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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This program focuses on enterprise and developing business plans. It brings the topic of enterprise and entrepreneurs to life by bringing entrepreneurs into the classroom. They talk about their motives, experiences and when they had their "Eureka" moment. Entrepreneurs, advisors and government agencies give an insight into the purpose and contents of business plans as well as their views on their importance (or otherwise!). This is a great way to...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Businesses can be structured in a range of ways in relation to their ownership and control. A range of factors goes into determining this, including the nature and size of the business and its intended operation and growth. The film examines common structures for business ownership and control, including sole traders, partnerships, private limited companies, public limited companies and franchises. It features commentary from Gareth Sear from Business...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Wealthy businessman, glamorous playboy, daring adventurer—Charles Bedaux was all these and more...much more. This acclaimed documentary tells the true story of Bedaux, who captured fame and fortune in the 1920s by inventing a new method for modernizing industry. Before long Bedaux was hobnobbing with the rich, powerful and famous all over the globe—including Nazi Germany. In his leisure he planned an elaborate expedition—a “champagne safari”—through...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
During his lifetime Jeffrey Epstein was known as both a well respected businessman and a despicable monster. Epstein: Behind The Facade takes the viewer deep into Jeffrey Epstein's life, hobnobbing with some of the most established social and political figures of our time such as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates and President Donald Trump. Explore the facts and conspiracy theories surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's life and the highly debated circumstances...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The Legend of Cataline is the story of one of the most colorful and romantic legends of British Columbia's gold rush era. This documentary makes use of archival pictures, dramatic re-creations, and interviews with specialists of the era to recreate the story of Jean Caux and a day in the life of a gold packer. Jean Caux ran a pack train in Hazelton and around the Skeena River for more than 50 years, making him the first and last packer in the area....
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This CNBC program profiles everyday people who have taken ordinary ideas and turned them into extraordinary businesses. Among the entrepreneurs and companies featured are SimplyShe, a women's lifestyle brand that expanded like wildfire when its founder added pet clothes to her line of products; Two Men and a Truck, once a small moving company that Mary Ellen Sheets took over from her sons, now earning $170 million a year; and Vita Coco, a beverage...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Put a great entrepreneurial idea together with one or two hardworking people and you may just get a global business. This CNBC program shows how that happened with the following companies: Merlot Skin Care, founded by entrepreneur Wayne Beckley after he heard about the power of antioxidants in red wine and was convinced they could be utilized in topical form; Method, an eco-friendly cleanser manufacturer started by two friends who maxed out their...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2009
Language
English
Description
George Stroumboulopoulos sits down with the founders of Canadian companies and business success stories. Incisive conversations with the sharpest minds in business writing, Malcolm Gladwell and David Chilton, make this a must for marketing, entrepreneurial and business courses! Featuring interviews with Nouriel Roubini, Harry Dent, David Chilton, Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen Bronfman, Michael Budman (Roots), Jim Balsillie (RIM), Suze Orman, Heather Reisman...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From iconic leader Bozoma Saint John, comes a memoir of grief, and one woman's drive to thrive in the face of loss. When Bozoma Saint John's husband, Peter Saint John, died of cancer, she made one big decision: to live life with urgency. Saint John was no stranger to adversity, having lost her college boyfriend to suicide, navigated an interracial marriage, grieved a child born prematurely--a process that led to her and Peter's separation--and coparented...
14) Citizen Hearst
Series
American Experience volume 0
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After taking control of the San Francisco Examiner in 1887, William Randolph Hearst was eager to try his luck in New York. Hearst bought the failing Journal in 1895 and turned it into a sensation. He earned the loyalty of the city’s population of newly arrived immigrants by railing against monopolistic businesses and championing the working class, using the medium to increase his influence.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This documentary, directed by Bruce David Klein, explores the fascinating contradictions at the heart of the famed financier, Carl Icahn. Amassing close to {20}20 billion dollars over the last half century and at the forefront of some of the most legendary business deals of our times, Icahn, often referred to as the “Lone Wolf of Wall Street,” is a feared negotiator and master strategist in the art of corporate takeovers and investments. In his...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
He was born Emmitt Perry Jr. but you know him as Tyler Perry, the often maligned but never underestimated iconic film producer, actor, writer and director who will forever be known as his female grandma alter ego Madea. Join us as we take a trip back in time to the humble beginnings of the most successful African-American filmmaker of our generation.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old genius inventor and budding businessman Billy Sure hosts an online contest for fellow kid innovators to share their own inventions and the winning submission will be produced by his company, Sure Things, Incorporated, but with so many fascinating entries, Billy wonders how he will ever choose a winner while helping other kids achieve their dreams at the same time.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Buying and selling like lightning, a 27-year-old multimillionaire day-traded his way to a fortune via the Internet, while two Cornell University students launched an online community that, at its initial public offering, was valued at $194 million. In this program-filmed at the height of the Internet boom-day trader Scott Friedman and the "twenty-something" founders of TheGlobe.com discuss their remarkable successes. In addition, financial experts...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Finn had to grow up fast, living alone by age sixteen. Highly intelligent, he earned a life-changing scholarship to Harvard, where he learned how to survive and thrive on the outskirts of privileged society. That skill served him well in the cutthroat business world, as it does in more lucrative but dangerous ventures he now operates off the coast of Miami. Charlie tries to separate relationships from work. But when his choices produce devastating...
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