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As a microcosm of "Main Street America," this program focuses on the self-proclaimed City of the Future? San Diego, California? Which has hitched its star to the promise of aggressive new information-age companies and rapid globalization. Companies that have moved manufacturing operations to Mexico are examined, along with the negative effects such moves have had on Mexican and American workers. In San Diego, we meet winners like the entrepreneurs...
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A collection of forty-two essays that debate issues pertaining to business ethics and society, including corporate social responsibility, privatization of social security, monitoring of employee email, the exploitative nature of marketing and advertising, labeling genetically modified foods, the moral obligations of multinational organizations, and more.
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"Americans love "this year's model," relying on the "new" to be always "improved." Enthusiasm for the new, says Stanley Buder, is essential to American business, where innovation and change stoke the engines of economic energy. To really understand the history of business in America, he argues, we must understand the intertwining dynamics of social and business values." "Capitalizing on Change sheds light on the evolution of business organization...
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Under the shadow of the Cordillera del Condor mountains live the Awajun and Wampis peoples, a proud, warrior nation, never conquered by the Incas or the Spanish. Today, Peruvian and Canadian mining companies aim to set up a gold mine on land these natives say is their traditional territory. In fact, the Awajun had an agreement for the establishment of a National Park along the Cordillera that would protect their land. But Peru's President gave half...
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"Drawing on a vast wealth of real-life examples from the commercial world, this book goes in search of the appropriate limits of transparency. From commercial confidentiality and the ethics of marketing to lobbying and corporate corruption, the author addresses the position, significance and limits of transparency in modern corporate life, working through the dilemmas presented by the increasing calls for transparency. From the secrets of the boardroom...
13) Forward Thinking
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"In this book, medical anthropologist Eric Bailey introduces and explains the self-acceptance and body image satisfaction of African Americans, and traces how that has spurred changes in industry. His book fills the void of scientific evidence to enhance the understanding of African Americans' perceptions related to body image and beauty - and is the first to document these issues from the perspective of an African American male."--Jacket.
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What's preventing women from closing the gender gap in the world of work? Part 1 features Bloomberg experts Lisa Kassenaar, editor-at-large for Global Women's Coverage, and Greg Elders and Carl Riccadonna from Bloomberg Intelligence. Part 2 features US author Professor Anne Marie Slaughter. Part 3 features how businesses in Scandinavia are addressing the gender gap.
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This show asks, how will the AI revolution change the world? Part 1 features Jeremy Kahn, Bloomberg Tech Reporter, Mike McDonough, Global Chief Economist at Bloomberg Intelligence, and Gideon Mann, Head of Data Science at Bloomberg. Part 2 features Martin Ford, author of "Rise of the Robots". Part 3 examines how AI could soon be changing healthcare.
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In this program, Hazel Henderson explores with NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell the exploding use of social media and addictive behaviors of users leading to loss of privacy, autonomy and jobs. They discuss all these issues of psychographic targeting of groups using big, data and proprietary algorithms, which are sold to data brokers and advertisers. They review the new efforts to protect users and voters, such as the General Data Protection Regulation...
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