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Business enterprises Finance Business enterprises, Foreign Business ethics Finance International business International business enterprises Management International business enterprises Management. enterprises International economic relations Investments Management Moral and ethical aspectsSummary: In this edition of Frontline, investigative correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the shadowy world of international bribery, revealing how multinational companies create slush funds, set up front companies, and make secret payments, all to get billions in business. But these practices are facing an international crackdown led by prosecutors at the U.S. Department of Justice and its allies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program focuses on the western African countries of Mali, Ghana, and Nigeria. In Bamako, Segou, and Djenne, Jonathan Dimbleby learns how mopeds are moving Mali into a better future; meets a traditional wedding singer whose songs are uncustomarily female-empowering; watches enterprising sand-diggers at work in the Niger River; and visits the intricate Djenne mosque. In Kumasi and Accra, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program spotlights the eastern African countries of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania. In Aksum and Addis Ababa, Jonathan Dimbleby learns about initiatives to improve farming across Ethiopia; follows a pilgrimage to Aksum's Church of St. Mary of Zion; observes the Eid al-Adha festival in Addis Ababa; attends a session of a coffee-growers' commodity exchange; and visits some fair trade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: It took two years of negotiation for the BBC's Fiona Bruce to get some face time with Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. In this rare interview, Bruce gains insights into both the man and the icon-genius, business magnate, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people on the planet. In addition, Bruce probes what may be the key question facing Microsoft in the post-Gates era: with its hands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Matt McNeil's online startup, Sign-Up.to, offers small and midsize businesses Web-based software to create, launch, and track permission-based e-mail and text message campaigns-and the results so far have been fabulous. But the 23-year-old entrepreneur and his hard-charging team must build on their initial success very, very quickly if they are to outpace their competition. This program tracks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: A growing number of investment firms and individual investors are guided by the triple bottom line of human dignity, environmental stewardship, and financial profit. This program looks at the growth of socially responsible investing, or SRI, as a successful approach for portfolio managers, venture capitalists, and individual investors. Outlining the "three pillars" of SRI-company screening,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: One of the most surprising aspects of 21st-century capitalism is the emergence of shareholders who are concerned about corporate behavior and accountability. This program investigates that trend, assembling a collection of researchers and business leaders who share valuable insights into shareholder activism. Alisa Gravitz, executive director of Co-op America, and Linda Crompton, CEO of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007