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Set of DVDs which provide cutting edge insights into today's management best practices and EI competency research from world-class thought leaders. This ground breaking series allows individuals and organizations alike access to top-level training from some of the brightest minds in the business world. (Including leadership, organizational research, psychology, negotiation, senior hiring, and more.)
Discusses the serious issues of professional etiquette in a comical fashion that will both entertain and instruct students and employees in the vital areas of etiquette and jprotocol. Prepares students for many different situations where a knowledge of professional etiquette will be esential. Includes inter-office etiquette, meeting protocol, introductions, dining etiquette, travel and handling potentially awkward situations with grace.
Features visionary entrepreneurs, economists and others in a 12-part PBS TV series which delves into hot-button ethical issues and "green business" ideas at the heart of global and local commerce.
Frontline -- As WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers -- found guilty of securities fraud, conspiracy, and filing false documents with regulators - faces sentencing for his crimes, FRONTLINE traces WorldCom's stunning rise and fall in this investigation of what New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer calls Wall Street's "corrupt business model," which costs American investors trillions.
This program reveals the inner workings of organizations and the factors that influence their effective operation. Business experts from a range of industries discuss the importance of the business plan, financing and budgeting, management of staff, SWOT analysis, trend advantage in the market.
Attributed to Sun Tzu, a prominent Chinese general writing in the fifth century BC, THE ART OF WAR is one of the oldest preserved dissertations on military strategy and tactics. But today its implications reach far beyond the battlefield. It is widely seen as an essential guide to most forms of organizational leadership, and anyone involved in business, management, and the entrepreneurial risk-taking stands to gain from Sun Tzu's ideas.
The first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008.
Fictionalized account of a hostile takeover of Nabisco.
Pride. Lust. Greed. The 20th anniversary edition of the Oscar-winning director Oliver Ston'es captivating talke of the delectably sinful and morally bankrupt. Loaded with never before seen special features.
In the wake of Argentina's spectacular economic collapse, Latin America's most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. Thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory in Buenos Aires, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head.
When Dick Harper is terminated as Globaodyne Corporation's VP of Communications, he assures his wife, Jane, he'll find another job in no time. Months later, their lawn is repossessed, Jane has sold her body to science, and Dick's career as a day laborer ends with his deportation to Mexico. Madder than ever and not going to take it anymore, Dick and Jane turn to the fastest-growing sector in the white-collar job market -- armed robbery -- as they become upscale suburban Robin Hoods, stealing from Robin Hoods, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor ... namely themselves.
Based on the best-selling book by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room details the shocking inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals. Unimaginable personal excesses, and an utter moral vacuum that posed as corporate philosophy, led to top executives of America's seventh largest corporation walking away with over one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything.
In this acclaimed documentary from the co-director of Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomksy and the Media, 40 corporate insiders and critics -- including Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, No Logo author Naomi Klein and Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman -- explore the nature and spectacular rise of the most pervasive institution of our time. Combining analysis with footage from advertising, television news and industrial films, The Corporation is an entertaining and provocative look at the inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures of the modern global conglomerate.
University of Michigan-Flint