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Explore OpenLearn from The Open University
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Explore OpenLearn from The Open University

...Business and ManagementOur top three free courses You can check out the full range of Business and Management learning materials available on OpenLearn for free here - this includes articles, badged courses, videos and interactives. Explore our range of Business and Management qualifications with The Open University, and discover the flexible way to get the degree...
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Article 5 mins
Fiscal Responsibility and Monetary Policy
Society, Politics & Law

Fiscal Responsibility and Monetary Policy

...money to influence the economy? Over the past century governments have used a variety of strategies to avoid economic instability, and the current economic crisis has been handled very differently from the Great Depression, the last comparable global downturn. Getting the balance right - between government spending and taxation, low inflation and low unemployment, low...
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Video 20 mins
Atom Bomb in Popular Culture
History & The Arts

Atom Bomb in Popular Culture

...end. Mad About A Bomb By the end of the 1950s, public opinion about the bomb had started to shift. A Bomb Under Reagan By the 1970s the Cold War tensions were beginning to thaw, as people grew less worried about nuclear catastrophe than about the Vietnam War. A Bomb On The Loose By the 1980s the Soviet Union had spent decades pouring money into weapons and foreign wars....
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Video 16 mins
Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
Money & Business

Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies

...business schools, Khotiyal and colleagues – who are organisational studies scholars – have argued that the management knowledge that is considered legitimate and high-quality both in the global south and in the global north is based on international journal rankings whereby high-level journals are exclusively based in the US and the UK. This leads business schools and...
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Video 40 mins
Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...businesses of Indian merchants for their own gain. In its drive to make money, as one EIC officer wrote on returning to England: ‘half the great cities of an opulent kingdom were rendered desolate; the most fertile fields in the world laid waste; and five millions of harmless and industrious people were either expelled or destroyed’ (in Dalrymple). Contemporary Indian...
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Article 20 mins
Ecology and economy under the fig tree in South Asian Cities
Society, Politics & Law

Ecology and economy under the fig tree in South Asian Cities

...businesses to set up their stalls and entice commuters with goods and services that are just right for their needs. And it’s not just sugarcane juice vendors or flower sellers, I have occasionally seen a shoe polish stall or a hairdressing salon set up under urban trees. This is a mesmerising combination of ecology and economy in action. In this article, I will explore...
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Article 5 mins
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...business needs, would be, I fear, equivalent to throwing good money after bad.’ DMI has cost £98.4m, and was meant to bring £95.4m of benefits to the organisation by making all the corporation’s raw and edited video footage available to staff for re-editing and output. In 2007, when the project was conceived, making a single TV programme could require 70 individual...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Contemporary Issues in Finance
Money & Business

Contemporary Issues in Finance

...businesses and how they can be managed. Foreign exchange and currency unions Possible future consequences of a single currency. The use of derivatives The use of different derivatives within two businesses. FRA's and Futures A definition of FRA's and Futures and the benefits of using them Is risk being under priced? Marcus Davidson and Graham Honeybourne explore the...
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Audio 1 hr 7 mins