The Inglorious Life and Sudden Death of AmazonSmile
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Last week’s big news was that AmazonSmile is closing shop after ten years. What can you say about AmazonSmile? What can you say about a corporate behemoth that undertakes an…
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[This article was co-published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy on October 21, 2020.] Grants from corporations inevitably keep the donors’ business interests in mind at recipient organizations. That’s certainly the…
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[This article was published in full in Harvard Business Review on September 17, 2020] America’s nonprofits are under enormous pressure. More than six months into the pandemic, those that provide…
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Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is a very rich guy – in fact, he’s the sixth-richest person in the United States, according to those who count such things. Befitting his…
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