HooksBookEvents believes in the power of new ideas. Our minority women-owned business specializes in providing low-cost book and author events for U.S. government agencies, corporations, non-profit organizations, trade associations, and corporations of all sizes. We know that by bringing the most important authors of our age into your organization, employees and constituents will be stimulated and inspired to develop new insights on important topics.
Our Authors are mostly New York Times bestsellers who have written about issues ranging from current events and societal trends such as work/life balance to quantum physics, economics, coaching, management, and much more. View all the fabulous authors we have booked for 2009.
Our Events have the power to transform the way employees approach their daily tasks. For more than a decade, Perry Pidgeon Hooks (who founded HooksBookEvents in 2007) has arranged and organized hundreds of book events and given thousands of people the opportunity to listen to, talk with, question and applaud the world’s top thinkers — all in the comfort of their own offices. View the list of our upcoming 2009 events here.
The Impact is felt almost immediately, for colleagues begin to think on new and deeper levels, improve their work skills, and broaden the effectiveness of the entire organization.
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SAVE THE DATE: ON FEBRUARY 4 at 7 pm, PLEASE JOIN HOOKSBOOKEVENTS when it welcomes 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus for a special evening event at the Lisner Auditorium on the campus of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Yunus will be speaking about his latest book, “Creating a World Without Poverty.”
DR. YUNUS is a native of Bangladesh, and was educated at Dhaka University where he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University. In 1972 he became head of the economics department at Chittagong University. He is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, a pioneer of microcredit, an economic movement that has helped lift millions of families around the world out of poverty. Yunus and Grameen Bank are winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT POVERTY In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature in which people are one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit.
In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions, including the spiritual, the social, and the altruistic. Welcome to the world of social business, where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today’s most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet.
Creating a World Without Poverty tells the stories of some of the earliest examples of social businesses, including Yunus’s own Grameen Bank. It reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already under way—and in the worldwide effort to eliminate poverty by unleashing the productive energy of every human being.
This incredible lecture is open to the public. Tickets can be purchased in advance through Ticketmaster.
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