Yunus happy over responses to social business model
(About/Yunus Centre Highlights)
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... of French-based dairy giant Danone and Germany-based chemical giant BASF in social business have had a great influence on the model, Yunus said.
Companies like Adidas, Otto, Veolia and Intel have also ...
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The Bold Vision of Grameen Bank's Muhammad Yunus
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... money you earn by selling your shares, you invest again in a social business.
The Grameen Bank — and microcredit generally — is often described in bottom-of-the-pyramid, poverty-alleviation terms. Would ...
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Haiti needs champions to help poorest of the poor
(News & Media/In the Media)
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... administrative cost is doubtless greater, microloans need to go primarily to those who are most poor. If so, it may not even take a generation to transform Haiti, like Bangladesh, from the bottom up, into ...
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Sundance Gets Quirky
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... New York City couples. Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John Ortiz, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Tom McCarthy. World Premiere
The Killer Inside Me/USA (Director: Michael Winterbottom; Screenwriter: John ...
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Der Globalisierte Dorfbankier
(News & Media/In the Media)
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... die mit sozialem Unternehmertum in Verbindung stehen. Auch deutsche Unternehmen versuchen ihren Teil abzubekommen von dem guten Image, das er überträgt. Kürzlich hat der Versandhändler Otto ein Joint ...
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German company partners with Yunus over textile
(News & Media/In the Media)
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Germany's Otto Group has signed a deal with Grameen Trust to start a joint venture in textiles in Bangladesh, Yunus Centre said in a statement yesterday. Under the deal, Grameen and Otto will jointly set ...
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The Most Influential Business Thinkers
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... in the 1990s, which set the strategy agenda for a generation of managers. More recently, his work on The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid has shown the role business can play in tackling world poverty." ...
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The very first Global Grameen Meeting
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... Global Meeting is an integral part of the series of events to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall under the motto “Another Wall to Fall.” The meeting will begin at noon and is followed by an evening ...
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Bone Marrow Transplantation Centre for Thalassemia
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... Grameen Healthcare Trust (GH) aims to extend the success of the microfinance model of Grameen Bank to health care by designing and developing a bottom-up health care infrastructure built from sustainable ...
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Bone Marrow Transplantation Centre for Thalassemia
(About/Yunus Centre Highlights)
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... model of Grameen Bank to health care by designing and developing a bottom-up health care infrastructure built from sustainable best practices in a broad range of health care services around the world, ...
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Banking that makes a difference
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... to create economic and social development from the bottom. Often called the "banker of the poor", he has turned the banking industry upside down by using a reverse business model. "Conventional banks ...
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Quotes by Professor Yunus
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... to make it happen. Whenever we talk about the people at the bottom or the poor people, our usual reaction is to write a cheque. Okay, take care of them, feed them, clothe them, give them some place to ...
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Your Turn in BizEd
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... the needs of the poor. Some of these programs might be built around the ideas presented by C.K. Prahalad in his book, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Prahalad believes the world could “fight ...
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Filmmakers Focus Their Lens on Social Entrepreneurs
(News & Media/In the Media)
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... who solves a societal problem with a novel solution that benefits humanity, particularly people in the world's poorest communities. Take, for example, British education advocate Ann Cotton. She started ...
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7th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture
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... coming months and years, affecting the security of the bottom three billion with special force. And of course the troubles of the world’s poorest will have an impact on the developed nations, too. ...
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Grameen Veolia Water Ltd
(Social Business/Social Business)
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... the people. To sum it all a social business is company aimed at providing a good or service to help the people while operating with the motto of “No Loss, No dividends”. General scope Grameen –Veolia ...
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Grameen Intel
(Social Business/Social Business)
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... profitably.
The Grameen Intel Social Business will continue to work on developing IT solutions, to ensure that the bottom income people begin to reap the benefits of information technology.Is a ...
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Grameen Healthcare
(Social Business/Social Business)
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Extending the Success of the Principles of Microcredit to Health Care Delivery Mission and Overview The Grameen Bank and other microcredit programs have proven that bottoms-up business models can ...
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