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Building Social Business

The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs

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By: Muhammad Yunus
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Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his world-changing efforts, here develops his revolutionary new concept that promises to redeem the failed promise of free enterprise: social business.

Designed to fill the gap between profit-making and human needs, social business applies entrepreneurial thinking to problems like poverty, hunger, pollution, and disease, creating self-supporting enterprises that create jobs and generate economic growth even as they make the world a better place.

Partnering with some of the world’s greatest corporations, Yunus and his Grameen Bank have already launched several social businesses that are addressing challenges like malnutrition, lack of potable water, and endemic illness in Yunus’s homeland of Bangladesh, while other organizations around the world are developing their own experiments in social business.

In this book, Yunus traces the development of the social business idea and explains its lessons for entrepreneurs, social activists, and policy makers, and offers practical guidance for those who want to create social businesses of their own.

©2010 Muhammad Yunus (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Business Development & Entrepreneurship Business Ethics Economics Entrepreneurship Non-Profits & Charities Poverty & Homelessness Social Sciences Workplace & Organizational Behavior Business Capitalism Social Responsibility Sustainability Inspiring Africa Socialism Taxation Management Social Business

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“Muhammad Yunus is a practical visionary who has improved the lives of millions of people in his native Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world.” ( Los Angeles Times)

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I enjoyed every chapter. The audio is well read, the rxamples made are easy to capture and the whole subject was very eye opening experience. Big thanks to the author and founder of so many social business opportunities in Bangladesh and also globally.

A great introduction to the world of social businesses globally.

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In the last two weeks I've recommended this book to more people than I can count, changed the structure of the engineering company I run to match the structure laid out in this book, and become absolutely obsessed with the concept and practical implementation of social business.

If you work, and live on Earth I highly recommend this book to you. Thank you Muhammad Yunus!

Life changing, please read

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Overall, the book was good. It teaches the lessons and principles of establishing a social enterprise.

The narrative of the book is boring, but the information is good.

Keys to Social Entrepreneurship

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I do think that more organizations should have a structure similar to what is proposed in this book instead of operating as a standard nonprofit. That being said, I do fundamentally disagree with some of what the author said so I only rated it four stars.

Interesting Idea

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This is basically an academic review of the history of social business, a very detailed analysis of what a social business is and is not, and some practical examples. Unfortunately it is not uplifting or filled with insightful stories of how social business has changed individual lives. The company I own is heavily involved in social responsibility with the sale of entire product lines donated to a charity that feeds impoverished children. I should have loved this book but it just became noise in my headset. It is probably best suited as a resource.

Delivers less than I had hoped

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Let's build a new world with social business and this excellent book from Yunus. Recommended!

Excelent!

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The author does a great job of stating his case for a Social Business. His passion is palpable. He gives easy to understand instructions and or suggestions on how to start a social business, what to focus on, and the importance of being passionate about the endeavor. He is a true humanitarian who looks for and finds ways to help his people. While I know that the great strides he made were not easy, I think that he was able to accomplish so much because of the economic situation of Bangledesh. He could easily make money in America and use a fraction of the money to fix major problems in his country. I don't think it would be that easy in America.

Great Book

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This book best personifies "A journey of a 1000 miles begins with the first step"

Incredibly eye opening

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One of the best books I have listened to. I will go ahead and by the kindle version. I want to read it.

Super

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Yunus' theory bridges the gap between old capitalism, based on 19th century view of man as a rational profit making machine, to what science now knows about how we really work and about the damages of the old approach.
Yunus offers a real hope to establish a different type of economy with better fulfillment and joy to all, without getting carried to socialistic dreams, but rather in a very practical way.

Many questions still remain open, but this is the beginning of the road.

A hope for our collapsing ecomony

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