I hope youse guys don't mind me cutting in for just a second but, to clarify things (I hope), what professor Sylvester was referring to (I think) is a movie produced by CRM/McGraw-Hill back in 1972 that had B.F. Skinner discussing how to use reinforcement techniques to improve business operations. Originally on film, it was converted to VHS and various colleges/universities have one or the other format, for example, the University of Alaska at Anchorage: http://lrc.uaa.alaska.edu/media/details.php?catalogID=090586 and the SWON libraries; see: http://www.swonlibraries.org/media-catalog?a=displayrecord&recnum=521&start=1&searchterm=Business%20and%20Management&searchfield=subject&recsperscreen=25&subjectid=28&browse=subject&boolean= IMDB.com does not have an entry for this movie but does lists other films that McGraw-Hill has put out over the decades: (1) McGraw-Hill Films: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0078911/ (2) McGraw-Hill Pictures: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0047468/ (3) McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc (has the largest list of films) http://www.imdb.com/company/co0058931/
The British Film Institute (BFI) does have a brief, uninformative entry: http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/158450 Examination of the audio-visual holdings of a couple of colleges indicate that circa 1972 McGraw-Hill produced several films about Skinner. The Northern Arizona University lists three: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/asian-p/Jordan-v.re.html CALL # C162. TITLE Business, behaviorism, and the bottom line. [Motion picture] PUBLISHER CRM Productions, 1972. CALL # B252. TITLE A conversation with B. F. Skinner. [Motion picture] / CRM Productions. PUBLISHER New York : McGraw-Hill Films, 1972. CALL # VT 4145. TITLE A conversation with B. F. Skinner [videorecording] / featuring Elizabeth Hall. PUBLISHER New York : McGraw-Hill Films ; [Beverly Hills, CA] : CRM Films, 1972. The B.F. Skinner foundation website is putting up digitalized copies of some of the films that involve Skinner or his research but it does not have the Biz/BFS/Bottom Line film (one can always ask the foundation if they're going to digitalize it); see: http://www.bfskinner.org/BFSkinner/Videos.html Finally, there is a snippet from the film on YouTube but the person who put it up describes the film in Spanish. I haven't watched the snippet but you can access it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utSozoWdF3M I'm now going back to the Yankees-Mariners baseball game. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] On Sun, 29 May 2011 12:40:21 -0700, Paul Brandon wrote: >Show me the piece. On May 22, 2011, at 7:10 PM, michael sylvester wrote: > I once saw a piece with the above title.Given the shaky business practices > today,would this piece still be relevant today? The only reinforcement during > the financial crisis would seem to have been self-reinforcement.What say yee > Paul Brandon? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=10772 or send a blank email to leave-10772-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
