Detroit's Chapter 9: Pensions, the DIA Art Collection and the Grand Bargain
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Detroit's population fell from about 1.8 million in 1950 to roughly 700,000 in 2013, while the c...
18 Okt 19min
Dennis Kozlowski and Tyco: 3,000 Acquisitions, $150 Million and Prison
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Tyco was founded in 1960 by Arthur J. Rosenberg as a research and materials firm. After Dennis K...
18 Okt 18min
John DeLorean: Belfast's Stainless Steel Factory and an FBI Cocaine Sting
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John DeLorean left General Motors in 1973 and founded the DeLorean Motor Company in 1975, raisin...
18 Okt 21min
Digital Equipment Corporation: PDP and VAX Pioneer That Dismissed the PC
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson watched students line up for 15-minut...
18 Okt 25min
Credit Suisse: Alpine Railways, Archegos and the $17 Billion AT1 Wipeout
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Alfred Escher founded the bank in 1856 to fund Swiss railways with domestic money rather than Fr...
18 Okt 21min
Conduit and Sink OFCs: How the Netherlands and Ireland Route Offshore Money
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!An offshore financial center, by the IMF's definition, is about who uses it, not where it sits: ...
18 Okt 24min
Compaq: A House of Pies Placemat, Rod Canion's Ouster and the HP Merger
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1982 Texas Instruments managers Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto sketched a portable com...
18 Okt 21min
Colonel Harlan Sanders: A Pressure Fryer, a Utah Diner and KFC at 65
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Harlan Sanders was born in 1890 near Henryville, Indiana, lost his father at five and was cookin...
18 Okt 21min
