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Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus

Founder and managing director, Grameen Bank, at MIT's Sloan School of Management

The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner addressed the entire body of MIT graduates, but his message that businesses should exist first to serve social good was perhaps heard loudest by Sloan's MBA grads.

"You can be the socially conscious creative generation that the world is waiting for. You can bring your creativity to design brilliant social businesses to overcome poverty, disease, environmental degradation, food crisis, depletion of nonrenewable resources, etc. Each one of you is capable of changing the world. To make a start, all that each one of you has to do is to design a business plan for a social business."


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