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GlobalBiz: A New World of Wine: 11 Feb 2012 Updated: 2012-02-11 00:30:00 Description: Peter Day hears from far-apart places where the wine industry is changing the global balance of supply and demand. He visits China, a country with a fast growing, newly wealthy, consumer market rapidly developing a taste for imported wine, and a new...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: The Road Ahead For Electrical Engines? 04 Feb 12 Updated: 2012-02-04 00:30:00 Description: Alexander Schey is just 26, and in the garage of a fairly ordinary house in west London where he, and a few other fellow London students, built a battery powered electric car. Then, to raise awareness of their new battery management system, they dro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Do It Yourself Jobs: 28 Jan 12 Updated: 2012-01-28 00:30:00 Description: If times are hard, why not set up your own business rather than try to find a job somewhere else? Peter Day hears from young entrepreneurs who think that one way of beating recession is to start from scratch. Producer: Caroline Bayley Editor: Steph...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Class Struggle: 21 Jan 12 Updated: 2012-01-21 00:30:00 Description: In nearly every country in the world, there's one sector that everyone seems to think is in crisis: education. America produces legions of Nobel laureates and has the best universities in the world - and yet faces an epidemic of failing state-run sc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Do It Yourself Jobs: 19 Jan 12 Updated: 2012-01-19 20:30:00 Description: If times are hard, why not set up your own business rather than try to find a job somewhere else? Peter Day hears from young entrepreneurs who think that one way of beating recession is to start from scratch. Producer: Caroline Bayley Editor: Step...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Two Authors: 14 Jan 12 Updated: 2012-01-14 00:30:00 Description: Global Business hears from two authors about their recently published books. Books which are not about the world’s current financial crisis. Robert Guest works for the Economist magazine in London and his book, Borderless Economics, reveals h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: All Together Now: 12 Jan 12 Updated: 2012-01-12 20:30:00 Description: In these tough times, are there better ways of doing business: worker cooperatives, for example? In crisis-battered Spain, Peter Day visits the world's biggest worker coop in Mondragon, to find out what makes it different. And, in the UK where the c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: The Curse of the Bonus 07 Jan 12 Updated: 2012-01-07 00:30:00 Description: It started off as a nice pat on the back for exceptional work. But then the bonus became some people's primal motivation first in the financial markets in the City of London, then in big business, and then in the way public services are run too. Pete...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Class Struggle: 05 Jan 12 Updated: 2012-01-05 20:30:00 Description: In nearly every country in the world, there's one thing that everyone seems to agree is in crisis: education. America produces legions of Nobel laureates and has the best universities in the world - and yet faces an epidemic of failing state-run scho...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Future Tech: 31 Dec 11 Updated: 2011-12-31 00:30:00 Description: It’s that time of year when Mark Anderson tells us which way the technology winds are blowing in the USA and he joins Peter Day for this edition of Global Business. Mark is a technology commentator and his trend spotting emails are subscribed to b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: A Glass of Its Own: 29 Dec 11 Updated: 2011-12-29 20:30:00 Description: It's the perfect time of year for a celebratory gin-and-tonic, and these days the tipple raised at Christmas may well have been made in London. After centuries of decline, the capital's distilling industry is picking up again, fuelled by small-scale ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: A Glass of Its Own: 24 Dec 11 Updated: 2011-12-24 03:00:00 Description: It's the perfect time of year for a celebratory gin-and-tonic, and these days the tipple raised at Christmas may well have been made in London. After centuries of decline, the British capital's distilling industry is picking up again, fuelled by smal...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: 21st Century Unlimited: 22 Dec 11 Updated: 2011-12-22 20:30:00 Description: The American business guru Joe Pine thinks we have moved into an era of what he calls "Infinite Possibility". Peter Day finds out what he is talking about and what the ideas mean for conventional 20th-centuy-style corporations. Producer: Sandra Kant...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Cuba (pt 3): Cuba Now: 17 Dec 11 Updated: 2011-12-17 00:30:00 Description: In this week’s Global Business Peter Day is back in Havana, Cuba for the third and final programme in this short series. This week he’s looking at the economic and social changes taking place since Raul Castro took over as President. Will they...