How to Create Better Nonprofit Executive Teams

By Libbie Landles-Cobb, Henry Barmeier & Kirk Kramer 1

Only 19 percent of nonprofit executive team members strongly agree that their teams focus on the right work. To improve the performance of these vital groups, leaders should ask five critical questions.

Wielding Philanthropic Leadership With, Not For

By Grant Oliphant 5

Being a courageous and ethical leader in philanthropy means learning to listen, and sharing our power by encouraging, empowering, and enabling others.

Helping the Oppressed Helps Us All: Insights From the 2018 Nonprofit Management Institute

By M. Amedeo Tumolillo & Eden Stiffman

At SSIR's 2018 Nonprofit Management Institute, civil society leaders shared insight and inspiration for increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion during an era when divisiveness runs through much of the public discourse.

Management Education for Sustainable Development

By Jerry Davis 10

As technology morphs businesses, markets, and economies, we must reimagine how we educate future managers—the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals provide a North Star.

Practical Ideas for Improving Equity and Inclusion at Nonprofits

By Emily Teitsworth 1

The journey toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion has no fixed endpoint, but here are a few places to start.

Giving Voice to Values

By Mary C. Gentile

Reframing the questions we ask about values-driven leadership underlies a not-so-modest proposal to inspire and enable real change in management education and management practice.

Navigating Purpose and Collaboration in Social Impact Networks

By Dylan Skybrook 1

Most models for developing networks for collaboration emphasize discovering or clarifying purpose as the first step. But purpose doesn’t always have to manifest in the form of a single vision or strategic plan shared among all participants.

How Experienced Practice Can Reform Management Education

By Henry Mintzberg 2

Personal experience is central to the education and development of managers.

Civil Society and American Exceptionalism

By Brian Gallagher 1

American civil society has a history of and reputation for political independence—and alongside it, accountability, transparency, and governance. But these unique qualities are at risk.

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Management as a Calling

By Andrew J. Hoffman 10

Business’s capacity to transform society is only as great as the schools that train its future leaders. This demands that business schools reform their vision to promote values of business serving society in order for students to see business as a true calling rather than simply a career. Here is a blueprint for management education in the 21st century.