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Aligning Your Philanthropic Operating Model with Your Goals
Global Business Digital ArticleA framework to help funders understand who they are and what kind of impact they aspire to have. -
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... -
Delivering on the Promise of Nonprofits
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAs U.S. nonprofits take on an increasing share of society's work, they face mounting pressure from stakeholders - donors, boards, employees - to show... -
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,... -
When You've Made Enough to Make a Difference
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany philanthropists have big ambitions, but even the richest individuals and largest foundations don't have enough money to end poverty, reverse climate... -
What Happens When a Company (Like Patagonia) Transfers Ownership to a Nonprofit?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThis form of ownership may be new in the U.S., but it's relatively common in Europe. -
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.... -
Persuade Past Resisters
Communication VideoDon't be discouraged if your audience is resistant to your ideas. Identify and address these objections head-on. -
Lead from the Heart
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe president and CEO of the American Red Cross talks about changing its organizational structure, making processes more collaborative, and learning the... -
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... -
Disaster Relief, Inc.
Global Business Magazine ArticleWhen disaster strikes, many corporations respond generously. After the 2004 tsunami, for instance, U.S. firms alone contributed more than half of a billion... -
Life's Work: Salman Khan
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn interview with the pathbreaking online educator Salman Khan. -
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... -
A New Approach to Funding Social Enterprises
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleAn increasing number of social entrepreneurs and investors are realizing that social enterprises of all sorts, including many organizations regarded as... -
Should Your Business Be Nonprofit or For-Profit?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe right model for social impact is both. -
How Nonprofits Can Encourage Donors to Give More
Nonprofit organizations Digital ArticleThree research-backed strategies. -
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... -
Luxury Branding Below the Radar
Sales & Marketing Magazine Article"Inconspicuous consumption"--elite consumers' affinity for discreet rather than traditionally branded luxuries--has become a global phenomenon. Work by... -
EBay's Founder on Innovating the Business Model of Social Change
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen eBay's IPO in September 1998 made Omidyar wealthier than he'd ever imagined, he and his fiancee, Pam (now his wife), decided to create a nonprofit...
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The Ethos Institute (B): Promises and Risks of Working with the Government, Sequel
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details As Brazil's energetic but fractious democracy emerged in the 1990s, the Ethos Institute launched a movement for corporate social responsibility (CSR)... -
The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003 (A): Why the National Service Movement Faced Cutbacks and How it Responded
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The (A) case (1739.0) focuses on the early years of the program in the 1990s, providing a definitive account--based on interviews with those who drafted... -
The Ethos Institute (B): Promises and Risks of Working with the Government
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details As Brazil's energetic but fractious democracy emerged in the 1990s, the Ethos Institute launched a movement for corporate social responsibility (CSR)... -
DORD - Expanding Health Services in Rural Bihar
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Daudnagar Organization for Rural Development (DORD) was determining how to expand its successful eye care hospital into gynecology services. The case... -
HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Hinche, Haiti
Leadership & Managing People Case StudyThis case examines the potential for a non-governmental organization, Zanmi Lasante/Partners in Health (ZL/PIH), to aid in improving voluntary counseling... -
Khan Academy 2018 (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 2008, Khan Academy was a global educational nonprofit with a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone anywhere in the world.... -
The World Food Programme during the Global Food Crisis (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Rising food prices threatened an unprecedented number of people around the world with malnutrition or starvation in 2008. The new Executive Director of... -
Braver Angels: A Grassroots Effort to Depolarize American Politics
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The founders of Braver Angels, an organization that uses family therapy principles to foster constructive dialogue between conservatives and liberals,... -
Nutrition Science Initiative: Are All Calories Created Equal?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details On 2012, Gary Taubes lunched the Nutrition Science initiative (NuSI), a not for profit organization aiming to question the mainstream scientific paradigm... -
INSEAD
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In the spring of 2008, INSEAD offered a one-year MBA, PhD, executive MBA, and non-degree management education programs to nearly 900 MBA students, 64... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Daya Counselling Centre: Response to Funding Cuts
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In early October 2018, the executive director of Daya Counselling Centre had just learned that the Ontario Works program, one of the centre's major funded-referral... -
En Classe: Aligning Incentives in the Public School System across the Democratic Republic of Congo
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details En Classe is an educational foundation operating in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of the poorest countries in the world,... -
The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Since its opening in Beijing in November 2007 as the first non-profit art center in China, UCCA had been operating with the mission to "promote the continued... -
Alliances That Build Alliances: McKinsey-Ashoka and the Fundacion Compromiso
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details McKinsey is an international consulting company that operates in 43 countries. Fundacion Compromiso is an nonprofit entity that provides training, counseling,... -
EOS International: Scaling Financially Sustainable Impact Through Technologies in Nicaragua and Beyond
Management Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 2008, EOS was a US-based nonprofit dedicated to using technology to improve livelihood in rural Nicaragua. Over the last ten years, EOS had... -
The Ethos Institute (A): Challenging Business to Become the Vanguard of Social Progress in Brazil: Sequel
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details As Brazil's energetic but fractious democracy emerged in the 1990s, the Ethos Institute launched a movement for corporate social responsibility (CSR)...
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The Ethos Institute (B): Promises and Risks of Working with the Government, Sequel
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details As Brazil's energetic but fractious democracy emerged in the 1990s, the Ethos Institute launched a movement for corporate social responsibility (CSR)... -
The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003 (A): Why the National Service Movement Faced Cutbacks and How it Responded
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The (A) case (1739.0) focuses on the early years of the program in the 1990s, providing a definitive account--based on interviews with those who drafted... -
The Ethos Institute (B): Promises and Risks of Working with the Government
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details As Brazil's energetic but fractious democracy emerged in the 1990s, the Ethos Institute launched a movement for corporate social responsibility (CSR)... -
DORD - Expanding Health Services in Rural Bihar
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Daudnagar Organization for Rural Development (DORD) was determining how to expand its successful eye care hospital into gynecology services. The case... -
HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Hinche, Haiti
Leadership & Managing People Case StudyThis case examines the potential for a non-governmental organization, Zanmi Lasante/Partners in Health (ZL/PIH), to aid in improving voluntary counseling... -
Aligning Your Philanthropic Operating Model with Your Goals
Global Business Digital ArticleA framework to help funders understand who they are and what kind of impact they aspire to have. -
Khan Academy 2018 (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 2008, Khan Academy was a global educational nonprofit with a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone anywhere in the world.... -
Rise Asset Development: Scaling a Social Innovation - Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching note for case NA0561 -
The World Food Programme during the Global Food Crisis (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Rising food prices threatened an unprecedented number of people around the world with malnutrition or starvation in 2008. The new Executive Director of...
