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  • 25 Jul 2014
  • Video

Managing Social Enterprise: Professor Alnoor Ebrahim

  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

accountability and effectiveness today? What should it do about them? With a detailed description of the Bank's challenges of democratic accountability, its constraints, and recommendations for the future, HBS professor Alnoor View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 11 Mar 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 09 Jul 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim & V. Kasturi Rangan
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society

Keywords: by Alnoor S. Ebrahim & Steve Herz
  • 14 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

everyone needs to measure impact.” "There are two big conversations among nonprofit leaders," says HBS associate professor Alnoor Ebrahim. "One is around accountability. The second focuses on performance, particularly impact." View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

expertise to improve the lives of children and youth of low-income families in the Washington, D.C., region. Morino is the author of Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity. Alnoor S. View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • News

Are We There Yet? A Conversation on Performance Measures in the Third Sector

  • 20 Mar 2013
  • News

Sizing Up Social Impact

  • 09 Dec 2014
  • News

Can Your Movie Change the World?

    NGOs and Organizational Change

    The organizational dynamics of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly complex as they have evolved from small local groups into sophisticated multinational organizations with global networks. Alnoor... View Details

    • 02 Mar 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: March 2

    legal change applied). These reductions in agency costs were followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in interest costs. Finally, we can estimate the welfare implications of agency costs, because firm values increased... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 15 Aug 2012
    • News

    Nonprofits quantify their success

    • 03 Jan 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Articles of 2010

    systematic analysis and comparison across these approaches. In this paper, HBS professors Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan provide a synthesis of the current debates and, in so doing, offer a typology... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 01 Jun 2010
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

    accountability demands. HBS professor Alnoor Ebrahim examines the tradeoffs inherent in a range of accountability mechanisms. Key concepts include: Accountability is not simply about compliance with laws or... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • Spring 2014
    • Article

    What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance

    By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
    Organizations with social missions, such as nonprofits and social enterprises, are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Performance Evaluation
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    • 2013
    • White Paper

    Building and Governing a Democratic Federation: The ActionAid International Story

    By: Sherine Jayawickrama and Alnoor Ebrahim
    This report examines the governance model and reform process of an international nongovernmental organization (INGO), ActionAid International (AAI). It describes the evolution of AAI's governance model and draws key lessons for peer INGOs. The paper is based on a... View Details
    Keywords: Governance; NGO; Accountability; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Non-Governmental Organizations
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    • October 2010 (Revised July 2013)
    • Case

    ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability

    By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Rachel Gordon
    As a global NGO working in 45 countries, ActionAid International aims to eradicate poverty by addressing its underlying causes such as injustice and inequality. This case follows a series of radical transformations implemented by the organization's CEO, Ramesh Singh—a... View Details
    Keywords: Local Range; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations; Power and Influence; Johannesburg; London
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    • Web

    Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

    environmental dimension of CSR. Spring 2014 Article What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan Organizations with social missions,... View Details
    • 2010
    • Chapter

    The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability

    By: Alnoor Ebrahim
    Calls for greater accountability are not new. Leaders of organizations, be they nonprofit, business, or government, face a constant stream of demands from various constituents demanding accountable behavior. But what does it mean to be accountable? By and large,... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Corporate Accountability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Leadership; Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Behavior; Trust
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