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    Strategic Nonprofit Management—India

    Strategic Nonprofit Management—India
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    • Format: In-Person
    • Location: India
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    • The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
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    Program Announcement
    The information below is based on the program offered in JUL 2020, and does not reflect potential changes to faculty and course content for future program offerings. For a list of upcoming programs, visit our program finder.

    Summary

    India's booming nonprofit sector has the potential to make significant inroads into the region's challenges—from ensuring access to clean water, sanitation, and nutritious food to improving health care and education. But nonprofit organizations will succeed only if their leaders can develop a focused mission and strategy, a solid operational model, strong governance, and effective leadership. In this program, you will prepare to build a high-performance organization that can fulfill its mission, expand its scope, and achieve its potential for improving lives.

    Developed in conjunction with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, this program is offered in association with the Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy (CSIP) at Ashoka University in India.

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    Summary

    India's booming nonprofit sector has the potential to make significant inroads into the region's challenges—from ensuring access to clean water, sanitation, and nutritious food to improving health care and education. But nonprofit organizations will succeed only if their leaders can develop a focused mission and strategy, a solid operational model, strong governance, and effective leadership. In this program, you will prepare to build a high-performance organization that can fulfill its mission, expand its scope, and achieve its potential for improving lives.

    Developed in conjunction with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, this program is offered in association with the Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy (CSIP) at Ashoka University in India.

    Key Benefits
    This program prepares you to build and lead an effective nonprofit organization that can drive social change and expand its impact. Empowered by the opportunity to step back and reflect on the direction of your organization, you'll prepare to build a strong foundation that will enable your organization to scale operations and make a real difference in the region.

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    Focus your mission, strategy, and leadership approachFocus your mission, strategy, and leadership approach
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    • Determine your organization's trajectory
    • Define what success means for your organization
    • Evolve a leadership style suited to your organization's mission, strategy, and stage of development
    Build an effective organization and fund its operationBuild an effective organization and fund its operation
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    • Develop the core capabilities and external alliances needed to fulfill your mission and execute your strategy
    • Assess your organization's performance and improve its effectiveness
    • Successfully raise the funds needed for ongoing operations and expansion
    • Communicate effectively with key stakeholders
    Expand your personal and professional networkExpand your personal and professional network
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    • Extend your network by living 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

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    This program prepares you to build and lead an effective nonprofit organization that can drive social change and expand its impact. Empowered by the opportunity to step back and reflect on the direction of your organization, you'll prepare to build a strong foundation that will enable your organization to scale operations and make a real difference in the region.
    Details

    Focus your mission, strategy, and leadership approach

    • Determine your organization's trajectory
    • Define what success means for your organization
    • Evolve a leadership style suited to your organization's mission, strategy, and stage of development

    Build an effective organization and fund its operation

    • Develop the core capabilities and external alliances needed to fulfill your mission and execute your strategy
    • Assess your organization's performance and improve its effectiveness
    • Successfully raise the funds needed for ongoing operations and expansion
    • Communicate effectively with key stakeholders

    Expand your personal and professional network

    • Extend your network by living 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

    • Senior executives who are strategic decision makers at nonprofit organizations serving the public in South or Southeast Asia, such as executive directors, chief executive officers, board members, or others who shape the mission, direction, and policies of their organizations
    • Other executives who work closely with the nonprofit sector

    Needs-based scholarships may be available to qualified candidates. Please contact Himakshi Piplani via email at snmi@ashoka.edu.in

    Participating Companies Have Included:
    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    Design For Change
    Educate Girls
    Habitat for Humanity
    IWMI
    Make-A-Wish
    QUEST Alliance
    Tata Trusts
    Teach For India
    Under the Mango Tree Society
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    Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.
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    Who Should Attend

    • Senior executives who are strategic decision makers at nonprofit organizations serving the public in South or Southeast Asia, such as executive directors, chief executive officers, board members, or others who shape the mission, direction, and policies of their organizations
    • Other executives who work closely with the nonprofit sector

    Needs-based scholarships may be available to qualified candidates. Please contact Himakshi Piplani via email at snmi@ashoka.edu.in

    Participating Companies Have Included:
    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    Design For Change
    Educate Girls
    Habitat for Humanity
    IWMI
    Make-A-Wish
    QUEST Alliance
    Tata Trusts
    Teach For India
    Under the Mango Tree Society
    Dive Deeper into the Experience
    Play video
    Play video
    Inside the Classroom
    See how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video
    Play video
    Play video
    We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?
    Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video
    Play video
    Play video
    Discover more about business. And yourself.
    Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video

    An Exceptional Learning Experience

    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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    An Exceptional Learning Experience

    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

    We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.
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    Answering Your Questions

    Contact Himakshi Piplani via email at snmi@ashoka.edu.in or phone at +91.130.2300604.

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email Himakshi Piplani at snmi@ashoka.edu.in or call +91.130.2300604.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. We seek candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, regions, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.

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    Admissions Criteria and Process Dropdown down

    We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.

    Answering Your Questions

    Contact Himakshi Piplani via email at snmi@ashoka.edu.in or phone at +91.130.2300604.

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email Himakshi Piplani at snmi@ashoka.edu.in or call +91.130.2300604.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. We seek candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, regions, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.

