As you may have heard, founder of the Grameen Bank and Nobel Peace Prize winner  prof. Muhammad Yunus is being investigated for alleged corruption by the government of Bangladesh. According to a recent article by Nick Stace at The Telegraph, due to his clear stance against corruption in politics Yunus has long been distrusted and [...]

The Social Business Tour 2010 is underway. This joint initiative of ERSTE Foundation , Erste Group , good.bee , The Grameen Creative Lab and the Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection, Republic of Austria, was kicked off with the Social Business Days, during the 11th -12th of May. Location was the very [...]

When discussing Social Business, it is hard to avoid mentioning NobelPrize Laureate Muhammad Yunus. Although new Social Business networks and projects constantly appear without involvement from the Grameen Bank founder, his idea of lending microcredits to the penniless has certainly laid the foundation for this new way of business. FT.com recently published an interesting article [...]