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- September 2016 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
KaBOOM!: Play at Scale (Abridged)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby
A case on scaling social impact for nonprofits. Founded in 1995, KaBOOM! quickly became a nationally recognized nonprofit in building playgrounds with strong corporate partnerships and volunteer-organizing capabilities. Over the years, KaBOOM! developed new programs,... View Details
Keywords: Scaling Social Enterprise; Scaling Social Impact; Nonprofit Scaling; Nonprofit; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; United States
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Sarah Appleby. "KaBOOM!: Play at Scale (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 517-027, September 2016. (Revised October 2017.)
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
fact-filled breakout sessions designed to help organizations become more successful in achieving their philanthropic goals. “To our knowledge, there has never been such a gathering of top nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Prize for Nonprofit Paper
“Managing Multi-Site Nonprofits,” by HBS professors Allen S. Grossman and V. Kasturi Rangan, has received the annual Editors’ Prize for the Best Scholarly Paper in the journal Nonprofit Management and Leadership for 2002. This paper... View Details
- Program
Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation—Virtual
in nonprofit organizations (typically with annual budgets in excess of $1 million) who are committed to improving performance measurement and management. Note that this program is focused on... View Details
- Awards
Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research
Winner of the Outstanding Book Award in 2004 from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action for NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2003). View Details
- 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
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
measuring investmentperformance, and maintaining a long-term relationship — that would benefitboth foundations and nonprofits. The article helped catalyze the thinking of many in the nonprofit field and illuminated and encouraged an... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
For Profit and Nonprofit
nonprofit organizations and able to give my time, my treasure, and my talent––the three things all of us have that we can offer to the greater good. At some points in your life, you have more time and you... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 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
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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.
- 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.)
- Web
Nonprofit Board Service - Alumni
Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus Matching and Search Resources and Programs Sites and Sources to Find Opportunities and Organizations That Meet Your Interests BoardStrong (formerly Boardnet USA): View Details
- 13 May 2021
- News
2021 Nonprofit Boards Summit
- 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).
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts
“Most of the nonprofits operating today make program decisions based on a mission rather than on a strategy,” writes HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan in Harvard Business Review. “In fact,” he notes, “many View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Philly Club Hosts Nonprofit Execs
Sixty nonprofit executives from the Philadelphia area attended the HBS Club of Philadelphia’s fifth annual nonprofit conference in November. The one-day event provided attendees with leading-edge thinking on... View Details
Keywords: clubs; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofit Summit
More than 275 leaders from New York City’s most influential social service organizations gathered on September 23 for the second annual Social Enterprise Summit, hosted by the HBS Club of Greater New York. The half-day event focused on... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed
In towns and cities across the country, HBS club members are putting their expertise to work helping local nonprofit organizations solve an array of interesting challenges. Alumni agree that it's a rewarding... View Details