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Cuba Now: 15 Dec 11 Updated: 2011-12-15 20:30:00 Description: After 53 years of revolution, President Raul Castro is trying to change the state-controlled Cuban economy with moves to promote private employment, and an open market in second hand cars and home. Peter Day reports from Havana on an island where in ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Cuba (pt 2) A view from Havana: 10 Dec 11 Updated: 2011-12-10 00:30:00 Description: In this week’s Global Business Peter Day reports from Cuba in the second of three programmes on the Cuban economy. This week he is at the annual International Trade Fair speaking to some of the familiar industries associated with Cuba, Rum and Cig...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: The Curse of the Bonus: 08 Dec 11 Updated: 2011-12-08 20:30:00 Description: It started off as a nice pat on the back for exceptional work. But then the bonus became some people's primal motivation … first in the financial markets in the City of London, then in big business, and then in the way public services are run too. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Cuba 1: The view from Miami: 03 Dec 11 Updated: 2011-12-03 00:30:00 Description: In the first of two programmes about Cuba, Peter Day reports from Miami. There are over 850,000 Cuban Americans in Florida more than half the total number in the United States. Peter Day talks to some of them about the reported changes taking place...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Don’t Cry for me, Argentina: 01 Dec 11 Updated: 2011-12-01 20:30:00 Description: Is there life after a sovereign debt default such as Greece is now facing ? Peter Day reports from Argentina, a country which went through a similar sort of crisis ten years ago. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Mass Customisation and the Experience Economy: 26 Dec 11 Updated: 2011-11-26 00:30:00 Description: Joe Pine's career as a business coach began at IBM when he brought business partners and customers into the development process of a new computer. Taking from this the lesson that every customer is unique, he wrote a book called Mass Customization on...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Survival Strategy: 24 Nov 11 Updated: 2011-11-24 20:30:00 Description: As economic gales blow even harder, are there lessons to be learnt from previous recessions? Peter Day finds out from some veteran small business survivors. Producers: Sandra Kanthal and Mike Wendling Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Politics and Economic Policies in Argentina: 19 Nov 11 Updated: 2011-11-19 00:30:00 Description: Argentina is familiar with huge political, economic and social ups and downs, currency inflows and outflows, great wealth evaporating, unemployment soaring. But how does the country deal with huge uncertainties? In this edition of Global Business P...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Argentina - Ten Years On: 12 Nov 11 Updated: 2011-11-12 00:30:00 Description: Nine years ago Peter Day visited Argentina at its lowest economic ebb. It had defaulted on its overseas debts. The country was in chaos with rampant unemployment and the banks had closed their doors to their customers, But today things appear bett...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Doing Business in Russia: 05 Nov 11 Updated: 2011-11-05 00:30:00 Description: Three businessmen tell Peter Day about doing business in Russia. William Browder was an investment fund manager in the country who campaigned, with some success, against corruption and left the country, having moved all his company’s assets out, in...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Unfair Trade: 29 Oct 11 Updated: 2011-10-28 23:30:00 Description: When you buy a pair of trainers or that new mobile phone or laptop do you ever stop to think about the person on the other side of the world who made it? Many of them are in factories in China who live on site and work 12 hours a day with strict rul...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Richard Florida: 22 Oct 11 Updated: 2011-10-21 23:30:00 Description: Peter Day hears from Richard Florida, author of The Great Reset, who tells him about the patterns that will drive the next Great Reset and simultaneously reshape virtually every aspect of our lives — from how and where we live to how we work to how...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Consulting India: 15 Oct 11 Updated: 2011-10-14 23:30:00 Description: Global Business hears from the man at the head of India's largest high tech organisation, Tata Consultancy Services - N. Chandrasekaran. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Mondragon: 08 Oct 11 Updated: 2011-10-07 23:30:00 Description: Peter Day visits a very unconventional business in the Basque country of Northern Spain. What can other businesses learn from the world's biggest worker cooperative in Mondragon? Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Silicon Roundabout: 01 Oct 11 Updated: 2011-09-30 23:30:00 Description: Hundreds of small companies have set up shop in East London. But could ‘Silicon Roundabout’ really rival Silicon Valley? Producer: Michael Wendling Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Bitter Pill: 24 Sept 11 Updated: 2011-09-23 23:30:00 Description: Peter Day returns to what was, until recently, a famous centre of excellence in the UK pharmaceutical industry. But now its owners, Pfizer, are closing it down. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Cyber Security: 17 Sept 11 Updated: 2011-09-16 23:30:00 Description: Peter Day asks how safe is Cyberspace? Mobile phones and social Networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have meant that we now readily give up personal information in public that not so long ago would have seemed intrusive. But this freedom is n...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: The Apprentices: 15 Sept 11 Updated: 2011-09-15 19:30:00 Description: With big increases looming in the cost of going to university, the number of people choosing apprenticeships is rising fast. Peter Day finds what modern apprenticeship means …to apprentices and the companies who employ them....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Bad Company: 10 Sept 11 Updated: 2011-09-09 23:30:00 Description: Business leaders make a lot of fuss about corporate governance, but the scandals keep on coming. So, in this programme, Peter Day hears from some leading authorities and, with their help, makes a close inspection of two huge corporations that have b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Silicon Roundabout: 08 Sept 11 Updated: 2011-09-08 19:30:00 Description: Hundreds of small companies have set up shop in East London. But could ‘Silicon Roundabout’ really rival Silicon Valley? Producer: Michael Wendling Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Poland 2. 30 Sep 11 Updated: 2011-09-02 16:45:00 Description: In the past year several member countries of the European Union have been facing economic meltdown; Spain, Greece, Ireland. One country that is managing to buck the trend is Poland. In this week's Global Business, Peter Day is back in Poland reportin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Prize Performers: 01 Sept 11 Updated: 2011-09-01 19:30:00 Description: At a time of grave crisis, some of the world's top Nobel Prize winning economists have been meeting for a conference on an idyllic Bavarian island. Peter Day was there to find out if they had any ideas about how to get out of the mess we're in and wh...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Crunching the Crisis: 25 Aug 11 Updated: 2011-08-25 19:30:00 Description: As global economic confusion continues, maybe it is time to rethink the way the world works. Peter Day hears from three influential business gurus with change-making suggestions. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Leader of the Brand: 20 Aug 11 Updated: 2011-08-19 23:30:00 Description: How important is the brand today? Think of Apple, Coca-Cola, Burberry, Nike and the lifestyle choices they suggest. In this week’s Global Business, Peter Day talks to a man who shows CEO’s how to make the best of their brands and their companie...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Made In India: 18 Aug 11 Updated: 2011-08-18 19:30:00 Description: In 1995, Peter Day visited India as it was just starting to take off, fuelled by deregulation and a huge pool of high-tech talent. He recently revisited the country to hear from the entrepreneurs who started the boom ... and the people who are settin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: New Dimensions for Manufacturing (2) 13 Aug 11 Updated: 2011-08-12 23:30:00 Description: Peter Day finds out more about 3D printing and its potential to revolutionise manufacturing. Producer: Caroline Bayley Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Bad Company: 11 Aug 11 Updated: 2011-08-11 19:30:00 Description: Business leaders make a lot of fuss about corporate governance, but the scandals keep on coming. Peter Day asks what's wrong with the way companies are run. Producer: Ben Crighton Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: New Dimensions for Manufacturing (1) 6 Aug 11 Updated: 2011-08-05 23:30:00 Description: 3D printing may be poised to revolutionise the manufacturing industry. Peter Day asks if 100 years of mass production is running out of steam. Producer: Caroline Bayley Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Bitter Pill: 04 Aug 11 Updated: 2011-08-04 19:30:00 Description: The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is closing most of its giant research facility at Sandwich in Kent, the place where Viagra was developed, putting two thousand science jobs at risk. Peter Day asks what the surprising decision means for an important UK...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Europe on the Edge: 30 July 11 Updated: 2011-07-29 23:30:00 Description: In this week’s Global Business, Peter Day reports on the continuing crisis in the Eurozone. Whilst countries like Ireland, Greece and Spain are suffering some are managing to weather the crisis. Peter Day visits Spain and Poland two members of t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: New Dimension: 28 July 11 Updated: 2011-07-28 19:30:00 Description: Three-D printing may be poised to revolutionise the manufacturing industry. Peter Day asks if 100 years of mass production is running out of steam. Producer: Caroline Bayley Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Banking on a Crisis: 23 July 11 Updated: 2011-07-22 23:30:00 Description: Bill Rhodes has worked with senior business leaders, statesmen, and strongmen and brokered immense financial deals while looking across the table at finance ministers. From these and other experiences, Rhodes has learned a lifetime of lessons about m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Europe on the Edge: 21 July 11 Updated: 2011-07-21 19:30:00 Description: The Euro crisis in Greece is creating effects that can be felt across the continent. Peter Day finds out how this turbulence is affecting businesses in Spain and Poland. Producers: Sandra Kanthal and Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: UpStart Stories: 16 July 11 Updated: 2011-07-15 23:30:00 Description: Peter Day hears the success stories of internet entrepreneurs Brent Hobermann, Reid Hofman and Michael and Xochi Birch, founders of Lastminute.com, LinkedIn and Bebo respectively, as well as many other internet businesses. Producer: Richard Berenge...