08-28-2024
How can a nonprofit best assess how many paid staff to hire in times of volunteer sufficiency and scarcity? The Daniels School’s William Haskell, a supply chain and operations management assistant professor, is working on helping organizations approach optimal staffing.
He and his coauthors are creating equations that come as close as possible to helping nonprofits optimize their volunteers and staff both in times of scarcity, like holidays and busy summer months, and when staff is sufficient. Their equations take into account a sequence of events in a specific time period — for example:
Read about Haskell’s work and his forthcoming research paper, in production at Management Science.
