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Bridgespan Non-Profit Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Bridgespan was birthed out of Bain’s desire to expand its support of nonprofits. In 2000, the group launched its first website, www.bridgespan.org, and started operations from a Boston-based office. Today we continue our firm profile series with an in-depth review of Bridgespan.

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Career Launchpad: The value of joining an MBB Firm

Tom Spencer

My friends at MBB firms have unique opportunities, such as travelling the world on client projects, participating in secondments at external nonprofits, or pursuing their MBAs in the US or Europe. My career path has taken me through consulting, joining a startup and becoming an operator, and then returning to consulting at an MBB firm.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. cancel or rebid them).

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Nonprofit Mergers & Alliances: An interview with Thomas A. McLaughlin (part one)

The Nonprofit Consultant

Regular readers of this blog know that I've been involved in two successful nonprofit mergers, as well as a third attempt that was never consummated, and I've written several blog posts on my feelings about nonprofit mergers. Here's the starting point. With a VNA, it's a health care model; death is failure.

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What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential

Harvard Business

The nonprofit sector has limbs. It doesn’t have one center of organization and imagination looking out at the far horizon to inspire and guide all of the component parts to get to a place together that none operating independently could ever get to on its own. One big qualification.

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Continuous Improvement for Nonprofits

The Nonprofit Consultant

Every operation is and will remain a collection of regularly repeated processes. Over time, dedication to CI dispels these concerns and starts weaving CI into the organizational and cultural fabric. Tags: continuous improvement processes Nonprofit management efficiency. CI comes in many different forms.

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The Rational Aspect of Irrational Philanthropy

The Nonprofit Consultant

Such is the extent to which the message of "effective philanthropy" has permeated the culture. As part of the whole, "nonprofits need to operate more like businesses" meme, the means for analysis are primarily market-driven tools for evaluating programs that exist because of market failures.