Alison Green

MAY 13, 2025

The wheel of cheese At my first entry-level nonprofit job, at the end of a fancy reception, the executive director noticed there was a whole wheel of hard cheese that hadnt been touched. She wrapped it in a napkin and handed it to me, saying, Put this in your purse. When I went to pick it up, my heart sank at how expensive it was.

Administration 80

Administration Nonprofit Hospitality Government 80

Vantage Circle

MAY 29, 2023

Benefits of People Sustainability in the Workplace Investing in people sustainability practices in the workplace is not only a responsible choice, but it can also provide significant benefits for businesses. There are several benefits to implementing people sustainability practices in the workplace, including 1.

Inclusion 89

Inclusion Diversity Energy Metrics 89

Alison Green

JUNE 1, 2022

” She told me this is “the done thing” and is completely acceptable and even expected in the professional world and you need to “use every asset you have.” I’ve long been involved with a nonprofit that’s been quite successful. She didn’t really get a response beyond “read the posting and apply.”

Hospitality 95

Hospitality Nonprofit Advertising Assets 95

Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It’s a surprising fact, but the earliest version of the rideshare idea came not from an investor-backed startup, but rather from a nonprofit called Homobiles, run by a prominent member of the LGBTQ community in the Bay Area named Lynn Breedlove.

Marketing 95

Marketing Assets Recruitment Operations 95

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

The nonprofit sector is facing a massive talent shortage , which makes scaling a social enterprise extraordinarily difficult. Nonprofits have an inherent asset in recruiting against their for-profit competitors: purpose. Many nonprofits are able to attract talent, but struggle to develop and retain it.

Nonprofit 14

Nonprofit Recruitment Scaling Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2015

” However, in terms of fulfilling our long-term goals for career success, patience can be an asset. Specifically, 90% of the women said their restraint or patience benefited their careers. She believes that her stint at the nonprofit was highly valuable to her career. That’s not to say waiting is easy.

Benefits 15

Benefits Nonprofit Assets Manager 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Yes, there are other varieties, like nonprofit firms and government-sponsored enterprises, but for-profit firms are assumed to be the center of the economic system. For a fuller discussion of this new type of enterprise, see The For-Benefit Enterprise in the current issue of HBR.). They can invest in for-benefit enterprises.

Nonprofit 16

Nonprofit Government Benefits Assets 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Like the five "good" companies showcased in HBR's November magazine, Bank of America chose to align its social investments with its brand and to leverage its core assets and capabilities for greater impact. For the 90 participants, this opportunity to meet and interact with peers turns out to be one of the program's greatest benefits.

Banking 15

Banking Nonprofit Assets Leadership Development 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

All of us — researchers, policymakers, governments, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit development groups, microfinance institutions, corporations, and philanthropists — have a role to play in bringing them into the widening zone of prosperity. Do you give them cash or assets ? And we may have found a way to do this.

Assets 15

Assets Nonprofit Government Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. The main challenge is that investors are very good at understanding a single asset with standalone cash flows — a toll road, for example, or a power plant, or an apartment building.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Real Estate Assets Nonprofit 14

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. For example, if a nonprofit is experiencing an issue with hiring, we provide human capital consultants to help them revamp their process.

Nonprofit 12

Nonprofit Real Estate Human Resources Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Instead, you can work creatively to transfer it, so that even if you’re starting in a completely different field, you’ll benefit from your years of labor. If you’re an experienced professional, you’ve likely accrued two assets that younger “reinventers” may not have: connections and money.

Nonprofit 15

Nonprofit Assets Compensation Media 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Sometimes the best way to re-imagine the use of an asset is to think about it as your only asset. And one asset that's always with you and too often ignored is your board. Instead of being paid with stock options or cash or other benefits, our board members pay us! You'd have to make the most of what you do have.

Assets 16

Assets Diversity Revenue Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

This data has quickly emerged as one of this century’s most vital assets. Data philanthropy could similarly benefit academia. Think who could benefit from this information. But that doesn’t mean sharing it can’t provide some benefits to a firm, while also aiding social and civic groups. UK-DMC2 Image © DMCii Ltd.

Assets 14

Assets Government Media Benefits 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

The benefits of a strong corporate culture are both intuitive and supported by social science. Nonprofits often excel at having compelling, simple vision statements. If an organization professes, "people are our greatest asset," it should also be ready to invest in people in visible ways. According to James L.

Recruitment 15

Recruitment Nonprofit Assets Culture Change 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

This is the only way foundations and other funders can maximize the social benefit from their assets, and move the needle on solving persistent social issues. Nonprofits: State the Goal, Set a Deadline, Get It Done. Nonprofits: State the Goal, Set a Deadline, Get It Done. Should Your Business Be Nonprofit or For-Profit?

