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28 Feb 2013
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Boston-area Nonprofits Receive $2.25 Million in MacArthur Grants

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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

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Strategic Performance Measurement and Management in Nonprofit Organizations

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Strategy; Management; Nonprofit Organizations

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Financial Accounting and Managerial Control for Nonprofit Organizations

By: R. E. Herzlinger and D. Nitterhouse

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations

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25 Jan 2018
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Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably

Khushboo Maheshwari (MBA 2012) is new initiatives leader of The/Nudge Foundation and director and head of N/Core, which support nonprofits working on problems related to poverty in India. In this interview, she describes N/Core’s mission... View Details

01 Oct 2020
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How to Be an Antiracist Nonprofit or Company

14 Jul 2017
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The Versatile D.C. Investor with a Buzzy Nonprofit

17 Sep 2020
Blog Post

HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic

co-founder. Once the team was formed, we shifted our focus to grant-raising which was when we discovered the many resources that HBS provides for this. To start, we applied and received grants from Harvard Social Impact Fund, a fund dedicated to View Details

1999
Chapter

Can Public Trust in Nonprofits and Governments Be Restored?

By: R. E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Trust; Nonprofit Organizations; Government and Politics

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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

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Building and Valuing Brands in the Nonprofit Sector

By: Nathalie Laidler-Kylander, John A. Quelch and Bernard L. Simonin

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30 Sep 2020
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How Nonprofit Foundations Can Sustainably Fund Disease Research

01 Mar 2008
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Community Partners Program Honored for Service to Nonprofits

The HBS clubs' Community Partners program, which provides free consulting services to nonprofits, has received the Volunteer Service Award from the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. Several clubs have strong Community Partners programs, including... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
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Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact

Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) is working to empower social entrepreneurs, mission-driven organizations, and philanthropists to build a better world. The Bridgespan Group, the professional services firm he cofounded with Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) in 1999, collaborates with... View Details

20 Apr 2020
Blog Post

Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

Justin Crist Lee (MBA 2021) is working to help launch LivelyHood, a COVID-19 volunteer response effort. LivelyHood is a platform that connects healthy, young volunteers with the elderly and immunocompromised in their local community for contactless deliveries. The... View Details

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Stretch the Mission? A Nonprofit That Supports Emerging-market Entrepreneurs Considers Expanding to the U.S.

By: William A. Sahlman and Ramana Nanda

A case study is presented concerning a nonprofit organization that helps entrepreneurs in emerging-markets countries in regions including Latin America and Asia, focusing on the decision over whether to expand its services into the Miami, Florida, area, a question on... View Details

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September 2016 (Revised October 2017)
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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

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