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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
- March 6, 2020
- Article
How Medical Nonprofits Set Winning Strategy
By: Kathy Giusti and Richard G. Hamermesh
Giusti, Kathy, and Richard G. Hamermesh. "How Medical Nonprofits Set Winning Strategy." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (March 6, 2020).
- Book Review
Challenges and Opportunities Facing Nonprofit Organizations
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "Challenges and Opportunities Facing Nonprofit Organizations." Public Administration Review 63, no. 4 (July 2003): 503–506. (A review of The State of Nonprofit America by Lester M. Salamon, On Being Nonprofit: A Conceptual and Policy Primer by Peter Frumkin, and Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence by Paul C. Light.)
- March 2000
- Article
Strategic Collaboration between Nonprofits and Businesses
By: J. E. Austin
Austin, J. E. "Strategic Collaboration between Nonprofits and Businesses." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 29, no. 1 (March 2000): 69–97.
- March 2000
- Article
Strategic Alliances between Nonprofits and Businesses
By: James E. Austin
Austin, James E. "Strategic Alliances between Nonprofits and Businesses." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 29, no. 1 (March 2000): 69–97.
- Article
Operations Research in the Public Sector and Nonprofit Organizations
By: Zilla Sinuany-Stern and H. David Sherman
Public sector and nonprofit organizations (NPO) have been growing substantially in number and size since the turn of the millennium. In light of the ongoing economic crises these sectors are expected to grow even more with expanded demands for services, increased need... View Details
Sinuany-Stern, Zilla, and H. David Sherman. "Operations Research in the Public Sector and Nonprofit Organizations." Annals of Operations Research 221 (October 2014): 1–8.
- 2004
- Article
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Nonprofit Fundraising
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Nonprofit Fundraising." Policy Studies Journal 32, no. 3 (2004): 363–374.
- 2006
- Chapter
Nonprofit Firms in the Performing Arts
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "Nonprofit Firms in the Performing Arts." In Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, Volume 1, edited by Victor Ginsburgh and C. David Throsby, 473–506. Handbooks in Economics. Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, 2006.
- 1999
- Chapter
Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors?
By: R. E. Herzlinger
Herzlinger, R. E. "Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors?" In Harvard Business Review on Nonprofits, 27–52. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.
- 2025
- Working Paper
How Do Nonprofits Use Cash Windfalls? Evidence from $5B in Unrestricted Donations
By: Jennifer Walsh
How do nonprofits use unrestricted gifts? Donations to 501(c)(3)'s are increasingly given unrestricted due to concerns that restrictions on use unduly constrain nonprofits. I study the effect of such funding on recipients using a $5B sample of MacKenzie Scott's gifts... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Budgets and Budgeting; Compensation and Benefits
Walsh, Jennifer. "How Do Nonprofits Use Cash Windfalls? Evidence from $5B in Unrestricted Donations." SSRN Working Paper Series, March 2025.
- July–August 1994
- Article
Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors." Harvard Business Review 72, no. 4 (July–August 1994): 52–60.
- January–February 2013
- Article
Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities
By: Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis and Mary Ann Glynn
We examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local nonprofits between 1987 and 2002. We focus on two sub-populations... View Details
Keywords: Business and Community Relations; Civil Society or Community; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Business Growth and Maturation; Profit; Local Range; Welfare or Wellbeing; Business Processes; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trends; Management Practices and Processes; United States
Marquis, Christopher, Gerald F. Davis, and Mary Ann Glynn. "Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities." Organization Science 24, no. 1 (January–February 2013): 39–57. (Read a summary of the article in Stanford Social Innovation Review.)
- 20 Nov 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Building a Nonprofit Marketplace to Feed America
- March 1, 2013
- Article
Nonprofits Need to Compete for Top Talent
Chertavian, Gerald. "Nonprofits Need to Compete for Top Talent." Harvard Business Review (website) (March 1, 2013).
- 1997
- Chapter
Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors." In Nonprofit Governance: The Executive's Guide, edited by V. Futter and G. Overton, 13–24. Chicago: American Bar Association, 1997.
- 1998
- Chapter
Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors." In Fachzeitschrift fur Nonprofit Management, edited by Michael Muller and Franziska Hiltpold. Fribourg: Verbandsmanagement Institut, 1998.
- Article
Strategic Performance Measurement and Management in Nonprofit Organizations
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Strategic Performance Measurement and Management in Nonprofit Organizations." Nonprofit Management & Leadership 11, no. 3 (Spring 2001): 353–370.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Nonprofit Boards: It Is time to Lift Your Gaze and See the System
By: Shamal Dass, Kristy Muir and V. Kasturi Rangan
Nonprofits the world over have faced significant crises in 2020, leaving them and their constituents in precarious positions. Responses to these crises have demonstrated incredible agility. However, they have also demonstrated that the first two levels of governance... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Health Pandemics; Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; System; Framework
Dass, Shamal, Kristy Muir, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Nonprofit Boards: It Is time to Lift Your Gaze and See the System." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-058, November 2020.
- 1994
- Book
Financial Accounting and Managerial Control for Nonprofit Organizations
By: R. E. Herzlinger and D. Nitterhouse
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations
Herzlinger, R. E., and D. Nitterhouse. Financial Accounting and Managerial Control for Nonprofit Organizations. Cincinnati: South-Western Publishing Company, 1994.
- 2010
- Working Paper
The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
Leaders of organizations in the social sector are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. We review the debates around performance and impact, drawing on three literatures: strategic philanthropy,... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Expectations; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-099, May 2010. (Recipient of 2010 Academy of Management, Public and Nonprofit Division, Carlo Masini Award for Innovative Scholarship runner-up prize; and, selection for the Best Papers proceedings.)