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Money & Business

Risk management

...World-Com and Enron. Worse than this, in many instances the failings have resulted in deaths and injuries – as with the Piper Alpha oil platform disaster in the North Sea in 1988 or the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in 2010.Successful organisations embed a culture of risk management in all areas of their activities. To achieve this requires effective and...
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The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate
Society, Politics & Law

The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate

...world have followed suit. President Obama has just laid out an ambitious Clean Power Plan endorsed by over 350 companies Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has pledged to support it if elected. All these events signal the extent to which this is an issue of great importance today and one that matters to a great many Americans, most notably young voters. But the...
Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...world and caused enormous diplomatic embarrassment for the United States government. Manning was eventually identified after confessing in an online chat to Adrian Lamo, who informed the Army. Manning was charged with 22 offences, including that of aiding the enemy, and pleaded guilty to 10 charges. She was found guilty in 2013 and sentenced to 35 years in military...
The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...That is not to dismiss her legacy, which is both multifaceted and lasting, not to mention worth remembering. While elements of Fry’s work could be highly detrimental to those she intended to help, she did promote a new and enduring ideal of compassionate and sympathetic social relations across the Western world in the modern age. More on history, reading and prisons...
Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism

...world of members’ pride, presence, identity, and reminded members and potential members of the importance of organized mutuality. Those looking upon the paraded banners could see the possibility of being part of a divinely approved, well-established, financially secure network which provided social support, employment opportunities, pensions, and the prospect of...
Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...world, – what of it?’ And I was absolutely unable to make any reply. The questions were not waiting, and I had to answer them at once; if I did not answer them, I could not live. I felt that what I was standing on had given way, that I had no foundation to stand on, that which I lived by not longer existed, and that I had nothing to live by. My life came to a...
The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982

...World War, the company expanded substantially through acquisitions and mergers, including the British Ericsson Telephone Company, Automatic Telephone & Electric, the Instrument Manufacturing Corporation of South Africa. In 1965, they took over the TCC, which had operated in Bathgate since 1947. The factory produced capacitors for a range of electronic devices and, as was...
PY Gerbeau on the business of football
Money & Business

PY Gerbeau on the business of football

...world, you're working in the City and you don't get that sort of money. That is absolute madness. The only answer I can think of is salary caps, that would go a long way towards helping the clubs." Players' wages account for about 80% of top clubs' turnover, and can be more than 100% of turnover for smaller clubs. Businesses outside football would be considered in trouble...