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- 15 Aug 2012
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Nonprofits quantify their success
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
charitable donations like a typical nonprofit would. Commercial microfinance organizations often adopt a hybrid model, for example: they provide business loans to poor people who wouldn't traditionally qualify, but they still depend on...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Nonprofit Board Service - Alumni
Careers Nonprofit Board Service Careers Nonprofit Board Service Nonprofit board service is an exceptional way for HBS alumni to meaningfully contribute to communities and...
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- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
The Harvard Business School Initiative on Social Enterprise is embarking on a new intellectual endeavor to understand a fast-changing and fertilearena — the Social Capital Markets. For years, money given to nonprofits has been thought of...
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by Anne Kavanagh
- 2006
- Chapter
Engaging Business with Nonprofits
By: Alison Louie and Arthur C. Brooks
Louie, Alison, and Arthur C. Brooks. "Engaging Business with Nonprofits." In Wise Decision-making in Uncertain Times: Using Nonprofit Resources Effectively, edited by Dennis R. Young, 191–204. New York: Foundation Center, 2006.
- Awards
Carlo Masini Award
"Putting the Brakes on Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance" (with V. Kasturi Rangan) was runner-up for the 2010 Carlo Masini Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management.
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- March 2000
- Article
New Directions in Nonprofit Strategy
By: Allen Grossman, V. Kasturi Rangan and Elaine Backman
Grossman, Allen, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Elaine Backman. "New Directions in Nonprofit Strategy." Supplement. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 29, no. 1 (March 2000).
- 13 May 2021
- News
2021 Nonprofit Boards Summit
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed
In towns and cities across the country, HBS club members are putting their expertise to work helping local nonprofit organizations solve an array of interesting challenges. Alumni agree that it's a rewarding and enjoyable way to make a...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts
“Most of the nonprofits operating today make program decisions based on a mission rather than on a strategy,” writes HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan in Harvard Business Review. “In fact,” he notes, “many View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- News
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
Harvard Business School; Laidler-Kylander (HBS MBA '92) is a PhD candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Manda Salls: Any organization—profit or nonprofit— faces challenges when it goes global. What are some of the unique challenges...
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by Manda Salls
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
HBS OnBoard: Nonprofit Leadership Transitions
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
The coronavirus crisis is hobbling social enterprises around the world, leaving many fighting for survival at a time of profound need. Since the pandemic hit, donations have fallen for more than two-thirds of nonprofit organizations, and...
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by Danielle Kost
- November 1999 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
New Profit Inc.: Governing the Nonprofit Enterprise
By: Robert S. Kaplan
New Profit, Inc. (NPI) is an innovative venture philanthropy fund. Founded by social entrepreneur Venessa Kirsch, NPI intends to raise large donations from individuals who wish to invest in nonprofit enterprises that could have a significant social impact and the...
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Balanced Scorecard;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Venture Capital;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Governance;
Performance Evaluation;
Financial Statements;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Service Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "New Profit Inc.: Governing the Nonprofit Enterprise." Harvard Business School Case 100-052, November 1999. (Revised July 2001.)
- Teaching Interest
Governing for Nonprofit Excellence (Executive Education, Faculty Chair)
This Executive Education course, an HBS Social Enterprise Initiative program, is designed to maximize the contributions of individual nonprofit board members. Participants are challenged to examine their role and the role of their boards in improving organizational...
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Professional Practice: Nonprofit Agency Challenges
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Professional Practice: Nonprofit Agency Challenges." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29, no. 3 (Summer 2010): 628–632. (Comment.)
- TeachingInterests
Performance Management for Nonprofit Organizations (Executive Education, Faculty Co-chair)
This Executive Education course —a joint program presented by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative and Harvard University's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations—explores the impact of measurement on resource allocation, organizational learning, internal processes,...
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- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
Photo courtesy of HBSASNE Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Southeastern New England (HBSASNE) recently held its first-ever reunion of the local nonprofit leaders it has sent to the Strategic Perspectives in View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 2006
- Chapter
Government Funding of Nonprofit Organizations
By: Arthur C. Brooks and Michael Rushton
Brooks, Arthur C., and Michael Rushton. "Government Funding of Nonprofit Organizations." Chap. 4 in Financing Nonprofits: Putting Theory into Practice, edited by Dennis R. Young, 69–92. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2006.