Global Business

Insights into the business world from the BBC.

World Service,745 episodes

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Future Perfect - Poverty, Sustainability And Overpopulation
Rising to the challenges of sustainability, a rising population and inequality
04 Aug 2000,26 mins
Future Perfect - The Reach Of Globalisation
Globalisation - does it bring huge potential or uniformity?
30 Jul 2000,25 mins
Future Perfect - Prosperity For All?
Is the world caught up in a growing wave of prosperity?
21 Jul 2000,25 mins
The Future Perfect Of Business
Exploring what the business world of the future will look like
17 Jul 2000,26 mins
What Does The Anti-Capitalism Movement Mean For Business?
How seriously should business take anti-capitalism protests?
07 Jul 2000,25 mins
The Business of Business News
The new global knowledge economy and how business news has become all pervading
29 Jun 2000,25 mins
America's Technological Take Over
US businesses are changing the way things are done across the globe
20 Jun 2000,26 mins
How Islamic Banking Is Revolutionising Finance
The growth of Islamic banking and how it is revolutionising personal finance
15 Jun 2000,26 mins
The Transformation of Business-To-Business
A look at B2B, a term used to describe electronic commerce transactions between companies
08 Jun 2000,25 mins
The Semco Story - Part One
The first of two programmes reporting on Brazilian engineering company Semco in Sao Paulo
25 May 2000,26 mins
The Semco Story - Part Two
Second part of the story of Brazilian engineering company Semco in Sao Paulo
21 May 2000,26 mins
South Korea Emerges From The Currency Crisis
Following a currency crisis, has South Korea changed enough to compete on a global scale?
18 May 2000,26 mins
The Rise Of Singapore
A short history of the development of Singapore and its rise to first world status
15 May 2000,25 mins
Why It Pays To Be Kind
Report from Singapore on the launch of Singapore Kindness Week
05 May 2000,25 mins
Training For a More Creative Age
Management consultant Tom Peters' call for global business to fight complacency
19 Apr 2000,25 mins
Made-To-Order Cars
A look at the changes in the mass production methods used by Ford
13 Apr 2000,25 mins
Why Mass Customisation Is Replacing Mass Production
The rise of made-to-order products, fuelled by the online retail revolution
06 Apr 2000,25 mins
The German Economic Revolution
Report on the changes and growth of Germany's economy
30 Mar 2000,28 mins
War Games and The Art of Business
The Art of War and business and why top executives love to play outside
27 Mar 2000,28 mins
Rebuilding East Timor And Somalia
The shattered economies of East Timor and Somalia and what is being done to help them
17 Mar 2000,28 mins
The Rush To Patent Life Itself
The price of oil and the Human Genome Project and the rush to patent it
10 Mar 2000,29 mins
Hyderabad's Technological Revolution
How Hyderabad, India is transforming itself into a powerhouse of modern technology
05 Mar 2000,28 mins
Why Is It So Hard to Buy Shares?
Is the financial industry helping us, or stopping us, from doing what we want?
28 Feb 2000,24 mins
'Burn Rate' - How To Lose Money By Spending It
Michael Wolff, author of 'Burn Rate' talks about the dot-com dilemma
26 Feb 2000,26 mins
Bullying In The Workplace
Bullying at work, and the battle for a famous Russian porcelain factory near St Petersburg
21 Feb 2000,29 mins