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Jacob Goldstein spent more than a decade as co-host of the Planet Money podcast. He's also the author of the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing, which the New…
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In 1999, Jack Welch was named “Manager of the Century”. As CEO of General Electric for 20 years, Welch transformed the conglomerate and made it the biggest company in the world. Nicknamed “Neutron Jack”, he closed down big chunks of old GE and set up new ventures… including GE Capital – which operated more like a bank than the wing of a manufacturing giant.
Under the leadership of “Neutron Jack”, General Electric was consistently profitable and seemed to be a safe investment… but in fact the company was headed for disaster.
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Robert Smith, co-host of the Business History podcast, is a Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and contributing host of NPR's Planet Money where he tells stories about how the…
