Shaun Rein, Managing Director of the China Market Research Group, discusses efforts by major U.S. companies to focus on the needs of Chinese consumers. From cucumber potato chips to watermelon gum, American companies are developing products specifically designed for the fast-growing Chinese consumer market.
Steve Croft from CBS’ 60 Minutes reports on Chiquita Banana's involvement with Colombian narco-terrorists. Chiquita paid the paramilitaries to “protect” Chiquita employees, even though U.S. law forbids doing business with terrorists...
This powerful and sweeping documentary touches on issues of globalization, colonialism, economics, ecological studies, and political upheaval in Africa. About fifty years ago Europeans introduced the Nile Perch into the waters of Lake Victoria, the world's largest tropical lake...
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...
In a unique look at industry in a shrinking world, Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken film the disassembly of a massive smelting factory in Germany and its subsequent reassembly in China. 400 Chinese workers spent 18 months breaking down the plant into manageable parts and shipping it to China...
This short animated video, first in the Do You Know? Series, presents a stream of facts about world population, technological development, and the ever accelerating flow of information that has staggering implications for educators, students, and those entering the job market.
If the world were a village of just 100 people, what would those people be like? This short video provides startling statistics on global demographics and development.
Atlantic National Correspondent James Fallows has been writing dispatches and hosting a series of webisodes on the changing business climate in China since 2006. The videos, which cover topics ranging from business etiquette to the cosmetics industry to intellectual property theft, are collected on the Atlantic's site.
