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

By:

Yunus, Mohammad

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 2010 Public Affairs New YorkDescription: xxv, 226 pISBN:

9781586488246

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

658.407 Y8B8

Summary: This third book by Professor Yunus, following Banker to the Poor and Creating a World Without Poverty, is dedicated solely towards the concept of social business, its implementation, and its maintenance. Social business is an innovative business model which promotes the idea of doing business in order to address a social problem, and not to maximize profit. As the title suggests, this complement to traditional capitalism truly can serve humanityHs most pressing needs, especially poverty. Each and every social business creates employment, good working conditions, and of course, addresses a specific social ill such as lack of education, healthcare, and good nutrition. (http://www.muhammadyunus.org/Publications/coming-in-may-2010-building-social-business-the-new-kind-of-capitalism-that-serves-humanitys-most-pressing-needs/)

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This third book by Professor Yunus, following Banker to the Poor and Creating a World Without Poverty, is dedicated solely towards the concept of social business, its implementation, and its maintenance. Social business is an innovative business model which promotes the idea of doing business in order to address a social problem, and not to maximize profit. As the title suggests, this complement to traditional capitalism truly can serve humanityHs most pressing needs, especially poverty. Each and every social business creates employment, good working conditions, and of course, addresses a specific social ill such as lack of education, healthcare, and good nutrition. (http://www.muhammadyunus.org/Publications/coming-in-may-2010-building-social-business-the-new-kind-of-capitalism-that-serves-humanitys-most-pressing-needs/)

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