A real-world guide to nonprofit success
If you’re fortunate enough to be able to donate large amounts of money to worthy causes, you may already have read The Art of Giving: Where the Soul Meets a Business Plan. Co-written by philanthropist...
View ArticleTap the power of professional associations
With a million and one items on your to-do list, and only 24 hours in a day, you may think you just haven’t got time to be active in a trade group or professional organization. Understandable, of...
View ArticleA global approach to innovation
Where will your next great idea come from? More and more, big companies are looking beyond their walls to find everything from basic design elements to new production methods and materials. “At Procter...
View ArticleNeed a loan? Try the little bank down the street
A couple of statistics you might find interesting: Relatively small, so-called community banks, each with assets under $10 billion, together make up just 17% of total U.S. bank assets. Yet right now,...
View ArticleHow a business is like a rock band
If you watch hit television shows like The Voice, Real Housewives of Atlanta or American Pickers, you’ve already heard the work of a Manhattan-based company called Jingle Punks. Co-founder and CEO...
View ArticleA nonprofit supports the world’s job creators
A couple of years ago, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Nick Beim, a venture capitalist with Matrix Partners, sat down and started brainstorming with Linda Rottenberg, co-founder and CEO of the...
View ArticleProtect your data from disaster
Richard Trivedi, founder and chief executive of tech consulting firm CadreNet, never thought he’d see businesses coping with worse disruptions than they did after Sept. 11, but Superstorm Sandy trumped...
View ArticleA change agent for the city’s public schools
P.S. 15, on the Lower East Side, was already struggling. Of its 187 students, many are homeless, so the dropout rate runs at about 50% a year, and basic classroom supplies — not to mention programs...
View ArticlePresenting social media’s answer to the Oscars
When you think back over all the online posts, tweets and social-media marketing campaigns you’ve seen since last January, are there any (maybe even your own) that stand out in your mind as...
View ArticleWant a new strategy for 2013? Start at the end.
Early in his new book, Start at the End, Dave Lavinsky quotes Yogi Berra: “If you don’t know where you’re going, you probably won’t get there.” Mr. Lavinsky co-founded consulting firm Growthink, which...
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