A big hairy audacious goal

Mon, 06/10/2008 - 9:23am — John


I've been reading Muhammud Yunus' 2007 book "Creating a World Without Poverty ". Plenty of stuff on the Grameen bank, but the bit that really interested me was the section on SOCIAL BUSINESS. According to Professor Yunus there are social enterprises, and social businesses. Social enterprises include not-for-profit organisations, publicly funded organisations and so on. Social businesses are a type of social enterprise that use the tools and techniques of business. Social businesses differ from ordinary businesses in that rather than having the primary objective of making a return to shareholders, the primary objective of a social business is solving social or environmental problems. Read More... Links: ------ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creating-World-Without-Poverty-Capitalism/dp/158...

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