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Entrepreneur Skills![]() Produced - 1999 Having sustained its annual growth for decades, Berkshire Hathaway is one of the most profitable companies in existence today. In this rare interview, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and billionaire CEO Warren Buffett—second only to Bill Gates in personal wealth in the U.S.—discuss topics including how to target businesses for acquisition, the future of investment in a volatile stock market, why Berkshire Hathaway’s stock has never split, and Buffett’s ultimate entrepreneurial goal: to amass an immense endowment fund to benefit society. (25 minutes)
![]() Released - 1993 Where prestige as well as income are the goals, women are not only denied equal pay for equal work, but are, much more often than not, denied the opportunity to show what they can do; or, having the opportunity, are unable to perform adequately because of the clubhouse mentality of their male colleagues. The solution for a growing number of women executives: start their own businesses. (21 minutes)
![]() Produced - 1999 Buying and selling like lightning, a 27-year-old multimillionaire day-traded his way to a fortune via the Internet, while two Cornell University students launched an online community that, at its initial public offering, was valued at $194 million. In this program—filmed at the height of the Internet boom—day trader Scott Friedman and the "twenty-something" founders of TheGlobe.com discuss their remarkable successes. In addition, financial experts including Deutschebank’s Ed Yardeni and Richard Quest, the BBC’s U.S. business reporter, voice their views on the new Internet/Wall Street synergy. (23 minutes)
![]() Release - 1997 Learn the jargon of business with the lessons included in this interactive multimedia CD-ROM. Go behind the scenes of a manufacturing company to learn the basics in the areas of accounting, production, distribution, sales, management, marketing, human resources, word processing, research and development, and support services. Answer a question incorrectly, and the program quickly reviews the video segment in which the information was covered. Available for Windows only.
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