The World of Business Podcast
Insights into the business world - featuring content from 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4's In Business programme, and also Global Business from the 蜜芽传媒 World Service.
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Global Business: Silicon Alley
Thu 14 May 2015
New York City has its own Silicon Alley and Manhattan is fast becoming a hub for high...
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In Business: Thinking Machines
Thu 7 May 2015
One of the most famous computer systems in the world is called Watson, developed by IBM.
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In Business: Immigration - The Business View
Thu 30 Apr 2015
Immigration is one of the key issues of the General Election campaign.
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Global Business: What鈥檚 Ailing Argentina
Thu 23 Apr 2015
Businesses in Argentina say they suffer from too much red tape, rampant inflation and...
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In Business: Circular Economy
Thu 23 Apr 2015
As Dame Ellen MacArthur circumnavigated the globe she got first-hand knowledge of the...
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Global Business: Second Curve
Thu 9 Apr 2015
Business commentator and social philosopher Charles Handy speaks to Peter Day about if...
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In Business: Blank Screens
Thu 9 Apr 2015
The Information Technology department used to be a mysterious backroom operation, but...
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In Business: The Freelance Economy/Micros
Thu 2 Apr 2015
The growing freelance and micro-business economy is explored by Peter Day.
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Horse Play
Thu 19 Mar 2015
Innovation is hard work, says the British-born author and entrepreneur Kevin Ashton.
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Global Business: Shake Up Your Company
Thu 12 Feb 2015
Peter Day talks to Gary Hamel, one of the best known management gurus in the world.
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In Business: Ttip: The world's biggest trade deal
Thu 22 Jan 2015
Ttip: Peter Day asks how the world's biggest trade deal, currently being negotiated US...
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Global Business: The Circular Economy
Thu 22 Jan 2015
Peter Day talks with the record breaking yachtswoman, Ellen MacArthur, and Unilever to...
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In Business: Money Making
Thu 15 Jan 2015
Peter Day explores the future of money and payments and asks how "cashless" we may become.
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In Business: Meet the Vloggers
Thu 8 Jan 2015
Peter Day meets the vloggers who start off making videos in their bedroom and end up...
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In Business: 21st Century Unlimited
Sun 4 Jan 2015
New ways of doing business are making people think hard about how companies function.
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Global Business: Cabin Fever
New Year's Day 2015
Up in the air stuck in a metal tube for hours, can flying ever be a nice experience? a...
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In Business: Kindness Revisited
Christmas Day 2014
Random acts of kindness can help businesses grow in surprising ways. Peter Day talks...
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In Business: For Ever and Ever
Thu 18 Dec 2014
Britain's cathedrals have defined the landscape for centuries but what's their role of...
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In Business: Cabin Fever
Thu 11 Dec 2014
Up in the air stuck in a metal tube for hours, can flying ever be a nice experience? a...
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Young Horizons
Thu 11 Dec 2014
On last week鈥檚 Global Business from the Drucker Forum we heard grim predictions for...
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Can We Manage?
Thu 4 Dec 2014
Peter Day asks leading experts at the Drucker Forum how we can get out of the mess by...
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In Business: A Tale of Two Sanctions
Thu 27 Nov 2014
Peter Day talks to companies affected by economic sanctions imposed against Russia, by...
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The Philosophical Business Plan
Thu 20 Nov 2014
As Peter Day has been discovering, business people have much to learn from 芒鈧�� even...
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It's the Little Things
Thu 13 Nov 2014
Peter Day talks to the Professor Robert Cialdini, an expert in the scientific study of...
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Sovereign Wealth Funds
Thu 6 Nov 2014
They鈥檙e worth a staggering $5 trillion 鈥� and growing fast. Should we worry about...
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Myanmar Challenges
Fri 3 Oct 2014
Insights from two home-grown marketing companies into a country emerging after decades...
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In Business: Learning to do Business
Thu 25 Sep 2014
Peter Day meets the local entrepreneurs of the new Myanmar and discovers their and of...
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In Business: Myanmar Awakening
Thu 18 Sep 2014
Peter Day travels to Myanmar, formally known as Burma, to find out how the country is...
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In Business: Which way now for Scottish businesses?
Thu 11 Sep 2014
Peter Day ask Scottish entrepreneurs whether the referendum debate has changed the in...
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In Business: Thanks for the Memory
Thu 4 Sep 2014
The internet creates the possibility of total recall forever for many of life's most...
