Review: Leading Teams
Baumgarten offers strategies for creating team success.
Sectors - Articles
Review: What’s the Big Idea?
The authors offer advice on how to spot and move on bright ideas.
Review: A Company of Citizens
The answers to a motivated workforce may lie in ancient Greece.
Review: Living, Leading, and the American Dream
Collection of essays by nonprofit leader John Gardner.
Podcast
Tom Tierney - Nonprofit Management and the Leadership Deficit
One of the biggest challenges in nonprofit management is hiring and retaining talented executive leaders. In this conversation with Stanford Social Innovation Review managing editor Eric Nee, Thomas Tierney shares findings from the Bridgespan Group's study on the "leadership deficit." Tierney talks about how this crisis is affecting nonprofits, and what organizations can do to address the problem.
Review
Going Global
The leaders of international humanitarian organizations, such as CARE and Oxfam talk candidly about management strategy, organizational goals, advocacy, accountability, and partnerships.
Review
Value Shift
The author has penned an engaging book that unravels the complicated issues surrounding business ethics.
How Nonprofits Get Really Big
Since 1970, more than 200,000 nonprofits have opened in the U.S., but only 144 have reached $50 million in annual revenue. They got big by doing two things: They raised the bulk of their money from a single type of funder. And just as importantly, these nonprofits created professional organizations that were tailored to the needs of their primary funding sources.
Podcast
John Sage - Social Enterprise, Fair Trade and Coffee
Combining idealism with a genuine love of business, John Sage cofounded the social enterprise company Pura Vida, one of the largest distributors of fair trade organic coffee in the world. In this University podcast, he discusses his mission to improve the lives of people in coffee-growing regions. Sage explains how Pura Vida works at the intersection of the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, showing how the two can be blended to generate both revenues and social good.
Luck of the Draw
Grantees of foundations have little control over which program officer takes their case. Yet program officers make or break grantees’ experiences with foundations. To trigger social change, foundations must give program officers better training, clearer expectations, and regular performance feedback.