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Making the conversion: How does being a Rugby World Cup host city help a local economy?
Money & Business

Making the conversion: How does being a Rugby World Cup host city help a local economy?

...businesses?...With 20 countries hailing from six continents, the Rugby World Cup is a truly global mega-event. It has come a long way since it was first staged in 1987, when it was broadcast to just 200m people in 17 territories. Now around 4 billion people in 205 territories will watch 20,000 hours of coverage – all making RWC 2015 a unique reputation-raising...
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Year of the Snake: Chinese Lunar New Year
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Year of the Snake: Chinese Lunar New Year

...money in red envelopes, known as 红包 (hóng bāo), from their parents and grandparents. Learn common new year’s greetings in Chinese The most common new year’s greetings are: 新年快乐 (xīn nián kuài lè), 新年好 (xīn nián hǎo) and 恭喜发财 (gōng xǐ fā cái). The first two expressions mean ‘Happy New Year’ while the last one means ‘Wishing y...
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Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?

...businesses to be more resilient and even find new and more profitable business opportunities?...[Closeup on the football goal posts and white field lines] Goal posts One approach to being able to withstand external, or even internal, shocks to a business is to remain flexible about what the business is trying to achieve and how it will get there. While many popular...
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Financial strategy and private finance initiative
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Financial strategy and private finance initiative

...money. Designed to fund public infrastructure such as hospitals, roads and accommodation through private money from consortiums, these contentious schemes indicated a radical cultural shift towards outsourcing. The 13 video tracks in this album introduce the complexities involved in project financing from both public and private perspectives and feature case studies on...
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30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’
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30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’

...Business in Britain highlights the changes affecting SMEs in the past 30 years...Founded in 1984, the Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain is the longest continuing report focused entirely on small- and medium-sized businesses in Britain The 30th Anniversary Special Issue examines the history of the survey and highlights key changes affecting SMEs over the last...
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Buddhist Economics
Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...business is to supply goods and services for need and true well-being. Schumacher argued that Buddhist Economics could serve as a vehicle for human development to overcome self centeredness and augment human creativity and knowledge. Presented by Dr Mike Lucas from The Open University Business School and Alan Shipman from the Department of Economics at The Open...
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What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
Science, Maths & Technology

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?

...money” – has been a failure in many respects, it was part of an ongoing and global push toward cashlessness. What India and other governments have failed to contend with, however, is the adverse effect such severe policies have on the poor, who seldom use banks. India’s working poor rely almost exclusively on cash, with about 97 percent of all transactions involving...
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Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...business functions, including operations management, financial accounting, and business intelligence identify new types of value that are ‘human-centred’ and challenge traditional economic value assumptions...Understanding organisational value: 1 Understanding organisational value - Creating value is an important part of any and all organisations. You will learn the...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs