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Tag Archives: Muhammad Yunus
Book Review: Creating a World Without Poverty
Book by Muhammad Yunus. Reviewed by Barbara Merz. Creating a World Without Poverty could easily have been a retrospective. After all, its author has plenty to reflect upon. Instead, the book is unmistakably forward-looking. This book presents a compelling vision for the future of capitalism. It envisions a market where social businesses emerge to address social issues. Muhammad Yunus could have rested on his laurels when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Corporate Responsibility, Ethics, Issue 4: Spring 2009, Social Enterprise, Social Investment
Tagged book, Corporate Responsibility, Ethics, global poverty, Grameen Bank, Leadership, microcredit, microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, social business, Social Innovation, Social Investment
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Non-Profit Capitalism
The Economist, print edition; September 11, 2008. Under the banner: ‘The Business of Giving’, The Economist reports on the latest trend in not-for-profit fundraising circles: the Initial Public Offering (IPO). IPOs were the golden child of the dot.com era, occurring when a company floats its stock on a public stock exchange and the shareholdings become publicly available. Now, some nonprofits in the US have launched their own ‘IPOs’ as part of their fundraising efforts, following … Continue reading
Posted in Issue 1: Spring 2008
Tagged fundraising, initial public offering (IPO), Muhammad Yunus, philanthropic equity, philanthropy, Social Investment, social marketplace
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