Business Wars

By Wondery

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What's Business Wars about?

Netflix vs. HBO. Nike vs. Adidas. Business is war. Sometimes the prize is your wallet, or your attention. Sometimes, it’s just the fun of beating the other guy. The outcome of these battles shapes what we buy and how we live.
Business Wars gives you the unauthorized, real story of what drives these companies and their leaders, inventors, investors and executives to new heights -- or to ruin. Hosted by David Brown, former anchor of Marketplace. From Wondery, the network behind Dirty John and American History Tellers.

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Boeing vs. Airbus - The Max...

01.27.2020

For more than 50 years, a version of Boeing's 737 aircraft has sailed the skies, dominating the market for short-range, short-haul domestic planes. The 737 is the best-selling commercial aircraft of all time. But competition in the late 1980s got ...

Business Wars episodes:

01.27.2020 Boeing vs. Airbus - The Max Controversy \| 7 For more than 50 years, a version of Boeing's 737 aircraft has sailed the skies, dominating the market for short-range, short-haul domestic planes. The 737 is the best-selling commercial aircraft of all time. But competition in the late 1980s got ...
01.22.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - Mayday \| 6 It’s 2011 and Airbus and Boeing are battling for the biggest deal in commercial aviation history. American Airlines is looking to buy 460 single-aisle airplanes and with the European jet giant going all out to win the contract, Boeing’s under ...
01.20.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - Losing Altitude \| 5 It’s the 2000s and after years of talk, Airbus is pushing ahead with its plan to build the biggest passenger jet in the world. But while Airbus is thinking bigger, Boeing’s thinking faster. It’s designing a near-supersonic aircraft called the ...
01.15.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - An Unholy Alliance \| 4 It’s the late 1980s and following the A320 crash at the Habsheim Air Show in eastern France, the safety of Airbus’s computerized flight system is being called into question. But Boeing’s got troubles too. Airlines aren’t warming to its latest ...
01.13.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - Air Bandits \| 3 It’s the late 1970s and Airbus is on cloud nine after securing a breakthrough deal with Eastern Airlines. But Boeing’s not taking the consortium’s intrusion into American airspace lightly. And it’s going to use every trick in the book to ...
01.08.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - Cleared for Takeoff \| 2 It’s 1970 and the Boeing 747 is finally airborne. But bringing this behemoth to market has taken Boeing to the edge of collapse. And it will take years of belt-tightening and perseverance to overcome this jumbo hangover. Luckily, the Seattle ...
01.06.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - Get Your Wings \| 1 It’s the 1950s, the dawn of the jet age. And leading the world into this era of faster, less shaky flights is the British-made De Havilland Comet. But when disaster strikes, a hungry American military plane maker called Boeing spots ...
01.01.2020 Ford vs Chevrolet - Technology in the Fast Lane \| 4 It's been a hard fought battle for decades, and in the 1970s there's no signs of Ford or Chevrolet slowing down. But this time they're fighting on new grounds, ones dominated by Japanese cars. Honda, Toyota and Datsun dominate the ...
12.30.2019 Ford vs Chevrolet - Fast and Sexy \| 3 In the 1960s, the biggest generation of Americans of all time are reaching driving age. They want cars, and they want them to be fast and powerful, and they want them now. The best showcase for these cars is by ...
12.25.2019 Ford vs Chevrolet - Detroit Joins the War \| 2 FDR believed that WWII was a contest of mass production. Whoever could build the most trucks, tanks, guns and airplanes would come out on top. What power could defeat the United States of America and its massive automobile industry? But ...
12.23.2019 Ford vs Chevrolet - Tin Lizzie Becomes Roadkill \| 1 In 1896, Henry Ford puttered around Detroit streets testing his “Quadricycle.” This was the whimsical beginning to a revolution that redesigned the landscape of America. Cars changed the way America lived, worked, ate, shopped, and listened to music. And more ...
12.18.2019 Macy’s v Gimbels - Last Store Standing \| 6 It’s the 1960s and as Americans flee cities for the suburbs, Macy’s and Gimbels face tough choices. How do they compete with the rise of discount retailers and the exciting new shopping palaces known as malls? Weakened by industry disruption, ...
