New York - 1981. L'année la plus violente qu'ait connu la ville. Le destin d'un immigré qui tente de se faire une place dans le business du pétrole. Son ambition se heurte à la corruption, la violence galopante et à la dépravation de l'époque qui menacent de détruire tout ce que lui et sa famille ont construit.
Scrooge, vieillard richement pourvu et avare jusqu'à l'excès, ne vit que pour enrichir son capital et exploiter son personnel. Il persécute ainsi son clerc, père d'un jeune garçon atteint d'une grave maladie et son neveu, dont la naissance causa la mort de sa soeur. Un soir de Noël, le spectre de son défunt associé lui apparait.
Avocat dans l'un des plus grands cabinets juridiques de New York, Michael Clayton arrange discrètement et par tous les moyens les affaires embarrassantes de ses clients. On lui confie le dossier douteux d'une puissante firme agrochimique. Lorsqu'il découvre que cette multinationale sans scrupules est prête à faire des millions de victimes pour s'enrichir, il ne peut plus échapper au choix qui s'impose à lui : étouffer la vérité ou la faire éclater, au péril de sa vie...
Living in a posh mansion named Swarg, this is the story of Sahabji, his wife sister Jyoti, two brothers, and a sister-in-law. Sahabji has a clash of wits with Dhanraj, who successfully schemes with Sahabji's two brothers, and takes over the prestigious mansion and vast business empire, leaving Sahabji virtually penniless, and devastated with the passing away of his wife. His brothers have now taken over the money, and his business. It is now up to a servant of the mansion, Krishna to set things right for Sahabji's household. How can a poor servant succeed against rich and powerful individuals?
L'artiste peintre Bob Ross a fait le bonheur de millions de téléspectateurs dans le monde. Mais la bataille pour son empire a jeté une ombre sur ses "joyeux arbres".
Enrico Giusti works for a big corporation: his job is to save dying companies by persuading young scions to sell. However, his latest assignment is proving more difficult than anticipated, since it concerns two teens whose parents just died in a car accident.
Un employé new-yorkais entend grimper dans la hiérarchie de son entreprise, et brigue un nouveau poste. Mais il est effrayé à l'idée de décrocher cet emploi qui risquerait de l'éloigner de sa famille, un traumatisme pour ce homme à l'enfance malheureuse. Les démons d'un passé douloureux refont alors surface...
Fresh from "business college" a young man learns a little about relationships and a lot about "S & H Green Stamps."
Real Value is an award-winning economics documentary that delivers a refreshing meditation on how business can be used to create value beyond profit; connecting motivational stories from social entrepreneurs working in agriculture, apparel, insurance, and biofuel, with the captivating science behind our perception of value from world-renowned professor of psychology and behavioral economics, Dan Ariely. The film serves as inspiration for any business owner, entrepreneur, or customer who is looking to better understand what happens when a business puts people, planet, and profit on equal footing.
Jeff Bezos is not only one of the richest men in the world, he has built a business empire that is without precedent in the history of American capitalism. His power to shape everything from the future of work to the future of commerce to the future of technology is unrivaled. As politicians and regulators around the world start to consider the global impact of Amazon — and how to rein in Bezos’ power — FRONTLINE investigates how he executed a plan to build one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world.
This film tells the story about futility of life of main character, Miro – yuppie whose life consists of repeating everyday routine. His sense tells him he is unhappy so he swamps into imagination and decides to change his life.
Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is eventually forced to emigrate after many hardships.
A small construction team led by Potapov suddenly refuses to receive a bonus payment from their company for exceeding performance targets. The team accuses its construction company HQ with artificially reducing the targets, so they can be easily exceeded. It makes the management looks good, yet leads to frequent downtime reducing earnings for common construction workers even with fake bonuses. On a hastily organized meeting the management tries to subdue the "unruly" gang leader charging that he cannot know all details. It turned out that Potapov and his team prepared a detailed business analysis, which proved their point. Managers, who had different interests and positions, have to decide how to deal with the real problem leading to unexpected results.
This documentary deals with cases of grave recycling, cemetery abandonment, and the development of homes, stores, and businesses over the top of old cemeteries, in many cases leaving the bodies in the ground and paving over them.
Depuis quelques années, attirés par le succès du label bio, les agriculteurs conventionnels et les industriels de l'agroalimentaire surfent, eux aussi, sur la vague « écolo » sans pour autant satisfaire aux critères du bio. Des légumes au poisson en passant par les condiments, qu'ils soient privés ou publics, les labels « verts » sont partout. Tous nous promettent de consommer mieux, en protégeant la planète. Mais si certains répondent à un cahier des charges très protecteur de l'environnement, d'autres ne sont qu'un argument publicitaire de plus. Un « greenwashing » particulièrement bienvenu au moment où les consommateurs favorisent plus que jamais les achats écolos. Alors, comment s'y retrouver dans la jungle des labels ?
Is our food bought at the price of famine in the developing world? Is agribusiness more interested in producing profits than producing food? This PBS independent documentary investigates U.S. and European agribusiness in the Third World. Filmed on five continents, it takes a close look at agribusiness, which is turning the world's food supply into a global supermarket, buying food at the lowest prices-regardless of small farmers and local populations-and selling it at the highest price and the greatest profit whenever possible.
Why is it prohibited to sit in food courts if you will not order foods? Why did Isko Moreno, newly elected Mayor of Manila, suddenly withdrew the licenses of bars near university establishments? What is life at night in Poblacion, Makati for Prostitutes? These are the questions that intrigued the group of students from Adamson University from tapping the nameless dilemma of the business industry and figuring in the end if they are ethical or not.