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Take a Copy: 09 July 11 Updated: 2011-07-08 23:30:00 Description: Intellectual property sounds an innocuous enough idea, but patents and copyright have recently been stirring up a lot of strife. Peter Day finds out why copyright in particular is such a contentious issue in the Internet age. Producers: Sandra Kanth...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Made In India: 02 July 11 Updated: 2011-07-01 23:30:00 Description: Peter Day is in Bangalore sixteen years after he first visited the city. He catches up with some of the people he met then, and discusses the changes they’ve seen. Producers: Richard Berenger & Mike Wendling Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Club of Rome: Not Built in One Day 25 June 11 Updated: 2011-06-24 23:30:00 Description: In this week's Global Business, Peter Day is in St. Gallen, Switzerland where he hears from Dr. Eberhard Von Koerber, co-president of The Club of Rome. Established in 1968 this group of professionals from science, politics and industry, published the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: The Trouble with Capitalism: 18 June 11 Updated: 2011-06-17 23:30:00 Description: In the aftermath of the credit crunch people are thinking about the way banks work, the way financial markets operate, and the values and purposes of the companies that use those markets. And some of the big management thinkers are beginning to pu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Watch Your Language: 11 June 11 Updated: 2011-06-10 23:30:00 Description: There is no reason why the words used in corporate communications should be pompous and jargon-ridden but that is how it often turns out to be. Peter Day goes into a huddle with a group of enthusiasts determined to improve the way business language w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: The Essential Advantage: 04 June 11 Updated: 2011-06-03 23:30:00 Description: Paul Leinwand and Cesare Meinardi talk to Peter Day about their book - The Essential Advantage. It is an interesting thesis about core competence and how most companies don’t understand what they are actually doing. Global Business hears from th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Continental Drift: 26 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-26 19:30:00 Description: As the sovereign debt crisis continues what next for the Euro? What next for Europe? Peter Day asks the experts. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: For Your Information: 21 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-20 23:30:00 Description: Information seems to be moving right to the heart of the 21st century economy but nobody really knows what it is or how it works. Peter Day talks to pioneers in the field of information management as well as corporate gatekeepers of this valuable com...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Take a Copy: 19 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-19 19:30:00 Description: Intellectual property sounds an innocuous enough idea, but patents and copyright have recently been stirring up a lot of strife. Peter Day finds out why copyrigtht in particular is such a contentious issue in the Internet age. Producer: Sanda Kanth...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Quick on the Draw: 14 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-13 23:30:00 Description: In an age of high technology communications, two long-established companies in a single German city are still battling each other for supremacy in a global marketplace ... in pencils. In Nuremberg Peter Day asks Faber-Castell and Staedtler how they b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Watch Your Language: 12 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-12 19:30:00 Description: There is no reason why the words used in corporate communications should be pompous and jargon-ridden but that is how it often turns out to be. Peter Day goes into a huddle with a group of enthusiasts determined to improve the way business language w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Watch This Space: 07 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-06 23:30:00 Description: America’s space effort faces big upheavals as President Obama reigns in government spending and NASA is told to work in partnership with private enterprise. From the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and the Mojave Desert, Peter Day asks what happen...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Keep it Local: 05 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-05 19:30:00 Description: As pubs struggle to survive, Peter Day travels through villages in Yorkshire and Cumbria to talk to local activists and find out how easy it is to buy and successfully run one of the focal points for any community - the village pub. He looks at the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Managing China: 30 Apr Updated: 2011-04-29 23:30:00 Description: Charles-Edouard Bouée from strategy consultants Roland Berger tells Peter Day how Chinese management philosophy is quite different to that in the West. