The Bottom Line (unofficial) Business Awards

The Bottom Line

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Business

4.6 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Every year has its business highs and lows which we don't often get an opportunity to chew over on The Bottom Line.

This year is different.

To mark our end of term, we thought we’d reflect on the business year and look at some of the highs and lows across the business landscape, creating our very own (and very unofficial) Bottom Line Business Awards.

Three panellists, three categories, three nominations.

Joining Evan are: JESSICA SPUNGIN, Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School SIR KEN OLISSA, Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London and Chair and founder of Restoration Partners, a bank for entrepreneurs And NISHMA PATEL ROBB, current Executive Member of Women in Advertising and Communications Leadership, founder and CEO of The Glittersphere and formerly Marketing Director at Google UK

PRODUCTION TEAM: Producers: Drew Hyndman and Alex Lewis Editor: Matt Willis Sound: Rod Farquhar Production co-ordinator: Rosie Strawbridge

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	This is the podcast version of the programme with extra material in it we didn't have room for in the radio broadcast.
0:11.2	I hope you can enjoy that.
0:13.7	Hello, welcome to the programme.
0:15.6	Now, it's our last recording before the summer break.
0:18.3	So there's a bit of an end-of-term feel at the bottom line.
0:21.8	And we're going to do something a little bit different today. We thought we'd look back on the
0:25.4	business year, take a look at some of the highs across the business landscape, as well as some of the lows.
0:31.2	So we've decided to create our own bottom-line business awards. Unofficial business awards, nothing too serious, sad to say,
0:40.2	no actual awards, just a chance to chat through some of the events of the last year.
0:44.9	Now, how it's going to work is this. We have three judges and we have three award categories.
0:51.6	Each judge will make one nomination in each category, we'll discuss the nominations
0:56.1	and try to come to a consensus on the outright winner, and if that's not possible, I as chair,
1:01.9	will adjudicate and have the casting vote. Now, the categories we've chosen are business or business
1:09.1	person of the year, marketing moment of the year, and then finally we're
1:14.3	going to talk about the biggest business blunder of the year. Let us meet our judges, a very
1:20.3	balanced panel. And first up is Jessica Spungin, an old friend of the program, adjunct professor
1:25.7	of strategy and entrepreneurship at London Business School. Before we get stuck into the program, adjunct professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at London
1:28.2	Business School. Before we get stuck into the awards, Jessica, we asked you to come up with some
1:33.9	nominations before you got here. How easy was it for you to do that? Don't say who any of them
1:38.2	are. Just how easy was it? So blunder is pretty easy because actually as business school professors, we specialised in taking blunders and teaching you what to learn from it.
1:49.5	So I'm constantly thinking about, oh, what would make a good business case if I was going to write it?
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