06:30 pm GMT // Creative Session with Hans Reitz, Creative Director to Prof. Yunus
During meeting for the first Worldwide Social Business Day in New York many new Ideas were born.
Now you can take the chance to ask Hans Reitz, Creative Director to Nobel Price Winner Prof. Yunus about what happened at the first Worldwide Social Business Day. You can ask for feedback for your own ideas or share your visions with Hans. We are very looking forward to your posts :)
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// learn how you can create your own Social Business
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Submitted by Patrik Kloz on 28. June 2010 - 18:08 
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Hey GCL,
I wonder if Social Business is also a concept for developed countries. All the examples I have heard of are in developing countries.
Thank you for your answer!
Best
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
thank you for posting and please excuse the late response. Yes, we do think that SB is a concept for developed countries as well. Grameen America is an example. Of course developed countries often face different problems that need different solutions and another kind of creativity. In fact we encourage people to start their own SB no matter in which part of the world. I read your post on http://www.justmeans.com/LanX-A-Social-Innovation-Conversation/20750.html and if I got it right you are engaging yourself in Ukraine with an enterprise that fits what Prof. Yunus describes as social business. For Grameen it is not important who first came up with the concept of SB. The important things are only two: 1. What we call SB is a concept that is only designed to tackle a social problem. There are no dividends for the stakeholders. 2. It should be clear that a social business by the definition of Yunus would never try to exploit the poor like some micro finance organizations do who at the same time call themselves social entrepreneurs. So a social business and a social entrepreneur is not the same.
We are starting to collect examples of social business from developed countries. Maybe your businss is an example, even if you would not call it a social business?
Could you in some words describe what you do?
Thank you :)
Kind regards,
Patrik
Dear Hans,
Are there any documents that show, step by step how succesful social bussiness achieved its goals, how do they manage to keep their goals and make it all work?
I'm a medical student and i want to make a social bussiness with people that recicle trash so i need some objective things for me to read.
Thank you so much!
Alberto Flórez from Lima, Perú
Hi Alberto,
we are right now working on a collection of social business cases. Until than I recommend you to reed "Building Social Business" where Prof. Yunus in chapter three describes "Launching a Social Business" and in chapter four "To Cure One Child. A Case of Social Business in Healthcare". In chapter five he writes about the "Legal and Financial Frameworks of Social Business".
I hope I could help.
Cheers
Patrik
Hey GCL,
is the Social Business Day an annual event?
Thanks!!
Hi,
yes the Social Busines Day is an annual event! We are looking forward for the next one. In the meantime, you can help us getting better by joining our survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WSBD2010
Thank you :)
Patrik
Hi Hans!
How was the first Worldwide Social Business Day in Central Park?
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