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Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Dubai is one of the world’s fastest-growing financial centers. The government is attracting highly specialized talent, promoting high industry standards, and encouraging the use of an innovation in Sharia-compliant products. The goal is clear: Dubai wants to become the global hub for Islamic finance. With Saudi Arabia so close geographically , and with Malaysia still growing at a double-digit rate, the challenge is great. Interviewees include Dow...
Series
Pub. Date
[2005], c2001
Language
English
Description
This program, the final act in the Buzzle drama, details the gritty realities of demerging and receivership. Out of cash, credit, and time, the principals scramble to save their original businesses by demerging. But Apple, standing to lose millions and finally out of patience, pushes them into receivership. Employee reactions ranging from frustration to fatalism starkly illustrate the trickle-down effect of board member decisions as the highly vulnerable...
Series
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Language
English
Description
Due to its rapidly growing economy and a new demand for consumer goods, China is challenged to create a model for long-term sustainable development. In this program Hazel Henderson talks with Professor Zhouying Jin, author of Global Technological Change, about efforts in China to cultivate a green economy. The country has made great strides in clean energy, and is the world's largest exporter of wind turbines and solar panels. Jin discusses progress...
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Gale Presents: Udemy is an online learning platform that provides instruction for adults who want to upskill for a new job, advance in their current profession, or deepen a personal interest. This top collection, curated from courses from Udemy.com and powered by Udemy for Business, gives users access to relevant skills training, helping them achieve success at work and in life. Before enrolling, users can review key information about a course, its...
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Gale Presents: Udemy is an online learning platform that provides instruction for adults who want to upskill for a new job, advance in their current profession, or deepen a personal interest. This top collection, curated from courses from Udemy.com and powered by Udemy for Business, gives users access to relevant skills training, helping them achieve success at work and in life. Before enrolling, users can review key information about a course, its...
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Language
English
Description
Accounting reports convey vital information about cash, profits, and financial position to the owner and key stakeholders of a business. This program explores the content and format of the three key accounting reports: the cash flow statement, the profit and loss statement, and the balance sheet. Interviews with working accountants and financial managers show how these reports are used within a business for analysis and decision making. In addition...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Financial information is at the very core of business operations. But many business owners, managers, and executives are in the dark when it comes to the terms and phrases of financial information and how they relate to business management and performance. Glenyce Johnson, Managing Director of Peregrine Adventures, offers plain English explanations of some critical elements of financial information. Topics include: budget, P&L, profit, the bottom...
Pub. Date
[2011], c2011
Language
English
Description
KPMG is one of the world's largest financial services firms, providing audit, tax, and advisory support to businesses across the globe. This program joins KPMG's Ben Skarrasbrek and Alexi Terrovex as they embark on a virtual tour of financial planning and management in large organizations. Starting with common financial roles and duties, the video establishes the vital importance of developing good cash flow, liquidity, and return on capital investment....
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Language
English
Description
Which part of a company has the most impact on product design? On employee training? On forming relationships with customers? This business case study addresses those questions by examining the needs, strategies, and goals of a major corporation's departments. Going behind the scenes at Holden, a thriving General Motors subsidiary, the program features interviews with managers and directors in Finance, Human Resources, Manufacturing, and Sales and...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A state agency in California, and the woman who runs it, have enormous influence over everything from the air we breathe to the cars we drive. When it comes to the environment, Mary Nichols, the director of the California Air Resources Board, is the most important person you've probably never heard of. Also, the IRS and non-profits on this episode of Dan Rather Reports.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
By most accounts, the American economy is booming—manufacturing is at a 13-year high, unemployment is at a 16-year low, and both the stock market and consumer confidence are soaring. But just what is driving this upturn, how long will it endure, and how will the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in December 2017, shape the economy in the years ahead? In this debate, five economists and experts examine three...
Pub. Date
[2005], c1999
Language
English
Description
Money circulates through a multiplicity of financial markets at a dizzying speed and on a global scale. To make sense of the complicated world of high finance, this lively program profiles some of the people who keep the money moving. Nobel Laureate James Tobin, best-selling author John Murphy, fund managers, scholars, and day traders are captured at MIT Sloan, Yale University, Firebird Management, London's foreign exchange market, the Ecole Polytechnique...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
This film is the long-awaited final episode of a trilogy in search of the winners and losers of the tech revolution on Wall Street. Haim Bodek, aka The Algo Arms Dealer, is a genius algorithm builder who dared to stand up to Wall Street. Could mankind lose control of this increasingly complex system? From the filmmakers of the much-praised Quants: the Alchemists of Wall Street and Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box.
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
It wasn't a hostile takeover or a run on the bank that destroyed Barings, one of Britain's most solid financial institutions. All it took was Nick Leeson, a 20-something trader operating in Singapore, to burn through more than a billion dollars and bring the company down. Of course, that was in 1995. Today, with increased regulations and super-sophisticated monitoring systems, Leeson's transgressions would never be allowed to happen. Right? Wrong-as...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
If you want a quick, brutal lesson on Europe's debt crisis, just ask an Irish property developer. Better yet, take a stroll along the banks of Dublin's Liffey River, where new office buildings and prime waterfront real estate have plummeted in value. Meanwhile, unemployment soars across the nation, especially among Ireland's young people. How did it happen, and did Ireland get a raw deal in comparison with other European Union countries also facing...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Language
English
Description
The first ten years of the 21st century formed one of the most dramatic periods in American economic history-a time of ambition, innovation, excess, and implosion. In this CNBC Original documentary, award-winning correspondent David Faber examines the three economic bubbles that defined the decade. Beginning with the tech bubble, Faber looks at AOL's audacious 2001 takeover of Time Warner, a deal that signified the ultimately fruitless hopes of the...
Pub. Date
[2011], c2011
Language
English
Description
For decades, experts have hailed microcredit as the paramount solution to global poverty. But there is a lesser-known version of that story in which Grameen Bank founder Mohammad Yunus and other promoters of miniaturized finance appear to serve mostly their own interests. Bringing to light a range of potentially unethical practices and policies, this program explores the microcredit system that has been implemented across much of the developing world....
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