Nonprofit Scaling - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

was roughly a 60-40 split, with 60 percent allocated in stocks and 40 percent in bonds. That’s a classic portfolio for investors of the same age, which Minor says helped confirm he was on the right track. The misconduct data took more effort to gather. He turned to a... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

31 Jan 2025
News

New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses

When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small businesses survive the COVID pandemic with guidance from a small group of volunteer alumni advisors. Now, nearly five years on,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Apr 2025
News

A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

Cole. Approximately 60 people attended the in-person event, held at JLL in Washington, to get insights from alumni working in the public sector and nonprofit space. Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance Unit and has taught in a variety... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

On a chilly November afternoon in Harlan County, a struggling former mining hub on the edge of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, Geoff Marietta (MBA 2007) surveys the bustling village he has helped build. Marietta is executive director of the Pine Mountain Settlement... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

investments in tech companies to help extend their runway and put them on a path to scale when the downturn subsides,” says Dober. Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), founder of the nonprofit Fashion Girls for... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

entrepreneurs actually go about producing transformative change. There are four key stages: understanding the world; envisioning a better future; building a model for change; and scaling the solution. The Debate over Jewish Achievement:... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Back at the Ranch

will know exactly what’s being asked and how to do it safely. Minden founded the nonprofit in 2019, as a second act after his own military career. He’d gone straight from his New Jersey high school to West Point, then commissioned as an... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Adler and Vance Jacobs; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

01 Jun 2003
News

John Read

passion for this nonprofit led him to get involved as a volunteer. That passion, as well as his experience in business and as a board member for one of OB’s four wilderness schools, made him an ideal candidate for the president’s position... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Outward Bound; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

competitiveness. Transformation at this scale will take longer than the typical two-year political cycle, Ballou-Aares says, but already the organization is seeing the first wave of results. Its members are helping drive change in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

Colorado-based Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF), comes in. Since 2005, the nonprofit Growth Fund has provided necessary capital to 34 charter management organizations (CMOs) that run networks of charters serving 125,000 students in 330... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

maximization by local entrepreneurs. The model demonstrates that weak investor protections limit the scale of multinational firm activity, increase the reliance on FDI flows, and alter the decision to deploy technology through FDI as... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

climate and energy that are highly relevant to the current public debate.” The Brand IDEA: Managing Nonprofit Brands with Integrity, Democracy, and Affinity by Nathalie Laidler-Kylander and Julia Shepard Stenzel (both MBA 1992)... View Details

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

Abstract—In this paper, we develop a new model for government cost-benefit analysis in the presence of risk. In our model, a benevolent government chooses the scale of a risky project in the presence of two key frictions. First, there are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

the foundation of HBS’s entrepreneurial management program. Since then, students interested in developing their own for-profit or nonprofit startups have come to the School to gain the skills, insight, and practical experience necessary... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

Web

Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

shines through. Even via Zoom, she can quickly connect on a human level and create space for thoughtful conversation. Over her 35-year career, Sanchez has a track record of successfully scaling large businesses, navigating digital... View Details

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

country, Liberia, that was able to meet a similar, deadly threat by supplementing a health care system emerging from decades of civil strife with a cadre of less trained, but highly capable, community health workers. Could the Liberian model help with COVID-19 and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

14 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 14

public and government skepticism of the still nascent and highly volatile nonprofit sector? Would Teach For China be able to sustainably scale its model to truly end educational inequality in China? Purchase... View Details