Many factors including incentive-pay, powerful shareholders, and takeover threats push for-profits managers towards … maximizing shareholder value. One of the most striking factors about non-profit firms is that they have no comparable governance … institutions, and the only check on managers are boards that are themselves rarely responsible to anyone outside the firm. This …

This paper examines how the managerial labor market in nonprofit hospitals has adjusted to the negative income … pressures created by HMO penetration. Using a panel of about 1500 nonprofit hospitals over the period 1992 to 1996, we find that … objectives among not-for-profit hospitals. Boards appear to fire the managers that are least able to compete in the new …

Nonprofit hospitals receive favorable tax treatment in exchange for providing socially beneficial activities. Extending … needy populations, nonprofit hospital mergers should be evaluated differently than mergers of for-profit hospitals. However …, this rationale rests upon the premise that nonprofit hospitals with greater market power provide more care to the needy. In …

Nonprofit charitable organizations are exempt from most taxes, including local property taxes, but U.S. cities and … appear to discourage nonprofit activity: a one percent higher PILOT rate is associated with 0.8 percent reduced real property …

The role of data analysis in communication, persuasion, and decision-making is discussed. Some problems with current … data-analysis practice are presented, including communication, complex models, large data bases, one-pass processing, rigid …

. This paper investigates the extent to which the preponderance of the nonprofit form in this industry might account for this …, and especially whether secular nonprofit hospitals reduce capacity more slowly than do other types of hospitals. We … changes in the capacity of for-profit, secular nonprofit, religious nonprofit, and public hospitals over the same period …

a firm donates to a non-profit, the grantee is more likely to comment on rules for which the firm has also provided a …

We present the first estimates of investment returns and distribution rates for U.S. non-profit endowment funds, based … on a comprehensive sample of 29,762 organizations drawn from Internal Revenue Service filings for 2009-2017. Non-profit …