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Grameen Bank
What is the first social business Yunus creates?
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BASF, one of the largest chemical companies in the world, partnered with Grameen to produce mosquito-repellent nets and sachets with micronutrients for people in Bangladesh.
What is an example of technology revolutionizing the lives of the poor from Chapter 8?
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To cute the rate of poverty in half
What is the most important goal of the Millennium Development Goals?
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Yunus Centre- serves as an anchor to social businesses around the world, including Grameen-related social businesses.
GCL- engine for the growth of global social business initiatives
Explain what the Yunus Centre or the Grameen Creative Lab are.
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- Intel and Grameen: IT-based healthcare service
- Pfizer and Grameen: village clinics with better care - GE and Grameen Healthcare: improve care delivery systems
What is an example of health-related social business collaborations?
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Economic, Financial, Agricultural, Environmental, and Social
What are the elements of the complex global crisis in 2008-10 that Yunus says extinguished the hope lit by the Millennium proclamation?
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People or organizations that launch social businesses.
What is a social business practitioner?
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Otto Grameen Textile Company
What is the new Type II business that Yunus began to work on other than Grameen Bank?
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No. Yunus says to embrace "the right kind of globalization" in which the poor have a right to a piece of the action.
Does Yunus' vision for social business reject globalization?
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People or organizations that study and explore the ideas behind social business, and teach the world about them.
What is a social business thinker?
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A social business is meant to be done with joy. Poor people still have dignity, and should be treated no differently than the rich.
Why did Adidas choose to create an aesthetically-pleasing shoe for the poor? (hint: remember the last of the 7 Principles of Social Business)
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The traditional model is taxing the wealthy and making the proceeds available to the poor.
Social business would encourage a self-induced redistribution of wealth, with the rich undertaking social business to help eradicate social problems.
What is the traditional model of reducing poverty and how will social business differ?
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There are vast amounts of expertise and knowledge located at universities, as well as young, ambitious people ready to explore and embrace new concepts.
Why are universities important for developing the future of social business?
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Migrant workers in South Asia are often exploited, so a subcontractor service could help protect their rights and interests.
Why was Grameen Employment Services made?
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Either ask the best scientific, technical, and economic analysts to make a 20 year prediction or have the most brilliant science-fiction writers imagine the world in 20 years.
He thinks the writers' prediction will be the most accurate.
According to Yunus, what is the best way to make a prediction about the future of the world?
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