Peter Winick

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Bill Sherman We need to set up our recruiting function or accounts payable. It’s fairly obvious how to stand up that function, even if it’s a new we’re a rapidly growing, well-funded startup and it’s the first time we hire a HRO. Someone has done that many, many, many times. You know what that looks like?

Marketing 237

Marketing Metrics Accounts Payable Media 237

Zenefits

DECEMBER 22, 2022

But non-profits also operate on state, regional, and national scales, so don’t limit yourself only to what’s locally available. For example, LegalCORPS is a Minnesota non-profit that provides free legal assistance to “low-income entrepreneurs and innovators and small nonprofits in Minnesota.” No account yet? Remember Me.

Small Business 59

Small Business Advertising Onboarding Administration 59

Peter Winick

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Using technology to take ideas to scale. An interview with Jennifer Dulski about taking ideas to scale through publishing, social media, and technology. Thought leaders are often torn between scale and depth. Scale allows you to reach a large audience, while depth allows you to have massive impact.

Scaling 286

Scaling Nonprofit Revenue Marketing 286

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

For the nonprofit community, Big Data also offers immense potential. For nonprofits, medium data is a humbler but essential prerequisite: structured information about who you are, what you're trying to do, and what's happening. The people, communities, and ecosystems that nonprofits serve. And who pays the price?

Nonprofit 10

Nonprofit Diversity Scaling Accounts 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

To meet the demands of the challenging years ahead, the nonprofit sector will need to change in dramatic ways. The politics of the process were fascinating and underscored the very different cultures of the nonprofit and the for-profit worlds. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and the Bridgespan Group.

Nonprofit 10

Nonprofit Scaling Accounts Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The basic facts were established in a 2012 study by The Bridgespan Group in the Stanford Social Innovation Review , which looked at the more than 200,000 nonprofit organizations founded between 1975 and 2008 to determine how many had grown to $50 million or more in annual revenues. Accountants Will Save the World. The answer?

Nonprofit 10

Nonprofit Government Metrics Revenue 10

AIHR

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

And she’s also a nonprofit founder, advisor, and executive coach. And you know, you talked a little bit about my background as a nonprofit founder. I founded a nonprofit in 2010 that focuses on helping graduate at-risk youth by teaching them the principles of entrepreneurship. And so it sounds very large at scale.

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Inclusion Nonprofit Operations Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going to scale with solutions that are often radically low-tech. Piecemeal, low-tech solutions often go further — and are more easily scaled-up — than anything dreamed up by R&D-centric outsiders. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group.

Banking 22

Banking Scaling Nonprofit Advertising 22

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

But the data, gathered in our new study " Stop Starving Scale " and compared against benchmarks from APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center), hint at a little-known story: most global NGOs today struggle to master the complexities of managing efficient, integrated operations in large part due to restrictions placed on them by funders.

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Accounts Benchmarking Administration Nonprofit 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Furthermore, we learned that this mode of giving delivers a greater impact to the community because it helps fill critical capability gaps in nonprofits. We set people up to use their area of expertise, be it strategy, accounting, operations, technology, finance, or human resources.

Nonprofit 11

Nonprofit Real Estate Human Resources Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

By plugging into local neighborhoods via an existing organization's programs and accountability metrics, we believe Starbucks can create more tangible, sustainable improvements. These two initiatives simply pave the way for us to have a more large-scale impact. in particular is high unemployment. We are not done.

Small Business 20

Small Business Government Scaling Nonprofit 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive. Seeds of a New Capitalism.

Nonprofit 14

Nonprofit Government Benefits Assets 14

BCW Institute

JUNE 13, 2022

I’m delighted to welcome Warren Bird, who is the senior vice president of research and equipping at the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, known as the ECFA. This book is designed for you, a Christian leader in business, a church, or a nonprofit. And we score it on a scale. So often our purpose is fuzzy.

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Leadership Development Employee Engagement Nonprofit Accounts 52

BCW Institute

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And we’re very willing and intentional about making sure that we keep short accounts with one another, that we’re very quick to apologize. I also think that hybrid reality means that we’ve had to consider how to provide the right balance of flexibility and accountability. And so what does that look like?

Operations 52

Operations Strategic Planning Human Resources Accounts 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group. Why Don't the Best Nonprofits Grow? Accountants Will Save the World. An African proverb offers: "If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together." We all have a role to play in making these breakthroughs happen.

Nonprofit 17

Nonprofit Process Improvement Employee Engagement Diversity 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

To do this they apply the same discipline to their charitable work that they do to their core business--insisting on strategic focus, investing at scale and measuring results. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

Scaling 15

Scaling Business Analysis Education Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Contracted services account for significant fractions of all hospitals’ operating expenses. An investor-owned hospital executive whose company had acquired major nonprofit health care enterprises compared the proliferation of contracts to the growth of barnacles on the bottom of a freighter. cancel or rebid them).

Hospitality 14

Hospitality Manager Nonprofit Staffing 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Like Zuckerberg, he wanted to broaden the range of tools he could apply for social change — including not just grants to nonprofits but also “impact investments” into mission-driven, for-profit companies. Some observers worry that it diverts money away from worthy nonprofits.

