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The Fall of General Electric

'Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric

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10.44 3 Dec 2021


The Fall of General Electric



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10.44 3 Dec 2021


General Electric entered the twenty-first century as America’s most valuable corporation and was for several decades lauded as the epitome of the American dream.

So how then, just 20 years later, did one of the most robust bulwarks of American industry collapse?

Mandy is joined by Thomas Gryta, Wall Street Journal reporter and co-author of 'Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric' to discuss.

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