Muhammad Yunus @ Commonwealth Club, San Francisco (Jan 17)
Posted by Dave McClure on January 5, 2008
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner & founder of The Grameen Bank, will be speaking about his new book Creating a World Without Poverty at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Thursday Jan 17th.
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Registration & additional info is available here on the Commonwealth Club website.



January 24, 2008 at 11:53 am
Do you have transcrips ,CDs or online access to Unitus speach ?
please let me know, thanks
February 3, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I was totally inspired by Yunus as well. I would love to find out how i can get a downloadable podcast to send to friends i would like to inspire. His source of inspiration is the same as mine in developing the Smarter Ways to Organize Project. I especially loved his simple discovery for how to make people more courageous–talking only to groups of five or more, as his unit to communicate to! Genius and simplicity.
–G. Krane
February 4, 2008 at 2:22 pm
[...] and people like Muhammed Yunus of Grameen Bank (who I recently had the pleasure of hearing speak here in San Francisco) for example, have already proven how effective disruptive innovation can be, not [...]
February 9, 2008 at 10:57 am
Please! post a transcript and podcast of Muhammad Yunus’s address to the Commonwealth Club on Jan. 17, 2008!
February 11, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I don’t have the podcast but for those of you interested in sharing Yunus’ inspirational story, there is a video interview with him on Social Edge that you can forward to friends. http://socialedge.org/blogs/global-x
-Jill
April 14, 2008 at 11:24 am
We are aiming to connect 1000 readers of Dr Yunus book who trust that it changes, economics, governance, everything global , business and to do with capitalism more than any other text. If that’s your sort of thing, please contact me chris macrae practice@smbaworld.com