Spectacular Failures

A podcast by American Public Media

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25 Episodes

  1. Introducing: Ripple

    Published: 1/29/2024
  2. Listen to This: The Loudest Girl in the World

    Published: 9/12/2022
  3. Listen to This: What's Your Problem?

    Published: 3/25/2022
  4. Sqirl finds itself in a jam

    Published: 10/5/2020
  5. NYC Taxi Medallions' steep fare

    Published: 9/28/2020
  6. Subprime times at Countrywide Financial

    Published: 9/21/2020
  7. Pan Am hits major turbulence

    Published: 9/14/2020
  8. A dairy giant gets milked

    Published: 9/7/2020
  9. Napster fought the law and the law won

    Published: 8/31/2020
  10. The toxic tale of the Love Canal fail

    Published: 8/24/2020
  11. The curtain falls on a big Broadway company

    Published: 8/17/2020
  12. Forever 21 goes from rags to riches to bankruptcy court

    Published: 8/10/2020
  13. Blue Apron wilts, then rises to a new challenge

    Published: 8/3/2020
  14. Spectacular Failures - Season Two

    Published: 7/20/2020
  15. Trump's big gamble on Atlantic City

    Published: 8/19/2019
  16. Toys R Us goes bust

    Published: 8/12/2019
  17. Lincoln Savings loses it all

    Published: 8/5/2019
  18. The inferno that transformed American labor

    Published: 7/29/2019
  19. Family fighting sends U-Haul on a detour

    Published: 7/22/2019
  20. Kodak misses its moment

    Published: 7/15/2019

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Corporate crookedness. Family feuding. Hilariously half-baked decisions. Host Lauren Ober tackles some of the most spectacular business failures of all time, and what could have been done to avoid them. Some of these stories are shocking. Some are funny. Some are just downright sad. But each one will give you a totally new perspective on big business… and big failure. From American Public Media.