Information Systems Management

This ongoing case study dramatically exposes two deal-breaking pitfalls that can easily derail a merger: hidden agendas and power plays.

How do company owners and managers measure the health and viability of their businesses? This program addresses that question, illustrating processes by which an entrepreneur can evaluate the performance of his or her enterprise and make decisions that will improve its future performance. Case studies spotlight business owners who speak frankly and extensively about four vital concepts: profitability, liquidity, efficiency, and stability.

This program tells the extraordinary story of how the bottled water industry has grown from nothing to become one of the biggest success stories in the modern food and beverage industry in just 40 years.

With billboards choking cityscapes around the world, a global grassroots movement has sprouted that is uniting concerned citizens with visionary politicians, enlightened business leaders, and outraged street artists in a fight against visual pollution. This Space Available explores efforts to reclaim commercially usurped public spaces as it takes an incisive look at the differences between the Baby Boomer generation, which spawned the excess in advertising, and today’s young adults—the most marketed-to generation in history.

This episode of the Green Interview features Amy Larkin, an award-winning entrepreneur, environmental activist, and author who works with corporate executives to create more sustainable enterprises. Larkin was the founding director of Greenpeace Solutions. She now has the consulting firm Nature Means Business and she’s the author of the 2013 book Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy in which she issues a clarion call for governments, businesses, and consumers to recalculate the financial contributions of the natural world—and the long-hidden costs of environmental damage.

This program discusses how to approach investors for funds.

How do companies tap the information locked up in the minds of their employees? The three modules of this program compare various corporate learning systems designed to increase knowledge and promote the sharing and archiving of data.

Digital technology has made us smarter, faster, and more efficient. It has become the driving force of our economy—but at what cost? It’s time to ask some tough questions about America’s high-tech sector. This CNBC program does so by bringing together a panel of leaders and visionaries from the business community as well as academia and government.

Technological development has brought about unprecedented means of gathering and disseminating information. But have these advancements made the protection of personal and organizational privacy virtually impossible? In this video, Damien Smith, lawyer and governance expert, illustrates why privacy systems fail and offers strategies for mitigating the risks posed by the “privacy invasion.”