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  • Leadership

Award Winner Spotlight: Scott Cohen, The Madeira School

Cohen streamlined business office practices and strengthened financial governance at The Madeira School.
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  • Human Resources

The Future Cost of COVID-19: Impact on Policy Renewals

With many carriers giving premium holidays, rebates and rate holds throughout 2020, the lingering question remains: When should we expect that large renewal increase to make it all up?
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  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Human Resources

Shaping Community-Wide Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

How do we utilize equity and inclusion practices as assets and opportunity makers towards reshaping and transforming our schools?
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  • Leadership

Award Winner Spotlight: Brenda Bullied, Pomfret School

As an integral member of her school's COVID-19 task force, Bullied has helped to advance campus growth in the midst of uncommon circumstances. 
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Projections  

  • Culture
  • | Leadership

Projections: The Key To Creating Your "Escape Velocity" is Wellness

Amidst an ongoing pandemic and constant business pressure, we must still pay attention to wellness for ourselves and our organizations.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Debt
  • | Financing

Endicott College: A Case Study in Financial Prudence

Can airtight debt management and a focus on student retention help us emerge in a better financial position than before the pandemic?
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  • Leadership

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Independent schools are always looking for — and finding — new innovations in their business operations. For the first time this year, NBOA recognized those schools with a new award, the Jeffrey Shields Award for Innovat
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Announcing the Inaugural NBOA Professional Achievement Award Recipients

Congratulations to the inaugural recipients of the NBOA Professional Achievement Award, which recognizes the invaluable contributions made by independent school business, finance and operations staff who are not business
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  • Misconduct
  • | Risk Management

Abuse Can Be a Preventable Risk

Boarding, camp and auxiliary programs are in a unique position to mitigate this danger.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Leadership

The Most Productive Way to Schedule Your Day

Research on productivity shows that taking breaks is vital to sustaining your attention for long periods of time. 
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  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Leadership

What’s in Your 100-Day Plan?

How can school leaders continue creating change within their organizations?
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CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership
  • | Pandemic

A Hopeful Outlook

Our collective, never-ending recognition of the past year as the most challenging, exhausting and memorable of our entire professional careers may soon be in for a reversal of fortune.
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After School  

  • Leadership

After School: Community Connections

Providing volunteer leadership in sports and other pursuits has taught this business officer diverse lessons.
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Mission & Motivation  

  • Investments
  • | Leadership

Mission & Motivation: Next Generation Investors

Sharing real funds with students and mentoring their business and investment acumen has literally paid dividends, in the $100,000s.
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5 Minutes with  

  • Leadership

5 Minutes with Patrick Schuermann: Leading Outside the Box

Successful leadership requires knowing your default style and strengthening other approaches to meet each moment most effectively.
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Business Intelligence  

  • Cash Management
  • | Financing
  • | Research

Business Intelligence: Benchmarking the Pandemic’s Financial Impact

Initial findings from BIIS 2019-20 data collection reveal that for most schools, both revenue and expenses were up slightly as the school year concluded remotely.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Communication
  • | Leadership

Listening is Leadership

When school leaders listen in focused and systematic ways, they can help their teams broaden their contributions and create conditions for creative confidence.
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Strategies  

  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Human Resources
  • | Leadership

Strategies: Diversifying the Senior Leadership Team

Through concerted hiring efforts, senior leadership at Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences is nearly half people of color.
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Projections  

  • Change Management
  • | Leadership
  • | Pandemic

Projections: Powering the Flywheel

As light from the tunnel’s end comes into focus, our charge is to maintain the spirit of innovation through the pandemic’s final stages and beyond.
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  • Leadership
  • | Membership

NBOA's 2021 Annual Meeting Charts a New Strategy for the Future

The trends and events of this past year reminds us that change is a constant in our profession and across the educational, social, economic, and political landscape.
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