Apr 24 2012
Press Release:

BOSTON— Last Thursday, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, gave a talk titled "Social Business—New Models for Providing Sustainable Services to the Poor" before a large audience of students, faculty, and staff in Burden Auditorium at Harvard Business School (HBS). Yunus, an economist who once taught economics at a university in his native Bangladesh and who is widely known for his work in developing microlending and establishing the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983, discussed his recent efforts, which focus on building social businesses and healthcare initiatives in Bangladesh. The event was hosted by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, the HBS Healthcare Initiative, and the Harvard Innovation Lab.

April 27, 2012 By carolin.bachmann

Three winning ideas to solve poverty share USid="mce_marker" million prize

(NEW YORK CITY – April 27, 2012) Carnegie Mellon, Hult International Business School and NYU Abu Dhabi were honored for their commitment to eradicating poverty at the Hult Global Case Challenge in New York City, hosted by Hult International Business and the Clinton Global Initiative. The three winning teams beat thousands of students from the world’s best business schools for a USid="mce_marker" million cash grant and were honored by President Bill Clinton.

VOL 20 NO 310 REGD NO DA 1589 | Dhaka, Friday April 27 2012

Dr Muhammad Yunus and Dr Amartya Sen hardly require any introduction. They are widely known and respected throughout the world for their achievements in their own fields. Both received Nobel Prize, one for Peace and the other for Economics, both were born in what is today Bangladesh, and both are educators and economists by training. And they are not just individuals, their fame, persona, and intellectual properties have made them into institutions. 

04/26/2012
By Mark Hrywna

Million-dollar ideas might be hard to come by but budding social entrepreneurs pitched their best Thursday night at New York Public Library in the culmination of the 3rd annual Hult Global Case Challenge.

Starting early this year with 5,000 applications from 300 colleges, 18 teams of business students converged on New York City, with just three emerging as winners. The teams now will work with three nonprofits to try to implement their plans, with the help of a $1 million cash grant from Hult.

The third annual event culminated with keynote remarks by Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and former President Bill Clinton.

Rotary International News -- 26 April 2012 

More than 35,000 Rotarians have registered for the 2012 RI Convention in Bangkok, Thailand, 6-9 May. And you can still join them by registering online through 1 May.

For the first time ever, a convention plenary session will be available live online. The third plenary session, celebrating milestones in Rotary’s efforts to eradicate polio, will be available through a live webcast at 09:15 on 8 May (in Thailand; find the time for your location  ). A recording of the webcast will be available later that day.

April 26, 2012 10:05 am

CHICAGO: His Holiness the Dalai Lama began his morning program in Chicago on April 25, 2012 with audiences.  He met separately with President Lech Walesa, Jody Williams, and President Mikhail Gorbachev. They discussed issues of mutual concern, including issues taken up at the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. His Holiness said he regarded President Walesa as a hero as he stood firm against totalitarianism.  His Holiness told President Gorbachev that he had
single-handedly contributed to a change that had global impact. Kalon Tripa Lobsang Sangay, who is attending the Summit, was present in these meetings.

Thereafter, His Holiness attended a luncheon for the participants of the Summit.

In the afternoon, His Holiness was one of the panelists for a discussion on “World Peace and Nonviolence: Never Give UP.” His co-panelists were fellow Nobel laureates President Mikhail Gorbachev, Prof. Jody Williams and Prof. Muhammad Yunus.

Nobel Peace Prize winner brings broad vision to Harvard

By Katie Koch | Harvard Staff Writer | Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Muhammad Yunus built a multibillion-dollar bank — and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 — on a simple idea: Poverty need not be permanent.

April 23, 2012 | Darryl Grant | Chicago Political Buzz Examiner

Blue skies, and a mild breeze, greeted the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago yesterday morning, and among them former President Jimmy Carter, former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Republic of Poland, Lech Walesa, Frederik Willem de Klerk, former president of South Africa, and Professor Muhammad Yunus, to name some of the more illustrious names.

Titled “Speak up, Speak Out for Freedom and Rights, the Summit also proved to be yet another venue to showcase the city of Chicago, and true to form, extolling its virtues, and calling it “the most American of American cities” and that “made its mark on the economic culture” of the nation, were part of the opening remarks by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Boston, MA (PRWEB) April 24, 2012

April 23rd marked the kick-off of the 12th Annual World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. Held in Chicago, the Summit runs through Wednesday, April 25, and features panelists President Mikhail Gorbachev, Professor Muhammad Yunus, President Jimmy Carter, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, and President Lech Walesa, all of whom are available for speaking engagements through the Boston-based American Program Bureau (APB), which also represents such Nobel Peace Prize winners as Oscar Arias and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Five of the eight laureates at the Summit are represented by APB.