    What You Will Learn

    Through a rich learning experience, including faculty presentations, case studies, dynamic classroom discussions, small-group workshops, guest speakers, and panel discussions, you will gain a deeper understanding of how successful nonprofit organizations are addressing their challenges and achieving their mission.

    The curriculum emphasizes South and Southeast Asia, with roughly two-thirds of the cases based on organizations in the region. You will learn alongside peers who share the challenges of operating in an emerging economy characterized by social challenges and infrastructure gaps. In special workshops throughout the program, you will team with peers to work on challenges that each of you has identified as critical to the success of your respective organizations. These exercises will help you formulate a plan of action to address your organization's challenges upon returning to work.

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    What You Will Learn

    Through a rich learning experience, including faculty presentations, case studies, dynamic classroom discussions, small-group workshops, guest speakers, and panel discussions, you will gain a deeper understanding of how successful nonprofit organizations are addressing their challenges and achieving their mission.

    The curriculum emphasizes South and Southeast Asia, with roughly two-thirds of the cases based on organizations in the region. You will learn alongside peers who share the challenges of operating in an emerging economy characterized by social challenges and infrastructure gaps. In special workshops throughout the program, you will team with peers to work on challenges that each of you has identified as critical to the success of your respective organizations. These exercises will help you formulate a plan of action to address your organization's challenges upon returning to work.

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    Your focused mission and goalsYour focused mission and goals
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    • Setting goals and analyzing your mission in the context of your organization's capabilities
    • Pinpointing the problem you want to address, whom you will serve, and how you define success
    • Making tough decisions about what your organization will and will not do
    • Understanding the risks of a mission that is too broad
    • Communicating vision, mission, and goals throughout the organization
    A disciplined approach to strategyA disciplined approach to strategy
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    • Understanding nonprofit strategy and how it differs from for-profit strategy
    • Operationalizing your mission and serving beneficiaries
    • Defining the core processes that make up your operating model
    • Developing a funding model that aligns with your operating model
    • Identifying potential sources of funding and how to raise funds
    • Developing alliances to execute your strategy
    • Addressing institutional infrastructure challenges and other issues unique to South and Southeast Asia
    Performance measurement and improvementPerformance measurement and improvement
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    • Knowing whether—and how—your organization is succeeding
    • Measuring effort and impact
    • Defining key performance indicators
    • Assessing performance in relation to external norms
    • Creating more efficient and effective processes and structures
    • Communicating with stakeholders about performance
    Responsible governanceResponsible governance
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    • Understanding the board's function and goals
    • Deciding whom you should recruit for your board and why
    • Recognizing the connections among transparency, reporting, and fundraising
    • Knowing your legal responsibilities as a nonprofit entity and demonstrating compliance
    Effective leadershipEffective leadership
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    • Understanding the leader's role in strategic decision making
    • Choosing and evolving your leadership style
    • Leading authentically and ethically
    • Managing self, team, and organization
    • Understanding and managing change
    • Developing leadership capacity in yourself and your organization

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    Key Topics Dropdown down

    Your focused mission and goals

    • Setting goals and analyzing your mission in the context of your organization's capabilities
    • Pinpointing the problem you want to address, whom you will serve, and how you define success
    • Making tough decisions about what your organization will and will not do
    • Understanding the risks of a mission that is too broad
    • Communicating vision, mission, and goals throughout the organization

    A disciplined approach to strategy

    • Understanding nonprofit strategy and how it differs from for-profit strategy
    • Operationalizing your mission and serving beneficiaries
    • Defining the core processes that make up your operating model
    • Developing a funding model that aligns with your operating model
    • Identifying potential sources of funding and how to raise funds
    • Developing alliances to execute your strategy
    • Addressing institutional infrastructure challenges and other issues unique to South and Southeast Asia

    Performance measurement and improvement

    • Knowing whether—and how—your organization is succeeding
    • Measuring effort and impact
    • Defining key performance indicators
    • Assessing performance in relation to external norms
    • Creating more efficient and effective processes and structures
    • Communicating with stakeholders about performance

    Responsible governance

    • Understanding the board's function and goals
    • Deciding whom you should recruit for your board and why
    • Recognizing the connections among transparency, reporting, and fundraising
    • Knowing your legal responsibilities as a nonprofit entity and demonstrating compliance

    Effective leadership

    • Understanding the leader's role in strategic decision making
    • Choosing and evolving your leadership style
    • Leading authentically and ethically
    • Managing self, team, and organization
    • Understanding and managing change
    • Developing leadership capacity in yourself and your organization

    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.

    Faculty Chair
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    Vikram S. Gandhi

    Vikram S. Gandhi

    Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

    HBS Unit:
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    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.

    Faculty Chair
    V. Kasturi Rangan
    V. Kasturi Rangan
    V. Kasturi Rangan

    V. Kasturi Rangan

    Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing

    HBS Unit:
    Marketing

    Read Full Bio

    Faculty
    Vikram S. Gandhi
    Vikram S. Gandhi
    Vikram S. Gandhi

    Vikram S. Gandhi

    Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

    HBS Unit:
    Entrepreneurial Management

    Read Full Bio

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