a Turnaround
How to successfully manage finances, especially in a creative organization? Keep momentum, adhere to benchmarks, and don't neglect reporting. -
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. -
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... -
What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential
Global Business Digital ArticleCentral coordination. -
How Smart Tech Is Transforming Nonprofits
Digital transformation Digital ArticleAutomation and AI can free up staff in fundraising, communications, finance, and service delivery efforts.
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The American Repertory Theater
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View 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... -
Hope for Special Hope? (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case set follows Eric and Holly Nelson, founders of Special Hope Network, a nonprofit organization providing holistic therapy services for children... -
Starting Small, Reaching High (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In the early 1980s, Missouri's director of early childhood education launched a novel parent education pilot project designed to increase children's kindergarten... -
Cultivating Social Enterprise in Peru: A Portfolio Approach
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details A consultant with CARE Enterprise Partners (CEP) is tasked to provide consulting for three social enterprises in different stages of development, each... -
KaBOOM!: Play at Scale (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details A case on scaling social impact for nonprofits. Founded in 1995, KaBOOM! quickly became a nationally recognized nonprofit in building playgrounds with... -
Growing Pains at Santropol Roulant, Part B: Sustaining and Disseminating the "Magic"
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case HEC183. This case examines the challenges faced by a grassroots non-profit struggling to carry out its mission and stabilize its finances... -
Fighting Bonded Labor in Rural India: Village Activist Gyarsi Bai Tackles an Entrenched System of Coercion
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In October 2010, the beating of a 30-year-old bonded laborer-his punishment for staying home sick from work-in India's northwestern state of Rajasthan... -
Akshaya Patra: Impact at Scale
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View 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... -
Dans la rue: Balancing the Heart and the Pocketbook
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case study of social innovation and entrepreneurship looks closely at the growth of a not-for-profit enterprise. Dans la rue was founded in 1988... -
Rotary Cove Beach
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The branch manager of the YMCA Goderich-Huron considers a change in operations for the Rotary Cover Beach property, which has been unprofitable for years.... -
Mercy Corps: Positioning the Organization to Reach New Heights
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Mercury Corps, the world's 5th largest international relief and development agency, is at a turning point. The nonprofit's opportunities to grow and serve... -
Competing for Development (B4): International Lifeline Fund
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details This a role play supplement to Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur, product # 908M61. The role plays feature additional background,... -
Hassina Sherjan
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Hassina Sherjan was born in Afghanistan but grew up and was educated in the United States. A trip to Afghanistan when she was an adult inspired her to... -
ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details As a global NGO working in 45 countries, ActionAid International aims to eradicate poverty by addressing its underlying causes such as injustice and inequality.... -
Calit2: A UC San Diego, UC Irvine Partnership
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Larry Smarr, the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), reflects on the Institute's... -
Project Have Hope: Managing Growth, Commitment, Time, Inventory, and Other Challenges
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Boston-based Project Have Hope was a non-profit social enterprise promoting financial stability for 100 women in Kampala, Uganda, who had been displaced... -
Growing Pains at Santropol Roulant, Epilogue
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case HEC183. This case examines the challenges faced by a grassroots non-profit struggling to carry out its mission and stabilize its finances... -
Blue Meridian Partners (A): Scaling for Impact
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In 2018, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in a bold move transferred all its assets to a fund pooled with other General Partners and Limited Partners,... -
Hope Blooms: Marketing a Social Enterprise after Dragons' Den
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Hope Blooms was a social enterprise based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, that grew its own garden produce and manufactured and sold a line of herb dressings.... -
The Tate's Digital Transformation
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details John Stack was the visionary Head of Digital Transformation at the Tate, a collection of four major art galleries in the UK, including Tate Modern, the...
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The American Repertory Theater
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View 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... -
Hope for Special Hope? (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case set follows Eric and Holly Nelson, founders of Special Hope Network, a nonprofit organization providing holistic therapy services for children... -
Starting Small, Reaching High (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In the early 1980s, Missouri's director of early childhood education launched a novel parent education pilot project designed to increase children's kindergarten... -
Cultivating Social Enterprise in Peru: A Portfolio Approach
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details A consultant with CARE Enterprise Partners (CEP) is tasked to provide consulting for three social enterprises in different stages of development, each... -
KaBOOM!: Play at Scale (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details A case on scaling social impact for nonprofits. Founded in 1995, KaBOOM! quickly became a nationally recognized nonprofit in building playgrounds with... -
Hope for Special Hope? (A), (B), and (C), Teaching Note
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleTeaching note for cases UV8010, UV8012, and UV8013. -
Growing Pains at Santropol Roulant, Part B: Sustaining and Disseminating the "Magic"
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case HEC183. This case examines the challenges faced by a grassroots non-profit struggling to carry out its mission and stabilize its finances... -
Fighting Bonded Labor in Rural India: Village Activist Gyarsi Bai Tackles an Entrenched System of Coercion
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In October 2010, the beating of a 30-year-old bonded laborer-his punishment for staying home sick from work-in India's northwestern state of Rajasthan... -
Scouts Australia (New South Wales): Adventures Ahead, Instructor Spreadsheet
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleInstructor spreadsheet supplement to case W20049 -
Akshaya Patra: Impact at Scale
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View 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...
