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Silicon Valley's cautionary tale shows what can go wrong when charities get obsessed with growth

  • Written by Brian Mittendorf, Fisher Designated Professor of Accounting and Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems (MIS), The Ohio State University
Charities should not make amassing more and more money their top priority.Shutterstock.com/Stokkete

An obsession with growth. A failure to intervene when an executive allegedly bullies and sexually harasses staff. High employee turnover and burnout.

This is not the plot of one of those movies dramatizing Wall Street greed. It’s actually a...

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