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  • 2007
  • Book

Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Edward Weisband
This edited volume contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on accountability in modern organizations. It explores the nature, forms and impacts of accountability efforts in civil society organizations, public and inter-governmental agencies, and private... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Business and Government Relations
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Ebrahim, Alnoor, and Edward Weisband. Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics. U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  • May 2010 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

The Robin Hood Foundation

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Cathy Ross
Created by hedge fund and financial managers, the Robin Hood Foundation fights poverty through grants to nonprofit organizations. As the global financial crisis continues to impact the poor disproportionately, the Foundation needs to ensure that its funds are being... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Poverty; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Financial Crisis; Programs; Measurement and Metrics
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Ebrahim, Alnoor, and Cathy Ross. "The Robin Hood Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 310-031, May 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511068-PDF-ENG ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability Alnoor Ebrahim and Rachel GordonHarvard Business School Case 311-004 As a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2009 (Revised May 2011)
  • Supplement

Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (B)

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
As Acumen Fund, a global venture philanthropy firm, moves forward with an investment portfolio exceeding $22 million, it runs into two critical measurement problems. First, how should it track the performance of each investment when its interest is not just the bottom... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Portfolio; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Social Enterprise; Competition; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
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Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 310-017, September 2009. (Revised May 2011.)
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Faculty Research Online

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact Donors are placing nonprofits on the hot seat to measure social performance. Problem is, there is little agreement on what those metrics should be. Associate Professor Alnoor View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16

  PublicationsThe World Bank and Democratic Accountability: The Role of Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Publication:Chap. 3 in Building Global Democracy? Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance, edited View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Natural Experiment Involving Airbnb and Uber/Lyft” ( Journal of Marketing Research , 2022) with Dokyun Lee, Param Vir Singh, and Tridas Mukhopadhyay. 2023 Eva Ascarza : Selected as an AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Faculty Fellow View Details
  • Fall 2012
  • Article

Enacting Our Field

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
This keynote address, delivered to the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council at its 25-year "benchmark" conference, examines the pedagogical challenges facing the field of nonprofit management in American higher education. It interrogates four binary distinctions commonly... View Details
Keywords: Conferences; Higher Education; Teaching; Social Issues; Innovation and Invention; Programs; Management; Nonprofit Organizations
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Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Enacting Our Field." Keynote Address. Nonprofit Management & Leadership 23, no. 1 (Fall 2012): 13–28. (Keynote Address to the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council, 25 Year Benchmark Conference.)
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
What does it mean for a nonprofit organization to be accountable? Nonprofit leaders tend to pay attention to accountability once a problem of trust arises—a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Performance Evaluation; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Strategy
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Ebrahim, Alnoor. "The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-069, February 2010.
  • 2003
  • Book

NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting and Learning

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Change; Reports; Learning
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Ebrahim, Alnoor. NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting and Learning. U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. (Winner of Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research presented by Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. paperback ed. 2005.)
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Sizing Up Social Impact

profit-making; unlike financial performance, there is no common currency of measurement and aggregation," Ebrahim explains. "The value created by social-sector organizations accrues to society rather than to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • September 2010
  • Teaching Note

Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Teaching Note for 310011 and 310017. View Details
Keywords: Projects; For-Profit Firms; Networks; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Evaluation; Investment Portfolio; Asset Pricing; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
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Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (TN) (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 311-056, September 2010.
  • 2010
  • Dictionary Entry

Accountability

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Keywords: Governance Compliance
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Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Accountability." In International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, edited by Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler. New York: Springer, 2010.
  • October 5, 2009
  • Editorial

The World Bank Must Fix Its Business Model

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business Model
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Ebrahim, Alnoor. "The World Bank Must Fix Its Business Model." Financial Times (October 5, 2009).
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Learning Processes in Environmental Policy Making and Implementation

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
This paper explores how "learning" occurs in the context of environmental policy formulation and implementation. Rather than viewing policy learning as a rational and technocratic process, the emphasis here is on the political and institutional contexts within which... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Power and Influence; South Africa; Brazil
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Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Learning Processes in Environmental Policy Making and Implementation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-071, February 2008.
  • 2004
  • Report

Seeking NGO-Donor Partnership for Greater Effectiveness and Accountability

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Partners and Partnerships; Governance; Performance Effectiveness
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Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Seeking NGO-Donor Partnership for Greater Effectiveness and Accountability." Report, Inter-American Development Bank, May 2004.
  • May 2003
  • Article

Accountability in Practice: Mechanisms for NGOs

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Non-Governmental Organizations
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Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Accountability in Practice: Mechanisms for NGOs." World Development 31, no. 5 (May 2003): 813–829.
  • autumn 2005
  • Article

Evaluating Accountability: Can We Do More with Less?

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Keywords: Governance
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Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Evaluating Accountability: Can We Do More with Less?" AccountAbility Forum 7 (autumn 2005): 28–33.
  • 2008
  • Chapter

Learning in Environmental Policymaking and Implementation

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
This paper explores how "learning" occurs in the context of environmental policy formulation and implementation. Rather than viewing policy learning as a rational and technocratic process, the emphasis here is on the political and institutional contexts within which... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Natural Environment; Power and Influence; South Africa; Brazil
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Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Learning in Environmental Policymaking and Implementation." In Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies: An Instrument for Good Governance, edited by Kulsum Ahmed and Ernesto Sanchez-Triana. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2008. (Was HBS Working Paper 08-071.)
  • March 2014
  • Module Note

Performance Measurement & Accountability in the Social Sector

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
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Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Performance Measurement & Accountability in the Social Sector." Harvard Business School Module Note 314-101, March 2014.
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