How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition

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• ISBN13: 9780195334760
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Product Description
How to Change the World provides plain profiles of social entrepreneurs. The book is an In Search of Excellence for social initiatives, intertwining personal tales, anecdotes, and analysis. Readers will learn how one person can make an astonishing difference in the world.
The case studies in the book include Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the international battle against landmines she ran by e-mail from her Vermont home; Roberto Baggio, a 31-year ancient Brazilian who has customary eighty 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 will offer a new foreword by the leader that shows how the concept of social entrepreneurship has expanded and unfolded over the last few years, including the Gates-Buffetts charitable partnership, the rise of Google, and the increased mainstream coverage of the theme. The book will also update the tales of individual social entrepreneurs that appeared in the cloth edition.Amazon.com Review
Book Description
Published in over twenty countries, How to Change the World has become the Bible for social entrepreneurship. It profiles men and women from around the world who have establish innovative solutions to a wide variety of social and economic problems. Whether they work to deliver solar energy to Brazilian villagers, or improve access to college in the United States, social entrepreneurs offer pioneering solutions that change lives.

Learn surprising facts about social entrepreneurs from leader David Bornstein

According to a recent Harris Poll, a whopping 97% of Generation Y are looking for work that allows them “to have an impact on the world.” In recent years, courses or centers in social entrepreneurship have been made in over 250 universities and colleges such as Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management, Duke, NYU’s Stern & Wagner, Wharton, Oxford, and Stanford. Teach for America received 25,000 applications for 3,700 slots in 2008, an increase of more than a third over 2007. In Ivy League schools such as Yale, Cornell, and Dartmouth, close to 10% of all graduates applied to the program. In the past two years, the Acumen Fund, an organization that supports social entrepreneurs who solve major problems through business solutions (eg. malaria nets, water purification, loans for housing), received more than 1,000 applications from top ranked business students for just 15 fellowship positions. The list of top business entrepreneurs who are focusing either full time or a considerable amount of time on social entrepreneurship is highly impressive: Pierre Omidyar, founder of ebay, made Omidyar Network to “enable individual self-empowerment on a global scale.” Jeff Skoll, cofounder of ebay, also runs Participant Productions, which makes socially conscious films including An Inconvenient Truth and Goodnight and Excellent Luck. Bill Gates has left Microsoft to pursue a full-time career in philanthropy. Warren Buffett recently donated $30 billion to the Gates Foundation. William Draper, one of the largest venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, made the Draper Richards Foundation to support social entrepreneurs. Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum (Davos), founded the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google, made Google.org, which supports social entrepreneurs and has raised over $1 billion. Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr is leading an effort to raise $100 million for microcredit loans. The Grameen Bank, the leading example for social entrepreneurs worldwide, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. The Bridgespan Group, a consulting group that advises social entrepreneurs, received 1,800 applications for 18 job openings in 2006.

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