Leveling Up Nintendo | Jumpman | 1
Nintendo launches an American subsidiary, but the company struggles until it releases an innovative platform game that introduces the world to an iconic new hero.Need more Business Movers? With Wonder...
30 Mai 202436min
Steering Cunard Off the Rocks | Full Head of Steam | 1
In the 19th Century, Samuel Cunard wins a contract to deliver mail from Britain to North America by steamship - a new technology that will make transatlantic travel faster than ever before. His compan...
25 Apr 202438min
Henry Ford’s Paradise Lost | A Man and His Machine | 1
Industrialist Henry Ford looks for a new way to supply his factories with rubber without having to pay the prices dictated by the global market. But his decision to build a rubber plantation deep in t...
21 Mar 202435min
Pepsi: Doing Good Business | Special Markets | 1
In 1940, Pepsi President Walter Mack makes headlines by hiring a team of Black salesmen to target African American customers in a new “special markets” division. The pioneering sales team ventures int...
15 Feb 202436min
Hatching Penguin | Paperback Pioneer | 1
To save the publishing company he inherited from his uncle, British publisher Allen Lane launches a radical new line of paperback books – but finds it’s a tall order to get a resistant industry to emb...
11 Jan 202433min
Colonel Santa Claus | How KFC Conquered Japan | 1
Young businessman Takeshi “Shin” Okawara takes the gamble of a lifetime when he leaves a secure job to become the manager of one of the first KFCs in Japan. The bold step looks to be failing, until Sh...
28 Des 202334min
Making Macy's | If at First You Don't Succeed | 1
After a series of failed enterprises in California and Massachusetts, Rowland Macy launches his latest retail store in New York – in the fast-growing metropolis he finds not only success at last, but ...
23 Nov 202334min
Milton Hershey: The Lord of Chocolate | Sweet Success | 1
After two failed candy businesses, the confectioner Milton Hershey discovers a new recipe for making caramels and starts the Lancaster Caramel Company. The business makes him a millionaire, but he qui...
19 Okt 202337min
