About this title: The winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world - and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. Over the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781586484934ISBN:1586484931
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781586486679ISBN:1586486675
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Publisher: PublicAffairs
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Date Published: 2009-01-05
ISBN-13:9781586486679ISBN:1586486675
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"Muhammad Yunos is the ultimate inspiration to me. I really love and respect what he is about and his words drive passion within me to continue my mission in the world. An excellent practical book outlining what a social business is, why they are important and why they are the future of capitalism."
"This book has several 5 star ideas, but ultimately is too long in it's prose. Dr. Yunus , Nobel Prize winner, describes his concept of a "Social Business" in this book. A social business operates exactly as a for profit entity, but has social goals rather than a goal of maximizing profit. To facilitate this all investors agree to receive only their original capital back after which the business pays no further dividends and reinvests all its' profits into it's social goals. I find this an intriguing idea as this construct is superior to a standard charity since it is perpetual and it's growth is determined by it's management instead of fund raising. I felt the descriptions of a social business stock exchange were somewhat far fetched, as I am not sure how one would value a social business since it has no dividend stream.
The book contains a heartwarming story of Grameen Danone a JV between Grameen Bank and Danone to improve nutrition of poor children by creating a food which is inexpensive and nutritious. I think that Social Business is a powerful idea and I hope that it can be applied successfully such as Dr. Yunus has done with Grameen Bank in Bangladesh."
"Read this actually a few months ago, but was reminded of it from a tweet this morning. The book is solid. A good idea, well-described, in language a non-economist can understand. Yunus is looking to bridge the innovation and efficiency of for-profit business with the social-improvement mission of the non-profit sector. I say: It's about freaking time!! No, business models can't solve everything (but you can expect Yunus to think so as a Nobel Winning Ecnomist and founder of the Grameen Bank), but Yunus conceives of a business model which can, in the right context, combine profitability with helping the poor, solving social problems, and changing the world for the better. BTW, he is pulling all this off in more than a dozen companies in Bangladesh and beyond, so it's not all pipe dreams.
"The reason why I'd reading this book was actually to learn about the microcredit itself; the mechanism, how it works and others related. Well, I do learn a little bit about the microcredit, but I learned more about poverty and how private sectors could actually contribute to the poverty itself.
I learned a little bit about social business which I actually think that it is a great idea, yet I'm quite pessimistic whether such concept can be applied to all companies in the world. They would probably make other company to operate as social business, but I don't think they would give up their current profit company.
I do agree in some concepts that poverty is about the state of mind; thus it is possible to eradicate. Yet, we need to be more focus in it. This book is more about Yunus' experiences in dealing with microcredit, with Grameen Bank. It wasn't an easy job, but it looked like that not-easy-kind-of-job could actually save lifes.
A good book that I can consider as a chapter of Yunus' life. Not really a kind of book that describes the system of Grameen Bank.
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