May
7
Writing a Business Plan – Bloomberg: Your Money
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Many people have unique ideas about businesses they want to start. But before you do anything, you need to have a detailed
Mar
23
2000s Decade Recap – Business and Technology
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Starting out on a high, the financial problems didnt take long to surface. Meanwhile, the 2000s brought us Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, while Google began its quest to take over the world. Apples iPod and iPhone swept the market, and breathed new life into the Apple brand. But who can forget the financial crises, fraud and incompetence that made headlines throughout the decade? Life savings and Homes lost, companies failing and government bailouts became the reality in the 2000s. In this video, http://www.WatchMojo.com reviews these and more biz and tech milestones from the first decade of the new millennium.
Duration : 0:3:23
Feb
18
Muhammad Yunus – The Social Business Model
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/17/Muhammad_Yunus_Creating_a_World_Without_Poverty Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of The Grameen Bank, explains his “Social business” model, a plan for addressing social issues through entrepreneurship. This program was recorded in joint collaboration with the Commonwealth Club of California and Link TV. —- Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of The Grameen Bank, speaks about his new book Creating a World Without Poverty. Muhammad Yunus is founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank, established in Bangladesh in 1983. Dr. Yunus founded the bank with the objective of helping poor people escape from poverty by providing loans on terms suitable to them and by teaching them a few sound principles of finances so they can help themselves. The Grameen Bank has advanced to the forefront of a burgeoning world movement toward eradicating poverty through micro-lending and its model has been replicated in over 100 countries worldwide. In 2006, Dr. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Bank.
Duration : 0:5:34
Feb
6
7. Behavioral Finance: The Role of Psychology
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Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Behavioral Finance is a relatively recent revolution in finance that applies insights from all of the Social sciences to finance. New decision-making models incorporate psychology and sociology, among other disciplines, to explain economic and financial phenomenon, such as erratic stock price variations. Psychological patterns such as overconfidence and perceived kinks in the value function seem to impact financial decision-making, but are not included in classical theories such as the Expected Utility Theory. Kahneman and Tversky’s Prospect Theory addresses such issues and sheds light on irrational deviations from traditional decision-making models.
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses
This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
Duration : 1:5:10
Jan
23
1. Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and Society
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Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Professor Shiller provides a description of the course, Financial Markets, including administrative details and the topics to be discussed in each lecture. He briefly discusses the importance of studying finance and each key topic. Lecture topics will include: behavioral Finance, financial technology, financial instruments, commercial banking, investment banking, financial markets and institutions, real estate, regulation, monetary policy, and democratization of finance.
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses
This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
Duration : 1:14:4
Jan
22
The Descent of Finance
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Niall Ferguson, Harvard professor, discusses the history — and future — of finance with Harvard