How To Change The World: Social Entrepreneurs And The Power Of New Ideas

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David Bornstein's How to Change the World is the first book to written report a remarkable and growing group of individuals around the world--what Bornstein calls social entrepreneurs. These men and women are bringing innovative, and successful, grass-roots approaches to a wide variety of social and economic problems, from rural poverty in India to discrimination against gypsies in Primal Europe; from industrial pollution in the United States to child prostitution in Thailand.

Similar business entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs are creative, driven, and adventurous. The cover change, exploit new opportunities, and remember big. In How to Change the World, Bornstein provides vivid profiles of many such individuals, looking at the personalities, strategies, and techniques they have in common. The book is an In Search of Excellence for social initiatives, intertwining personal stories, anecdotes, and assay. Readers will see how social entrepreneurs bring well-nigh structural changes in their societies – in other words, how one human existence tin make a difference.

The case studies in the book include Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the international entrada against landmines she ran by e-mail from her Vermont domicile; Roberto Baggio, a 31-year old Brazilian who has established lxxx computer schools in the slums of Brazil; and Diana Propper, who has used investment banking techniques to make American corporations responsive to environmental dangers.

The paperback edition offers a new foreword by the author that shows how the concept of social entrepreneurship has expanded and unfolded over the last few years, including the Gates-Buffetts charitable partnership, the ascension of Google, and the increased mainstream coverage of the field of study. The volume volition also update the stories of private social entrepreneurs that appeared in the textile edition.

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358 pages, 35 b/w photos, b/west maps

"Wonderfully hopeful and enlightening.... The stories of these social entrepreneurs will inspire and encourage many people who seek to build a improve globe."
- Nelson Mandela

"The book is must reading for anyone who cares about building a more equitable, and therefore more than stable, world."
- William J. Holstein, New York Times

"A fascinating book.... Well-documented cases of grassroots entrepreneurial activities to tackle such various social problems as child abuse, disability, illiteracy, and environmental degradation give life to it."
- Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Business Week