Summary: With an international credit crunch hamstringing many Western entrepreneurs, a new wave of investment is flooding the U.K., largely from the Middle East and Asia. This program focuses on sovereign wealth funds and their role in what many see as a financial takeover of Britain's economy-including some of its most cherished icons and institutions. Beginning with a surprising case study-the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: This program explains the following concepts: Risk and Rates of Return; the Time Value of Money; and Bond and Stock Valuation.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: What better way to understand a financial disaster than to meet the kind of people who created it? This CNBC Original documentary investigates the origins of the global economic crisis through eyewitness accounts from mortgage brokers, investment bankers, naive home buyers, and equally naive investors-as well as former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who encouraged shifts away from...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: This program illustrates two of many hurdles that partners-to-be must clear in an attempt to bring about a successful merger: buy-in and brand identity. Meetings with the equity holders to outline the business plan, Andersen consultants to value the participating companies and establish proportions of ownership, and millionaire advertising genius Siimon Reynolds to brainstorm a company name and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011

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Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: Many old-line portfolio managers claim that dealing with green companies is too risky, and yet they do not hesitate to buy up dangerously volatile hedge funds. In this program Hazel Henderson and philanthropic entrepreneur Karl Kleissner suggest that the traditional financial community broaden their strategies to include eco-friendly ventures. Kleissner is co-founder of the K. L. Felicitas...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: The term “tragedy of the commons” was coined to describe what happens when many people vie for the same limited resources, pursuing their own advantage while depleting the stock for all. In this program Hazel Henderson and Leo Burke, director of the Global Commons Initiative, discuss the concept of the financial world as an arena in which everyone has a say. Thanks to the Internet the public...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: Beginning as a theoretical calculation, WorldCom's projection for business growth soon became corporate strategy and eventually a model for the entire telecommunications industry. Unfortunately, it was completely unfounded. This CNBC news documentary exposed the extent of the WorldCom fraud and the smoke-and-mirrors behavior that prevailed not only at WorldCom but throughout the industry as a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: This ongoing case study dramatically exposes two deal-breaking pitfalls that can easily derail a merger: hidden agendas and power plays. Using his valuation as leverage, one equity holder tries to sell his store to an outside investor before his potential partners find out he has

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: A detailed and revealing case study, this CNBC program guides viewers through the corporate dimensions of the world's largest passenger jet fleet. Students will witness high-level management maneuvers undertaken behind the closed doors of executive suites. Several rarely discussed aspects of the airline industry are addressed-chief among them, how a labor-management conflict is sorted out and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: 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...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: It all began on a fateful weekend in September of 2008 when the American economy was on the verge of melting down. Then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, his former protege John Thain, and Ken Lewis, one of the most powerful bankers in the country, secretly cut a deal to merge Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. This episode of Frontline draws on high-profile interviews with key players...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: How do businesses monitor their financial health and the profitability of their projects? Module one of this program presents balance sheet analysis as it is used by the world-class soccer team Ajax Amsterdam; module two introduces the concept of cash flow analysis with PricewaterhouseCoopers and their client Swisscom; and module three explains financial analysis of investments through the...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011

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Summary: Is nuclear power the cheapest way to meet the energy needs of nonindustrialized nations? In this program Hazel Henderson explores the financial side of sustainable development with Graciela Chichilnisky, architect of the carbon market concept that underlies the Kyoto Protocol. Chichilnisky founded an air capture facility designed to reduce greenhouse gases while making solar energy profitable,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010

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Summary: This continuing case study captures the tense experience of hammering out a merger contract and addresses the strenuous challenges of uniting separate companies into one. Still recovering from previous partners' Machiavellian maneuverings and coping with severe network integration woes and a sudden economic downturn, the directors of Buzzle struggle to eke out a profit with their 32 stores....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Lindsey, Jennifer.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Probus Pub. Co. 1986

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