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: For Your Information: 28 Apr 11 Updated: 2011-04-28 19:30:00 Description: Information seems to be moving right to the heart of the 21st century economy but nobody really knows what it is or how it works. Peter Day talks to pioneers in the field of information management as well as corporate gatekeepers of this valuable com...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Growing Rich in China: 23 Apr 11 Updated: 2011-04-22 23:30:00 Description: Peter Day is back in China to hear from some of the newcomers making a splash on the Chinese business scene. Producer: Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Watch This Space: 21 Apr 11 Updated: 2011-04-21 19:30:00 Description: America's space effort faces big upheavals as President Obama reigns in government spending and NASA is told to work in partnership with private enterprise. From the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and the Mojave Desert, Peter Day asks what happens n...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Over a Barrel (part 2): 16 Apr 11 Updated: 2011-04-15 23:30:00 Description: Peter Day continues his look at the future of the world energy industry. And in this programme he hears more from three prominent figures in the oil industry: Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, former oil minister for Saudi Arabia, Daniel Yergin, author of ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Quick On The Draw: 14 Apr 11 Updated: 2011-04-14 19:30:00 Description: In an age of high technology communications, two long-established companies in a single German city are still battling each other for supremacy in a global marketplace ... in pencils. In Nuremberg Peter Day asks Faber-Castell and Staedtler how the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Over a Barrel (part 1): 09 Apr 11 Updated: 2011-04-08 23:30:00 Description: Turmoil across the Middle East sent oil prices jumping and has raised big questions about the security of the energy supplies that have powered the world economy for the past 100 years. Peter Day investigates the future of oil and what the current up...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: New Bric On The Block: 07 Apr 11 Updated: 2011-04-07 19:30:00 Description: Brazil, Russia, Indonesia and China are the BRICs - the developing countries experts think are well on their way to the top of the world's economic league table. But now there's talk that the fourth most populous country, Indonesia, is heading there,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Thinking about Thinking: 02 Apr 11 Updated: 2011-04-01 23:30:00 Description: Peter Day has his 'thinking hat' on for this edition when he hears from two academics from the Rotman School of Management in Toronto, Canada. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Over a Barrel: 31 March 11 Updated: 2011-03-31 19:30:00 Description: Turmoil across the Middle East sent oil prices jumping and has raised big questions about the security of the energy supplies that have powered the world economy for the past 100 years. Peter Day investigates the future of oil and what the current up...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Two Women: 21 Mar 11 Updated: 2011-03-21 23:06:00 Description: Investment bankers are talking up Indonesia's chances of joining the BRICs nations. Indonesia's current main international significance is its exported raw materials: coal and oil and palm oil to China and other parts of Asia. But for this programm...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Here Comes Indonesia: 14 Mar 11 Updated: 2011-03-14 23:06:00 Description: Brazil, Russia, India and China are the developing countries many experts think are well on their way to the top of the global economic league table But now there's talk that the world’s fourth most populous country, Indonesia, is heading there, to...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Brown by Name, Green by Nature: 07 Mar 11 Updated: 2011-03-07 23:06:00 Description: Peter Day hears from Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute, about his new book "World on the Edge - How to prevent environmental and economic collapse"....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Luxury Brands: 28 Feb 11 Updated: 2011-02-28 23:06:00 Description: New places are leaping to prominence in the pampered world of luxury. Peter Day hears from some of the people behind the extraordinary hunger for luxury in Asia. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: All at Sea: 21 Feb 2011 Updated: 2011-02-21 23:06:00 Description: It's a long time since Britain ruled the maritime world, but ocean transport is still a vital activity in the UK and now wind and water power are making big waves around its shores. Peter Day takes the helm of a container ship to find out what Briti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Operation Robot: 14 Feb 11 Updated: 2011-02-14 23:06:00 Description: The revolution in the operating theatre is only just beginning, but robotic surgery could change the way we think about healthcare ... and the way surgeons work. Peter Day looks at what surgeons are able to achieve with robots now and at the proto-ty...