Peter Day's World of Business

Some clever people think that global warming offers a huge business opportunity for companies who can find new ways of tackling climate change. Peter Day hears from a few small start up companies who seem to have few fears about embarking on projects which may have a huge impact on our world ... or might just fizzle out.

Some clever people think that global warming offers a huge business opportunity for companies who can find new ways of tackling climate change. Peter Day hears from a few small start up companies who seem to have few fears about embarking on projects which may have a huge impact on our world ... or might just fizzle out.

Sir David Tweedie is the most powerful accountant in the world. Don't yawn: as chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board, he is  the man who tries to keep global capitalism honest in the face of bubbles, corporate lies, corruption, and huge changes in what companies do and the way they value their businesses. Peter Day hears from Sir David about his ceaseless quest for clarity in a world of often baffling facts and figures.

Peter Day is in conversation with Bonnie Nixon-Gardiner, the Global Manager in charge of Supply Chain and Social and Environmental Programme, for the computer giant Hewlett-Packard. nProducer: Julie BallnEditor: Stephen Chilcott

There are over 40 million people from shopkeepers to wholesalers and distributors who rely on the retail sector in India to make a living. It’s into this seemingly chaotic and crowded market that western style supermarkets both Indian and foreign are attempting to gain a foothold, in the face of organised and vocal opposition. Peter Day travels from Delhi to Mumbai to find out who is winning?nProducer: Julie Ball nEditor: Stephen Chilcott

Many of the clothes bearing some of the best-known labels in the high street are made by exploited workers in developing countries. Some retailers stand accused of selling goods made with child labour, or by workers not paid a living wage. That’s what the campaigners say. So what are they--and the companies they accuse of foul play--doing about it ? Peter Day finds out. nProducer : Caroline BayleynEditor: Stephen Chilcott

For generations economists have been struggling to include happiness in the things they measure. Peter Day finds out whether companies ought to pay attention to how happy the people who work for them are. nProducer: Ruth AlexandernEditor: Stephen Chilcott

In this edition Peter Day travels to Oxford to the Skoll World Forum on Entrepreneurship, and hears from some of the social entrepreneurs gathered there to discuss how to apply business knowhow to social problems.nProducer: Richard BerengernEditor: Stephen Chilcott

Many of the clothes bearing some of the best-known labels in the high street are made by exploited workers in developing countries. Some retailers stand accused of selling goods made with child labour, or by workers not paid a living wage. That’s what the campaigners say. So what are they--and the companies they accuse of foul play--doing about it ? Peter Day finds out. nProducer: Caroline BayleynEditor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day talks to Charles Leadbeater, an influential management thinker who’s recently published a book called “We Think”. nProducer: Richard BerengernEditor: Stephen Chilcott

Sir David Tweedie is the most powerful accountant in the world. Don't yawn: as chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board, he is  the man who tries to keep global capitalism honest in the face of bubbles, corporate lies, corruption, and huge changes in what companies do and the way they value their businesses. Peter Day hears from Sir David about his ceaseless quest for clarity in a world of often baffling facts and figures. nProducer: Sandra Kanthal  nEditor: Stephen Chilcott

In this week's Global Business, Peter Day is in conversation with Professor Tarun Khanna, from Harvard Business School, about his book 'Billions of Entrepreneurs' which looks at the economic rise of India and China and how they are changing the face of the global economy both at home and abroad. nProducer: Julie BallnEditor: Stephen Chilcott

Some clever people think that global warming offers a huge business opportunity for companies who can find new ways of tackling climate change. Peter Day hears from a few small start up companies who seem to have few fears about embarking on projects which may have a huge impact on our world ... or might just fizzle out. nProducer: Neil Koenig  nEditor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day continues his look at the huge upheavals facing retailing in India.nIt is an industry employing nearly 5 million people and affects the livelihoods of 200 million - if you include wholesalers and distributors in this enormous and complicated chain. nPeter Day meets those companies foreign and homegrown who are attempting to change the face of India's retail supply chain. nProducer: Julie BallnEditor: Stephen Chilcott

In this week's In Business Peter Day looks at the history of retail in the UK and what new ideas about shopping are being designed to tempt the buying public. Producer: Sandra Kanthal. Editor: Stephen Chilcott

India's supermarket sweep: This week Peter Day is in India to report from the front line of a new struggle between traditional Indian retailers and a new wave of supermarkets that have millions of hawkers and small local shops up in arms.

