YUNUS SOCIAL BUSINESS CENTRE
YYSA Social Business in Yamagata, Japan
When Solasido Honbou turned 39 years in 2020, he made a very unusual decision. As a Yoshimoto Comedian he had worked hard for almost two decades to become a professional comedian. But then, he opted to open up his career to a bigger dream. He joined“Living in Your Town Project” later became a social entrepreneur as part of Yunus Yoshimoto Social Action, a job that combines his comedian skills with promoting a business aimed at benefiting society. “That decision changed my life ...
Yunus Social Business Festival | Women Entrepreneurship | Bethlehem - 2021
The Yunus Centre Social Business Festival took place on 16th December 2021 at the Bethlehem University. The campaign is organized by ‘Start Your Business project’ and combines unique knowledge, people and experiences. Additionally, the festival held a Women Entrepreneurship Forum where change-making women from the area discussed different topics also known as ‘Spark Talks’. Conclusively, the YSBC Festival was a success, in which the entrepreneurs of today highlighted the ...
9th Social Business Academia Conference 2020 - Highlights
A comprehensive Report on 9th Social Business Academia Conference 2020 that was held on 4-6 November, 2020. This year the confernce was held on a virtual platforms due to pandemic. ...
尤努斯致全球社会事业中心公开信：切勿混淆社会事业与社会企业 2
尤努斯致全球社会事业中心公开信：切勿混淆社会事业与社会企业 穆罕默德·尤努斯教授 2020 年 1 月 9 日尊敬的尤努斯社会事业中心（YSBC）主任， 来自达卡尤努斯中心的问候！这是一条简短的注释，旨在引起您对“社会事业”，“社会企业 家精神”和“社会企业”之间差异的关注。这些概念的差异在某些著 作中被模糊了，甚至混淆使用——而这...
A Note on Social Business and Social Entrepreneurship
Muhammad YunusJanuary 12, 2020 This is a short note to draw your attention to the difference between Social Business, Social Entrepreneurship, and Social Enterprises. In some writings I see the differences are blurred or even the terms are used interchangeably. It will be damaging to the concepts to use these terms interchangeably. I have tried to clarify this in my writings in the past. But I see that the confusion still persists. I have defined social business as a business which is ...
YSB (Yunus Social Business) Impact Report 2019
Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru (YSBFB) was founded in 2017, with the vision to create an enabling environment for Social Businesses in India. Check out the YSBFB Impact Report linked below which showcases the work done by them and get to know the deven interesting and diverse social businesses from waste recycling to green technology invested in by the fund. ...
Why Social Business?
-Professor Muhammad Yunus In 1976, when I began the Grameen Bank project, I was merely trying to help a handful of people in Jobra, a small village next to Chittagong University where I was teaching.I had found that the poor men and women there remained slaves to the local money-lenders for tiny amounts of money to support their income generating activities. It was then that I decided to lend 42 people an amount $27 dollars of my own money to free themselves from the loan sharks. I was astounded...
Welcome Speech forProfessorYunus by Arvind Ashta, Professor of Microfinance, Burgundy School of Business
March 6,2019Professor Yunus, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,We are gathered here in fulfillment of a promise made ten years ago. In 2009, the BanquePopulaire offered to finance a Chair in Microfinance at our school. The school offered the chair to me. Then, our International Relations Director and I were sent by our Dean to a conference where you were speaking, Sir, to meet you and to invite you to Dijon. It was a NAFSA conference in Los Angeles. 6000 people were in the hall. And I g...
All YSBC
SLName of UniversityCountryYearName of CentreContact1HEC ParisFrance2008Social Business / Enterprise and Poverty Chair.Frédéric Dalsac, Chair Holder and Associate Professor of MarketingBénédicte Faivre-Tavignot, Executive Director of the Chair, Affiliate Professor of Strategy, and co-Director of the HEC Paris Society & Organizations (SnO) Center2Asian Institute of TechnologyThailand2009Yunus Center at AITDr. Faiz Shah, Director of Yunus Center and Head of De...
ABOUT YSBC
A Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC) is a hub for social business in universities around the world, following the principles of Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. YSBCs are set in collaboration through agreement between Yunus Centre and the university with the aim of spreading the concept and practice of social business among the university students and researchers.YSBCs conduct research, teaching, academic program and curriculum development, action research, knowledge-sharing events in s...
How to join
To begin the formal process, we require a Letter of Intent from the university by an authorized person from the university which can include its Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, President, Rector, Registrar, Dean, Head of Department or equivalent position proposing the university's interest to set up the Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC). The letter can be sent electronically through sharing a scanned copy of the signed proposal.The Yunus Centre upon assessment of the proposal shall revert with th...
YSBC Contact
Yunus Centre16th Floor, Grameen Bank Bhaban Mirpur-2, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh Email: ysbc@yunuscentre.orgPhone: +880 1771589003, +880 2 9005257-69...
YSBC FAQ
1. What is a Yunus Social Business Centre?Yunus Social Business Centres (YSBCs) are generally established by academic institutions with undergraduate and graduate students and by reputed research organizations. The purpose is always to introduce, familiarize and critically analyze the concept of social business in all its perspectives among the young people, academics and researchers. Since social business is a newly developed concept and promises to address the problems of poverty, inequality, ...
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