There are many ways for people to die, but somehow dying of starvation is the most unacceptable of all. It happens in slow motion. Second by second, the distance between life and death becomes smaller and smaller, until the two are in such close proximity that one can...
Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.
By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.
I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That s what I call social business a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about solving problems. The company makes profit, but profit...
What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don t have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.
The challenge I set before anyone who condemns private-sector business is this If you are a socially conscious person, why don t you run your business in a way that will help achieve social objectives?
I profoundly believe, as Grameen s experience over twenty years has shown, that personal gain is not the only possible fuel for free enterprise. Social goals can replace greed as a powerful motivational force. Social-consciousness-driven enterprises can be formidable competitors for the greed-based enterprises. I believe that if...
I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on selflessness that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.
I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.
I believe that government , as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national defense and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a Grameenized private sector , a social-consciousness-driven private sector, take over their other functions....
