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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...
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...
Yunus Portrait Commissioned by Vanderbilt University
Yunus Centre Press Release (13 September, 2019)Sedrick Huckaby, an American artist, visited Yunus Centre this past week to paint a portrait of Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus for the Vanderbilt Trailblazers portrait series which honours members of the Vanderbilt community who broke barriers.Mr. Huckaby, a Professor of Art at the University of Texas at Arlington is famous for his use of thick, impasto paint to create murals and to produce large portraits. His work can be found on display ...
YSB (Yunus Social Business) Impact Report 2019
Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru (YSBFB) was founded in 2017, with the vision to create an enabling environment for Social Businesses in India. Check out the YSBFB Impact Report linked below which showcases the work done by them and get to know the deven interesting and diverse social businesses from waste recycling to green technology invested in by the fund.YSB (Yunus Social Business) Impact Report 2019 ...
New FAO Chief Discusses Social Business with Yunus
Yunus Centre Press Release (07 September 2918)September 04, 2019, RomeThe newly elected Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and former deputy agricultural minister of China Mr. Qu Dongyu invited Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus to have a discussion on FAO-Yunus joint social business project in Central African republic at FAO headquarters in Rome on September 04, 2019. FAO-Yunus joint social business project in...
Vatican awards Yunus with the “Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis”
Yunus Centre Press Release (04 September, 2019)September 3rd 2019The Vatican honoured Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus with the ‘Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis’, on 3rd September 2019 at the Basilica of St. Francis, in Assisi, Italy. The award aims to honor those who work towards promoting peace and harmony. Muhammad Yunus was a guest in the Upper Basilica of San Francesco of Assisi (Umbria) where he held a Lectio Magistralis and received the Lamp of Peace award.Nobel Peace Pr...
Social Business Week in China : Shanghai to Launch Grameen Programme and Create a Social Business Institute
Yunus Centre Press Release (04 August, 2019)On August 1, the last day of Social Business Week in China Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus spent a busy day in Shanghai attending several events and meetings. In the morning he visited Cao Yang No 2 High School, one of the top public high school in the country. Principal of the school Mr Wang Yang who is a nationally celebrated High School Principal is also the Director of the National Institute of Social Practice in Senior High, mi...
Why Social Business ?
In 1976, when I began the Grameen Bank project, I was merely trying to help a handful of people in Jobra, a small village next to Chittagong University where I was teaching. I had found that the poor men and women there remained slaves to the local money-lenders for tiny amounts of money to support their income generating activities. It was then that I decided to lend 42 people an amount $27 dollars of my own money to free themselves from the loan sharks. I was astounded to find that not on...
City of Ningbo Celebrates Social Business Week in China
Yunus Centre Press Release (01 August, 2019)As a part of Social Business Week of China Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus arrived Ningbo a port city in the eastern coast of China. On 31 July, his day began with meeting the students of Huamao English School, a leading private school in the city. Yunus addressed the students and invited them to imagine the world they would like to live in. This is the time to create that world in their minds so that they can work to make it a reality. &...