Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, on 24th May 2011, appeared on the Frost Over the World show, hosted by renowned journalist David Frost.
Professor Yunus discussed his vision on how Social Business can be used to bring lasting solutions to social problems in Ban...
Professor Muhammad Yunus was the guest speaker at an event hosted by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) in London yesterday, May 24, 2011. About 180 people, consisting of Members of Parliament, researchers, business leaders, CEOs and stu...
Professor Muhammad Yunus talks with Arun Devnath and Md Fazlur Rahman of The Daily Star in an exclusive interview, the first after his resignation from Grameen Bank.
The Daily Star (DS): You have often said misconceptions float around Grameen Bank. What are they? Which...
Beloved owners and honoured members of Grameen Bank:
Thirty-five years ago, I did not know that I would start a bank, and that I would lend to poor people, especially to poor rural women. Like many other teachers, I was busy teaching in the classroom, far from the real...
My dear colleagues:
For the past five months, we have all been in an extremely difficult situation. The reasons for this are well known to you all. The Supreme Court has given its verdict. On the basis of this verdict, the Board of Directors of Grameen Bank now has t...
May 12, 2011
Handing-over of the Charge of Managing Director
I am today relinquishing the post of Managing Director of Grameen Bank on the basis that the Deputy Managing Director Mrs. Nurjahan Begum would hold charge until a Managing Director is appointed in accordan...
By Professor Muhammad Yunus
Introduction to Social Business
The Birth of Microcredit
The concept of social business has its origin in microcredit, which grew out of my concern about the problems poor people faced in my country of Bangladesh.
Back in 1976, I failed...
There is no globally recognized logo for Human Rights so far. Germany, together with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Mauritius, Indonesia, Senegal, Singapore and Uruguay started a competition to create a Human Rights Symbol, simply called "A L...
You have already heard the verdict from the Supreme Court.
Why have I appeared at the Court? Why did I want to contest the order of Bangladesh Bank? Why there is so much concern about this issue at home and abroad? These questions have created confusion among some peop...
We are the elected members of the 9th Board of Grameen Bank. We have been elected from the 8.3 million borrowers of Grameen Bank. We are the owners of 96.50 % of Grameen Bank. Under these circumstances, it is our responsibility to run the Bank.
Unfortunately, Banglades...
