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Agriculture, the auto industry, and the energy sector all benefit from government subsidies in the form of loans, tax breaks, and other preferences. Critics of these subsidies argue that they are misguided and unfair, transferring wealth from taxpayers to corporations and distorting the nation's markets and economy. Proponents argue that such subsidies are effective and fair, helping to launch innovation via strategic investment and benefiting businesses,...
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On this episode of Ethical Markets Hazel Henderson and Alice Tepper Marlin discuss how sustainable accounting evolved over the past half century. Topics include: the Council for Economic Priorities, the Calvert Group, Shopping for a Better World, impact investing, and branding.
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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...
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In this film, human resources consultant Peter Wallbridge discusses how to manage the challenges and sensitivities of an organizational restructuring. He explains how to communicate with staff about reorganization, policy options for moving people into new roles, laying people off, and providing for voluntary resignation.
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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....
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On this episode of Ethical Markets Hazel Henderson and Marcello Palazzi, president of the Progressio Foundation and founder of B-Lab Europe, discuss benefit corporations. Topics include: shareholder value, b corporations, health care, cooperatives, impact investing, and environmental concerns
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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...
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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...
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Corporations have long donated to charity, giving anonymously out of pure goodwill and sometimes giving to improve their image. But today, charities and business are part of each other's core strategies. This program explores the concepts of "strategic philanthropy" and "cause marketing" by examining the partnerships of three of the world's largest corporations with three of the largest charities. Walmart got a PR makeover by supplying stranded Katrina...
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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...
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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 now plays a hands-on role in money management, and in the...
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Human resources consultant Peter Wallbridge discusses how to manage layoffs. He discusses genuine redundancies versus redundancies as an excuse to fire someone. He recommends flexible employment contracts. The human resources director should be objective and factual in laying someone off, and not assume the person should react a certain way. Wallbridge discusses how to balance the company's and the worker's priorities.
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On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers, attorney Juan "Accidentes" Dominguez is battling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it? This suspenseful documentary sheds new light on the global politics of food, the dynamics of First and Third World nations, and human rights at its simplest through...
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Rüschlikon is a sleepy Swiss village where unemployment is low and social problems rare. The town's good fortune was recently cemented by the arrival of Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of a multinational corporation with extensive holdings in Zambian copper mines. Glasenberg made nearly ten billion dollars when his company went public in 2011; receipt of his taxes so overwhelmed public coffers that the mayor gave all of Rüschlikon tax breaks. Less fortunate...
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Is independent political speech the linchpin of our democracy or its Achilles' heel? For democracy to work, some argue, citizens-along with corporations, unions, media outlets, and other organizations-must be allowed to spend as much money as they wish to express their views on political candidates and the issues of the day. But others disagree. If every individual and organization can spend as much money as they like to express their views, they...
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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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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...
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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.