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Dec 21 2011
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Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management

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Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management

game and create organizations that can thrive in the midst of change. Exploring crucial concepts and skills for nonprofit leadership, this program will prepare you to strengthen management and accountability... View Details

Dec 19 2017
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A New Perspective on Nonprofit Management

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Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM)

This Executive Education course is an HBS Social Enterprise Initiative program that provides the opportunity for senior executives to examine their missions and develop new strategies for the new global economy. View Details

28 Feb 2014
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Mastering Nonprofit Leadership

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Performance Management for Nonprofit Organizations (Executive Education, Faculty Co-chair)

This Executive Education course —a joint program presented by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative and Harvard University's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations—explores the impact of measurement on resource allocation, organizational learning, internal processes,... View Details

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Terry McAdam Book Award

By: James E. Austin

Finalist for the 2014 Terry McAdam Book Award from the Alliance for Nonprofit Management for Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: New Thinking and Practice (Jossey-Bass, 2014) with M. May Seitanidi. View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

Core competency transferMore equal exchange of resources Joint value creation Need for value renewal Relationship Management Corporate contact usually in community affairs or foundation; nonprofit contact... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

27 Oct 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

words, the organization has as its main purpose the advancement of a set of social goals and the creation of social value. That obviously (by law!) includes nonprofit organizations, but it can also include the so-called new social... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

September 2018
Case

The Financial Management of Harvard Business School

By: C. Fritz Foley and F. Katelynn Boland

In the spring of 2018, the Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Financial Planning at Harvard Business School considers potential refinements to the School's financial management practices. He faced questions about whether the metrics that had been used to evaluate... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit; Financial Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry; United States

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Strategic Performance Measurement and Management in Nonprofit Organizations

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Strategy; Management; Nonprofit Organizations

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March 2014 (Revised October 2015)
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Teach For China and the Chinese Nonprofit Sector

By: William C. Kirby and Erica M. Zendell

Teach For China was founded in 2008 with the mission of expanding educational opportunity across China. By 2013, Andrea Pasinetti's lofty dream had taken flight: over 300 graduates from top American and Chinese universities were participating in its 2-year teaching... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit; China; Business And Government Relations; Business And Poverty; Business And Society; Emerging Market Entrepreneurship; Emerging Market; NGO; Education; Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry; China

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24 Apr 2014
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Managing the challenges faced by a local nonprofit

Norm Merritt (MBA 1988) talks about using his management expertise to assist his local Audubon Society solve some complex operational issues. (Published April 2014) View Details

20 Jul 2013
News

Executive Education program helps build nonprofit management skills

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

management techniques developed for for-profit companies. "We say this is not a good approach," said Grossman. Instead, nonprofits need their own management practices... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

1999
Book

High Performance Nonprofit Organizations: Managing Upstream for Greater Impact

By: William P. Ryan, Allen Grossman and Christine W. Letts

Keywords: Performance; Nonprofit Organizations; Management

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January 1991 (Revised September 1992)
Background Note

Note on Starting a Nonprofit Venture

Provides anyone considering starting a nonprofit organization with a basic understanding of the nature of nonprofit status, tax and regulatory issues for nonprofits, and the distinctive management challenges associated with a nonprofit start-up. View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Entrepreneurship

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