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Should Nonprofits Seek Profits?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTwenty years ago, it would have been shocking for a children's choir to sell singing telegrams or for an organization serving the homeless to dabble in... -
Audacious Philanthropy
Organizational Development Magazine ArticlePrivate philanthropists have helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of the past century: Virtually eradicating polio globally.... -
The Reluctant Social Entrepreneur
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleKathy Giusti never had any desire to be an entrepreneur, especially not one in the nonprofit sector. She was on the fast track at a huge corporation-and... -
How Smart Tech Is Transforming Nonprofits
Digital transformation Digital ArticleAutomation and AI can free up staff in fundraising, communications, finance, and service delivery efforts. -
Triple-Strength Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleManaging resource constraints, controlling health care costs, training the 21st-century workforce, implementing smart-grid technologies--challenges of... -
Life's Work: Salman Khan
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn interview with the pathbreaking online educator Salman Khan. -
Fulfill the Dream of Leading a Nonprofit
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThinking of a second career in the social sector? You're not alone. And your current employer would be wise to help you train for it. -
How Global Leaders Should Think About Solving Our Biggest Problems
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLooking ahead to Davos. -
Philanthropy's New Agenda: Creating Value
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDuring the past two decades, the number of charitable foundations in the United States has doubled while the value of their assets has increased more... -
The Best Advice I Ever Got: Linda Mason
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe chairman and founder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions heeded the wisdom of visionary real estate developer James Rouse: Make your passions central... -
Should Your Nonprofit Charge Its Beneficiaries?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleNo matter how creative and ambitious they may be, nonprofits that rely solely on donations and grants to finance their growth often fall short. One way... -
The $300 House: Businesses Take Up the Challenge
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleEditor's note: This post was written with Christian Sarkar, a marketing consultant who also works on environmental issues. Last week, the Tata Group,... -
The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhy is it that effective business start-ups frequently grow into corporate giants, but effective new nonprofits rarely reach national scale? Because,... -
What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential
Global Business Digital ArticleCentral coordination. -
Lofty Missions, Down-to-Earth Plans
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost nonprofits make program decisions based on a mission rather than a strategy. They rally under the banner of a particular cause. And because their... -
Persuade Past Resisters
Communication VideoDon't be discouraged if your audience is resistant to your ideas. Identify and address these objections head-on. -
Collaborating for the Common Good
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleCollaboration among competitors is an unnatural act, but sometimes it's the best way to reduce costs, leverage strength, accelerate scale, or amplify... -
AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAfter the Great Recession, the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, needed to compete even harder for every dollar. Arthur C. Brooks... -
Nonprofit Sector's $100 Billion Opportunity
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleImagine what an extra $100 billion a year could do for philanthropic and other nonprofit institutions. According to a new study, the nonprofit sector...
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Manan Publishing: Raising Funds for Not-for-profit
Management Case Study8.95View Details Subir Shukla, the Principal Coordinator in Ignus Pahal, was involved in improving education for marginalized children. After working for many years at... -
OneTen: One Million Careers for Black Talent (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details The OneTen case study examines the nonprofit organization's origin story. Its founding team includes a roster of corporate superstars-Ken Chenault (former... -
National Parks Conservation Association
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The National Parks Conservation Association seeks to help the U.S. National Park Service increase its efficiency by incorporating principles of business... -
Battling Dirty Toilets: Singapore's Final Frontiers
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case, set in June 2018, chronicles the challenges that Jack Sim, self-made millionaire and founder of the World Toilet Organisation (WTO), encountered... -
BMVSS: Changing Lives, One Jaipur Limb at a Time
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayta Samiti (BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently-abled persons by providing them... -
Shorefast: A Strange and Familiar Way to Reimagine Capitalism
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2006, Zita Cobb and two of her brothers, Alan Cobb and Tony Cobb, native Newfoundlanders, launched Shorefast to help grow another leg of Fogo Island's... -
Competing for Development (B1): The Intermediate Technology Development Group/Practical Action
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details This a role play supplement to Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur, product # 908M61. The role plays feature additional background,... -
Rotary Cove Beach
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The branch manager of the YMCA Goderich-Huron considers a change in operations for the Rotary Cover Beach property, which has been unprofitable for years.... -
Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case follows the Children Cancer Hospital in Egypt, also known as Hospital 57357, as it goes through the roll-out of a new performance management... -
Scaling Columba Leadership's Impact
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Rob Taylor, Founding Chairman, and Tracy Hackland, CEO of Columba Leadership, an award-winning South African non-profit organization, pondered a strategic... -
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods
Strategy & Execution Case Study15.05View Details As of 2005, over 10 million people were using peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks to swap music, movies, and software for free. P2P software programs... -
Still Leading (B7): Dr. Evelyn Murphy--The Next Campaign
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes how a former public official became an advocate who started a nonprofit organization after losing her campaign for governor. -
Competing for Development (B2): The Berkeley Lab
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details This a role play supplement to Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur, product # 908M61. The role plays feature additional background,... -
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Marc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit medical research organization. The project was founded in 1985 by... -
Interplast's Dilemma
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Established in the late 1960s, Interplast was the first international humanitarian organization to send American medical professionals overseas to provide... -
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Paul Nicholson, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) Executive Director, announced that he would retire at the end of the 2012 season, after a 32-year tenure... -
First Respond: The Challenges of Marketing Social Mission in China
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details First Respond is a for-profit Chinese social enterprise focused on developing emergency services with the mission of making China a safer place. In China,... -
Sapientis and the Launch of CECE
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case invites students to grapple with the dilemmas faced by Laura Lopez, the new Executive Director of a Puerto Rican educational advocacy NGO called... -
Salud Digna: Successfully Competing with For-Profit Organizations
Organizational Development Case Study15.05View Details 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... -
Augusta Training Shop: Snowflakes
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The Augusta Training Shop (ATS) was a non-profit organization that provided jobs for individuals with disabilities. In 2012 the workers started producing...
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Manan Publishing: Raising Funds for Not-for-profit
Management Case Study8.95View Details Subir Shukla, the Principal Coordinator in Ignus Pahal, was involved in improving education for marginalized children. After working for many years at... -
BeautifulCoffee and Fair Trade: Working with Local Farmer Co-operatives in Nepal, Teaching Notes
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTeaching note for case HEC202. -
OneTen: One Million Careers for Black Talent (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details The OneTen case study examines the nonprofit organization's origin story. Its founding team includes a roster of corporate superstars-Ken Chenault (former... -
Should Nonprofits Seek Profits?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTwenty years ago, it would have been shocking for a children's choir to sell singing telegrams or for an organization serving the homeless to dabble in... -
National Parks Conservation Association
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The National Parks Conservation Association seeks to help the U.S. National Park Service increase its efficiency by incorporating principles of business... -
An Inspired Model... or a Misguided One? Oprah Winfrey's Dream School for Impoverished South African Girls, Teaching Plan
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTeaching Note for case HKS129. -
Battling Dirty Toilets: Singapore's Final Frontiers
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case, set in June 2018, chronicles the challenges that Jack Sim, self-made millionaire and founder of the World Toilet Organisation (WTO), encountered... -
Audacious Philanthropy
Organizational Development Magazine ArticlePrivate philanthropists have helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of the past century: Virtually eradicating polio globally.... -
BMVSS: Changing Lives, One Jaipur Limb at a Time
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayta Samiti (BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently-abled persons by providing them... -
Social Finance, Inc, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching Note for 212055