Professor Muhammed Yunus has made his name as one of the most successful and innovative social entrepreneurs in the world.In 2006, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for setting up the Grameen Bank, which has given small loans to thousands of people in Bangladesh, hel...
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus receives highest honor from HM King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on 5th September 2007
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques His Majesty King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz yesterday decorated Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus with th...
Dr. Muhammad Yunus and Dr. Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel Corporation join together to launch the most comprehensive deployments to date of the Intel World Ahead Program in Bangladesh. Dr. Muhammad Yunus and Dr. Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel Corporation join toget...
Prof. Yunus talks to survivors of Sidr destructed area.Please visit the following URL : http://sidr.grameen.com/ Prof. Yunus talks to survivors of Sidr destructed area. Please visit the following URL : http://sidr.grameen.com/...
Financial Times Credit Agricole is to join forces with Grameen Bank, the pioneering provider of microfinance, to support fledgling microlenders around the world.The French banking group yesterday said it would inject €50m ($73m) to endow a fooundation which will w...
The Guardianon on p33His pioneering Grameen Bank began with a $27 loan and went on to lift millions out of poverty. Nobel prize-winner Muhammad Yunus talks to Madeleine Bunting.The figures tell their own extraordinary story. In 1974, an economics lecturer at the Univers...
The Denver PostNobel-winning microlender tells young entrepreneurs to put business principles to work for good, not goodsNobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus told a Denver audience Thursday that the idea of making small-business loans to the poor is so simple, he has...
Financial Times On the second floor of a run-down building in Queens, squeezed between a sari boutique and a tiny store selling Bollywood DVDs, are two rooms – rented for $1,500 a month – whose occupants have been sent from Bangladesh to end poverty in the...
Christian Science Monitor, Edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0215/p09s01-coop.html
We need 'social business' to couple the human heart to the capitalist system.
Bill Gates caused a stir in Davos last month with his call for "creative capitalism." He pointed...
Vancouver SunBangladeshi banker Yunus sees social business as key to prosperityMuhammad Yunus, the famed Bangladeshi “banker to the poor,†has by no means put micro-credit on the back burner. His Grameen Bank – a co-winner with him of the Nobel peace ...
