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  • 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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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Fellow by the American Marketing Association in 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023. Eva Ascarza : Selected as an INFORMS Doctoral Consortium Fellow at the University of Miami in 2023. Eva Ascarza : Winner of the 2023... View Details
  • 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
  • 2005
  • Other Unpublished Work

A Call for Participatory Decision Making: Discussion Paper on World Bank-Civil Society Engagement

By: S. Herz and Alnoor Ebrahim
Keywords: Decision Making; Civil Society or Community
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  • 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
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

including suggestions for future research. The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim Publication:Chap. 4 in The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. 3rd ed., edited View Details
  • November 1995
  • Article

Energy Pricing and Groundwater Use

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and S. Mohanty
Keywords: Price; Energy; Natural Environment
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  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

A Mission in Motion

Nonprofit Management ("Bringing It Back Home"), which draws nonprofit leaders from around the world to the HBS campus. Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim teaches in the program; his research on quantifying... View Details
Keywords: summary
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

market-type dispersion by decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Placing the Normative Logics of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

"second-generation" perspective on accountability that is interpretive and culturally embedded. How Does Accountability Affect Mission? The Case of a Nonprofit Serving Immigrants and Refugees Authors:R. Christensen and Alnoor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

On Course | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

were incorporated into a report presented by Ebrahim as part of his work for the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce. In her current role through the HBS Leadership Fellows Program , So is serving as... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn. Publisher's Link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-078797093X.html The Gifts We Keep on Giving: Documenting and Destigmatizing the Regifting Taboo... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29

note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110070-PDF-ENG The Robin Hood Foundation Alnoor S. Ebrahim and Cathy RossHarvard Business School Case 310-031 Created View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

Conceptualizing Information and Accountability in NGO-Funder Relations Author:Alnoor S. Ebrahim Publication:In Reconceptualising NGOs and Their Roles in Development: NGOs, Civil Society and the International... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

potential angel investors. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808146   PublicationsLearning in Environmental Policymaking and Implementation Authors:Alnoor S. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

The Fab Four

nonprofits. At HBS, Walker will assist Professor Lou Wells in organizing the Rwanda IXP; he’ll also collaborate on a case about New York City’s Robin Hood Foundation with Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

editors, teachers, and individual scholars to act to foster these characteristics. Strategies and Tactics in NGO-Government Relations: Insights from Slum Housing in Mumbai Authors:Ramya Ramanath and Alnoor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne