Spectacular Failures
A podcast by American Public Media
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25 Episodes
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Introducing: Ripple
Published: 1/29/2024 -
Listen to This: The Loudest Girl in the World
Published: 9/12/2022 -
Listen to This: What's Your Problem?
Published: 3/25/2022 -
Sqirl finds itself in a jam
Published: 10/5/2020 -
NYC Taxi Medallions' steep fare
Published: 9/28/2020 -
Subprime times at Countrywide Financial
Published: 9/21/2020 -
Pan Am hits major turbulence
Published: 9/14/2020 -
A dairy giant gets milked
Published: 9/7/2020 -
Napster fought the law and the law won
Published: 8/31/2020 -
The toxic tale of the Love Canal fail
Published: 8/24/2020 -
The curtain falls on a big Broadway company
Published: 8/17/2020 -
Forever 21 goes from rags to riches to bankruptcy court
Published: 8/10/2020 -
Blue Apron wilts, then rises to a new challenge
Published: 8/3/2020 -
Spectacular Failures - Season Two
Published: 7/20/2020 -
Trump's big gamble on Atlantic City
Published: 8/19/2019 -
Toys R Us goes bust
Published: 8/12/2019 -
Lincoln Savings loses it all
Published: 8/5/2019 -
The inferno that transformed American labor
Published: 7/29/2019 -
Family fighting sends U-Haul on a detour
Published: 7/22/2019 -
Kodak misses its moment
Published: 7/15/2019
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.