Peter Day's World of Business

Peter Day finds out more about 3D printing and its potential to revolutionise manufacturing. Producer: Caroline Bayley Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Business leaders make a lot of fuss about corporate governance, but the scandals keep on coming. Peter Day asks what's wrong with the way companies are run. Producer: Ben Crighton Editor: Stephen Chilcott

3D printing may be poised to revolutionise the manufacturing industry. Peter Day asks if 100 years of mass production is running out of steam. Producer: Caroline Bayley Editor: Stephen Chilcott

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is closing most of its giant research facility at Sandwich in Kent, the place where Viagra was developed, putting two thousand science jobs at risk. Peter Day asks what the surprising decision means for an important UK industry. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott

In this week’s Global Business, Peter Day reports on the continuing crisis in the Eurozone. Whilst countries like Ireland, Greece and Spain are suffering some are managing to weather the crisis. Peter Day visits Spain and Poland two members of the European Union with very contrasting experiences of Europe. Producers: Julie Ball & Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Three-D printing may be poised to revolutionise the manufacturing industry. Peter Day asks if 100 years of mass production is running out of steam. Producer: Caroline Bayley Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Bill Rhodes has worked with senior business leaders, statesmen, and strongmen and brokered immense financial deals while looking across the table at finance ministers. From these and other experiences, Rhodes has learned a lifetime of lessons about managing amid crises—and, more important, how to lead prudently, decisively, and effectively to prevent crises from ever happening in the first place. Peter Day hears his thoughts on Europe’s current predicament. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

The Euro crisis in Greece is creating effects that can be felt across the continent. Peter Day finds out how this turbulence is affecting businesses in Spain and Poland. Producers: Sandra Kanthal and Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day hears the success stories of internet entrepreneurs Brent Hobermann, Reid Hofman and Michael and Xochi Birch, founders of Lastminute.com, LinkedIn and Bebo respectively, as well as many other internet businesses. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Intellectual property sounds an innocuous enough idea, but patents and copyright have recently been stirring up a lot of strife. Peter Day finds out why copyright in particular is such a contentious issue in the Internet age. Producers: Sandra Kanthal & Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day is in Bangalore sixteen years after he first visited the city. He catches up with some of the people he met then, and discusses the changes they’ve seen. Producers: Richard Berenger & Mike Wendling Editor: Stephen Chilcott

In this week's Global Business, Peter Day is in St. Gallen, Switzerland where he hears from Dr. Eberhard Von Koerber, co-president of The Club of Rome. Established in 1968 this group of professionals from science, politics and industry, published their report 'The Limits to Growth', commissioned form a group of experts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which expressed their concerns over short term thinking in international affairs and unbridled consumption of the worlds' natural resources. 'Limits to Growth' predicted that in the foreseeable future, some vital raw materials would start running out. Producer: Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott

In the aftermath of the credit crunch people are thinking about the way banks work, the way financial markets operate, and the values and purposes of the companies that use those markets. And some of the big management thinkers are beginning to put forward ideas that challenge many of the assumptions that have dominated the way business has worked for the past several decades. In this progamme Peter Day hears from management guru Gary Hamel and gets his thoughts on the future of capitalism.

There is no reason why the words used in corporate communications should be pompous and jargon-ridden but that is how it often turns out to be. Peter Day goes into a huddle with a group of enthusiasts determined to improve the way business language works. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Paul Leinwand and Cesare Meinardi talk to Peter Day about their book - The Essential Advantage. It is an interesting thesis about core competence and how most companies don’t understand what they are actually doing. Global Business hears from them both about their ideas for turning companies around in difficult times and how management consultancy came to have such an important place in business. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

As the sovereign debt crisis continues what next for the Euro? What next for Europe? Peter Day asks the experts. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Information seems to be moving right to the heart of the 21st century economy but nobody really knows what it is or how it works. Peter Day talks to pioneers in the field of information management as well as corporate gatekeepers of this valuable commodity we call information to find out what advances are being made with the amount of data we now generate. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Intellectual property sounds an innocuous enough idea, but patents and copyright have recently been stirring up a lot of strife. Peter Day finds out why copyrigtht in particular is such a contentious issue in the Internet age. Producer: Sanda Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott

In an age of high technology communications, two long-established companies in a single German city are still battling each other for supremacy in a global marketplace ... in pencils. In Nuremberg Peter Day asks Faber-Castell and Staedtler how they both stay sharp ... and finds out what light (and shade) they can throw on the success of German industry and the viability of Europe as a single economy. Producer: Caroline Bayley Editor: Stephen Chilcott

There is no reason why the words used in corporate communications should be pompous and jargon-ridden but that is how it often turns out to be. Peter Day goes into a huddle with a group of enthusiasts determined to improve the way business language works. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott