Leadership

The Negative Influence of Dominant Leaders

By Chana R. Schoenberger

Bossy managers can induce staffers to be less supportive of colleagues.

Advocacy

Nonprofit Capture

By Chana R. Schoenberger

Corporate donations tend to generate supportive regulatory comments from their nonprofit recipients.

Measurement & Evaluation

Finding Meaning in Measurement

By Daniela Blei

Performance measurement can help employees see value and meaning in their work.

Education

Supporting Students After Juvenile Detention

By Daniela Blei

Researchers find that relationship-building exercises between troubled students and their teachers cut recidivism.

Scaling

When Scaling Goes Wrong

Reviewed By Jeff Spross

John List’s The Voltage Effect offers advice for companies looking to hit it big, but does the endless pursuit of scale produce more harm than good?

Spring 2022

Philanthropy & Funding

Parrying Philanthropy’s Critics

Reviewed By Benjamin Soskis

Beth Breeze’s In Defence of Philanthropy offers a passionate rebuttal to criticisms of giving that have dominated public discourse.

Spring 2022

Philanthropy & Funding

What’s Wrong With Dirty Money?

By Eric Nee

Nonprofits need to go into relationships with donors with their eyes wide open and dispassionately weigh the risks and rewards of the exchange.

Economic Development

SSIR Online, Spring 2022 Issue

By SSIR Editors

A collection of standout pieces published online about blockchain for good, collective impact, overcoming racial equity fatigue, and carbon offsets.

Food

Resistant Rice

By Marcie Bianco

New genome sequencing has produced saline-resistant and flood-tolerant rice.

Human Rights

Beyond the Nation

By Chandran Nair

An excerpt from Dismantling Global White Privilege on a postcolonial theory of change.