Doing the Business 2013 – Something Ventured
November 7, 2013
On Monday this week we screened the first of this years films looking at social, ethical and environmental issues in business. The first film was Something Ventured, a film that documented the investors that financed the development of new technologies (genetics, computer hardware and software) through the mid to late twentieth Century. The film was …
The Flaw: what happens when the rich get richer?
November 13, 2012
Tonight Philip Augar will be introducing David Sington’s documentary The Flaw, the second film in our annual series at the Broadway Cinema, Nottingham. This is the latest film to explore the credit bubble which caused the financial crisis. David Sington moves away from the ‘greedy banker’ and ‘incompetent regulator’ arguments – to consider why the …
Sustainability reporting on the SGX: A driver for better business?
April 16, 2012
As I laid out the name badges on the decadently dressed registration table, rifling through my bag for a Nottingham branded pen, I sat back and smiled. My guests would soon arrive, and the delicately robed perch-tables would, I hoped, be awash with neatly placed nibbles and confidently extended hands, aptly framed with the magnificent panoramic view …
Margin Call
March 22, 2012
Margin Call was the final film in this year’s series Doing the Business, a series designed to use the medium of film to encourage discussion and debate on social and ethical issues in business. It was the most mainstream of the films we have screened this year, with an academy award nomination for the screenplay …
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