Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation—Virtual
- Dates: 21–29 MAR 2024
- Format: Virtual Synchronous learning at designated live online session times.
- Location: Virtual via HKS
- Fee: $4,200
The program fee covers tuition, e-books, and online case materials.
This program includes live online classes, discussion groups, and virtual networking.
"I got to be a part of an incredible cohort of people from all over the world."
Summary
Performance measurement is essential for organizational innovation, learning, and success. Nonprofits, however, must evaluate social or environmental outcomes as well as financial performance, and the ideal metrics are not always easy to identify. Indeed, to improve the effectiveness of a nonprofit organization—especially when tackling society's toughest challenges—senior executives and board members must prioritize assessment of organizational performance. In this live online program, you will explore how to align mission and strategy through performance measurement.
This program is presented jointly by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative and The Hauser Institute for Civil Society at Harvard University.
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Summary
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Performance measurement is essential for organizational innovation, learning, and success. Nonprofits, however, must evaluate social or environmental outcomes as well as financial performance, and the ideal metrics are not always easy to identify. Indeed, to improve the effectiveness of a nonprofit organization—especially when tackling society's toughest challenges—senior executives and board members must prioritize assessment of organizational performance. In this live online program, you will explore how to align mission and strategy through performance measurement.
This program is presented jointly by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative and The Hauser Institute for Civil Society at Harvard University.
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Maximize impact by aligning mission, strategy, and performanceMaximize impact by aligning mission, strategy, and performance
- Develop a culture of learning and innovation within your organization
- Identify key metrics for measurement
- Assess and communicate outcomes to partners and stakeholders
- Institute and sustain organizational performance measurement
Expand your personal and professional networksExpand your personal and professional networks
- Extend your network by connecting and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
- Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions
Maximize impact by aligning mission, strategy, and performance
- Develop a culture of learning and innovation within your organization
- Identify key metrics for measurement
- Assess and communicate outcomes to partners and stakeholders
- Institute and sustain organizational performance measurement
Expand your personal and professional networks
- Extend your network by connecting and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
- Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions
Who Should Attend
Chief executive officers, presidents, executive directors, board members, and other senior executives in nonprofit organizations (typically with annual budgets in excess of $1 million) who are committed to improving performance measurement and management. Note that this program is focused on organization-level performance measurement and management, not individual-level or human resource-focused performance measurement.
Attendance by multiple organization representatives will foster teamwork and enhance the program's impact.
Program fees are subsidized by Harvard Business School and its Social Enterprise Initiative. Limited, additional need-based scholarship funding may be available. Visit the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative website for scholarship information.
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Who Should Attend
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Chief executive officers, presidents, executive directors, board members, and other senior executives in nonprofit organizations (typically with annual budgets in excess of $1 million) who are committed to improving performance measurement and management. Note that this program is focused on organization-level performance measurement and management, not individual-level or human resource-focused performance measurement.
Attendance by multiple organization representatives will foster teamwork and enhance the program's impact.
Program fees are subsidized by Harvard Business School and its Social Enterprise Initiative. Limited, additional need-based scholarship funding may be available. Visit the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative website for scholarship information.
Dive Deeper into the ExperienceSee how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.
Learning and Living at HBS
When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.
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Learning and Living at HBS
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When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.
Admissions Criteria and Process
Answering Your Questions
Application Submission
Application Review
Fee, Payment, and Cancellations
Answering Your Questions
Application Submission
Application Review
Fee, Payment, and Cancellations
What You Will Learn
This program helps nonprofit executives like you to think conceptually about organizational performance measurement. Through a powerful combination of faculty presentations, case studies, classroom exercises, and group discussions, you'll examine the rationale behind performance measurement and gain valuable insight into its critical aspects.
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What You Will Learn
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This program helps nonprofit executives like you to think conceptually about organizational performance measurement. Through a powerful combination of faculty presentations, case studies, classroom exercises, and group discussions, you'll examine the rationale behind performance measurement and gain valuable insight into its critical aspects.
Program Format
The program will take place over six half days: Thursday, March 21 from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM Eastern Time (ET), and Monday, March 25 through Friday, March 29 from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM ET daily. Live online classes will run from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM ET. Participants will spend one hour with their discussion groups in the mornings before classes on Monday, March 25 through Friday, March 29 from 8:00 to 9:00 AM ET. Select days will also feature open conversations with faculty. The program sessions take place via the Zoom platform. Please note that there are no live program sessions scheduled from Friday, March 22 through Sunday, March 24.
Collaborative learning is an integral part of the experience. To maximize the benefit for everyone, you are expected to attend every session, complete all assignments, and contribute effectively in the class and in small groups. Participants should expect to spend at least 9-12 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.
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Program Format
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The program will take place over six half days: Thursday, March 21 from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM Eastern Time (ET), and Monday, March 25 through Friday, March 29 from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM ET daily. Live online classes will run from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM ET. Participants will spend one hour with their discussion groups in the mornings before classes on Monday, March 25 through Friday, March 29 from 8:00 to 9:00 AM ET. Select days will also feature open conversations with faculty. The program sessions take place via the Zoom platform. Please note that there are no live program sessions scheduled from Friday, March 22 through Sunday, March 24.
Collaborative learning is an integral part of the experience. To maximize the benefit for everyone, you are expected to attend every session, complete all assignments, and contribute effectively in the class and in small groups. Participants should expect to spend at least 9-12 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.
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Aligning mission and organizational performance managementAligning mission and organizational performance management
- Linking organizational performance, mission, and impact
- Recognizing what is being measured and what is being delivered
- Developing a theory of change and logic model
Challenges and obstacles to managing organizational performanceChallenges and obstacles to managing organizational performance
- Building a performance-based culture
- Developing capacity within the organization
- Implementing a performance management strategy
Innovation through measurementInnovation through measurement
- Designing experiments to develop new interventions and improve existing programs
- Fostering a learning mindset within the organization
Collaborating with partnersCollaborating with partners
- Using data to communicate social and environmental outcomes to key stakeholders
- Dealing with the forces that shape the nonprofit environment
Sustainable performance management systemsSustainable performance management systems
- Understanding and overcoming implementation challenges
- Institutionalizing continuous improvement in your organization
- Assessing communication issues
Aligning mission and organizational performance management
- Linking organizational performance, mission, and impact
- Recognizing what is being measured and what is being delivered
- Developing a theory of change and logic model
Challenges and obstacles to managing organizational performance
- Building a performance-based culture
- Developing capacity within the organization
- Implementing a performance management strategy
Innovation through measurement
- Designing experiments to develop new interventions and improve existing programs
- Fostering a learning mindset within the organization
Collaborating with partners
- Using data to communicate social and environmental outcomes to key stakeholders
- Dealing with the forces that shape the nonprofit environment
Sustainable performance management systems
- Understanding and overcoming implementation challenges
- Institutionalizing continuous improvement in your organization
- Assessing communication issues
The HBS Advantage
Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by top faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.
Eliot I. Snider and Family Baker Foundation Professor and Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus
George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Management
Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice
Harry S. Kahn Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
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The HBS Advantage
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Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by top faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.
Faculty ChairHarvard Business School:Eliot I. Snider and Family Baker Foundation Professor and Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus
Harvard Kennedy School:George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Management
HBS Unit:General ManagementFacultyRichard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice
HBS Unit:Entrepreneurial ManagementHarvard Kennedy School:Harry S. Kahn Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
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