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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... -
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. -
How Companies Can Partner with Nonprofits
Business and society Digital ArticleDone well, these partnerships can boost growth, shareholder value, and societal impact. -
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. -
Mining Gold in Not-for-Profit Brands
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleNonprofits are putting hard numbers on the value of their brands, many of which consumers trust highly. Such organizations are hoping brand valuation... -
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... -
One Way to Help Employees Build Emergency Savings
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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,... -
What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential
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Working on Nonprofit Boards: Don't Assume the Shoe Fits
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleContrary to popular perception, business people can be benevolent. For instance, one recent study notes that four-fifths of all Harvard Business School... -
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... -
How Nonprofits Can Encourage Donors to Give More
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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... -
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.... -
Should Your Start-up Be For-Profit or Nonprofit?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleYears ago the line between nonprofit and for-profit enterprises was clear, but that has changed. Nonprofits now offer products that compete with those... -
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... -
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,... -
How Smart Tech Is Transforming Nonprofits
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleAutomation and AI can free up staff in fundraising, communications, finance, and service delivery efforts. -
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... -
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...
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Profamilia: Planning to Survive
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The Association for the Wellbeing of the Colombian Family, Profamilia, is a private, nonprofit organization founded in September 1965 by Dr. Fernando... -
Sources of Financing for New Nonprofit Ventures
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Designed to help nonprofit entrepreneurs design fund-raising strategies that are appropriate for their specific organizations. Discusses the major fund-raising... -
Peace Games: A Non-Profit's Journey from Birth to National Expansion (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details As a Harvard University freshman in 1992, Eric Dawson began working on a social service project known as Peace Games, a one-day festival to teach school-age... -
ApproTEC Kenya: Technologies to Fight Poverty and Create Wealth
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details ApproTEC markets a range of technologies to improve the income of subsistence farmers and other small-scale entrepreneurs in East Africa. Having achieved... -
Pepsi-BASIX Partnership
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details AWARD WINNING CASE: Adjudged best case at the ISB Case Competition 2010 held in partnership with the Richard Ivey School of Business and the Association... -
HOMI Foundation: Expanding a Non-profit Family Hospital for Children
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The Hospital de la Misericordia (HM), today HOMI Foundation, is a children's hospital located in Bogotá (Colombia). It was founded by José Ignacio Barberi,... -
Braver Angels: A Grassroots Effort to Depolarize American Politics
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The founders of Braver Angels, an organization that uses family therapy principles to foster constructive dialogue between conservatives and liberals,... -
Parachute: Competition and Collaboration in the Market to Save Lives
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Four Canadian non-profit organizations have a mandate to prevent injuries and face similar and worsening problems. Each organization is spending an escalating... -
To Understand a Growing Organization: Greater Miami Neighborhoods
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This case study explores the factors that are important in analyzing the health and soundness of a project in a growing nonprofit housing company with... -
Cristo Rey St. Martin College Preparatory School: Promoting a Culture of Continuous Improvement
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Cristo Rey St. Martin College Preparatory (CRSM), a school with a unique educational model, has built a culture of accountability and student achievement.... -
Driving Strategic Change at The Junior League (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement case to KEL816. -
From Little Things Big Things Grow: The Clontarf Foundation Program for Aboriginal Boys (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This case focuses on the growth of an innovative non-profit institution that motivates aboriginal children to attend school by harnessing their love of... -
Nourishing Communities: Brighter Bites Approach to Childhood Nutrition
Management Case Study11.95View Details In September 2023, Brighter Bites, a Houston-based non-profit that distributed fresh produce and nutrition education in underserved communities across... -
Public Architecture
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Public Architecture is a non-profit architecture company dedicated to creating social and professional change through design for the public good. Public... -
Note on the Nonprofit Sector
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note introduces students to the current state of the nonprofit sector around the world. It also provides insight into the sector's origin and purpose... -
The Tampa Museum of Science and Industry: The Fowler Avenue Land Problem
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details When the fast-growing Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Florida finds out that a key, privately-owned parcel of land adjoining its "campus" is... -
Building the Engineering/Tech Pipeline: Enhancing the SAE Brand as an Innovator (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Founded in 1905, SAE International, a global association of over 200,000 engineers, technical experts and volunteers, is a leader in technical learning... -
TransFair USA
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details TransFair USA, the U.S. fair trade labeling arm of the Fair Trade Labeling Organization (FLO), faced strategic challenges in 2003. The Fair Trade label... -
The Broach Theatre
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details This case focuses on The Broach Theatre, a nonprofit performing arts theater located in the historic section of downtown Greensboro, NC. The theater offers...
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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... -
Profamilia: Planning to Survive
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The Association for the Wellbeing of the Colombian Family, Profamilia, is a private, nonprofit organization founded in September 1965 by Dr. Fernando... -
Sources of Financing for New Nonprofit Ventures
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Designed to help nonprofit entrepreneurs design fund-raising strategies that are appropriate for their specific organizations. Discusses the major fund-raising... -
Peace Games: A Non-Profit's Journey from Birth to National Expansion (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details As a Harvard University freshman in 1992, Eric Dawson began working on a social service project known as Peace Games, a one-day festival to teach school-age... -
ApproTEC Kenya: Technologies to Fight Poverty and Create Wealth
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details ApproTEC markets a range of technologies to improve the income of subsistence farmers and other small-scale entrepreneurs in East Africa. Having achieved... -
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. -
Pepsi-BASIX Partnership
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details AWARD WINNING CASE: Adjudged best case at the ISB Case Competition 2010 held in partnership with the Richard Ivey School of Business and the Association... -
HOMI Foundation: Expanding a Non-profit Family Hospital for Children
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The Hospital de la Misericordia (HM), today HOMI Foundation, is a children's hospital located in Bogotá (Colombia). It was founded by José Ignacio Barberi,... -
Braver Angels: A Grassroots Effort to Depolarize American Politics
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The founders of Braver Angels, an organization that uses family therapy principles to foster constructive dialogue between conservatives and liberals,...