Leadership
Leadership Transition When a Founder’s Star Is on the Rise
Three unique challenges facing successors who take over from ambitious founder-predecessors, and how to navigate them during the already difficult period of transition.
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Health
Art for Solidarity
Art reminds us to create solidarity with people working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic and of the importance of tending to well-being during difficult times.
Impact Investing
How Academia Can Do More to Advance Sustainable Finance
With looming global crises, scholars now more than ever must connect finance to its role in achieving social and environmental goals. Here are five ways they can step up their teaching and research.
Leadership
Getting Past the Glorification of the Founder
A seamless CEO handoff requires that founders of social impact organizations balance their public image with their organization’s brand, while providing space for their teams to shine early on.
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Business
The Startup Market Lifecycle
An excerpt from Startup Myths and Models presents a useful model for how startup markets evolve.
Education
Whose Knowledge Is It?
Community-centered approaches to research in practice at Simon Fraser University. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
Leadership
How to Be a Super Board Chair
Nine super tactics and one superpower board chairs can use to make the most of the board experience and prime their organizations for success.
Leadership
How to See What the World Is Teaching Us About COVID-19
We need to look to other countries to change how we see our own, opening our imaginations to new ideas, solutions, and futures.
Leadership
The Five Stages of Founder Transitions
It is well known that the start-up process is a psychological journey; the same is true of the leaving process.
IN-DEPTH SERIES
Finding the Way Forward When Founders Leave
This essay series, produced in partnership with Generation Citizen’s Scott Warren, looks at the founder succession process through the eyes of those who have lived it, and provides lessons for social enterprises and nonprofits undertaking leadership transitions.