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Non Consuming Passion: 07 Feb 11 Updated: 2011-02-07 23:06:00 Description: Peter Day hears from Chandran Nair, Management Consultant and Founder of The Global Institute for Tomorrow. Author of a book called 'Consumptionomics: Asia's role in Reshaping Capitalism and saving the planet.' In the book he argues that for years th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Off to Market: 31 Jan 11 Updated: 2011-01-31 23:06:00 Description: This week on Global Business, Peter Day continues his reports from China this week looking at the country’s economic development …and what may happen next. Producer: Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Power Play: 24 Jan 11 Updated: 2011-01-24 23:06:00 Description: Peter Day makes a return visit to BYD in Shenzhen, in the Pearl River Delta to meet it’s founder, Wang Chuanfu the man with big ambitions to be the number one car manufacturer in the world by 2020. Producer: Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: A New Capitalism: 20 Jan 11 Updated: 2011-01-20 20:30:00 Description: One of the world's most influential business professors thinks it is time for companies completely to redefine their relationship with society. Prof Michael Porter of Harvard Business School tells Peter Day about the radical changes in corporate oper...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: China's Dispossessed: 17 Jan 11 Updated: 2011-01-17 23:06:00 Description: In the first of a short series of programmes, Peter Day reports from China. This week - the dispossessed. In the past 30 years Chinaâs great economic modernisation programme has required many people to move â to provide a workforce for ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: All At Sea: 13 Jan 11 Updated: 2011-01-13 20:30:00 Description: It is a long time since Britain ruled the maritime world, and North Sea oil has peaked. But ocean transport is still a vital UK activity and wind and water power are making big waves around our shores. Peter Day takes the helm of a container ship to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Bitter Pills: 10 Jan 11 Updated: 2011-01-10 23:06:00 Description: Britain's pharmaceutical giants invest millions in the search for better cures but has it worked? Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: China Dispossessed: 06 Jan 11 Updated: 2011-01-06 21:00:00 Description: The vast national urbanisation plan to take Chinese people out of poverty leaves behind many who are dispossessed of land and homes, or see their farms drowned by huge new water and power projects. Peter Day hears about some of the problems caused by...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Back on the Road: 30 Dec 10 Updated: 2010-12-30 20:30:00 Description: The United States auto industry has just limped through the biggest industrial car crash in history. The Ford Motor Company has an industry outsider, Alan Mulally, at the helm as its new chief executive. He tells Peter Day how he changed the way Ford...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Michael Porter: 27 Dec 10 Updated: 2010-12-27 23:06:00 Description: Peter Day hears a challenge to capitalism from one of the most influential business thinkers in the world. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Mark Anderson: 03 Jan 11 Updated: 2010-12-23 23:10:00 Description: Mark Anderson takes a look ahead at 10 of the key things he thinks will prove to be significant over the coming 12 months. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Asia Bling: 23 Dec 10 Updated: 2010-12-23 20:30:00 Description: New places are leaping to prominence in the pampered world of luxury. Peter Day hears from some of the people behind the extraordinary hunger for luxury in Asia. Producer: Sandra Kanthal & Neil Koenig Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Dame Barbara Stocking: 20 Dec 10 Updated: 2010-12-20 23:06:00 Description: Peter Day hears from the Chief Executive of Oxfam, Dame Barbara Stocking. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Euro on the Rocks? 16 Dec 10 Updated: 2010-12-15 20:30:00 Description: As the Euroland crisis spreads from one country to another, In Business joins forces with The Report to examine what's happening and why it matters. The Report investigates the fallout from the Irish collapse on the British economy and then Peter Day...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Not for Profits: 13 Dec 10 Updated: 2010-12-13 23:06:00 Description: Why are they no really large not for profit organisations? Peter Day hears why from two Harvard Business School professors: Allen Grossman and Robert Kaplan. They argue that the non profit sector needs to adopt many of the features of the marketp...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Bitter Pills: 09 Dec 10 Updated: 2010-12-09 20:30:00 Description: Britain's pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of pounds in a search for new drugs and treatments which has not delivered the breakthroughs that were promised when the money was spent. It's a problem for the whole global indust...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Chinese Hare, Indian Tortoise? 06 Dec 10 Updated: 2010-12-06 23:06:00 Description: Peter Day asks two expert witnesses to compare the two countries vying for the position of number one in the world economy: India and China. Is it a race, and if so, which of them will win? Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Operation Robot: 02 Dec 10 Updated: 2010-12-02 20:30:00 Description: The revolution in the operating theatre is only just beginning, but robotic surgery could change the way we think about healthcare ... and the way surgeons work. Peter Day looks at what surgeons are able to achieve with robots now and at the proto-ty...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Growing Pains: 29 Nov 10 Updated: 2010-11-29 23:06:00 Description: In the middle of a recession renewed economic growth is always considered the great panacea that will get us out of the mess we are in. However, is this really the way to tackle the problems of a finite world? Peter Day wonders if our reliance on gr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Growing Pains: 25 Nov 10 Updated: 2010-11-25 20:30:00 Description: In the middle of a recession renewed economic growth is always considered the great panacea that will get us out of the mess we are in. However, is this really the way to tackle the problems of a finite world? Peter Day wonders if our reliance on gro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Singapore Start-ups: 15 Nov 10 Updated: 2010-11-15 23:06:00 Description: The Singapore government is dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship. Peter Day takes a close look. Producers: Richard Berenger and Neil Koenig Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Aamir Khan: 08 Nov 10 Updated: 2010-11-08 23:06:00 Description: Peter Day hears about one of the world’s most buoyant movie industries from a someone right in the thick of it. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Crystal Lagoons: 01 Nov 10 Updated: 2010-11-01 23:06:00 Description: Many of us will pay a premium to live by water – whether it’s the sea, a river or a lake. It’s well known amongst property developers but Chilean entrepreneur Fernando Fischmann is unique amongst his peers in having discovered a technique to ke...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Are CEO's up to the job? (part 2): 26 Oct 10 Updated: 2010-10-26 08:05:00 Description: In this programme Peter Day continues his investigation in to what makes a good chief executive. Leading an organisation is not an easy thing to do. And leading a 21st century organisation may be much more difficult than in the 20th century. “Glo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Are CEO's up to the job? Updated: 2010-10-19 08:05:00 Description: Global Business asks: are chief executives really up to the job in our top companies? Peter Day shines the spotlight on these much praised and vilified high profile leaders. Producer: Lesley McAlpine Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Small World 5 Oct 10 Updated: 2010-10-05 08:05:00 Description: Outsourcing used to be something only big companies did to save money. Now small firms are learning how they can become global organisations from day one....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Innovation 28 Sept 10 Updated: 2010-09-28 08:05:00 Description: How do companies generate new ideas turn them into products? Peter Day hears from Professor Vijay Govindarajan. Professor Govindarajan tells him why established companies can innovate as well as start ups, and how they can implement ideas as well ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Power Play: 21 Sept 10 Updated: 2010-09-21 08:05:00 Description: Huge hopes (and vast sums of money) are being pinned on the so-called Intelligent Grid: a new network of electricity systems feeding information about supply and demand across the grid all the time. Peter Day asks what's happening to our power suppli...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: After The Crunch: 16 Sept 10 Updated: 2010-09-16 19:30:00 Description: ... comes what? Double dip or W-shaped recovery? Or something much more uncertain? Peter Day reports from the front line of indutsry. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: Hidden Depths: 14 Sept 10 Updated: 2010-09-14 08:05:00 Description: London-born Graham Hawkes is the man who has created a submersible vessel that flies through the deepest ocean like a plane. Peter Day reports from his workshop in California, where he wonders why space exploration makes decades of headlines while it...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Chips off the old Block: 09 Sept 10 Updated: 2010-09-09 19:30:00 Description: Once upon a time, British computing led the world. In a mobile world, some people think it might be happening again. From Bletchley Park to Bristol, Peter Day reports on the past, present and future of computers UK. Producer: Julie Ball Editor: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GlobalBiz: It's Only a Game: 7 Sept 10 Updated: 2010-09-07 08:05:00 Description: The story of the video company Ubisoft is pretty compelling ... five brothers in a small town in Brittany in the west of France rescued their parents’ ailing agricultural supply company by creating a new business based on the rudimentary computer g...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD InBiz: Hidden Depths: 02 Sept 10 Updated: 2010-09-02 19:30:00 Description: London-born Graham Hawkes is the man who has created a submersible vessel that flies through the deepest ocean like a plane. Peter Day reports from his workshop in California, where he wonders why space exploration makes decades of headlines while it...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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