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I have followed the initiatives of Professor Yunus for a long time and have been impressed by his commitment to what worked in practice rather than any slavery to the conventional academic and business constructs where these were failing to serve the needs of society. For myself I argue that money profit accounting is insufficient as a metric of socio-economic performance and something better is needed that embraces social value add as well as money profit ... and has community rather than organization as the primary reporting entity. I am encouraged that Professor Yunus has called for something like this in his writings.

Peter Burgess TrueValueMetrics

Dr. Yunus is one of very few people who have built a substantial sustainable organization doing valueadd activities for people and society ... almost every big organization created by the general capitalist investor community is making profit not wirh valueadd for society but with dangerous unsustainable valuerdestruction. The whole system of money profit metrics ignores all the value flow elements, and reports only on economic transactions that involve a money component. Thank you Dr. Yunus for what you have done and continue to do.
Peter Burgess

Fortune Picks Yunus as One of 12 Greatest Entrepreneurs

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has been selected as one of the 12 greatest entrepreneurs of our times. This list has been prepared by The Fortune magazine and published on http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/news/companies/1203/gallery.greatest-entrepreneurs.fortune/13.html. This list places Professor Yunus in the company of highly exclusive group of individuals, all of whom are known throughout the world for their innovation, vision and ability to get things done.

The 12 individuals are:

1. 1) Steve Jobs of Apple,

2. 2) Bill Gates of Microsoft,

3. 3) Fred Smith of FedEx,

4. 4) Jeff Bezos of Amazon

5. 5) Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google,

6. 6) Howard Schultz of Starbucks,

7. 7) Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook,

8. 8) John Mackey of Whole Foods,

9. 9) Herb Kelleher of SouthWest Airlines,

10. 10) Narayana Murthy of Infosys,

11. 11) Sam Walton of Wal-mart Stores,

12. 12) Muhammad Yunus of Grameen Bank

Ten of these entrepreneurs are American, one is an Indian and one is Bangladeshi.

The list was prepared considering economic and social impact, world changing vision of the entrepreneur, ability of the entrepreneur to inspire and motivate their employees, their record of innovation and their actual results. These highly innovative entrepreneurs have created great impact in the world.

The companies that they have created have benefitted hundreds and thousands of people and other businesses, while creating employment for millions of people.

Professor Yunus was chosen by Wharton School of Business for PBS documentary, as one of 'The 25 Most Influential Business Persons of the Past 25 Years'. In 2006, Time magazine listed him under '60 years of Asian Heroes' as one of the top 12 business leaders. In 2008, in an open online poll, Yunus was voted the 2nd topmost intellectual person in the world on the list of Top 100 Public Intellectuals by Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (United States). He was also voted 2nd in Prospect Magazine's 2008 global poll of the world's top 100 intellectuals.