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In this book, 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.
Karl Weber is a writer based in Irvington, New York. He co-authored Yunus’s best-selling book, Creating a World Without Poverty.
Introduction Social Business---From Dream to Reality
1 Why Social Business? 1
2 Growing Pains 33
Lessons in Adaptation and Change from the Story of Grameen Danone
3 Launching a Social Business 57
4 To Cure One Child 95
A Case of Social Business in Healthcare
5 Legal and Financial Frameworks for Social Business 111
6 Grameen Veolia Water 133
A Social R&D Project for Addressing the World Water Crisis
7 Creating a Global Infrastructure for Social Business 153
8 Glimpses of Tomorrow 173
More Social Businesses Are on the Way
9 The End of Poverty 195
The Time is Here 195
Index 207
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Overview
Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a visionary 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.In this book, 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...