Green energy for a billion poor: how grameen shakti created a winning model for social business Wimmer, Nancy

Table of Contents:


PART 1—THE DAYS OF THE PIONEERS


1 Bootstrapping in the Hinterland

2 Developing the DNA of a Social Business

3 Becoming the Little Company That Could


PART 2—THE ART OF RURAL BUSINESS


4 Planting the Seeds of Success in the Field

5 Keeping the Engine Running

6 Working on the Cutting Edge of Business



PART 3—MUCH LIES AHEAD


6 Change Reaches the Village

7 A Quantum Leap in Social Business

Appendix

Witness the economic and social innovations of Grameen Shakti, sister company of the Nobel Prize winning Grameen Bank. Shakti masters the unique art of rural business, letting five million people benefit from light, electricity and additional income. Shakti is the vanguard model for tackling the enormous market of a billion villagers living far from the electric grid in developing countries. Read about Shakti's inner mechanics, services, strategies and values--and understand its success. Enjoy the lively exotic stories told by pioneers in Bangladesh. Foreword by Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate .".. I congratulate Nancy Wimmer for getting interested in the activities of Grameen Shakti and studying it so deeply to bring out what makes it work. She did not stop at presenting the philosophy and the impressive results produced by Grameen Shakti, she went beyond them to discover and understand the foot soldiers-cum-creators of Grameen Shakti. That makes this book very unique ..."