Product Description: For astronaut Ron Garan, living on the International Space Station was a powerful, transformative experience—one that he believes holds the key to solving our problems here on Earth. On space walks and through windows, Garan was struck by the stunning beauty of the Earth from space but sobered by knowing how much needed to be done to help this troubled planet...read more

Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his world-changing efforts, here develops his bold 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 help make the world a better place. Partnering with some of the world's greatest corporations, Yunus and Grameen Bank has already launched several social businesses that are addressing challenges like malnutrition, lack of potable water, and endemic illness. Here, he offers practical guidance for those who want to create social businesses of their own; and shows why social business holds the potential to redeem the failed promise of free enterprise.

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize describes the role of business in promoting social reform and 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.

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Product Description: While free markets have swept the globe and brought positive change, nevertheless traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty because of its view of people as one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit...read more

Product Description: While free markets have swept the globe and brought positive change, nevertheless traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty because of its view of people as one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit...read more

Product Description: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, his special program for microlending to the poor, were winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

Product Description: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, his special program for microlending to the poor, were winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

Product Description: In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule loans. Based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a few, Grameen Bank now provides over 2...read more

The founder of the Grameen Bank relates how he developed the system of micro-credit to help eradicate poverty in countries such as Bangladesh by providing financial education and small loans to rural families.

Presents the story of the founder of the Grameen bank network, which brought hope to thousands of small entrepreneurs in India and around the world.

Product Description: This book is an autobiographical account of the founder of the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus. This work is a fundamental rethinking of the economic relationship between the rich and the poor, as well as their rights and obligations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Muhammad Yunus has launched one of the most spectacular revolutions in the world of finance and banking, bringing not only economic hope to the rural poor, but a social revolution in how the poor are treated by society. This book tells the story.'