Rate My Professor Alnoor Ebrahim

Alnoor Ebrahim is the Thomas Schmidheiny Professor of International Business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University and Professor of Management at Tisch College of Civic Life. He holds a PhD in Environmental Planning and Management from Stanford University (1999), an MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford (1994), and a BSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1991). Before joining Tufts, Ebrahim taught at Harvard Business School, where he chaired two executive programs for social sector leaders, and at Virginia Tech. He teaches courses on leadership and strategy, and delivers executive programs at Tufts' Fletcher School, Harvard, and Georgetown University.

His research addresses dilemmas of social change for businesses, nonprofits, and public agencies, including strategies for delivering and scaling social impact, performance measurement and accountability, governance amid competing demands, and system-level challenges like global poverty. Ebrahim is author of the award-winning Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World (Stanford University Press, 2019), recognized by the Financial Times, Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium, and Alliance for Nonprofit Management. He also wrote NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2003), an award-winner, and co-edited Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Key articles include "The governance of social enterprises: Mission drift and accountability challenges in hybrid organizations" (Research in Organizational Behavior, 2014; over 2000 citations), "What impact? A framework for measuring the scale and scope of social performance" (California Management Review, 2014; over 1000 citations), "Accountability in practice: Mechanisms for NGOs" (World Development, 2003; over 2000 citations), and "Accountability myopia: Losing sight of organizational learning" (Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2005; over 1000 citations). Recent publications feature "Nonprofit Organizations and the Evaluation of Social Impact" (2023) and "Governance for global integration" (World Development, 2022). He serves on advisory boards for Stanford Social Innovation Review and World Bank's Global Partnership for Social Accountability, and previously for IRIS+ at GIIN, G7 social impact measurement working group, Acumen's Lean Data council, Imago Global Grassroots board, and NGO Leaders Forum. His World Bank research supported Congressional testimony on information disclosure policy.