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From SNAFU with Ed Helms: Adam Grant and The OG Ponzi Scheme
Apr 01, 2026Hello Business History listeners! We'd like to share an episode from a show you might enjoy. SNAFU with Ed Helms, now in its fourth season, dives into the world’s greatest blunders, the jaw-dropping f...
Betting on Taylor Swift or Who'll Be Made Pope: The Past and Present of Prediction Markets
Mar 25, 2026A live mash-up between Business History and Bloomberg's Everybody's Business. On platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket you can bet on just about anything - from Taylor Swift's album sales to whether P...
Bowie, McCartney & Michael Jackson: How Songwriters Learned to Play Hardball
Mar 18, 2026Once if you wrote a hit song there was no guarantee it would make you rich. So songwriters formed a cartel - the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. ASCAP started suing concert hall...
How GM Beat Ford
Mar 11, 2026Ford was the pre-eminent American car maker and Henry Ford was the king of modern manufacturing, until a Michigan cigar salesman decided to consolidate a bunch of small auto companies into a single fi...
Henry Ford Invented the Modern World... Then Got Left Behind
Mar 04, 2026Farm boy Henry Ford hated toil. If only someone could invent ways to work more efficiently, as well as cheap, reliable machines to take some of the strain. Ford was a tinkerer and a lover of the newly...
War, Exploration and Beer: How the Tin Can Changed the World
Feb 25, 2026Old-fashioned ways of preserving food made for salty, vinegary or chewy meals - but it was often a choice between that or starving. Soldiers, explorers and ordinary people alike faced malnutrition and...
The War on The A&P: When America Decided Cheap Groceries Were "Evil"
Feb 18, 2026Mom and Pops grocery stores were charming, but inefficient. They contributed to Americans either spending a lot on their food or having to go hungry. The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company changed...
When E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Tanked Atari
Feb 11, 2026Nolan Bushnell loved weed, hot tubs and games... especially games. He took computer games out of the laboratory and put them in bars. His arcade game Pong was a monster hit, so he set up Atari to buil...
How a Bad Boss Kickstarted Silicon Valley
Feb 04, 2026William Shockley was an electronics genius - he even won a Nobel Prize - but he was an awful boss. Shockley was a cruel, paranoid micromanager. And this annoyed the staff of brilliant young engineers ...
Sears: Cocaine Wine, Shotguns, and the World’s Tallest Tower
Jan 28, 2026Richard Warren Sears started off selling pocket watches - then published a catalog full of hundreds and hundreds of products from shotguns to cocaine wine. Sears & Roebuck offered even Americans livin...