Social Business – It’s Time

SYDNEY, June 25 (IPS) – June 27-28 is the 16th Social Business Day, observed in Savar (Dhaka) Bangladesh. In June 2024 at the Western Sydney University’s graduation ceremony where I was conferred Emeritus Professor status, I urged the new business graduates to:

    • purge the world of the… obnoxious Friedmanite idea that is destroying our planet and tearing our communities apart;
    • look instead to the “Social Business Model” of Bangladesh’s Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus; and
    • work on the right side of history; stand up for justice and liberation; spread the “moral violence” for peace; and put people and the planet before profit.

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