12.16.2019 Macy’s vs Gimbels - Wartime Wagers \| 5 In the late 1930s Gimbels makes a risky bet by stockpiling goods likely to be scarce in wartime. They also snap up their rival’s star copywriter, who does the best work of her career at their shop. Their savvy planning ...
12.11.2019 Macy’s vs Gimbels - Diversify or Die \| 4 It’s the 1920s and wealthy flappers and captains of industry have money to burn for raccoon coats and monogrammed sterling silver hip flasks. Gimbels makes a risky acquisition of Saks Fifth Avenue, that ends up floating Gimbels through hard times ...
12.09.2019 Macy’s vs Gimbels - Showdown over Manhattan \| 3 It’s nearing the turn of the 19th century, and the Straus Brothers now run Macy’s emporium out of a dozen cobbled together stores in lower Manhattan. The next generation of Straus’s pressure the old guard to build a huge new ...
12.04.2019 Macy’s vs Gimbels - Fathers, Sons, and Civil War \| 2 As R.H. Macy’s Manhattan emporium and reputation grow during the Civil War, his teenage son rebels and runs away to join the Union army. When the boy goes AWOL, the future of Macy’s burgeoning department store faces jeopardy. But salvation ...
12.02.2019 Macy’s vs Gimbels - The Frontiersman and the Whaler \| 1 It's the mid 1800s and two very different young men set out in the world to make their fortunes. A young boy from Nantucket spends four years at sea on a whaling ship, the other becomes an itinerant peddler in ...
11.27.2019 The Raisin Cartels - Gambling the Future \| 3 In the midst of their heated negotiations over the price of raisins, the CEO of Sun-Maid and the head of the Raisin Bargaining Association face off, each making their pitch about the state of the raisin industry and the road ...
11.25.2019 The Raisin Cartels - A New Sheriff in Raisin Land \| 2 Facing a shrinking raisin market, Sun-Maid hires a new CEO with a mandate to make raisins popular with Millennials. He believes part of the reason consumers are spurning raisins is the price and is set on Sun-Maid paying less money ...
11.20.2019 The Raisin Cartels: A Desperate Brotherhood \| 1 The humble raisin: it’s hard to imagine that dried grapes are at the center of one of the longest running business wars in the United States. But with almost all of the country’s raisins coming from a small area in ...
11.19.2019 Business Wars Goes Global Subscribe today at the links below: - Portuguese - wondery.fm/BWPortuguese - Spanish - wondery.fm/BWSpanish - French - wondery.fm/BWFrench - German - wondery.fm/BWGerman
11.18.2019 Chocolate and Sustainability \| 7 Growing the cocoa needed to produce chocolate on the scale a company like Mars or Hershey needs is an immense undertaking. One serious consequence chocolate producers are now facing is deforestation in countries that grow the cocoa for the world's ...
11.13.2019 Hershey vs Mars - Global Chocolate Domination \| 6 It’s a new century and Hershey’s facing unexpected trouble at home — a showdown between the company and its biggest shareholder that threatens its independence. Meanwhile, Mars is on a mission to become the world’s candy king. And with Hershey ...
11.11.2019 Hershey vs Mars - A Chocolate Rolls Royce \| 5 It’s the late 1970s and Mars is America’s top confectioner. But Hershey is hungry for a comeback. It’s plotting a return to the top powered by a rush of new candies it hopes can nibble away at Mars’ market share. ...
11.06.2019 Hershey vs Mars - Mars Attacks! \| 4 It’s 1965 and Forrest Mars has just become the manufacturer of Snickers and M&M’s. He is now – at last – ready to duke it out with Hershey in a battle to become the number one candy maker in America. ...
11.04.2019 Hershey vs Mars - A Candy-Coated Prayer \| 3 It’s the 1940s and Forrest Mars’ plan to create a candy empire is stepping up a gear. He’s plotting to seize control of his dad’s company Mars and turn it into a Hershey killer. First he needs to get his ...
10.30.2019 Hershey vs Mars - Blast Off \| 2 It’s 1923 and the Hershey Chocolate Company dominates the candy bar business. With its milk chocolate Hershey bar and bite-sized Kisses, Hershey seems impossible to beat. But in a Chicago police station, an awkward father-son reunion is about to sire ...
10.28.2019 Hershey vs Mars - Chocolate Town \| 1 It’s 1886 and in New York City, a young confectioner called Milton Hershey is desperately trying to save his business. He’s been struggling for years. He founded his first candy business in Philadelphia, only to watch it collapse. His second ...
10.23.2019 Facebook vs Snapchat - TikTok, The New Social Media Sensation \| 7 The social media world moves fast, and the next big thing is already upon us. It’s called TikTok. A video-based app where users create short clips to share with the world, TikTok is growing at a rapid rate. The app ...
10.21.2019 Facebook vs Snapchat - Snapchat’s Comeback \| 6 It’s June 2018. Mark Zuckerberg is struggling and morale at the social media giant is low. Facebook has been battered by data breaches and there’s no end in sight. Meanwhile, Evan Spiegel has a chance to turn Snapchat around by ...
10.16.2019 Facebook vs Snapchat - Stock Market Tailspin \| 5 It’s April 2017, and Mark Zuckerberg is issuing a new challenge to Snapchat. By making its face filters open source, the tech giant is coming directly for Snapchat's most popular feature. But founder Evan Spiegel has other things to worry ...
10.14.2019 Facebook vs Snapchat - Facebook Fights Back \| 4 It's September 2015 and Snapchat has just hit on a game-changer for the young company: filters that augment users' faces. Thanks to some celebrity love, the new feature becomes wildly popular. But Mark Zuckerberg is watching closely, and acquires a ...
10.09.2019 Facebook vs Snapchat - The Offer \| 3 It’s November 2013, and Mark Zuckerberg is about to make Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy an offer he thinks they can't refuse. But when Spiegel and Murphy do the unimaginable, it prompts Facebook to compete — by copying. Snapchat is ...
10.07.2019 Facebook vs Snapchat - Children of Privilege \| 2 It's the new millennium and Mark Zuckerberg is bored in high school. He's a prodigious student so smart he's already taking graduate level coding classes at Mercy College. Soon, he's going to build a product that will change the Internet ...
10.02.2019 Facebook vs Snapchat - Vanishing Act \| 1 It’s April 2011, and Evan Spiegel is about to present his class project. Right now, it's called Picaboo. Soon, it's going to become Snapchat. But for Spiegel, this is more important than grades--at stake are potential investors and the future ...
09.30.2019 WWF vs WCW - The Future of Pro Wrestling \| 7 World Wrestling Entertainment is the dominant name in professional wrestling but new promotions are now challenging the WWE’s dominance. We conclude our series on WWF vs WCW with David Shoemaker, author of The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling. ...
09.25.2019 WWF vs WCW - Down for the Count \| 6 It’s 1998 and the slugfest between Vince McMahon’s WWF and Ted Turner’s WCW is reaching a critical juncture. McMahon’s on a mission to pull wrestling fans back to his TV shows with a strategy focused on maximum controversy. And to ...
09.23.2019 WWF vs WCW - Shock Tactics \| 5 It’s 1996 and with Monday Nitro topping the TV ratings, WCW is out to end WWF’s time as the biggest player in the wrestling business. It’s plotting to establish two brands: one that WCW boss Eric Bischoff hopes can suck ...
09.18.2019 WWF vs WCW - New World Order \| 4 It’s 1995 and the Monday Night Wars are underway. WCW’s new show Monday Nitro is grappling with the WWF’s Monday Night Raw to win TV viewers’ attention. WCW isn’t pulling its punches either. Under the command of Eric Bischoff, WCW ...
09.16.2019 WWF vs WCW - Prime Time \| 3 It’s 1994 and WCW is stepping up its game. To get the jump on WWF, Ted Turner is writing big checks to steal away the WWF’s biggest stars and sponsors. And as WCW’s star power increases, so does its popularity ...
09.11.2019 WWF vs WCW - Bulking Up \| 2 It’s the dawn of the 1990s and Vince McMahon’s WWF is the king of wrestling. But trouble’s brewing: a steroids scandal is about to deal a body blow to the WWF and its family-friendly reputation. The scandal will leave WWF ...
