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• Background Note | HBS Case Collection | 2013 (Revised from original 2008 version)

  Note on the Nonprofit Coherence Framework

  Allen S. Grossman and Stacey Childress

  This note presents the Nonprofit Coherence Framework. It helps nonprofit leaders identify the key elements that support an organizational strategy focused on attaining high performance, bring those elements into a coherent relationship with the strategy and each other, and help guide the actions of people throughout an organization in the pursuit of high levels of individual and organizational achievement. This note proposes that to attain high performance, a nonprofit organization must have all of its organizational elements—culture, structure, systems, resources, stakeholders, and the operating environment—working together to drive strategy.

  Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Improvement; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Strategy;

  Citation:

  Grossman, Allen S., and Stacey Childress. "Note on the Nonprofit Coherence Framework." Harvard Business School Background Note 309-035, June 2013. (Revised from original August 2008 version.)

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | 2012 (Revised from original 2009 version)

  United Way

  Allen S. Grossman and Cathy Ross

  After United Way CEO Brian Gallagher began shifting the organization's focus from old-school fundraising to community impact, Gallagher and local leaders like Elise Bulk, CEO of the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, faced a series of challenges regarding how to best use United Way's resources to address the root causes of social problems.

  Keywords: Investment Funds; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Alignment; Los Angeles;

  Citation:

  Grossman, Allen S., and Cathy Ross. "United Way." Harvard Business School Case 310-014, September 2012. (Revised from original September 2009 version.)

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• Teaching Plan | HBS Case Collection | 2012

  The American Repertory Theater (TP)

  Rohit Deshpandé, Allen S. Grossman and Annelena Lobb

  Citation:

  Deshpandé, Rohit, Allen S. Grossman, and Annelena Lobb. "The American Repertory Theater (TP)." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 512-101, June 2012.

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