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- Nonprofit Board Governance Research Project
- Pathways to Social Impact: Strategies for Expansion, Replication, and Dissemination in the Social Sector
- Effects of Out-of-School Learning Sites for Youth on Disadvantaged Communities
- The Effects of Nonprofit Versus For-Profit Ownership: Private Choices and Public Policy in Health Care
- National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) Project on Nonprofit Organizations
- Summary Database of Select Financial Characteristics of Silicon Valley Nonprofit Organizations
- The Role of Social Innovation Goals in the Private Sector
- The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook (2nd Edition)
- The Political Dimensions of Corporate Social Responsibility
Research Project
National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) Project on Nonprofit Organizations
Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Daniel Kessler is conducting research for the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) Project on Nonprofit Organizations. To date, research in industrial organization, corporate finance, and public economics has made significant strides in the analysis of the objectives of and decisions about organization, investment, financing, management, and compensation in private for-profit firms. At the same time, although non-profit firms are an important component of economic activity in the US and other countries (and sometimes compete with for-profit firms), economic analysis of the organization of and decision-making by non-profit firms is relatively rare. This project seeks 1) to identify the objectives of non-profit firms and how they differ (if at all) from simple profit maximization and 2) to assess the consequences of such differences in objectives for the behavior and performance of non-profit firms.
