Building social business : the new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs

Building social business : the new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs / Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yunus, Muhammad, 1940-
Other Authors: Weber, Karl, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Public Affairs, c2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Social responsibility of business.
Social entrepreneurship.
Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects.
Table of 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 business infrastructure for social business
  • Glimpses of tomorrow : more social businesses are on the way
  • The end of poverty : the time is here.

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