HBR's 10 Must Reads on Nonprofits and the Social Sectors
By Harvard Business Review in HBR's 10 Must Reads Series?HBR's 10 Must Reads
Interested in all the books in this Series? Click here
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Nonprofits and the Social Sectors (featuring What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits by Peter F. Drucker)
Nonprofits and the social sectors are taking on an increasing share of the world's most vital work. Make sure your organization is ready for the challenge.
If you read nothing else on nonprofits and the social sectors, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you align your organization's mission and strategy, deliver immediate impact, and create lasting change.
This book will inspire you to:
- Choose the right problem to solve
- Understand when the best practices of for-profits don't apply
- Assemble an engaged and goal-driven board of directors
- Make the most of for-profit initiatives and corporate partnerships
- Drive demand, scale up, and be ready to change course
- Learn from the success stories of the world's most respected nonprofit leaders
This collection of articles includes Lofty Missions, Down-to-Earth Plans, by V. Kasturi Rangan; What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits, by Peter F. Drucker; Life's Work: An Interview with Desmond Tutu; Are You Solving the Right Problem? by Dwayne Spradlin; Life's Work: An Interview with George Mitchell; Enterprising Nonprofits, by J. Gregory Dees; Life's Work: An Interview with Wynton Marsalis; State Street's CEO on Creating Employment for At-Risk Youths, by Joseph Hooley; Life's Work: An Interview with Salman Khan; Do Better at Doing Good, by V. Kasturi Rangan, Sohel Karim, and Sheryl K. Sandberg; AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas, by Arthur C. Brooks; Life's Work: An Interview with Michelle Bachelet; The New Work of the Nonprofit Board, by Barbara E. Taylor, Richard P. Chait, and Thomas P. Holland; Life's Work: An Interview with Bill T. Jones; Reaching the World's Poorest Consumers, by Muhammad Yunus, Frederic Dalsace, David Menasce, and Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot; Life's Work: An Interview with Muhammad Yunus; and Audacious Philanthropy: Lessons from 15 World-Changing Initiatives, by Susan Wolf Ditkoff and Abe Grindle.
Book details
- Paperback
- 224 pages
- English
- 1633696901
- 9781633696907
About Harvard Business Review
harvard business review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. through its flagship magazine, 13 international licensed editions, books Read More about Harvard Business Review
More Books By Harvard Business Review
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy, Vol. 2 book by Harvard Business Review
HBR's 10 Must Reads Boxed Set (6 Books) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
Cybersecurity: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series)
People who bought this also bought
The Bigger Deal: Work Your Way to a Life of Meaning book by Sunny Bindra
The SPIN Selling Fieldbook: Practical Tools, Methods, Exercises and Resources book by Neil Rackham
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History book by Kurt Andersen
The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle book by Baltasar Gracian
Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo book by Anjan Sundaram
Put Your Money where Your Morals are: A Guide to Values-based Investing
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order book by Ray Dalio
Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire book by Bob W. White
99 Ways to Open a Beer Bottle Without a Bottle Opener book by Brett Stern
Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics book by Henry Hazlitt
On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent book by Gustavo Gutierrez
The French Connection: World's Most Crucial Narcotics Investigation book by Robin Moore
Grieving with the Help of Your Catholic Faith book by Lorene Hanley Duquin
Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy book by Ron Willingham
Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the Real by Wendy S. Hesford
Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War book by Hugh Bicheno