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MAYER N. ZALD is professor emeritus of sociology, social work, and business administration at the University of Michigan. He has published or edited more than 15 books and written more than 70 journal articles on topics including the sociology of social welfare, boards of directors, political sociology and social movements, and social change. He is one of the founders of the "resource mobilization approach" to the study of social movements. Among other honors, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at .
DAVID K. SHIPLER worked for The New York Times from 1966 to 1988, reporting from New York, Saigon, Moscow, and Jerusalem before serving as chief diplomatic correspondent in Washington, D.C. He is author of "Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams," "Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in the Promised Land" (which won the Pulitzer Prize), and "A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America." He has taught at Princeton University, American University, and Dartmouth College. This article was adapted from his latest book, "The Working Poor: Invisible in America" (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), copyright © 2004 by David K. Shipler. He can be reached at .
KATIE CUNNINGHAM is the director of national development of Teach for America.
MARC RICKS is a senior policy adviser for the city of New York. He and Katie Cunningham conducted their research as students at the Harvard Business School, with the guidance of professor Allen Grossman and Andre Dua, a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
SUSAN COLBY is a partner and head of the Bridgespan Group's San Francisco office. Before joining Bridgespan, she served as co-president of Pharmacia's (previously Monsanto) Sustainable Development Sector, and spent 10 years at McKinsey & Company, where she co-founded and co-led the North American Environment Practice. She can be reached at .
NAN STONE is the Bridgespan partner responsible for leading the firm's knowledge strategy. Prior to joining Bridgespan, she spent 16 years at the Harvard Business Review, the last five as editor. She can be reached at .
PAUL CARTTAR is a co-founder and former partner of the Bridgespan Group. In 2003, he became the chief operating officer of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He can be reached at .
DOUG GUTHRIE is associate professor of sociology and management at New York University. His primary areas of research are organizational theory and the impact of corporations on the social sector. He has written extensively on the impact of foreign companies in China, including "Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China" (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999) and "Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi" (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2002). Guthrie has also taught at Stanford, Columbia, and Emory. He can be reached at .
DEBRA E. MEYERSON is associate professor of education and (by courtesy) organizational behavior at Stanford University. She has given seminars at companies and nonprofit organizations worldwide. Her research has appeared in The Boston Globe, Business 2.0, Fast Company, the Harvard Business Review, Inc., The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. She can be reached at .
JAMES A. PHILLS JR. is associate professor (teaching) of organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also co-director of the business school's Center for Social Innovation and an associate editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. This article is adapted from his forthcoming book, "Integrating Mission and Strategy for Nonprofits," due from Oxford University Press in 2005. He can be reached at .
RONALD A. HEIFETZ is the King Hussein bin Talal Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a co-founder of the Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership. His first book, "Leadership Without Easy Answers" (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1994), is in its 13th printing. Heifetz also is a principal of Cambridge Leadership Associates and can be reached at .
JOHN V. KANIA is managing director of the Foundation Strategy Group in Boston. FSG advises foundations and corporations on philanthropic strategy development, evaluation, and communications. FSG served as a consultant to the Pittsburgh Foundation during the time that it suspended grants to local public schools, but his work was unrelated to that decision. Prior to FSG, Kania was a management consultant to clients in education, healthcare, and media. He can be reached at .
MARK R. KRAMER is a founder and managing director of the Foundation Strategy Group and a senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is also a founder and chairman of the nonprofit Center for Effective Philanthropy. Kramer writes regularly on philanthropy, and his articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and Foundation News & Commentary. He can be reached at .
MARGARET A. NEALE is the John G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation Professor of Organizations and Dispute Resolution at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is also director of four Stanford executive education programs -- Advanced Negotiation Program; Negotiation and Influence Strategies; Managing Teams for Innovation and Success; and Mergers and Acquisitions: Creating and Claiming Shareholder Value. She can be reached at .
BURTON A. WEISBROD is John Evans Professor of Economics at Northwestern University and faculty fellow at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research, which he directed from 1990 to 1995. Weisbrod is also an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as a past president of the Midwest Economics Association, member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association, and senior staff member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He is the author or co-author of nine books, editor of six, and author of nearly 200 articles in professional journals on such topics as economics of the nonprofit sector, health economics and technological change, public interest law, economics of education, poverty, the military draft, and benefit-cost analysis. In 1997, he received the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations' Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement.
