180 episodes
Business Movers Wondery
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4.6 • 36 Ratings
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Behind every successful business is a story. It starts with a vision and a leap of faith. Along the way, leaders make bold decisions, ride booms and busts, and sometimes, they reach new heights. From Wondery, the makers of the hit series Business Wars, and Lindsay Graham, the host of American History Tellers and American Scandal, comes a weekly podcast that brings you the true stories of the brilliant but all-too-human businesspeople who risked it all. From Walt Disney’s creation of a theme park in Orlando, to the colossal failure of New Coke, Business Movers will explore the triumphs, failures and ideas that transformed our lives.
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Steering Cunard Off the Rocks | Full Head of Steam
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 company goes on to become the Cunard Line. It will carry millions of immigrants to the new world, serve in two world wars, and dominate the transatlantic passenger business - until another new technology emerges to threaten the illustrious company’s future.
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Steering Cunard Off the Rocks | Containing the Comet
Cunard’s business is devastated by the advent of the passenger jet airliner. The company’s unlikely savior is Basil Smallpeice, a senior airline accountant who moves to Cunard in the hopes of rescuing the ship he helped hole beneath the waterline.
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Steering Cunard Off the Rocks | The New Queen
Basil Smallpeice navigates Cunard through a costly strike, while trying to ensure that the company’s new liner is completed on time. On the cargo side of the business, Basil looks for opportunities to expand - and finds them on the other side of the world.
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Steering Cunard Off the Rocks | Bon Voyage
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Cunard’s new luxury liner takes to the seas, but her debut is marred by mechanical troubles. And after working tirelessly to restore Cunard’s profits, Basil Smallpeice is left helpless as a new threat emerges to end Cunard’s independence once and for all. -
Henry Ford’s Paradise Lost | A Man and His Machine
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 the Amazon Rainforest comes with a great many complications.
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Henry Ford’s Paradise Lost | Birth Pains
A series of luckless managers try their best to fulfill Henry Ford’s ambitions for his Brazilian rubber plantation, but deadly diseases and an outbreak of violence in Fordlandia threaten to undo what little has been achieved so far.
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Customer Reviews
Idea for new Series
I like all these business shows it’s very interesting and insightful
How about doing a show of the rise of soccer in the USA from the NEW YORK COSMOS and those famous early teams attracting players like PELE AND BEST to an unknown league and the legacy that those early players and teams left on the AMERICAN Soccer landscape making the USA a top FIFA RANKED TEAM And the womens team being one of the best in the world
Love the show
The amount of lessons learnt from all the scenarios and stories here is priceless.
Great work
Thank you so much for the podcast, its more like free Business Analysis and Consultancy lectures