Nonprofit Governance - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016

Organizations' Strategic Responses By: Heese, Jonas, Ranjani Krishnan, and Frank Moers Abstract—We posit that nonprofits that provide a greater supply of unprofitable services (beneficent nonprofits) face lenient regulatory enforcement... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

federal government agency of the United States (including military service). An approved government or nonprofit organization located outside of the United States, as permitted... View Details

October 2022
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EducationSuperHighway 2.0

By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean

In 2012, Evan Marwell launched EducationSuperHighway (ESH) to address a major problem: though most public K-12 schools in the US had access to the Internet, only roughly 30% had true broadband access that would enable every student to have high speed connectivity. ... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Leading Change; Early Childhood Education; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco

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29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

Another option: Spin off a separate structure, such as a corporate foundation. Key elements in leadership were: Founders. Attendees expressed frustration over leadership and governance issues that stemmed from the fact that many View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

leaders. “The fact that we as a school are strengthening our understanding of businesses around the world and bringing that understanding into our classrooms affirms the HBS mission,” says Winston. “We’ve come a long way from a time when BGIE [Business, View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Tim Nicolette

and management skills in the service of nonprofits in the social sector. What influence did HBS have on your ambitions? I came to HBS for two reasons. First, in my nonprofit work, I noticed that effective... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit; Nonprofit

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

campaign? Because when the U.S. government increased food aid, it bought more food from American farmers. As a result, both the farmers and the nonprofits got what they wanted. “The problem was probably not... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

31 Jan 2023
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It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

imply the potential for social impact, the authors hand-coded 500 postings to yield 100 key phrases including “making a difference,” “giving back,” “positively impact,” “improving the lives,” and “people’s lives.” Listings included a wide range of employers from... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Mar 2024
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The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

01 Jan 2004
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D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

helping the nonprofit sector, he served as Harvard's treasurer from 1989 until last June, advising three presidents and watching over the University's resources. "It was one of the great privileges of my life," he says. In a commencement... View Details

31 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

automatically covers all residents in its National Health Service, a public system with no out-of-pocket costs, and Germany and Israel have systems of coverage through competing nonprofit plans. Like programs in other countries, the... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

power really works." In many ways, the book comes across as a sort of modern update of Machiavelli’s classic political treatise on power, but with plenty of non-Machiavellian twists. Instead of talking about how princes, plutocrats, and View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

investors as well as trustees of leading nonprofits had expressed uncertainty about whether MRIs were compatible with a board’s fiduciary duties. Darren wondered if his board held the same view. This case will explore the process and... View Details

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

explains, the prejudice seems to have a deeper impact on women, whose worth is more often judged by society on their appearance. (This is obvious from matrimonial ads that seek brides who are “fair and beautiful.”) Founders of Women of Worth (WOW), a View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

to navigate this shifting and complex landscape. To mark the launch of BiGS, the School brought together senior executives in industry, academia, government, and the nonprofit sector for a day of discussion around current practices,... View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

business management including strategy, marketing, operations, human capital, and governance, and the impact of their decisions. + – Government Harvard Kennedy School Think Tank Search Think Tank Search searches the websites of... View Details

13 May 2022
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Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

Campbell and Shang constructed a dataset of reviews from more than 4,000 publicly traded firms between 2008 and 2016, extracting a vocabulary of 11,772 unique words used in the reviews. At the same time, they obtained a database assembled by the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Clinic) as part of their business model Senior executives from nonprofit organizations that deliver health care services Executives from health care insurance companies, government entities that pay for... View Details

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

27 Feb 2017
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Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

organizations? Khanna: Leaders interviewed for the Emerging Markets project are generally considered to be iconic stewards of their society. They may be great business people, they may be prominent regulators, they may be people who built important View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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