Yunus, Muhammad,  1940- <br/><br/>
Building social business :  the new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs / 
Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Public Affairs,  c2010. 
 - xxv, 316 p ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: social business--from dream to reality -- Why social business? -- Growing pains : lessons in adaptation and change from the story of Grameen Danone -- Launching a social business -- To cure one child : a case of social business in health care -- Legal and financial frameworks for social business -- Grameen Veolia Water : a social R&D project for addressing the world water crisis -- Creating a global infrastructure for social business -- Glimpses of tomorrow : more social businesses are on the way -- The end of poverty : the time is here. 
<br/><br/> Bangladeshi banker and Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus discusses a model of capitalism he terms "social business," and demonstrates how it can change lives and restore the potential of free-market enterprise with regard to fulfilling human needs and making the world better while producing goods and services. 
<br/><br/> Adult  Follett Library Resources.  Adult. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781586488246 (trade) 1586488244 9781458758781 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010002857 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social responsibility of business.<br/>Social entrepreneurship.<br/>Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Entrepreneurship.<br/>Capitalism--Ethical aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD60  / .Y85 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658.4/07