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- 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.
- 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.
- 09 Jul 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim & V. Kasturi Rangan
- 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.
- 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.)
- 25 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
What Do Non-Governmental Organizations Do?
Keywords: by Eric D. Werker & Faisal Z. Ahmed
- October 2021
- Case
Sparking Growth at Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports (CR) is a nonprofit organization that traditionally provided independent testing and research on consumer goods. With the need to diversify its audience and revenue streams CR partnered with market research firm Spark No. 9 to identify potential... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Management; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Social Media; Innovation and Management; Nonprofit Organizations
Wallace, Christina. "Sparking Growth at Consumer Reports." Harvard Business School Case 822-035, October 2021.
- 1999
- Book
High Performance Nonprofit Organizations: Managing Upstream for Greater Impact
By: William P. Ryan, Allen Grossman and Christine W. Letts
Ryan, William P., Allen Grossman, and Christine W. Letts. High Performance Nonprofit Organizations: Managing Upstream for Greater Impact. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
- September 2010 (Revised November 2011)
- Case
Salud Digna: Successfully Competing with For-Profit Organizations
By: Allen S. Grossman and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
Hugo Moreno, CEO of Salud Digna, was considering his growth options for the next three years. Would becoming a for-profit with access to greater capital be the best strategy or would this cause the organization to lose its social mission? Salud Digna provided... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Health Testing and Trials; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Industry; Mexico
Grossman, Allen S., and Regina Garcia-Cuellar. "Salud Digna: Successfully Competing with For-Profit Organizations." Harvard Business School Case 311-051, September 2010. (Revised November 2011.)
- 2017
- Case
Uncommon Schools (A): A Network of Networks
By: John J-H Kim and Sarah McAra
In 2013, Brett Peiser, CEO of the charter school management organization (CMO) Uncommon Schools, is reassessing the nonprofit’s strategy. For nearly 10 years, Uncommon had fulfilled its mission to bring high-quality education to students in low-income, urban areas... View Details
Keywords: Charter Schools; Nonprofit Organizations; Teaching; Talent Management; Innovation; Organization Structure; Education; Early Childhood Education; Middle School Education; Organizational Structure; Performance Consistency; Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Education Industry
Kim, John J-H, and Sarah McAra. "Uncommon Schools (A): A Network of Networks." Harvard Business Publishing Case, 2017. (Case No. PEL-079.)
- 1999
- Chapter
Can Public Trust in Nonprofits and Governments Be Restored?
By: R. E. Herzlinger
Herzlinger, R. E. "Can Public Trust in Nonprofits and Governments Be Restored?" In Harvard Business Review on Nonprofits. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
A couple of years ago, hip-hop artist Macklemore topped the Billboard 100 chart with Thrift Shop, a paean to buying inexpensive used clothing from Goodwill Industries. Indeed, like the rapper, millions of people know Goodwill primarily as a successful retailer; in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- May 1997
- Teaching Note
Measuring the Financial Performance of Nonprofit Organizations: Solutions Manual
Teaching Note for (1-197-111). View Details
- 14 Dec 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Nonprofit Boards: It is Time to Lift Your Gaze and See the System
- 2011
- Book
Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know
By: Marc J. Epstein and F. Warren McFarlan
Epstein, Marc J., and F. Warren McFarlan. Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know. Jossey-Bass, 2011.
- November–December 1999
- Article
Working on Nonprofit Boards: Don't Assume the Shoe Fits
McFarlan, F. Warren. "Working on Nonprofit Boards: Don't Assume the Shoe Fits." Harvard Business Review 77, no. 6 (November–December 1999).
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
Transplantation Network (OPTN). This national registry and waiting list is managed by the private nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which has the unenviable task of making priority and... View Details
- March–April 1996
- Article
Can Public Trust in Nonprofits and Governments Be Restored?
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Can Public Trust in Nonprofits and Governments Be Restored?" Harvard Business Review 74, no. 2 (March–April 1996): 97–107.
- 2004
- Class Lecture
Strategic Alliances: The Power of Partnering Between Nonprofits and Businesses
By: James Austin
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships
Austin, James. "Strategic Alliances: The Power of Partnering Between Nonprofits and Businesses." Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Class Lecture, 2004. Electronic. (Faculty Lecture: HBSP Product Number 9-830-4C.)