Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing NeedsPublicAffairs, 2010 - 226 pages The Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author shows how entrepreneurial spirit and business smarts can be harnessed to create sustainable businesses that can solve the world's biggest problems. Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a new dimension for capitalism which he calls "social business." The social business model has been adopted by corporations, entrepreneurs, and social activists across the globe. Its goal is to create self-supporting, viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth as they produce goods and services to fulfill human needs. In Building Social Business, Yunus shows how social business can be put into practice and explains why it holds the potential to redeem the failed promise of free-market enterprise. |
Table des matières
Why Social Business? | 1 |
Growing Pains | 33 |
Launching a Social Business | 57 |
To Cure One Child | 95 |
Legal and Financial Frameworks for Social Business | 111 |
Grameen Veolia Water | 133 |
Creating a Global Infrastructure for Social Business | 153 |
Glimpses ofTomorrow | 173 |
The End of Poverty | 195 |
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