For more than a decade Britain's shrunken manufacturing industry has been battered by the strength of the pound. Now manufacturers may be staring recession in the face. Peter Day hears how maverick manufacturing companies plan to go on surviving against the odds.nProducer: Rosamund JonesnEditor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day hears about some up and coming companies from developing parts of the world that may have a lot to teach established players. nProducer: Caroline BayleynEditor: Stephen Chilcott

Welsh-born Michael Moritz is one of the venture capital stars of Silicon Valley USA, a partner in Sequoia Capital, an awesomely successful investor in start-ups such as Yahoo, Google and YouTube. Peter Day asks him how it all happened … and gets some advice about how to make a high tech fortune over and over again.nProducer: Neil Koenig nEditor: Stephen Chilcott

Take a deep breath, win friends and influence people. Peter Day gets some unorthodox advice and guidance on how to inspire awe and become a corporate leader.nProducer: Sandra Kanthal nEditor: Stephen Chilcott

Oligarchs are not the only people making money in the new Russia. The country's new oil and gas prosperity is creating a nation of middle class consumers for the first time. Peter Day reports on the hopes and fears of the new Muscovites. nProducer: Caroline BayleynEditor: Stephen Chilcott

Clever global manufacturers have learnt how to save billions by following the Toyota method of lean production, perfected by the Japanese car maker over decades. But service industries seem to be far behind. Peter Day finds out why. 

Peter Day talks to Professor Lynda Gratton of the London Business School who believes that good teamwork is what will make companies successful in the 21st century.

Social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Bebo and YouTube are revolutionising the way people use the internet. Peter Day finds how businesses need to respond.nProducer: Rosamund JonesnEditor: Stephen Chilcott

In this edition, the concluding part of a short four part series on innovation, Peter Day talks to John Kao. Sometimes known as "Mr. Creativity" and as "a serial innovator", Dr. John Kao describes his job as "instigator of new things."  His new book, and the starting point for this conversation, Innovation Nation, looks at the challenges America faces as it tries to stay at the top in innovation as it is challenged by other nations rapidly develop their own skills.nProducer: Richard BerengernEditor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day visits the research labs at Philips and General Electric to find out how scientists discover the products that will take companies into the future. He continues to explore the ways in which the demands of business shape new technologies and how companies are trying to open up new markets for their products and services. nProducers: Neil Koenig and Cathy BlocknEditor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day looks at innovation in practice at the famous Palo Alto (PARC) Research Labs run by Xerox. nHe meets the scientists who explain that research at PARC itself is undergoing major changes as they collaborate with innovators working in other fields such as biomedics and solar research. nWe’ll also hear how commercial pressures could have an impact on long term thinking and what this means for the evolution of companies in the future. nProducers: Neil Koenig and Cathy BlocknEditor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day looks at the role of innovation in business and how good ideas shape the future of technology. His guest is Sophie Vandebroek, chief technology officer at Xerox, the company we traditionally associate with the photocopier – who are also spearheading developments in many other areas including ‘smart document technology’. nSophie will be telling us about innovation, past, present and future at Xerox and how to create an environment where ideas can really flourish. nProducers: Neil Koenig and Cathy BlocknEditor: Stephen Chilcott

At a time when business is conducted globally and virtually, Peter Day asks what it takes to build and manage effective teams. nProducer: Rosamund JonesnEditor: Stephen Chilcott.

This week in Global Business, Peter Day is back in China hearing from 3 people with different views about the great changes underway in the country; a market research expert, a best selling novelist who writes about everyday life and Economist Mao Yu Shi.