CSU Channel Islands (CI) has received a three year $300,000 grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation for the new California Institute for Social Business (CISB). This is the first gift to CISB and will be used to begin laying the foundation for staff building, curricu...
Professor Yunus Debates With Vikram Akula about Microfinance at CGI 2010
At the Clinton Global Initiative, FORBES was a fly in a conference room, attending a special session on: Profiting from the Poor? A Discussion on Microfinance IPOs. Vikram Akula, founder of SKS ...
Dominic Cummings meets Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize-winner who has the answer to some of the West's intractable problems. So why won't politicians listen to him?
One day in 1974, at the height of the famine in Bangladesh, an economics teacher from a nearby universit...
Nobel laureate pitches concept of 'social business'
by Sneh Duggal
The Nobel laureate who used micro loans to help Third-World entrepreneurs work their way out of poverty says its time for the developed world to change the way it does business.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus i...
Rich I.P.O. Brings Controversy to SKS Microfinance
By STEPHANIE STROM and VIKAS BAJAJ
An Indian company with rich American backers is about to raise up to $350 million in a stock offering closely watched by philanthropists around the world, showing that big ...
The Author Speaks
In Business for All
Interview with Muhammad Yunus, author of Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs
by: Art Dalglish | from: AARP Bulletin | July 29, 2010
It all started with a gift of $27.
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BY HISASHI NAITO AND RYUICHIRO TAKESHITA THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
Muhammad Yunus (THE ASAHI SHIMBUN)
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A new business model that blurs traditional distinctions between social activism and business is gaining converts in boardrooms of leading Japanese companies.
"Socia...
Top official of Alliance Fibre Glass shares his plans with Amreen Ahmed Bari
Mr. Shahed Ahmed
From an invitation to an event, to by-the-by talks on social business, two minds came together to conceive the idea of a joint venture to produce fibreglass products in Ban...
BASF Grameen takes chemically-treated mosquito nets to the rural poor
Sohel Parvez - Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Saria Sadique, chairman of BASF Bangladesh Ltd, spends more time and energy just to explain the concept of social business. His organisation has made a f...
Yunus explains his concept in an exclusive interview with The Daily Star on the eve of Social Business Day
Arun Devnath
Build business on the selfless nature of mankind. It is business with a difference, social business -- that is. It has a social goal -- to fi...
