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- How Muhammad Yunus Created an Impossible Business
- Grameen Bank is an improbable business worth study. In the second section of Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus details the ongoing evolution of what he calls “The Grameen Experiment.†Yunus was an economist, not a banker, and he needed to invent his bank for the poor,...
- Blog posts 2008-01-12
- Muhammad Yunus: Capitalism is Half-Baked
- In “Creating a World Without Poverty,†Muhammad Yunus has written a dangerous book. Not so much for his goal â€" that’s merely outlandish, since most people expect the poor will always be. Besides, Yunus knows how to make audacious ideas real â€" he created Grameen Bank to bring financial...
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- BANGLADESH THE SCHWAB FOUNDATION SALUTES MUHAMMAD YUNUS, WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2006.
- The Schwab Foundation sends its congratulations to its longstanding Board Member Muhammad Yunus and to the Grameen Bank for winning the Nobel Peace Prize 2006. Professor Yunus has been instrumental in developing and spreading the message that the poo The Schwab Foundation sends its congratulations to...
- Research articles 2006-10-15
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- Summing up Muhammad Yunus, "Creating a World Without Poverty"
- I’ve been reviewing Creating A World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus’ visionary book about a new kind of capitalism. I looked at the book in three parts: Muhammad Yunus: Capitalism Is Half-Baked How Muhammad Yunus Created an Impossible Business ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Muhammad Yunus On How to End Poverty
- The third section of Creating a World Without Poverty details Muhammad Yunus’ vision for creating social businesses and how they will eliminate poverty. Yunus recaps some of the hoops that had to be jumped through before Grameen Danone could start making high-nutrition, low-cost yogurt in Bangladesh. Capital...
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Muhammad Yunus to receive $100,000 Vanderbilt's Nichols-Chancellor's Medal
- To: BUSINESS EDITORSContact: Jim Patterson of Vanderbilt University, +1-615-322-NEWS, jim.patterson@vanderbilt.edu NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Vanderbilt University will award its second Nichols-Chancellor's Medal and $100,000 prize on May 10 to Muhammad Yunus, a Vanderbilt alumnus and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. "It is with great joy that...
- Research articles 2007-03-12
- Muhammad Yunus book tour
- I've been reviewing Creating a World Without Poverty my final entry should come today. Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is on a book tour in the U.S. through January 24th. by Michael Fitzgerald
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus to Speak at Pepperdine
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Wileen Wong of Pepperdine University, +1-310-506-6589, +1- 213-718-3251 cell MALIBU, Calif., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In his only public appearance in the Los Angeles area, Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, will lecture on "Social Enterprise: Doing Well by Doing Good"...
- Research articles 2007-10-12
- World Bank says committed to microcredit despite Yunus criticism
- WASHINGTON AFP — The World Bank is committed to microcredit, an official said after Nobel Peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus attacked the lender for all but ignoring tiny loans for impoverished people. Bank director Elizabeth Littlefield rejected Yunus's criticism, at a microcredit summit in Canada this week, that "not even...
- Research articles 2006-11-17
- 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to address ITU TELECOM WORLD; Prof. Yunus to make major announcement at Opening Ceremony.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-9 November 2006-International Telecommunication Union ITU: 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to address ITU TELECOM WORLD; Prof. Yunus to make major announcement at Opening CeremonyC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09112006 Geneva - Prof. Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and...
- Research articles 2006-11-09
- 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to address ITU TELECOMWORLD Prof. Yunus to make major announcement at Opening Ceremony.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-9 November 2006-ITU: 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to address ITU TELECOMWORLD Prof. Yunus to make major announcement at Opening CeremonyC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09112006 Geneva - Prof. Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and recipient of this year's...
- Research articles 2006-11-09
- Grameen's Yunus announces new partnership with ITU; Network of partners to combine power of ICTs and Micro-credit Financing for the Poor.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-4 December 2006-ITU: Grameen's Yunus announces new partnership with ITU; Network of partners to combine power of ICTs and Micro-credit Financing for the PoorC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03122006 Hong Kong - Nobel Prize Laureate and Managing Director of Grameen ...
- Research articles 2006-12-04
- Bangladesh's Yunus criticises World Bank for failure to cut poverty
- DHAKA AFP — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus told the head of the World Bank on Sunday that its failure to modernise anti-poverty lending programmes and include more local input has made its work ineffective. The "World Bank was created nearly 60 years ago. In this 60 years...
- Research articles 2007-11-04
- Nobel laureate Yunus unveils Bangladesh clean water deal
- PARIS, AFP — Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Monday unveiled a deal between his pioneering Grameen bank and French group Veolia Environment to provide clean water to poor rural communities in Bangladesh. The Bangladeshi economist also sought support from President Nicolas Sarkozy for creating more microcredit schemes to fight...
- Research articles 2008-03-31
- Negroponte on OLPC's Next Steps
- I'm at Venture Summit East, listening to Nicholas Negroponte talk about One Laptop Per Child. He said that making it a non-profit company gave him two advantages over making the company a for-profit firm: 1) "I was able to attract better talent than I could...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- ITU leads first World Information Society Day celebrations.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-18 May 2006-International Telecommunication Union ITU: ITU leads first World Information Society Day celebrationsC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:17052006 ITU leads first World Information Society Day celebrations ITU World Information Society Award presented to Mr Abdoulaye Wade, President of Senegal...
- Research articles 2006-05-18
- Vote for BNET's Best Business Books -- Final Call
- We're about to close voting on BNET's Best Business Books of 2008. We'll run the polls through Monday Thursday and then we'll close voting. So far, these are the top vote getters: "One Hen," Katie Smith Milway "Predictably Irrational," Dan Ariely ...
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- BNET's Best Business Books of 2008
- These ten business books, from across the spectrum, received the most "yes" votes from BNET readers, with links to relevant BNET content on books or authors: One Hen, Katie Smith Milway Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus Back of...
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Bangladesh Nobel winner to sever ties with Grameen Bank
- DHAKA AFP — Bangladesh's "banker to the poor" Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus will sever ties with Grameen Bank after he enters politics later this month, a report has said. Yunus was "ready to relinquish his long relationship with micro-lender Grameen Bank in the greater interest of launching...
- Research articles 2007-02-19
- Nobel Peace Prize Winner to Launch Next Steps for Global Microcredit Campaign at Dec. 12 News Conference, 9:30 a.m., Oslo.
- OSLO, Norway, December 6 /PRNewswire/ -- - Professor Yunus Will Emphasize Critical Role of Young People, Introduce the Green Children Pop Music Group To Reach World Youth Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, will outline his vision and define...
- Research articles 2006-12-06
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