Michael Moore storms the halls of power to confront CEOs face to face, as he did in his first documentary, Roger and Me. Twenty years later, Flint, Michigan's problems afflict the entire country: millions are unemployed and homeless, and the economy is sinking deeper into crisis...
This clip from the documentary film "The Smartest Guys in the Room," based on the best-selling book by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, examines the rise of Jeffrey Skilling, the CEO of Enron. Skilling is shown to be a brilliant but ruthless man who believed that he and Enron stood at the peak of a Darwinian food chain, justifying whatever action was necessary to keep them there.
A detailed look at the career of former Texas Congressman Tom DeLay, and the criminal investigation that ended his political life in 2006. Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck's documentary follows the lengthy investigation by Texas's Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, the prosecutor who finally brought down the Congressman...
Taking as its starting point the idea of corporate personhood - the concept that legally corporations enjoy the same rights as people in the United States - this compelling Canadian documentary by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott diagnoses the corporation from a medical perspective...
Based on real events, Barbarians at the Gate follows the CEO of RJR Nabisco's attempt to buy his own company. A frantic bidding war ensues, illustrating the excess of 1980s corporate culture. Barbarians at the the Gate is more lighthearted and realistic than Wall Street, and it provides a useful lesson about corporate takeovers.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is an in-depth study of the Enron disaster, one of the biggest corporate scandals in history. Enron's top executives walked away with over one billion dollars, leaving a trail of sacked employees and suicidal investors...
President Obama's pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, has slashed salaries of the top 20 executives in seven firms and is now looking at the salaries of the next 75 most highly compensated employees. Even companies that didn't receive government money, like Morgan Stanley, are looking for ways to take back bonuses if employee actions end up costing the company money...
A concise and comprehensive documentary that provides a history of mortgage finance in America from the 1930s through the recent home financing meltdown, and resulting economic recession. In ten chapters, Gary Gasgarth's film balances interviews with Wall Street insiders and experts with testimonials from average families caught in the midst of the housing pyramid scheme...
FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair discusses the role of government in regulating executive pay, especially in regards to banks that received federal bailouts.
In this series of videos, faculty from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business discuss their research projects on subjects related to economics, consumer behavior, and leadership.
