Social Business
Grameen Trust (GT) crosses 11,000 New Entrepreneurs(Nobin)
Grameen Trust (GT) has crossed 11,000 New Entrepreneurs in its 735th Executive Design Lab (EDL) held on November 24, 2019 at Rajbari Unit under Faridpur Anchal. The Design Lab was chaired by Mr. Delwar Hossain, Anchal Prodhan, Faridpur Anchal. A total of 6 project proposals were presented by the potential new entrepreneurs and all the proposals were unanimously approved during the Lab. Till November 24, 2019, GT has approved a total of 11,031 Nobin projects wi...
Yunus in Taiwan for Social Business East Asia Conference; Addresses Celebration of 380th Anniversary of Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan
Yunus Centre Press Release (24 November, 2019)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited Taiwan to attend the 2nd Social Business East Asian Conference as chief guest from 17th to 19th November 2019. During this conference, he had dialogues with the business community of Taiwan including Terry Gou, Taiwanese billionaire and Founder, Chairman of Foxconn. He is the richest person in Taiwan. Terry Gou announced to contribute USD 3 million to create a Social Business Venture Capital F...
Yunus addresses Launching Gala of 30th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall
The thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall was launched at the famous and grand Bode Museum in Berlin with an elaborate gala, on the evening of November 8, 2019 hosted by the Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller at the city of Berlin. Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited by the City of Berlin as the only foreign Keynote Speaker on this occasion. The event was attended by 300 dignitaries of the city including the Mayor of Berlin, to mark the thirty year old peaceful re...
The YSBC of Urbino University at the closing event of the Financial Education Month organized by the National Committee for Financial Education in Rome. 31 October 2019.
The University of Urbino was among the partners invited to participate in the closing event of the "Financial Education Month 2019" organized by the "Committee for the planning and coordination of financial education activities", which was held in Rome on October 31st 2019 at the Ministry of Economy and Finance.The Month of Financial Education is an initiative of the Committee that promotes free and quality opportunities, without commercial purposes, to increase the basic knowledge on the manage...
Speaker of German Parliament meets Yunus to Discuss Social Business
Yunus Centre Press Release (November 8, 2019)President of German Parliament, Wolfgang Schäuble invited Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus to have an one-on-one meeting in his office at the Bundestag, in Berlin on November 6 to discuss economic issues related to social business, poverty, microfinance, unemployment and youth.Schäuble has been a member of the Bundestag since 1972 and is the longest serving member of parliament in German history. He has been the President of the Bunde...
Tenth One Young World Summit Held in London
Yunus Centre Press Release (October 29, 2019)Yunus Urged Youth to Reversing the Environmental Degradation and Wealth ConcentrationNobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and Her Royal Highness Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex together on stage during the opening ceremony of the One Young World summit at the Royal Albert Hall, in London on 22 October 2019. The event is described as a “global forum for young leaders” and brings together 2,000 people from more than 190 countries. Profes...
Pr. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize 2006, gives an exceptional conference at Kedge Business School in Marseille.
On October 9th, 2019, KEDGE Business School Marseille Campus welcomed Professor Muhammad Yunus for an inspiring conference on the theme "Bringing Social Business to Your Campus". More than 1000 students, among which 600 attending in the amphitheater and 400 connected through visio-conference from Paris, Bordeaux and Toulon campuses, listened to Pr. Yunus sharing his path, learnings and vision for a world of three zeros: zero poverty, zero unemployment, zero carbon emission."Do not accept what yo...
Montpellier Business School established the 4th Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC) in France and the 80th YSBC
Montpellier Business School established the ‘Yunus Centre for Social Business and Financial Inclusion’ on 9th October 2019 and became the 4th Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC) in France and the 80th YSBC to be signed. The signing took place with Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, and Bruno Ducasse, General Director of Montpellier Business School. Thibaut Rochette, Vice-president Montpelier Business School Alumni , Didier Grino, Deputy General Director Montpellier Business Sch...
Innovate Together to Achieve SDGs & Climate Actions Through Social Business
Yunus Centre Press Release (04 October, 2019)Call From UN High-Level Side Event on Social BusinessThe 74th UN General Assembly’s High-Level Side Event on “Social Business, Youth and Technology” was held at the United Nations Head Quarters, New York on September 26th 2019. The theme for this year’s programme was “Innovate Together for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Actions Through Social Business “.This High-Level Event on Social Busine...
The Grand final of the 4th edition of the Social Business Creation Competition organized by HEC Montreal took place on 30 September 2019.
The Grand final of the 4th edition of the Social Business Creation Competition organized by HEC Montreal took place on 30 September 2019. The global competition is a training platform for student with an avid interest in Social Business.Congratulations to the winning team! 2019's winning teams are:First - Turbodega (Management tools for small grocers in emerging countries to help them track their daily sales in real time), from McGill University.Second - Mom&Me Care (Integrated services...
Present World is on a Disaster Path
Yunus Centre Press Release (02 October, 2019) Yunus Warns Former Presidents and Prime Ministers in a Side Event During UN Week in NY On Sept 25, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed the exclusive side event to the UN General Assembly on the issue of “Geopolitics in the Age of Sustainable Development” at Harvard Club and organized by Kerry Kennedy, founder and CEO of Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope, a Human Rights Foundation . Thirty former Presidents and Prime...
Report of Commission on Modern Day Slavery Launched in UN.
Yunus Centre Press Release (30 September, 2019)Co-Convenor Yunus calls for Ensuring Zero Financial Exclusion by Creating Social Business Banks for the PoorOn September 27th, Final Report of the Financial Sector Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking was formally released in the UN as an important UN event in New York. This Commission was set up during the UN General Assembly meeting of the previous year at the initiative of Government of Liechtenstein and joined by the Governments&nb...
US Microcredit Programme Expanding
Yunus Centre Press Release (23 September, 2019)Two More Branches Opened in California Bringing Grameen America Total to 23 in 15 US CitiesNobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus inaugurated two new branches at Long Beach and Fresno, a city 225 miles north of Los Angeles. Long Beach branch is funded by East West Banks and Fresno branch is funded by the Bank of the West. Dominic Ng, founder, Chairman, and CEO of East West Bank and Andrea Jung, CEO and President, Grameen America, and the seni...
Old Roads Can Only Take Us to Old Destination - Yunus’s Message to Niti Aayog, India’s Highest Policy Think Tank
Yunus Centre Press Release (September 18, 2019)Delhi, September 16: During his two day visit to Delhi, Nobel Laureate Professor Yunus was invited to address the advisors, researchers, and senior executives of the National Institution for Transforming India, popularly known as NITI Aayog. It is the highest policy ‘Think Tank’ of the Government of India, headed by Mr Amitabh Kant, a close advisor of Prime Minister Modi of India. It provides both directional and policy inputs towards Su...
Educational Opportunity in Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
We are happy to share information about t educational opportunities at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. Below are the details on the University admissions. For further queries please contact the university directly with the email addresses provided.Educational programsThere are various types of bachelor/masters/ postgraduate programs. The full list of the existing bachelor programs could be seen here:Bachelors program: http://www.fa.ru/en/admissions/Pages/Bach...