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Money & Business
Liquidity management
In this free course you will focus on liquidity management, one of the fundamental aspects relating to risk management that has come under intense scrutiny in the past few years.
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Money & Business
What is shareholder activism?
Dr Henry Lahr discusses activist investors, who look for underperforming companies where they can buy a stake in the business then lobby for change.
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First, they came for the Marmite... but what next as the pound falls?
This week's short, sharp Marmite War between Tesco and Unilever might be the first of many such battles.
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Money & Business
PY Gerbeau on the business of football
The business of football discussed by PY Gerbeau, from the BBC/Open University's Rules of the Game.
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Money & Business
Theresanomics explained
Combining social justice concerns with social and economic conservatism, championing nostalgia and 'Britishness'—Dr Peter Bloom explains Theresanomics.
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Do people really behave in a rational way?
Economics depends, in a large part, on individuals making and behaving in a rational way. We might be wrong about that, warns Nick Hanley.
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Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Tax judgements, privacy concerns, wonky algorithms, Labour's digital plans and antitrust worries. OpenLearn brings you a quick guide to a busy day of technology stories.
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Money & Business
The impact of Brexit on British wages
Peter Bloom looks back and ahead at the effect of Brexit on British wages.
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What's next for British wages?
Peter Bloom looks at the future of wages in Britain.
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Innovative efforts to raise wages
Peter Bloom investigates the innovative efforts to raise wages that are happening around the world.
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The reason for low wages
Peter Bloom outlines the current reasons for low wages and how the issue can be addressed.
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Managing virtual project teams
Many projects are now ‘virtual’, i.e. some or all of the team are located remotely and may be working in different time zones. The project manager needs all the traditional soft skills, and more. This free course, Managing virtual project teams, looks at knowledge and techniques which underpin team selection and then consider the additional ...