Peter Day's World of Business

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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

  • Can We Manage?

    04/12/2014 Duration: 26min

    Peter 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.

  • In Business: A Tale of Two Sanctions

    27/11/2014 Duration: 27min

    Peter Day talks to companies affected by economic sanctions imposed against Russia, and by retaliatory sanctions imposed by Russia, and asks how they cope.

  • The Philosophical Business Plan

    20/11/2014 Duration: 26min

    As Peter Day has been discovering, business people have much to learn from philosophers – whose insights could even boost a company’s profits.

  • It's the Little Things

    13/11/2014 Duration: 26min

    Peter 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.

  • Sovereign Wealth Funds

    06/11/2014 Duration: 27min

    They’re worth a staggering $5 trillion – and growing fast. Should we worry about the power of Sovereign Wealth Funds? Peter Day investigates

  • Myanmar Challenges

    03/10/2014 Duration: 26min

    Insights from two home-grown marketing companies into a country emerging after decades of isolation

  • In Business: Learning to do Business

    25/09/2014 Duration: 28min

    Peter Day meets the local entrepreneurs of the new Myanmar and discovers their priorities and pitfalls of doing business in an emerging economy

  • In Business: Myanmar Awakening

    18/09/2014 Duration: 27min

    Peter 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.

  • In Business: Which way now for Scottish businesses?

    11/09/2014 Duration: 27min

    Peter Day ask Scottish entrepreneurs whether the referendum debate has changed the business landscape, in the run-up to the vote.

  • In Business: Thanks for the Memory

    04/09/2014 Duration: 27min

    The 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.

  • In Business: Take a Bow

    28/08/2014 Duration: 28min

    Peter Day visits Cremona in northern Italy to see how a centuries old centre of violin making can survive in a fast changing musical world.

  • Health Technology

    15/08/2014 Duration: 26min

    Peter 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?

  • Inside Silicon Valley

    08/08/2014 Duration: 26min

    Can 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.

  • In Business: Fast and Furious

    07/08/2014 Duration: 27min

    Peter 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.

  • Silicon Valley: Steve Blank

    01/08/2014 Duration: 26min

    In 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.

  • In Business: Philosophy

    31/07/2014 Duration: 27min

    Peter 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.

  • Companies and Innovation

    27/06/2014 Duration: 26min

    Peter 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.

  • What does the future hold for the African economy?

    20/06/2014 Duration: 26min

    Peter 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.

  • Global Biz: The Clash of Generations

    06/06/2014 Duration: 26min

    Peter Day hears from some of the leaders of tomorrow at the 44th St Gallen Symposium.

  • Global Biz: Packaging in a Pickle

    30/05/2014 Duration: 26min

    Modern living generates increasing amounts of packaging to wrap up the things we buy. That generates widespread criticism of an industry. Peter Day investigates.

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