Peter Winick

MAY 20, 2024

Whereas when you say, how do I scale this knowledge for people who need it but may not say, oh, let’s build a center of excellence around innovation, let’s, you know, hire some top talent and really take the time to make its own department. Spent half a day with him and understood his operation. Had some really grand plans.

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Alison Green

MAY 19, 2022

It doesn’t help that the first positive feedback I got on my work was when an unofficial payband scale was accidentally shared with me, exposing that I’m the lowest paid staff member. My last job, while boring and not in my field, was at a nonprofit and a great place to work. Is this is the way it always is for most companies?

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Energy Marketing Nonprofit Recruitment 105

Chief Executive

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

CFOs that prepare thoughtfully for what’s coming will be positioned to capitalize on opportunities for growth and scale, even as they brace themselves for potential challenges. The CFO of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, a $500 million nonprofit, spent years advocating for the opportunity to execute a digital back-office transformation.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

And launching and scaling these products requires a mastery of “network effects,” one of the most-used but misunderstood jargon terms in the industry. Thus the order of operations, at least for most consumer-facing marketplaces, is “supply, demand, supply, supply, supply.” Uber had to get creative to unlock its Hard Side.

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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.” Local non-profit organizations.

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Peter Winick

MARCH 9, 2023

Our guest today is Jeremy Madsen, Operations Manager for BK Authors an author group affiliated with the award–winning publisher Berrett-Koehler. And then for the all the authors, they’ve got other ways to leverage, monetize and scale the ideas that are in that book, whether it’s speaking, consulting, advising, etc.

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Peter Winick

DECEMBER 1, 2022

When we launched our focus into organizational thought leadership or added that focus, I should say, and we interviewed, I think it was almost 40 heads of thought leadership at all sorts of organizations globally, from nonprofits to financial services to technology, whatever. And there were two or three themes that were recurring.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Although scaling is the holy grail for most social entrepreneurs, not everyone should attempt it. Before a social entrepreneur gets to work building those capabilities, however, it makes sense to ask the question: Is this venture really ready to scale? Readiness for scaling first means having a program or idea that succeeds logically.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In 1912, there weren't movements for the eradication of poverty or disease, or even an understanding of their scale. Most major universities now have nonprofit management programs that didn't exist ten years ago. A hundred years ago, people didn't talk about changing the world — not in the way we speak of it today.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2019

Khan Academy is an online global education nonprofit launched by Sal Khan with the audacious mission to “provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.”

Education 15

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

In so doing, they run the risk of dismissing the impact of nonprofits — and diminishing the value of organizations that seek to make a difference without creating the potential conflicts that come with the profit motive. Increasingly, I see people looking starry-eyed to business and markets to solve social problems.

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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. By the end of 1993, half of the pumps were operating at a loss and many loans were in arrears. Follow the Scaling Social Impact insight center on Twitter @ScalingSocial and give us feedback.

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Chris LoCutro

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, considering a team change, or evaluating an operational shift, understanding how to balance risk and reward is key to moving your business forward with confidence. What about operational risks? Plus, I share practical insights on how to analyze costs, timelines, and market fit.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Even cutting-edge thinking operates from a binary context: It ties itself in knots trying to figure out how you can have both. If you want to make a real difference, you work in the nonprofit sector. Nonprofit organizations have a duty to be frugal and keep overhead low, because that's what the public wants.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

The capital markets that fund education innovation — both for-profit and nonprofit — are largely broken. The result is a large-scale market of technological mediocrity. Their solutions generally don't scale well - they start breaking down when too many students or teachers or schools or districts begin using them.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

Far too many great ideas for solving pressing social problems are not being applied at the scale they deserve, because thousands of nonprofit organizations are teetering on the brink of collapse. Small-scale launches of recommended approaches can then be tested.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. In some larger nonprofit hospitals, there may be six.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

In an open letter to college graduates in Forbes last week, Carl Schramm, the head of the Kauffman Foundation and a man I admire, encouraged young people to follow a path of entrepreneurship, reasoning that, "Although they are necessary parts of our society, governments and nonprofits are not self-sustaining.

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BCW Institute

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I’m delighted to welcome Dr. Jennifer Holloran, the chief operating officer of Wycliffe Bible Translators. Now as chief operating officer, she combines her love for strategic leadership with her years of experience in human resources. Every organization uses a chief-operating or a chief-operations role differently.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

For us the question is not how do you grow organizations but how do you scale impact? To understand what to scale, you have to know what's working. An organization that can scale without directly doing the work or incurring the costs will ultimately have far bigger impact than one trying to do it by growing big.

Nonprofit 12

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The critical challenges society faces — such as water scarcity, access to education, and the rising cost of healthcare — increasingly require the business, government and nonprofit sectors to work together to create lasting solutions. Seabright also built highly effective partnerships with government and nonprofit organizations.

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Nonprofit Government Scaling Strategic Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Prahalad and his colleagues more than a decade ago in a series of articles and books, and it has stuck in the minds of businesspeople, policy makers, and nonprofits despite results that can only be described as dismal. And getting to scale takes a lot longer. It was laid down by C.K. At a price equivalent to 10 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2016

Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure needs more love, and more grant money.

Nonprofit 14

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

There is a tacit vested interest among public, private and nonprofit capital providers in the status quo. Successful companies between $5 million and $50 million in revenues can't get the capital they need to expand their operations and hire more people in city neighborhoods where the best social program is a job.

Real Estate 15

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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. Until we address it, we're just treating symptoms, and our reform efforts will not reach the scale and speed required to avert the looming storm. Seeds of a New Capitalism.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. These financial products create a risk-bearing financial arrangement between public, private, and nonprofit organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

In this case, we adopted the outcome metrics of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes (ICHOM), a nonprofit organization that forms working groups of physician leaders, patient advocacy members, registry leaders, and patients to develop global standard sets of outcome measures for medical conditions.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Upon graduation, the governments, nonprofits, or (more recently) microfinance companies give them loans to buy tools and opens shops. We developed a very cheap rechargeable lighting system and a model where a youth can operate a charging station using solar, grid, or human energy. We are implementing a project in Nigeria.

Education 14

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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. After seven years of operations, we are covering 85 percent of our field operating costs through farmer loan revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

And even if you can't come to an innovative solution, for-profit organizations can help nonprofits directly — beyond your run-of-the-mill corporate social responsibility programs. Each agency operates our stores that collect donated goods and uses the revenues to fund job-training and placement programs in their communities.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

That was the operating assumption when the Wikimedia Foundation set out to get ahead of some pressing challenges and chart a course for the future of Wikipedia and the other projects the nonprofit supports.

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