GSK: Dried Baby Milk, Beecham's Pills and a $3 Billion Fraud Plea
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!GSK's family tree starts with Joseph Nathan, who founded a trading company in Wellington, New Ze...
21 Okt 24min
Avis Budget Group: Zipcar, a Meme Stock Squeeze and a $995 Million Loss
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Avis Budget Group was spun out of the Cendant conglomerate in 2006 and grew into one of the big ...
21 Okt 20min
Arby's: The Raffel Brothers' 69-Cent Gamble, Bankruptcy and Elk Sandwiches
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Arby's stands for the initials of Forrest and Leroy Raffel, restaurant equipment suppliers who s...
21 Okt 21min
Amgen: Epogen, a Kirin Brewery Deal and the Undruggable KRAS Target
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Amgen started in 1980 in Thousand Oaks, California, as Applied Molecular Genetics, backed by ven...
21 Okt 16min
Amar Bose: The 901 Speaker, a Jumping Car and a Gift of Shares to MIT
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1956, MIT engineer Amar Bose bought the audio system with the best published specifications a...
21 Okt 20min
Airstream: The Only Survivor of 400 Builders and an Apollo 11 Quarantine
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Wally Byam started out building heavy masonite trailers in his Los Angeles backyard in the late ...
21 Okt 24min
AT&T: How Southwestern Bell Swallowed Its Parent and Bought Time Warner
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876, but businessman Theodore Vail built the em...
21 Okt 22min
AIM-120 AMRAAM: How the Fox 3 Missile Hunts, Misses and Sometimes Strays
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The AIM-120 AMRAAM grew out of a lethal problem exposed in the ACEVAL-AIMVAL evaluations at Nell...
21 Okt 18min
