Professor Yunus signing the MoU with Governor Muñoz.Caldas is an economically underdeveloped department in the Paisa region of Colombia. While it was once one of the country’s biggest coffee producers, it has since been experiencing a depression due to the col...
Mayor Yury Luzhkov told Nobel Prize-winning banker Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday that his ideas about microcredit had spurred City Hall to open a program offering quick, small loans to small businesses.Yunus — a Bangladeshi banker who together with his bank won the 2...
The Philosophy and Economics Program of the University of Bayreuth bestowed the Bayreuth Leadership Award upon outstanding individuals, in recognition of his thought and actions both of which meet the ethical and economic ideals of Philosophy and Economics. Laureates ...
The move from the company more usually associated with expensive footwear and celebrity sponsorship was inspired by Bangladesh's Nobel prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, the pioneer of micro-loans which help the poor start their own businesses. He told the company, which has...
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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 up Grameen Otto Trust and Grameen Otto Textile Company.Grameen Otto...
Yunus Centre Press ReleaseDr Michael Otto, Chairman of the Otto Group, the world’s largest mail order company, today signed an agreement with Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus to begin a joint venture in the field of textiles in Bangladesh.The Otto Group is...
From staff reports Banker and economist Muhammad Yunus, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his pioneering work in providing small loans in poor countries, is the recipient of the 2010 Posey Leadership Award from Austin College, the school announced Monday.Yunus...
Consulting firm CrainerDearlove compiled this list of today's top thinkers.Leadership consulting firm CrainerDearlove surveyed 3,500 people and a panel of experts to determine the 2009 edition of the Thinkers 50, a biennial list of the most influential living management...
Experts rank management consultants and economists among the most respected gurus.Corporate strategy sage C.K. Prahalad is the most influential management thinker in the world, according to the Thinkers 50, a biennial ranking of business gurus. Prahalad, who serves as t...
