Building Social Business

Author : Muhammad Yunus
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586488635
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Social Business written by Muhammad Yunus and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Muhammad Yunus
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1586486675
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating a World Without Poverty written by Muhammad Yunus and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes his vision for an innovative business model that would combine the power of free markets with a quest for a more humane, egalitarian world that could help alleviate world poverty, inequality, and other social problems.

Author : Jean Cédric Obame Emane
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 366880236X
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Social Business by Professor Muhammad YUNUS. Analyzing the Advantages and the Limits of Microcredits written by Jean Cédric Obame Emane and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: A, ( Atlantic International University ), course: SEMINAR ADMINISTRATIVE DEVELOPMENT, language: English, abstract: A social business is a new type of businesses designed by Professor Muhammad Yunus to serve social purposes. Yunus was a former economics professor at Dhaka University, and the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank (lenders of microcredits to world’s poorest) who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. A social business is an alternative against poverty and its objective is to make the poor participate in the process that helps them get out of that situation of slavery- poverty- by causing them to become micro entrepreneurs who increase their income in order to become independent people. The process will eventually change their living conditions and living standards. In Yunus’ words there are two kinds of social businesses. The first category is one that is a non-loss, Non-dividend Company whose main purpose is basically a social goal. The second category is a profit making company possessed by poor people devoted to a well-defined social cause. Besides, social businesses must be self-sustaining and its owners have to be dedicated to never take any dividend beyond the return of the original amount they put in the business, Yunus. Above all, his book is very amazing as Yunus proposes a new model to solve the problems of poverty, not with more charities but with the creation of social businesses. Charities on the contrary encourage dependence and have not resolved the issue of poverty until now. In that perspective, Yunus (2010) sustains that for years governments have been incapable of solving the problems of poverty. Conversely, the number of poor people has increased over the years. This clearly illustrates that solving the issue of poverty is not only to be a governmental solution as governments have proved to be incompetent in this respect. Another solution was to be found, it is the one he proposes in his book. In fact, social businesses have become so successful that traditional capitalism is thinking somewhat how to shift the way things have been handled on their part so far. As an illustration, Yunus (2010) thinks that social business is a new type of capitalism that will help humankind to overcome poverty and have a better life.

Author : Muhammad Yunus
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610397584
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World of Three Zeros written by Muhammad Yunus and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken -- that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force just as powerful as self-interest. Is this a pipe dream? Not at all. In the last decade, thousands of people and organizations have already embraced Yunus's vision of a new form of capitalism, launching innovative social businesses designed to serve human needs rather than accumulate wealth. They are bringing solar energy to millions of homes in Bangladesh; turning thousands of unemployed young people into entrepreneurs through equity investments; financing female-owned businesses in cities across the United States; bringing mobility, shelter, and other services to the rural poor in France; and creating a global support network to help young entrepreneurs launch their start-ups. In A World of Three Zeros, Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire. He explains how global companies like McCain, Renault, Essilor, and Danone got involved with this new economic model through their own social action groups, describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses, and sketches the legal and regulatory changes needed to jumpstart the next wave of socially driven innovations. And he invites young people, business and political leaders, and ordinary citizens to join the movement and help create the better world we all dream of.

Author : Michael Brito
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0132731363
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart Business, Social Business written by Michael Brito and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help organizations evolve into a fully collaborative social business. It serves as a step by step playbook to achieve organizational change, process efficiencies and technology acumen: Proven solutions for the real people, process, and technology obstacles businesses face in using social media behind the firewall. How to have the successful internal conversations with stakeholders, partners and global teams that lead to successful external conversations with the social customer Strategies for improving organizational dynamics, collaboration, governance, training, engagement, policies, technology integration, workflows, social CRM, and metrics Many organizations today have already evolved into social brands. They may be active on Twitter and Facebook; they may have corporate blogs and communities and they are trying hard to engage effectively with the social customer. However, behind the firewall, chaos, anarchy, and conflict reign. In Smart Business, Social Business, leading enterprise social business consultant shows how to build an internal framework based on change management that will lead to success with social media: one that will make external engagement more effective, meaningful, and sustainable. Michael Brito systematically identifies the internal culture, process and technology obstacles to long-term success with social media, and offer best practice solutions. He discusses a wide spectrum of issues, offering actionable intelligence and helping decision-makers build strategies and plans that deliver value. Topics addressed include change management, organizational models and dynamics, internal communications, collaboration, governance, metrics, training, employee activation, policies, technology integration, workflows, social CRM, and much more. Drawing on his own experience working for Silicon Valley companies, HP, Yahoo! and Intel, Brito presents dozens of examples and case studies. Using this book, companies can begin to transform their organizations from just a "social brand" to a fully collaborative and dynamic "social business.”