Nonprofit 12

Nonprofit Scaling Assets Government 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

First, Sal Khan could have continued in finance and made far more money than he does in a nonprofit. That’s great but the sums involved are modest compared to the $200 trillion in global financial assets. The government benefits by saving money. The Khan Academy story well illustrates those three changes we’re witnessing.

Education 15

Education Government Benchmarking Nonprofit 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

More recently, companies have discovered that technology-enabled data is an underappreciated but highly valuable asset. A parallel transformation is now taking hold in the nonprofit sector. But for students who don't have the benefit of such support, the apps may provide a much needed lifeline. How Nonprofits Prove Their Worth.

Nonprofit 10

Nonprofit Scaling Education Assets 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

During a recent IT asset disposal project for a large New York bank, a chain-of-custody audit revealed three computers were untracked. She said she had ensured the hard drives were erased, and pointed out that the bank had historically donated used computers to nonprofit organizations. An IT director was suspected of taking them.

Assets 10

Assets Risk Management Banking Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

nonprofit organizations like the Heartland Capital Strategy Institute are bringing together institutional investors, private asset managers, and worker representatives to harness some of the $13 trillion of assets in workers’ pension funds to invest in worker-friendly businesses that offer good investment returns.

Operations 15

Operations Assets Revenue Business Administration 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

One Acre Fund (a nonprofit where Matthew is on the board and Stephanie on the staff) serves 135,000 of the poorest smallholder farmers in East Africa, on average doubling the profits they generate from farming. But is that realistic when you're serving the poorest of the poor? We wholeheartedly agree.

Nonprofit 10

Nonprofit Scaling Operations Revenue 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

And for many Delicious users, those relationships are a key benefit to using the bookmarking system. Those relationships, as much as the bookmarks themselves, represent a common asset. And every time I save a bookmark that somebody else has stored, too, I'm identifying a point of common interest between me and that other user.

Media 15

Media Software Nonprofit Assets 15

AIHR

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And what’s the organizational benefit and gain? Because we know it’s important to help our people grow, they are our most valuable assets, there are all sorts of new competencies and capabilities that people need to hone right now. So what is the reason for change? What are the objectives of the initiative?

Change Management 52

Change Management Manager Project Management Energy 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Finally, corporations can share data with a limited number of trusted intermediaries, such as the UK’s Consumer Data Research Centre and the international development nonprofit NetHope , to enable data analysis and modeling, as well as other value chain activities. Data collaboration is not a zero-sum game.

Media 14

Media Nonprofit Assets Government 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

A bank CEO who successfully implemented a new strategy for positioning the company as environmentally responsible in a country with strong environmental values started with broad awareness sessions for all employees, so they would know what was happening, and so the company could benefit from crowdsourced ideas.

Implementation 8

Implementation Nonprofit Hospitality Sales 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

And by committing to two careers, you will produce benefits for both. And most of my asset manager clients were looking for something different: “Give me a contrarian perspective.” In order to generate funds to help musicians in the city, I could have created a typical nonprofit organization that solicits people for money.

Banking 8

Banking Nonprofit Compliance Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

And recently, the head of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, called on all companies to explain how their businesses make “a positive contribution to society” beyond just financial performance. Truly, business interests and societal interests can be one and the same.

Government 15

Government Nonprofit Hospitality Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

Leisure social ties are identified if two individuals maintain membership in the same country club or serve the same charity, university, government, military, or other nonprofit association. We measured their firm’s value by Tobin’s Q, a ratio between market value of assets to book value of assets.

Diversity 15

Diversity Assets Marketing Government 15

Chief Executive

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In its 2021 annual report and 2022 strategic plan, Jobs Ohio, the state’s private nonprofit economic development corporation, noted 2021 as a landmark year with more than 29,000 jobs created and $6.9 Be in Illinois,” a new multimedia campaign launched this year, showcases the state’s assets, workforce and central location. 7 • OHIO .

Energy 52

Energy Transportation Strategic Planning Engineering 52

Alison Green

JANUARY 14, 2025

In early August, I applied for a manager-level role at a local nonprofit that fits exactly within my professional experience and personal interests. To me, this feels extremely inappropriate and borderline egregious and not to their benefit, either! This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager.

Nonprofit 111

Nonprofit Assets Inclusion Project Management 111

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

trillion in assets, have committed to taking into account the findings of the Access to Medicine Index while conducting their investment analyses and running their engagement meetings. For instance, 60 institutional investors, collectively managing more than $5.5 Mitigate the risk of unethical conduct.

Government 14

Government Nonprofit Compliance Marketing 14