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After extensive travels in Bangladesh, India, Brazil, North America, and Eastern Europe, David Bornstein has emerged as a leading expert in the global rise of "social entrepreneurism." In this audi ointerview, Globeshakers host Tim Zak asks how we might know a social entrepreneur if we saw one on the street. More important, why should we care? Who invests in social enterprise and what is at stake for our world if we don't? Bornstein compares the business entrepreneur and the social entrepreneur, discusses what types of investors will have the 20-year vision and the patience to see "social return on investment," and explores the vast entrepreneurial opportunities that emerge in the wake of disaster.
David Bornstein is the author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, and The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank, which chronicles the worldwide growth of the anti-poverty strategy "micro-credit." The Price of a Dream, which drew on ten months of research in villages in Bangladesh, won second prize in the Harry Chapin Media Awards, was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein New York Public Library Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best business books of 1996. Bornstein's articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, New York Newsday, and other publications. He co-wrote the two-hour PBS documentary series To Our Credit, which focuses on "micro-credit" programs in five countries. Bornstein received a bachelor's degree from McGill University in Montreal and a master's of arts from New York University. In addition to writing, he has worked as a computer programmer and systems analyst.
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