David Bornstein, 一位擅长社会变革题材的作家。他的第一本书《梦想的价值：孟加拉乡村银行的故事》（The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank)获得了Harry Chapin 传媒奖的第二名，并因其在新闻领域的出色表现，入围纽约公共图书馆图书奖。他有多篇文章发表在《大西洋月刊》和《纽约时报》上。

吴士宏，1957年出生于北京。兼满蒙汉血统。初中毕业，后取得成人高考英语大专文凭。曾做过护士。1985年至2002年从事IT行业，曾任IBM、微软、TCL集团高层管理职务。2001年、2002年入选美国《财富》杂志“全球五十位最具影响力职业女性”。2002年退休。现自学、读书、翻译、写作。著有《逆风飞飏》,1999年由光明日报出版社出版.

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.