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American Public Media, in partnership with Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, will launch _Spectacular Failure_s – a new business podcast about the greatest corporate catastrophes – on June 17.
Listen to the trailer here.
In Spectacular Failures, host Lauren Ober, award-winning creator of WAMU and NPR’s The Big Listen, and producer Whitney Jones, creator of the critically-acclaimed music podcast Pitch, dig into the causes of some of the biggest business blunders and breakdowns.
In this 10-episode season, listeners get a front row seat to the mishandled launch of MoviePass, the criminal collapse of televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Heritage USA, and Kodak’s not so picture-perfect descent into obsolescence, as well as many other stories of spectacular failures