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Author: David Bornstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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ISBN: 0195334760
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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 found 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.

Discover surprising facts about social entrepreneurs from author 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 created 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:
1. Pierre Omidyar, founder of ebay, created Omidyar Network to "enable individual self-empowerment on a global scale."
2. Jeff Skoll, cofounder of ebay, also runs Participant Productions, which makes socially conscious films including An Inconvenient Truth and Goodnight and Good Luck.
3. Bill Gates has left Microsoft to pursue a full-time career in philanthropy.
4. Warren Buffett recently donated $30 billion to the Gates Foundation.
5. William Draper, one of the biggest venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, created the Draper Richards Foundation to support social entrepreneurs.
6. Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum (Davos), founded the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
7. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google, created Google.org, which supports social entrepreneurs and has raised over $1 billion.
8. 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.

Product Description
How to Change the World provides vivid profiles of social entrepreneurs. The book is an In Search of Excellence for social initiatives, intertwining personal stories, anecdotes, and analysis. Readers will discover 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 campaign against landmines she ran by e-mail from her Vermont home; Roberto Baggio, a 31-year old Brazilian who has established 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 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 rise of Google, and the increased mainstream coverage of the subject. The book will also update the stories of individual social entrepreneurs that appeared in the cloth edition.

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Fine Case Histories of People You Don't Know about Who Are Positively Changing the World September 9, 2009
Professor Donald Mitchell (Boston)
"Rejoicing in the world, His earth,
And having my delight in the sons of men." -- Proverbs 8:31

Can one person make a difference for the poor, the helpless, and those with no hope? The case histories in this book will encourage you to think that it's more than possible: The process can be studied, taught, and encouraged as journalist David Bornstein recounts this point through his story of what the Ashoka foundation is doing to develop social entrepreneurs and establish a discipline that can be rapidly improved through sharing of best practices. Whether you are a social entrepreneur, want to become one, or want to encourage what they do, this book is must reading. It systematizes much of what is scattered throughout many speeches, good stories, brief articles, and a variety of excellent books.

The book's main weakness is that it doesn't do enough to draw more than big-picture conclusions about social entrepreneurs. To me, those profiled here simply look like successful business model innovators who care more about the social impact of what they do than the financial rewards for themselves. As a result, the book's focus is a little too narrow to be totally useful. There are also for-profit entrepreneurs who great vast amounts of social benefit using different, but similar, methods to what is described here. Both groups can learn a lot from one another. I suspect that there are also other streams of creativity conjoining as well, such as I often see accomplished by people who want to systematically raise up socially conscious entrepreneurs by the tens of millions in Africa, Asia, and South America.

I hope that this book will be updated and expanded in scope every year or two. That will be a great blessing for those who are interested in the field and those who want to help it advance.

Bravo, Mr. Bornstein!

5 out of 5 stars

good read June 24, 2009
Mary S (Wisconsin)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book was required for a macro social work class, but I have truly enjoyed reading it for its own sake! It is well done, with lots of interesting stories and great ideas for how macro change can be accomplished.

5 out of 5 stars

Incredibly well-written and fascinating May 31, 2009
Willa Zhou
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

A must-read, this book changed my life. Bornstein lifts the invisibility cloak under which several extraordinary social entrepreneurs work under. By sharing their stories, and offering an interesting analysis of what it it takes to be a social entrepreneur, Bornstein demonstrates that one person can change the world.

4 out of 5 stars

Good condition, quick delivery October 24, 2008
bookie wookie (Massachussetts)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful

Good condition of the book as specified, and it was delivered within a week. so quite a good experience overall

3 out of 5 stars

Great Case Studies September 22, 2008
Darzy (Ithaca, NY)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

The case studies Bornstein presents here are fascinating, and, at once uplifting and heartrending. I very much enjoyed reading the book, and I would probably recommend it to others interested in social entrepreneurship.

Now that it's been a few days since I finished the book, though, I find it had some deficiencies:

--Bornstein doesn't sufficiently define "social entrepreneur."
--Drayton, founder of Ashoka, is presented with a bit too much hero worship. I'd have liked to see Bornstein provide his own interpretations rather than rely on the Ashoka framework. Even when presenting some of the negative personality traits of Drayton or some of the failures of Ashoka, Bornstein is apologetic.
--The profiles are a bit uneven, and why some were chosen is beyond me. Nightingale? Really?
--Bornstein could have done more to distill the common attributes of social entrepreneurs--in essence put more theoretical framework in the book.
--In 2008, the book feels dated because business moves so quickly. I kept wondering about the fate of the organizations profiled.

Despite the problems with the book, it is a great introduction to social entrepreneurship and a great reminder of what dedicated, passionate, and driven individuals can do to change their communities and even countries.

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