Building Social Business

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Pub. Date: 2010-05-11
Publisher(s): Public Affairs
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Summary

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 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.

Author Biography

Alejandro Paez Varela (Ciudad Juarez, 1968) es escritor y periodista con una larga y solida trayetoria. Ha sido editor de El Economista. El Universal y Reforma. y reportero, articulista y funcionario en mas de una docena de medios mexicanos y extranjeros. Colaboro en Los intocables (Temas de Hoy, 2008). Los amos de Mexico (Temas de Hoy. 2007). Los suspirantes (Planeta, 2005) y Camas separadas. Su libro mas reciente es la novela Corazon de Kalashnikov.
Ignacio Alvarado Alvarez es periodista. Colaboro en El Diario de Juarez y en la Comision de Asuntos Fronterizos del Senado de la Republica. Fue Productor asociado en ARD. television publica alemana. Actualmente es parte de la unidad de investigacion de El Universal y publica en las revistas Dia Siete y Energia Hoy.
Miguel Angel Chavez Diaz De Leon es escritor y periodista. Su obra periodistica y poetica se ha publicado en varias revistas del pais. como Dia Siete. Tierra Adentro o Azar. Obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Periodismo 2009.
Enrique Lomas Urista es corresponsal, desde hace 16 anos, de Grupo Reforma en el estado de Chihuahua, especialista en temas como narcotrafico e indigenismo. Su trabajo como escritor se ha publicado en cuatro crestomatias de cuento y una de poesia.
Jose Perez Espino es periodista y coautor de varios titulos. Ha coordinado y editado catorce libros relacionados con el marco juridico de los medios de counicacion en Mexico. Es editor de la revista dominical Dia Siete.
Sandra Rodriguez Nieto es comunicologa. Colaboro en la revista Proceso y fue coeditora de informacion nacional en el periodico Reforma. Es reportera de El Diario de Juarez desde 2003 y ha cubierto el Operativo Conjunto Chihuahua.
Marcela Turati es periodista desde 1998. cuando comenzo a trabajar en Reforma. Es coordinadora de la red de periodistas sociales Periodistas de a pie. Actualmente colabora con la revista Proceso y publica en medios nacionales y extranjeros.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Social Business— From Dream to Realityp. vii
Why Social Business?p. 1
Growing Pains: Lessons in Adaptation and Change from the Story of Grameen Danonep. 33
Launching a Social Businessp. 57
To Cure One Child: A Case of Social Business in Healthcarep. 95
Legal and Financial Frameworks for Social Businessp. 113
Grameen Veolia Water: A Social R&D Project for Addressing the World Water Crisisp. 133
Creating a Global Infrastructure for Social Businessp. 153
Glimpses of Tomorrow: More Social Businesses Are on the Wayp. 173
The End of Poverty: The Time Is Herep. 195
Indexp. 207
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