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• Title:Building social business : the new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs / Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber.
  
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• Author/Creator:Yunus, Muhammad, 1940-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Weber, Karl, 1953-
  
• Published/Created:New York : Public Affairs, 2011, ©2010.
  

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  • Call Number: HD60 .Y85 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Social responsibility of business.
  Social entrepreneurship.
  Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:xxv, 226 pages ; 21 cm
  
• 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.
  
• Notes:Includes index.
  
• ISBN:9781586489564 (pbk.)
  1586489569 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Why Social Business?
  2. Growing Pains
  Lessons in Adaptation and Change from the Story of Grameen Danone
  3. Launching a Social Business
  4. To Cure One Child
  Case of Social Business in Healthcare
  5. Legal and Financial Frameworks for Social Business
  6. Grameen Veolia Water
  Social R&D Project for Addressing the World Water Crisis
  7. Creating a Global Infrastructure for Social Business
  8. Glimpses of Tomorrow
  More Social Businesses Are on the Way
  9. End of Poverty
  Time Is Here.