Here is a link to a 12 episode series published by the Times and the Times Online. In the series, they interview 13 influential business figures from a wide range of sectors as they explain an idea that they think is fundementally changing the way we do business today. Although some episodes were published as long ago as 2007, most are still relevant and though provoking. The Times now charge for their content, so I found that these episodes sometimes download from Podcast Directory, and at other times don’t….
Here are the direct links to the episodes:
1. Medicine in the developing world
Innovative partnerships are crucial to overcoming diseases like malaria, which, as well as their devastating cost in human terms, are hampering the economic progress of developing nations
A strong and efficient public sector is fundamental to the strength of any society, and governments can draw lessons from the private sector
3. Micro finance and its role in 3rd world poverty relief
The provision of financial services in the developing world is a crucial means of ensuring sustainable economic growth and lifting people out of poverty
4. Private equity modern entrepreneurship
Sir Ronald Cohen, Founding Partner and Executive Chairman, Apax Partners Worldwide. Successful entrepreneurship and the importance of the private equity industry in the British economy
5. Vacating HQ: how social innovation is redefining the corporate world
Ben Verwaayen, CEO, BT: Technology is changing the way we do business, bringing the world’s best talents together
6. The flexibility of industry’s new access to capital
Sir David Walker. Author, the Walker Report into private equity. Tuning the balance between transparency and secrecy in the world’s most private industry
7. The business of engineering
Engineering has changed the world and can continue to do so, but first it must change its own fate
8. The evolution of the equity market
From their origins in the seventeenth century, today’s high-tech stock exchanges are playing a crucial role in global economic development and are at the heart of the globalisation story
9. The day corporates gained responsibility: the chief executive’s view
How companies turned the inevitable into the profitable
10. The day the corporates gained responsibility: the investors view
The global marketplace for skills is revolutionising business and communities – but where will it lead?
12: The democratisation of information
Jay Adelson, Founder and Chief Executive, Digg. The internet is changing the way we access and share information, and it gives us all a voice
Britain must reinvent its attitude to energy if it is to meet the challenges of climate change and fuel inequality
I hope that you are able to download these episodes.
Excellent post. I am facing a few of these issues
as well..