Author : Neal Schaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118756681
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maximize Your Social written by Neal Schaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create and maintain a successful social media strategy for your business Today, a large number of companies still don't have a strategic approach to social media. Others fail to calculate how effective they are at social media, one of the critical components of implementing any social media strategy. When companies start spending time and money on their social media efforts, they need to create an internal plan that everyone can understand. Maximize Your Social offers a clear vision of what businesses need to do to create—and execute upon—their social media for business road map. Explains the evolution of social media and the absolute necessity for creating a social media strategy Outlines preparation for, mechanics of, and maintenance of a successful social media strategy Author Neal Schaffer was named a Forbes Top 30 Social Media Power Influencer, is the creator of the AdAge Top 100 Global Marketing Blog, Windmill Networking, and a global social media speaker Maximize Your Social will guide you to mastery of social media marketing strategies, saving you from spending a chunk of your budget on a social media consultant. Follow Neal Schaffer's advice, and you'll be able to do it yourself—and do it right.

Author : Martin Loosemore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317583922
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Enterprise in the Construction Industry written by Martin Loosemore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the emerging lens of social enterprise, this book examines how the global construction industry can engage more effectively with the communities in which it builds, addressing disadvantage and environmental degradation to leave a positive legacy for future generations. Combining insights from leading research and real-life case studies of social enterprise in the construction sector, the result is a practical framework which will help social enterprises, clients, consultants and construction firms work collectively to build a thriving social enterprise sector. Readers of this timely book will learn to embrace social enterprise and an important new sector in the global construction industry. They will learn to see community involvement as an opportunity rather than a risk, and fully understand the broader role they can play in building a fairer and more sustainable society.

Author : Eric Carlson
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523095962
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building a Successful Social Venture written by Eric Carlson and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on creating and running a social enterprise to combine theoretical discussions with current cases from around the world, filling a huge gap in the literature. It serves as an eminently practical blueprint for those who wish to build, sustain, and grow social ventures. Building a Successful Social Venture draws on Eric Carlson's and James Koch's pioneering work with the Global Social Benefit Institute, cofounded by Koch at Santa Clara University's Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Since 2003, over 200 Silicon Valley executives have mentored more than 800 aspiring social entrepreneurs at the GSBI. It is this unparalleled real-world foundation that truly sets the book apart. Early versions of the book were used in both undergraduate and MBA classes. Part 1 of the book describes the assumptions that the GSBI model is based on: a bottom-up approach to social change, a focus on base-of-the-pyramid markets, and a specific approach to business planning developed by the GSBI. Part 2 presents the seven elements of the GSBI business planning process, and Part 3 lays out the keys to executing it. The book includes “Social Venture Snapshots” illustrating how different organizations have realized elements of the plan, as well as a wealth of checklists and exercises. Social ventures hold enormous promise to solve some of the world's most intractable problems. This book offers a tested framework for students, social entrepreneurs, and field researchers who wish to learn more about the application of business principles and theories of change for advancing social progress and creating a more just world.

Author : Robert E. Kraut
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262297396
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Successful Online Communities written by Robert E. Kraut and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How insights from the social sciences, including social psychology and economics, can improve the design of online communities. Online communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but not all online communities are equally successful. For every flourishing Facebook, there is a moribund Friendster—not to mention the scores of smaller social networking sites that never attracted enough members to be viable. This book offers lessons from theory and empirical research in the social sciences that can help improve the design of online communities. The authors draw on the literature in psychology, economics, and other social sciences, as well as their own research, translating general findings into useful design claims. They explain, for example, how to encourage information contributions based on the theory of public goods, and how to build members' commitment based on theories of interpersonal bond formation. For each design claim, they offer supporting evidence from theory, experiments, or observational studies.

Author : Jeffrey Gitomer
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 0132686058
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Boom! written by Jeffrey Gitomer and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What's your company's social media policy? Probably shortsighted. Business social media, or, social networking, has become more than a global phenomenon. When combined with your online presence and online outreach, it's a global business phenomenon and a revenue generating phenomenon..."--Dust jacket flap.