09.09.2019 WWF vs WCW - Titan Rising \| 1 It’s the early 1980s and there’s peace in the wrestling business. For years regional wrestling companies have maintained order by sticking to their own slices of US and Canadian territory. But that’s all about to change. Vince McMahon has just ...
09.04.2019 Electric Bikes \| 7 Harley Davidson built its brand on big, loud and heavy bikes. So why is the company staking its future on an electric motorcycle? It turns out Harley's main demographic, baby boomers, are aging out of the motorcycle scene and the ...
09.02.2019 Harley and the Biker Wars - Live to Ride \| 6 By the early 1980s, Harley-Davidson is fighting to survive. Japan has glutted the American market with bikes, creating a war Harley can’t fight alone. The company turns to the U.S. government. It’s something they tried in the ‘50s with no ...
08.28.2019 Harley and the Biker Wars - The Freedom Machine \| 5 It’s 1969, and the iconic film Easy Rider stars Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson and—most prominently—Harley choppers. It boosts the brand’s cool cred even higher with the American counterculture, much to the chagrin of the aging, conservative company owners in Milwaukee. ...
08.26.2019 Harley and the Biker Wars - Japan Takes No Prisoners \| 4 It’s 1963. After battling the wave of British bikes vying for the high-dollar U.S. motorcycle market, Harley-Davidson is slammed by a tsunami of machines from Japan. Kawasaki, Yamaha, Suzuki and—the biggest, most popular of them all—Honda. It’s a nightmare that ...
08.21.2019 Harley and the Biker Wars - Uneasy Riders \| 3 By the late 1940s, World War II has ended, but Harley’s battle with a few disenfranchised veterans is just beginning. Bored and looking for kicks, these men are forming clubs based around a love of boozing, brawling and Harley Hogs. ...
08.19.2019 Harley and the Biker Wars - The Hog Is Born \| 2 It’s 1903, and Harley-Davidson is entering the spanking new motorcycle market. Of the hundreds of fledgling brands, the bike to beat is Indian, and Harley has the company in its crosshairs. But a decade later, Harley is on the defensive, ...
08.14.2019 Harley and the Biker Wars - The British Invaders \| 1 By the late 1940s, Harley-Davidson has become America’s leading motorcycle manufacturer. The family-owned Milwaukee brand has battled hundreds of companies since its first bike rolled out of a backyard shack in 1903. Now they’re facing the birth of the outlaw ...
08.12.2019 The Latest from Business Wars Daily \| 1 A shakeup in the maple syrup industry. The slowest pizza delivery in the world. Pet food companies cashing in on your love for Fido. On our sister show Business Wars Daily, we bring you breaking news about the business rivalries ...

Older episodes

01.27.2020 Boeing vs. Airbus - The Max Controversy \| 7 For more than 50 years, a version of Boeing's 737 aircraft has sailed the skies, dominating the market for short-range, short-haul domestic planes. The 737 is the best-selling commercial aircraft of all time. But competition in the late 1980s got ...
01.22.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - Mayday \| 6 It’s 2011 and Airbus and Boeing are battling for the biggest deal in commercial aviation history. American Airlines is looking to buy 460 single-aisle airplanes and with the European jet giant going all out to win the contract, Boeing’s under ...
01.20.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - Losing Altitude \| 5 It’s the 2000s and after years of talk, Airbus is pushing ahead with its plan to build the biggest passenger jet in the world. But while Airbus is thinking bigger, Boeing’s thinking faster. It’s designing a near-supersonic aircraft called the ...
01.15.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - An Unholy Alliance \| 4 It’s the late 1980s and following the A320 crash at the Habsheim Air Show in eastern France, the safety of Airbus’s computerized flight system is being called into question. But Boeing’s got troubles too. Airlines aren’t warming to its latest ...
01.13.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - Air Bandits \| 3 It’s the late 1970s and Airbus is on cloud nine after securing a breakthrough deal with Eastern Airlines. But Boeing’s not taking the consortium’s intrusion into American airspace lightly. And it’s going to use every trick in the book to ...
