Nonprofit Organizations - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2009
News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

organizations tighten their belts by simply cutting travel across the board? “I think the core issue for everyone is the same, which is how do you buy time?” remarks HBS professor Bill Sahlman, coauthor with Jackie Donnelly Russell (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

league is a nonprofit trade association) underpins the NFL's unique architecture. Even NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell concedes the model is "a form of socialism [that's] worked quite well for us. So we try to combine socialism and... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero

investors said at the time,” Baer recounts, “ ‘The good news is we just bought the team. The bad news is we just bought the team. What the hell do we do with it?’ ” As a business, the Giants organization was losing around $15 million a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

institution; a number of volunteer student organizations were formed to reach out to the surrounding community; and the term "social responsibility" found its way into case discussions with some degree of regularity. "Looking back, those... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

that Enhance the Effectiveness of Workforce Diversity Initiatives in Knowledge Intensive Firms Authors: Modupe N. Akinola, David A. Thomas Abstract Workforce diversity continues to be a key focus for organizations, driven by globalization of the U.S. economy and the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

highlights the process through which diversity initiatives become successful and offers insight into how organizations can more effectively recruit and retain a diverse workforce. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

Fellows The Leadership Fellows program provides graduating HBS MBA students a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations for... View Details

15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50235 forthcoming Organization Science Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing By: Marquis, Christopher, Michael W. Toffel, and Yanhua Zhou... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

READ MORE In the UK, veteran biotech investor Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) leads the search for a COVID vaccine. As with any startup, money was the first obstacle Bingham needed to solve but, in this case, it was the easiest to overcome. View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

thousands of women and men MBAs, research by Catalyst finds that women are still placed in less-promising roles and at lower compensation from their first post-MBA job—and those gaps only widen over time. This means that today's MBA women have to start their careers in... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Homeschooled

wrote a case study on Code.org, which is a nonprofit organization that wants to make sure every student in America’s K–12 system has the opportunity to learn about computer science. There are millions of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

not to give. Managers of nonprofit organizations should carefully assess this tension when determining if and how to provide information on their performance metrics. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 May 2025
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If I Knew Then

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

2009 Abstract This casebook provides an organized treatment of the major challenges associated with managing large-scale disaster events, including discussion of systematic methods of organizing disaster... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Jan 2017
News

Mental Illness and the Workplace

how it changed things for you. Switz: I was in a role as a vice president in a nonprofit and there was a lot of international travel required. And when I was trying to explain to the CEO, why I couldn't do as much international travel as... View Details

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Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top A Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals Negotiation, Organizations & Markets James Sebenius Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 The Anatomy of... View Details

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

private assets, and personal saving, represent exercises in linguistics, not economics. Technological Innovation and Organizations Authors: Josh Lerner and Pierre Azoulay Publication: In Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

May 2018
Case

The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's Answer Fund

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble

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Educators

09 Dec 2021
News

Higher Returns

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Parsec Ventures CEO Richard Steel (OPM 45, 2014) has had a wide range of professional experiences, including everything from running both private and public... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

Youth Services International (YSI), an organization that provides residency and community-based programs to help at-risk youth become productive citizens. Currently comprising nearly twenty centers in eleven southern and midwestern... View Details

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