Company profile: Corning
Economist Podcasts23 Kesä 2025

Company profile: Corning

The picturesque town of Corning in upstate New York doesn’t look like the site of bleeding-edge innovation. But inventions by a 174-year-old glass company there have changed the modern world, thanks in part to some blunt advice from Steve Jobs.


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