Nonprofit 14

Nonprofit Government Education Inclusion 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

When you do the math, it reveals that companies with really big payoffs disproportionately account for the total value created by venture capital. For social impact organizations to scale in the same way entrepreneurial tech companies do, investors need to increase their tolerance for non-moral failure.

Nonprofit 10

Nonprofit Scaling Assets Government 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Awash in data, an organization — be it a healthcare nonprofit, a government agency, or a tech company — desperately wants to capitalize on the insights that the "Big Data" hype has promised them. At DataKind we run "DataDives", weekend events that team nonprofits with pro bono data scientists to solve tough social problems.

Nonprofit 13

Nonprofit Metrics Scaling Software 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

Social enterprises may be mission-driven, focused on delivering social impact versus a financial return on investment, but they still need a sustainable model to scale. Government agencies are financed by taxes, fees, and service revenue, but are still accountable to deliver citizen value at scale.

Government 16

Government Scaling Revenue Education 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Social enterprises and nonprofits increasingly recognize the need to adopt management disciplines used successfully in the for-profit world. Accounting firms often offer outplacements to charities or social enterprises for as much as a year or longer. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group.

Scaling 10

Scaling Recruitment Transportation Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

When Evan Marwell decided to start EducationSuperHighway (ESH), a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing broadband internet access to every U.S. And second, with such a big system of 14,000 school districts, expanding fiber networks to reach more people was essential to scaling the solution. Research and analysis.

Telecommunications 15

Telecommunications Government Nonprofit Education 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Many of us are starting to envision a day where we can drop the “impact” moniker and just assume that investments take into account social and environmental factors. But are we scaling the right model? In that case, the industry achieved financial scale, while impact at scale was largely left behind.

Scaling 8

Scaling Real Estate Nonprofit Benefits 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Cap and trade is projected to achieve nearly 20% of that goal by limiting emissions from the industrial, utility, and transportation fuels sectors — which account for roughly 85% of the state's greenhouse gas pollution. While leaders in Washington D.C million annually.

Energy 17

Energy Transportation Marketing Revenue 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I would go even further to contend that multinational corporations— more than governments, and more than NGOs and nonprofits—have the human and financial capital, technology, international footprint, power of markets, and financial motivation to solve the world’s most daunting problems.

Nonprofit 8

Nonprofit Government Education Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

With this in mind, we founded the nonprofit Partners in Food Solutions (PFS). Veronica sells her cotton to Cargill, and her corn to COMACO, a local nonprofit that markets food to consumers while also striving to save wild animals and ecosystems. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group.

Nonprofit 10

Nonprofit Engineering Scaling Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Harvard professor Robert Eccles' research spotlights the often overlooked fact that, "Globalization has concentrated economic power within a group of large companies who are now able to change the world at a scale historically reserved for nations." Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and the Bridgespan Group.

Government 10

Government Scaling Nonprofit Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

How do we account for the double standard? For many, the Games represent the ideal that peace and friendship can be possible on a global scale. Hence the paradox: the least commercialized sports event in the world is accused of over-commercialization while those most heavily commercialized receive no similar complaints.

Advertising 18

Advertising Government Media Scaling 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

As the great midlife migration of baby boomers gathers momentum and scale, long-predicted revolutions in longevity and demography are unfolding in front of us. The nonprofit helps thousands of young people apply their talents to solving significant social problems, starting by working in schools that need more support.

Nonprofit 8

Nonprofit Scaling Education Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Banking : India is a cash-based economy and most Indians don’t have active bank accounts, so setting up brick and mortar banks is a challenge. This will have a huge impact on foreign consumer product companies such as Colgate and PepsiCo eyeing the market in India as eCommerce reaches scale in India.

Banking 14

Banking B2C eCommerce Telecommunications 14

Peter Winick

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Moving beyond theoretical discussions, Winick and Sherman explore the practicalities of scaling thought leadership within corporate landscapes. When scaling our thought leadership for the enterprise level don’t get fixated with the end-user. Peter Winick: People that have the scales and the model and all those things might not.

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Scaling Sales Sales Retention 201

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group. Why Don't the Best Nonprofits Grow? Accountants Will Save the World. An African proverb offers: "If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together." We all have a role to play in making these breakthroughs happen.

Nonprofit 10

Nonprofit Process Improvement Employee Engagement Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group. Why Don't the Best Nonprofits Grow? Accountants Will Save the World. Overcoming these obstacles will require investors and front line organizations to make a long-term commitment to research and collaboration. Give Us Feedback and Get a Free HBR Article.

Metrics 11

Metrics Government Nonprofit Benefits 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going to scale with solutions that are often radically low-tech. Piecemeal, low-tech solutions often go further — and are more easily scaled-up — than anything dreamed up by R&D-centric outsiders. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group.

Banking 8

Banking Scaling Nonprofit Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

One PR firm emailed its employees at 6 am, while an environmental nonprofit emailed at 8. So within another few minutes, they''d activated the automated emergency contact system that goes out to all employees — reaching their home phones, cell phones, work phones, work email accounts, and personal email accounts.

Media 12

Media Accounts Nonprofit Manager 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The $5 billion nonprofit system achieved this by embracing the following four tenets in a cost reduction approach that is aligned with core values in healthcare—enlisting the empathy, collaboration, and engagement that characterize the best care delivery.

Hospitality 10

Hospitality Administration Revenue Benchmarking 10