Synopsis
Insights into the business world with Peter Day - featuring content from BBC Radio 4's In Business programme, and also Global Business from the BBC World Service.
Episodes
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Can We Manage?
04/12/2014 Duration: 26minPeter Day asks leading experts at the Drucker Forum how we can get out of the mess caused by the 2008 financial crisis and whether Capitalism is at breaking point.
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In Business: A Tale of Two Sanctions
27/11/2014 Duration: 27minPeter Day talks to companies affected by economic sanctions imposed against Russia, and by retaliatory sanctions imposed by Russia, and asks how they cope.
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The Philosophical Business Plan
20/11/2014 Duration: 26minAs Peter Day has been discovering, business people have much to learn from philosophers – whose insights could even boost a company’s profits.
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It's the Little Things
13/11/2014 Duration: 26minPeter Day talks to the Professor Robert Cialdini, an expert in the scientific study of persuasion, about how little actions can make big differences in the way we live, work and shop.
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Sovereign Wealth Funds
06/11/2014 Duration: 27minThey’re worth a staggering $5 trillion – and growing fast. Should we worry about the power of Sovereign Wealth Funds? Peter Day investigates
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Myanmar Challenges
03/10/2014 Duration: 26minInsights from two home-grown marketing companies into a country emerging after decades of isolation
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In Business: Learning to do Business
25/09/2014 Duration: 28minPeter Day meets the local entrepreneurs of the new Myanmar and discovers their priorities and pitfalls of doing business in an emerging economy
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In Business: Myanmar Awakening
18/09/2014 Duration: 27minPeter Day travels to Myanmar, formally known as Burma, to find out how the country is trying to emerge from its undeveloped past into the modern interconnected world.
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In Business: Which way now for Scottish businesses?
11/09/2014 Duration: 27minPeter Day ask Scottish entrepreneurs whether the referendum debate has changed the business landscape, in the run-up to the vote.
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In Business: Thanks for the Memory
04/09/2014 Duration: 27minThe internet creates the possibility of total recall forever for many of life's most significant moments. Peter Day talks to people building businesses around this new idea.
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In Business: Take a Bow
28/08/2014 Duration: 28minPeter Day visits Cremona in northern Italy to see how a centuries old centre of violin making can survive in a fast changing musical world.
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Health Technology
15/08/2014 Duration: 26minPeter Days goes to Silicon Valley to discover the innovations that are promising to transform healthcare. Can the technology companies really help us live longer, healthier lives?
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Inside Silicon Valley
08/08/2014 Duration: 26minCan Silicon Valley's enormous success as the global centre of innovation continue indefinitely? Peter Day explores the Valley's past and present to find out about its future.
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In Business: Fast and Furious
07/08/2014 Duration: 27minPeter Day reports on how the influence of UK motor racing is now reaching out into other businesses and our everyday lives inspired by the dramatic expertise of the pit-stop.
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Silicon Valley: Steve Blank
01/08/2014 Duration: 26minIn the first in a three-part series about and from Silicon Valley, Peter Day talks to Steve Blank about a career path that has spanned several decades in the Valley.
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In Business: Philosophy
31/07/2014 Duration: 27minPeter Day talks to business people who are being inspired by the great philosophers and finds out what company leaders can learn from their ideas and theories.
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Companies and Innovation
27/06/2014 Duration: 26minPeter Day talks with two authors, the business guru Lynda Gratton and the innovation expert Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, about the benefits innovation can have for the company and for society and how to best let ideas flourish and grow.
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What does the future hold for the African economy?
20/06/2014 Duration: 26minPeter Day talks to Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank about the key issues facing the continent, which has some of the world’s fastest growing economies.
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Global Biz: The Clash of Generations
06/06/2014 Duration: 26minPeter Day hears from some of the leaders of tomorrow at the 44th St Gallen Symposium.
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Global Biz: Packaging in a Pickle
30/05/2014 Duration: 26minModern living generates increasing amounts of packaging to wrap up the things we buy. That generates widespread criticism of an industry. Peter Day investigates.