Money Makers, The (6 Parts)

Synopsis

Series featuring six of the world’s leading entrepreneurs, looking atthe background history of their business empirea, and through interviews, examins the feasibility and fallibility of their individual commercial philosophies.
1: Profiles Sir John Harvey-Jones when chairman of ICI. In his first 30 months ICI had doubled the price of its shares and turned a loss into a profit of over £1bn. Tells how ICI was rescued, examines Sir John’s style of leadership, and reveals some of his views on British manufacturing industry.
2: Giovanni Agnelli, whose business interests range from oil refining to football, talks about Fiat’s turbulent history from the war years, terrorism and the unions in the 1970s; to Lybian investment, and predicts the future of the car industry in Europe.
3: Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony, describes his path to success, his advertising and marketing strategy, his firm commitment to long-term projects, what he thinks are the reasons for Britain’s decline, and why Japan dominates world markets.
4: Robert Orville Anderson, the USA’s top private landowner and head of the seventh-largest oil company in the country, talks about his conflict with environmentalists, his ruthless rstructuring of ARCO in 1985, how he had the world’s biggest oil strike in Alaska, and his rescue of London’s troubled ‘Observer’ newspaper.
5: Stanley Ho, whose the main source wealth was a gambling franchise in Macau, now owns shipping interests, hotels, restaurants, real estate and trading interests world-wide. He explains his decision to invest in Hong Kong despite its reversion to China in 1997.
6: Russi Mody, India’s best known businessman, owns the Tisco steel plant, which provides not only work, but also schools, hospitals, social and recreational centres for employees and their families. Mody is proud of his man-management and Tisco’s strike free record since 1928, but is concerned that new technology will mean less utilisation of human talent.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. 6 x 30 min.

Year of production

1985

Availability

Sale; 1996 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Subjects

Business studies

Keywords

business firms; Hong Kong; India; industry; Italy; Japan; multinational corporations; United Kingdom; United States of America

Sections

Title

Company man, The

Synopsis

1: Profiles Sir John Harvey-Jones when chairman of ICI. In his first 30 months ICI had doubled the price of its shares and turned a loss into a profit of over £1bn. Tells how ICI was rescued, examines Sir John's style of leadership, and reveals some of hi

Title

Italy’s uncrowned king

Synopsis

2: Giovanni Agnelli, whose business interests range from oil refining to football, talks about Fiat's turbulent history from the war years, terrorism and the unions in the 1970s; to Lybian investment, and predicts the future of the car industry in Europe.

Title

Japan’s super salesman

Synopsis

3: Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony, describes his path to success, his advertising and marketing strategy, his firm commitment to long-term projects, what he thinks are the reasons for Britain's decline, and why Japan dominates world markets.

Title

Oil tycoon, The

Synopsis

4: Robert Orville Anderson, the USA's top private landowner and head of the seventh-largest oil company in the country, talks about his conflict with environmentalists, his ruthless rstructuring of ARCO in 1985, how he had the world's biggest oil strike i

Title

Betting on a certainty

Synopsis

5: Stanley Ho, whose the main source wealth was a gambling franchise in Macau, now owns shipping interests, hotels, restaurants, real estate and trading interests world-wide. He explains his decision to invest in Hong Kong despite its reversion to China i

Title

India’s steel man

Synopsis

6: Russi Mody, India's best known businessman, owns the Tisco steel plant, which provides not only work, but also schools, hospitals, social and recreational centres for employees and their families. Mody is proud of his man-management and Tisco's strike

Production Company

Name

BBC Television

Distributor

Name

BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning

Contact

Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)

Email

BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com

Web

https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window

Phone

+44 (0) 20 8433 1009

Address

BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK

Notes

The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’