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- February 2023
- Article
Nonprofits in Good Times and Bad Times
By: Christine L. Exley, Nils H. Lehr and Stephen J. Terry
Need fluctuates over the business cycle. We conduct a survey revealing a desire for nonprofit activities to countercyclically expand during downturns. We then demonstrate, using comprehensive U.S. nonprofit data drawn from millions of tax returns, that the public's... View Details
Exley, Christine L., Nils H. Lehr, and Stephen J. Terry. "Nonprofits in Good Times and Bad Times." Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics 1, no. 1 (February 2023): 42–79.
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
Whether their mission is to protect wildlife, help disabled people, or offer financial services in developing countries, nonprofit organizations often believe they need to grow big before they can achieve significant social impact. HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 2015
- Article
Regulator Leniency and Mispricing in Beneficent Nonprofits
By: Jonas Heese, Ranjani Krishnan and Frank Moers
We posit that nonprofits that provide a greater supply of unprofitable services (beneficent nonprofits) face lenient regulatory enforcement for mispricing in price-regulated markets. Consequently, beneficent nonprofits exploit such regulatory leniency and exhibit... View Details
- July 1996 (Revised February 2011)
- Teaching Note
Identify the Nonprofit (TN)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Teaching Note for (9-195-215). View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations
- March 1991 (Revised July 1996)
- Background Note
Sources of Financing for New Nonprofit Ventures
Designed to help nonprofit entrepreneurs design fund-raising strategies that are appropriate for their specific organizations. Discusses the major fund-raising alternatives, including foundations, corporations, government sources, wealthy individuals, and the public,... View Details
Dees, J. Gregory. "Sources of Financing for New Nonprofit Ventures." Harvard Business School Background Note 391-097, March 1991. (Revised July 1996.)
- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
Editor's note: For those of who have attended meetings of both nonprofit and for-profit boards, the differences between the two organizations couldn't be clearer. Nonprofit boards meetings tend to be longer,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Regulator Leniency and Mispricing in Beneficent Nonprofits
- Article
Business Leaders and Nonprofits
By: J. E. Austin
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations
Austin, J. E. "Business Leaders and Nonprofits." Nonprofit Management & Leadership 9, no. 1 (Fall 1998): pp. 39–51.
- 2006
- Chapter
Engaging Business with Nonprofits
By: Alison Louie and Arthur C. Brooks
Louie, Alison, and Arthur C. Brooks. "Engaging Business with Nonprofits." In Wise Decision-making in Uncertain Times: Using Nonprofit Resources Effectively, edited by Dennis R. Young, 191–204. New York: Foundation Center, 2006.
- March 2000
- Article
New Directions in Nonprofit Strategy
By: Allen Grossman, V. Kasturi Rangan and Elaine Backman
Grossman, Allen, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Elaine Backman. "New Directions in Nonprofit Strategy." Supplement. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 29, no. 1 (March 2000).
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
Harvard Business School; Laidler-Kylander (HBS MBA '92) is a PhD candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Manda Salls: Any organization—profit or nonprofit— faces challenges when it goes global. What are some of the unique challenges... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
charitable donations like a typical nonprofit would. Commercial microfinance organizations often adopt a hybrid model, for example: they provide business loans to poor people who wouldn't traditionally qualify, but they still depend on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
The Harvard Business School Initiative on Social Enterprise is embarking on a new intellectual endeavor to understand a fast-changing and fertilearena — the Social Capital Markets. For years, money given to nonprofits has been thought of... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- Teaching Interest
Governing for Nonprofit Excellence (Executive Education, Faculty Chair)
This Executive Education course, an HBS Social Enterprise Initiative program, is designed to maximize the contributions of individual nonprofit board members. Participants are challenged to examine their role and the role of their boards in improving organizational... View Details
- 2006
- Chapter
Government Funding of Nonprofit Organizations
By: Arthur C. Brooks and Michael Rushton
Brooks, Arthur C., and Michael Rushton. "Government Funding of Nonprofit Organizations." Chap. 4 in Financing Nonprofits: Putting Theory into Practice, edited by Dennis R. Young, 69–92. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2006.
- November 1999 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
New Profit Inc.: Governing the Nonprofit Enterprise
By: Robert S. Kaplan
New Profit, Inc. (NPI) is an innovative venture philanthropy fund. Founded by social entrepreneur Venessa Kirsch, NPI intends to raise large donations from individuals who wish to invest in nonprofit enterprises that could have a significant social impact and the... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Nonprofit Organizations; Venture Capital; Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Service Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "New Profit Inc.: Governing the Nonprofit Enterprise." Harvard Business School Case 100-052, November 1999. (Revised July 2001.)
- Comment
Professional Practice: Nonprofit Agency Challenges
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Professional Practice: Nonprofit Agency Challenges." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29, no. 3 (Summer 2010): 628–632. (Comment.)
- Teaching Interest
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
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
The coronavirus crisis is hobbling social enterprises around the world, leaving many fighting for survival at a time of profound need. Since the pandemic hit, donations have fallen for more than two-thirds of nonprofit organizations, and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost