Management Education for Sustainable Development
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.
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Innovative approaches to internally driven, organization-wide efforts to achieve strategic goals (more)
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Against Relevance
The dogma in business school education is that faculty’s research should be relevant, yet serving our students also means questioning what relevance leaves out.
Practical Ideas for Improving Equity and Inclusion at Nonprofits
The journey toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion has no fixed endpoint, but here are a few places to start.
How Experienced Practice Can Reform Management Education
Personal experience is central to the education and development of managers.
Finding More Investment Support for Gender-Diverse Founding Teams
Women co-run businesses are outperforming their male-only counterparts, but not enough investors are betting on them. Here’s what we can do to support representative entrepreneurial ecosystems and how an India-based investor is pointing the way.
From Feel Good to Real Good
We need to equip the next generation with the tools they need to deliver on good intentions.
IN-DEPTH SERIES
The Power of Feedback
In this multimedia series, sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, voices from the social sector will offer tactics, tools, and advice gleaned from the grassroots to encourage nonprofits and foundations to make listening to their constituents—and acting on what they hear—a smart norm for any organization committed to improvement.
How Leaders Can Strengthen Their Organizational Culture
What if all social impact organizations held their leaders and staff accountable not only for what they accomplish, but also for how they accomplish it?
After the Merger: Getting to “Yes” is Only the Beginning
The integration process following a merger agreement is essential to achieving success.
Aspirin and Democracy
With its professional management class and army of consultants, the nonprofit sector can sometimes seem isolated from the messiness of civil society, and a new Philanthropic Beltway may have sprung up. But it wasn’t always that way, and it may be time to reclaim an earlier identity as the “volunteer sector,” which is inherently democratic.