MICHAEL KLAUSNER is the Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where he teaches both corporate and nonprofit law. He is also co-director of the Directors' Consortium, an executive education program for board members of public companies. He can be reached at .
JONATHAN SMALL is president of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (NPCC), an umbrella organization with over 1,300 nonprofit organizations as its members. He was previously a partner with the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. He can be reached at .
FRANCIE OSTROWER, Ph.D., is a sociologist and senior research associate at the Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy. She is the author of "Trustees of Culture: Power, Wealth, and Status on Elite Arts Boards," "Foundation Effectiveness: Definitions and Challenges," "Partnerships Between Large and Small Cultural Organizations: A Strategy for Building Arts Participation," and numerous other publications on nonprofits, philanthropy, and cultural organizations. She is vice president for publications and board member of ARNOVA. She can be reached at .
JEFFREY PFEFFER is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Business School, where he has taught since 1979. He is the author or co-author of 10 books, including "The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First" and "The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action." Pfeffer also serves on the board of directors of four companies, and writes a monthly column,"The Human Factor," for Business 2.0. He can be reached at .
ANDREW RICH is an assistant professor of political science at City College of New York. He is the author of "Think Tanks, Public Policy, and the Politics of Expertise" (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and he is writing a book about the war of ideas in American politics. He can be reached at .
KEITH EPSTEIN is an investigative journalist and freelance writer who covers Washington for The Tampa Tribune and Media General News Service. A former investigative reporter for The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), he also has written for The Washington Post on travel and health, CIO Insight, PostNewsweek publications on technology policy and organizational management, and for The Tampa Tribune on Congress, politics, the IRS, and nonprofits.
STUART L. HART is the S.C. Johnson Chair of Sustainable Global Enterprise and professor of management at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His research interests center on strategy innovation and change, particularly the strategic implications of environmentalism and sustainable development. He can be reached at .
TED LONDON is on the faculty at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. In July 2005, he will move to the University of Michigan, where he will teach at the Ross School of Business, and lead a new base of the pyramid research initiative at the William Davidson Institute. His research focuses on strategic growth and change, including capability development for emerging markets and cross-sector alliances between corporations and nonprofit organizations. He can be reached at .
STEPHANIE LOWELL is an independent nonprofit consultant and an alumnus of McKinsey & Company's Boston office. She can be reached at .
BRIAN TRELSTAD is the CFO of Acumen Fund and an alumnus of McKinsey & Company's New Jersey office. He can be reached at .
WILLIAM F. MEEHAN III is a director of McKinsey & Company, senior lecturer in strategic management and Class of 1978 Lecturer (2004-2005) at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is also the chairman of Philanthropic Research Inc., the parent of GuideStar. He can be reached at .
RICARDO SANDOVAL is a Mexico City-based writer who covers Latin American business and crime for Knight Ridder newspapers and other publications. He is currently writing a book about crime along the U.S.-Mexico border. He can be contacted at .
DEBORAH DOANE is a writer and campaigner on CSR and global sustainability. She is chair of the CORE (Corporate Responsibility) Coalition of over 130 NGOs, organizations, and individuals in the U.K., campaigning for reform of the corporation to consider social and environmental issues. She is a frequent guest lecturer on the future of CSR issues, including at the London School of Economics and London Business School, and has contributed to The Guardian and The Independent as well as the "Financial Times Handbook of Management," amongst others.
ADRIE KUSSEROW is an associate professor of anthropology at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vt. Her book, "American Individualisms: Child Rearing and Social Class in Three Neighborhoods," was published this year. She may be reached at .
MARK MACNAMARA, a Morocco-based investigative reporter, has been a reporter and editor for nearly 30 years. He has written for the International Herald Tribune, Vanity Fair, USA Today, 7x7, and Salon.com, among many others. He lives in Ifrane, a small town in the Middle Atlas Mountains, with his wife and 11-year-old son. He works as a stringer for Newsweek, and lectures at Al Akhawayn University of Ifrane on journalism and communications.
