Dvds in the United States competing with blockbuster. That was a full decade really that were competing with video stores just in the u. S. Thats 2007 when we started streaming. Roughly the same time that youtube did. Host erin meyer, how did you get involved in this book project . Guest i study cultural differences in the workplace. Im a professor, and i first came across the netflix culture when i read what many people have, the netflix culture hacks. Definitely put on the inrnet with again and it was que shocking when i read it. It said things like adequate performance gets a generous severance. That really shocked me because in my department at my Business School i teach at we were at theime focusing on Psychological Safety in the workplace to create come to promote innovation. Re i had a company though stop focusing on psycholical safety that on getting rid of ople who didnt perform adequately. The fact they had no cation policy, travel policy, things that got me thinking about ho
Runs just under two hours. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being with us, or being near us, at least in the technology since. I welcome all of you to todays hearing that weve entitled, examining the response to the covid19 pandemic. The subcommittee at the sound of the gavel will come to order. As the nation continues to fight the unprecedented Public Health crisis, americans worked to protect against further spread of the virus while trying to maintain a certain degree of normalcy, including maintaining a job and earning a paycheck. There is not a corner of the u. S. Economy that has not felt the impact of the pandemic todays discussion will talk about the harmful effects on the Manufacturing Sector. During this pandemic, many in the Manufacturing Community have adapted their operations to help provide products needed to prevent the spread of the virus. Distributionlesale company that pivoted to manufacturing face masks in response to a dire National Supply shortage, or a cart
It was fourth of july weekend of 2017 and i was six months into my activism of trying to warn america about the threat from internet platforms like facebook. And i realized i needed to find a way to go to washington, d. C. And didnt know anyone. And a friend said you need to meet barry so as it happened, he was in new england for the fourth of july weekend and so was i, so we met at a hotel in boston and at this point, im terrified because i had been watching all the things that happened in 2016 and im beginning to get the sense that facebook and other internet platforms are so big that theres nothing we can do and hes got the hair, the tie, the suit, he sits back and proceeds to explain we will control these guys by bringing back antitrust law. At that point i had spent the better part of four years and antitrust was defunct. He says no you just have to believe in miracles. He said we are going to get back and restore capitalism in america. Im looking at him and i think that he is fro
Because there is some, not a lot but some cautious optimism starting to trickle out around both the markets because they ended their day and they ended their week higher as well. Perhaps some hope on the horizon about america getting healthy and getting working again. But tim seymour with 22 million filing for jobless benefits in just the last three weeks wiping out a decade of job gains, no doubt some very hard Economic Times for millions of people still to come. Is there really any good reason for markets to be rising like they have been i think its a liquidity squeeze. Its been a skepticism trade that has squeezed markets higher it has been a combination of the Federal Reserve expanding its Balance Sheet to 6. 1 trillion. Its been all of this well ahead of the recession frankly its been a dynamic where i think the positioning of markets allowed markets to push on higher it doesnt change from where we are but obviously we started all this on covid19 as weve gotten more clarity on cov
Thank you all for being here today. m going to go out of order, thank you, mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing. I first want to get on the record and thank our subject matter experts. Experts. If theres anything we legislative leaders ought to be doing an more broadly our government leaders, its listening to Public Health experts. Thank you so much and the experts in some of these discrete areas that will be impacted by the coronavirus. I regret that in minutes i have another meeting that pertains to this important topic. I just want to publicly express my intention to submit for the record some important questions i have for you related to the increasingly integrated supply chains that we now have between various enterprises and i guess this is this situation will create certain vulnerabilities uring times of what is now a pandemic. I have some questions related to supply Chain Mapping that im hoping someone will be prepared to answer and lastly, our reliance on foreignma