01.08.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - Cleared for Takeoff \| 2 It’s 1970 and the Boeing 747 is finally airborne. But bringing this behemoth to market has taken Boeing to the edge of collapse. And it will take years of belt-tightening and perseverance to overcome this jumbo hangover. Luckily, the Seattle ...
01.06.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - Get Your Wings \| 1 It’s the 1950s, the dawn of the jet age. And leading the world into this era of faster, less shaky flights is the British-made De Havilland Comet. But when disaster strikes, a hungry American military plane maker called Boeing spots ...
01.01.2020 Ford vs Chevrolet - Technology in the Fast Lane \| 4 It's been a hard fought battle for decades, and in the 1970s there's no signs of Ford or Chevrolet slowing down. But this time they're fighting on new grounds, ones dominated by Japanese cars. Honda, Toyota and Datsun dominate the ...
12.30.2019 Ford vs Chevrolet - Fast and Sexy \| 3 In the 1960s, the biggest generation of Americans of all time are reaching driving age. They want cars, and they want them to be fast and powerful, and they want them now. The best showcase for these cars is by ...
12.25.2019 Ford vs Chevrolet - Detroit Joins the War \| 2 FDR believed that WWII was a contest of mass production. Whoever could build the most trucks, tanks, guns and airplanes would come out on top. What power could defeat the United States of America and its massive automobile industry? But ...
12.23.2019 Ford vs Chevrolet - Tin Lizzie Becomes Roadkill \| 1 In 1896, Henry Ford puttered around Detroit streets testing his “Quadricycle.” This was the whimsical beginning to a revolution that redesigned the landscape of America. Cars changed the way America lived, worked, ate, shopped, and listened to music. And more ...
12.18.2019 Macy’s v Gimbels - Last Store Standing \| 6 It’s the 1960s and as Americans flee cities for the suburbs, Macy’s and Gimbels face tough choices. How do they compete with the rise of discount retailers and the exciting new shopping palaces known as malls? Weakened by industry disruption, ...
12.16.2019 Macy’s vs Gimbels - Wartime Wagers \| 5 In the late 1930s Gimbels makes a risky bet by stockpiling goods likely to be scarce in wartime. They also snap up their rival’s star copywriter, who does the best work of her career at their shop. Their savvy planning ...
12.11.2019 Macy’s vs Gimbels - Diversify or Die \| 4 It’s the 1920s and wealthy flappers and captains of industry have money to burn for raccoon coats and monogrammed sterling silver hip flasks. Gimbels makes a risky acquisition of Saks Fifth Avenue, that ends up floating Gimbels through hard times ...
12.09.2019 Macy’s vs Gimbels - Showdown over Manhattan \| 3 It’s nearing the turn of the 19th century, and the Straus Brothers now run Macy’s emporium out of a dozen cobbled together stores in lower Manhattan. The next generation of Straus’s pressure the old guard to build a huge new ...
12.04.2019 Macy’s vs Gimbels - Fathers, Sons, and Civil War \| 2 As R.H. Macy’s Manhattan emporium and reputation grow during the Civil War, his teenage son rebels and runs away to join the Union army. When the boy goes AWOL, the future of Macy’s burgeoning department store faces jeopardy. But salvation ...
12.02.2019 Macy’s vs Gimbels - The Frontiersman and the Whaler \| 1 It's the mid 1800s and two very different young men set out in the world to make their fortunes. A young boy from Nantucket spends four years at sea on a whaling ship, the other becomes an itinerant peddler in ...
11.27.2019 The Raisin Cartels - Gambling the Future \| 3 In the midst of their heated negotiations over the price of raisins, the CEO of Sun-Maid and the head of the Raisin Bargaining Association face off, each making their pitch about the state of the raisin industry and the road ...
11.25.2019 The Raisin Cartels - A New Sheriff in Raisin Land \| 2 Facing a shrinking raisin market, Sun-Maid hires a new CEO with a mandate to make raisins popular with Millennials. He believes part of the reason consumers are spurning raisins is the price and is set on Sun-Maid paying less money ...
