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Building social business : the new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs / Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yunus, Muhammad, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social responsibility of business.
- Social entrepreneurship.
- Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Capitalism.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 226 pages : portrait ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- New kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Public Affairs, [2010]
- Summary:
- Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a new dimension for capitalism which he calls "social business." By harnessing the energy of profit-making to the objective of fulfilling human needs, social business creates self-supporting, viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth even as they produce goods and services that make the world a better place. Here, Yunus shows how social business has gone from being a theory to an inspiring practice, adopted by leading corporations, entrepreneurs, and social activists across Asia, South America, Europe and the US. He demonstrates how social business transforms lives; offers practical guidance for those who want to create social businesses of their own; explains how public and corporate policies must adapt to make room for the social business model; and shows why social business holds the potential to redeem the failed promise of free-market enterprise.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Introduction: social business
- from dream to reality
- Why social business?
- Growing pains : lessons in adaptation and change from the story of Grameen Danone
- Launching a social business
- To cure one child : a case of social business in healthcare
- Legal and financial frameworks for social business
- Grameen Veolia Water : a social R & D project for addressing the world water crisis
- Creating a global infrastructure for social business
- Glimpses of tomorrow : more social businesses are on the way
- The end of poverty : the time is here.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781586488246
- 1586488244
- 9781586489564
- 1586489569
- 9781586488635
- 1586488635
- OCLC:
- 449858733
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