I've been reviewing Creating A World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus' visionary book about a new kind of capitalism. I looked at the book in three parts: Muhammad Yunus: Capitalism Is Half-Baked How Muhammad Yunus Created an Impossible Business ...
In "Creating a World Without Poverty," Muhammad Yunus has written a dangerous book. Not so much for his goal – that's merely outlandish, since most people expect the poor will always be. Besides, Yunus knows how to make audacious ideas real – he created Grameen Bank to bring financial...
The Liverpool Daily Post reports that Ben & Jerry's has opened a PartnerShop store in the Chester area, with every scoop sold going to help unemployed local youth. The franchise is being run by social business the FRC Furniture Resource Centre The Liverpool Daily Post...
The world may not literally be flat, but it's smaller than ever thanks to a convergence of social, business and technological trends, e.g., inexpensive telecommunications, global trade, open standards, internet technologies. Now a whole new category of business communications applications and services promises to compress the world even further, connecting...
Grameen Bank is an improbable business worth study. In the second section of Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus details the ongoing evolution of what he calls "The Grameen Experiment." Yunus was an economist, not a banker, and he needed to invent his bank for the poor,...
Muhammand Yunus: Capitalism is Half-BakedI bought 1000 copies of YunusFar from being a dangerous read, I believe Yunus is the best chance humanity has of being sustaible. 24 years ago http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html my father and my future history on the globalisation generation forecast how we'd exponentially destory sustainability unless a Nobel...
I'm at Venture Summit East, listening to Nicholas Negroponte talk about One Laptop Per Child. He said that making it a non-profit company gave him two advantages over making the company a for-profit firm: 1) "I was able to attract better talent than I could...
Best Sales Tool: Smartphone or Notebook?Smartphone or Notebook?I don't think smartphones are up to the task for someone who must stay "connected." The issue -- screen size. (Sorry to hear about the stewardess's comment, Geoffrey. I feel your pain.)I'm a technology junkie (gadgets, hardware and software, too)....
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