Episodes
Part One: The global financial crisis stemming from the collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage markets has had a profound effect on financial professionals and their engagement with their financial expertise worldwide. For example, there is widespread sentiment among Japanese financial market professionals that the era of finance in which financial professionals and their expertise are highly valued has ended. On the one hand, it is clear that the kind of innovation and intellectual...
Published 04/26/12
Part Two: The global financial crisis stemming from the collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage markets has had a profound effect on financial professionals and their engagement with their financial expertise worldwide. For example, there is widespread sentiment among Japanese financial market professionals that the era of finance in which financial professionals and their expertise are highly valued has ended. On the one hand, it is clear that the kind of innovation and intellectual...
Published 04/26/12
Part One: From clay to casinos, the corporate structure is not only integrating into the cultural spheres of Native America as well as African tribes, it is being utilized with incredibly lucrative results. How does this affect culture and concepts of disenfranchisement?
Published 03/29/12
Part Two: From clay to casinos, the corporate structure is not only integrating into the cultural spheres of Native America as well as African tribes, it is being utilized with incredibly lucrative results. How does this affect culture and concepts of disenfranchisement? Part Two contains the Q&A session following the speaker and discussant.
Published 03/29/12
Part One: Hosted by the Penn Law School, Cynthia Estland, from New York University Law, discusses the integral relation unions and worker's voice play in the modern corporate terrain.
Published 02/16/12
Part Two: Hosted by the Penn Law School, Cynthia Estland, from New York University Law, discusses the integral relation unions and worker's voice play in the modern corporate terrain. Part Two contains the Q&A session following the speaker and discussant.
Published 02/16/12
Part One: The lively round table with Jonathan Harber, CEO of SchoolNet Inc; Michael Moe, Founder of GSV Asset Management; and Peter Smith, VP of Kaplan Higher Education. How healthy is for-profit education for our future generation?
Published 01/19/12
Part Two: The lively round table with Jonathan Harber, CEO of SchoolNet Inc; Michael Moe, Founder of GSV Asset Management; and Peter Smith, VP of Kaplan Higher Education. How healthy is for-profit education for our future generation? Part Two contains the Q&A session following the speaker and discussant.
Published 01/19/12
Part One: Joel Bakan, from the Law department of University of British Colombia, brings to light the dangers of growing up within the Corporate sphere.
Published 12/08/11
Part Two: Joel Bakan, from the Law department of University of British Colombia, brings to light the dangers of growing up within the Corporate sphere. Part Two contains the Q&A session following the speaker and discussant.
Published 12/08/11
Part Two: Philip Pettit of Princeton University discusses and expands upon points from his work, Responsibility Incorporated. Part Two contains the Q&A session following the speaker and discussant.
Published 11/10/11
Part One: Philip Pettit of Princeton University discusses and expands upon points from his work, Responsibility Incorporated.
Published 11/10/11
Part One: Walter Licht and Randall Collins of the University of Pennsylvania discuss the historical context and evolution of the corporation.
Published 10/27/11
Part Two: Walter Licht and Randall Collins of the University of Pennsylvania discuss the historical context and evolution of the corporation. Part Two contains the Q&A session following the speaker and discussant.
Published 10/27/11
In his first annual message to Congress in 1901, President Roosevelt proclaimed: "Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is theorefore our right and our duty to see that they work in harmony with those institutions." In the aftermath of Enron, the BP oil spill, and revelations about the role of Wall Street in the recent financial collapse, what steps can be taken to insure that for-profit business corporations act in harmony with...
Published 09/15/11