11.20.2019 The Raisin Cartels: A Desperate Brotherhood \| 1 The humble raisin: it’s hard to imagine that dried grapes are at the center of one of the longest running business wars in the United States. But with almost all of the country’s raisins coming from a small area in ...
11.19.2019 Business Wars Goes Global Subscribe today at the links below: - Portuguese - wondery.fm/BWPortuguese - Spanish - wondery.fm/BWSpanish - French - wondery.fm/BWFrench - German - wondery.fm/BWGerman
11.18.2019 Chocolate and Sustainability \| 7 Growing the cocoa needed to produce chocolate on the scale a company like Mars or Hershey needs is an immense undertaking. One serious consequence chocolate producers are now facing is deforestation in countries that grow the cocoa for the world's ...
11.13.2019 Hershey vs Mars - Global Chocolate Domination \| 6 It’s a new century and Hershey’s facing unexpected trouble at home — a showdown between the company and its biggest shareholder that threatens its independence. Meanwhile, Mars is on a mission to become the world’s candy king. And with Hershey ...
11.11.2019 Hershey vs Mars - A Chocolate Rolls Royce \| 5 It’s the late 1970s and Mars is America’s top confectioner. But Hershey is hungry for a comeback. It’s plotting a return to the top powered by a rush of new candies it hopes can nibble away at Mars’ market share. ...
11.06.2019 Hershey vs Mars - Mars Attacks! \| 4 It’s 1965 and Forrest Mars has just become the manufacturer of Snickers and M&M’s. He is now – at last – ready to duke it out with Hershey in a battle to become the number one candy maker in America. ...
11.04.2019 Hershey vs Mars - A Candy-Coated Prayer \| 3 It’s the 1940s and Forrest Mars’ plan to create a candy empire is stepping up a gear. He’s plotting to seize control of his dad’s company Mars and turn it into a Hershey killer. First he needs to get his ...
10.30.2019 Hershey vs Mars - Blast Off \| 2 It’s 1923 and the Hershey Chocolate Company dominates the candy bar business. With its milk chocolate Hershey bar and bite-sized Kisses, Hershey seems impossible to beat. But in a Chicago police station, an awkward father-son reunion is about to sire ...
10.28.2019 Hershey vs Mars - Chocolate Town \| 1 It’s 1886 and in New York City, a young confectioner called Milton Hershey is desperately trying to save his business. He’s been struggling for years. He founded his first candy business in Philadelphia, only to watch it collapse. His second ...
10.23.2019 Facebook vs Snapchat - TikTok, The New Social Media Sensation \| 7 The social media world moves fast, and the next big thing is already upon us. It’s called TikTok. A video-based app where users create short clips to share with the world, TikTok is growing at a rapid rate. The app ...
10.21.2019 Facebook vs Snapchat - Snapchat’s Comeback \| 6 It’s June 2018. Mark Zuckerberg is struggling and morale at the social media giant is low. Facebook has been battered by data breaches and there’s no end in sight. Meanwhile, Evan Spiegel has a chance to turn Snapchat around by ...
10.16.2019 Facebook vs Snapchat - Stock Market Tailspin \| 5 It’s April 2017, and Mark Zuckerberg is issuing a new challenge to Snapchat. By making its face filters open source, the tech giant is coming directly for Snapchat's most popular feature. But founder Evan Spiegel has other things to worry ...
10.14.2019 Facebook vs Snapchat - Facebook Fights Back \| 4 It's September 2015 and Snapchat has just hit on a game-changer for the young company: filters that augment users' faces. Thanks to some celebrity love, the new feature becomes wildly popular. But Mark Zuckerberg is watching closely, and acquires a ...
10.09.2019 Facebook vs Snapchat - The Offer \| 3 It’s November 2013, and Mark Zuckerberg is about to make Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy an offer he thinks they can't refuse. But when Spiegel and Murphy do the unimaginable, it prompts Facebook to compete — by copying. Snapchat is ...
10.07.2019 Facebook vs Snapchat - Children of Privilege \| 2 It's the new millennium and Mark Zuckerberg is bored in high school. He's a prodigious student so smart he's already taking graduate level coding classes at Mercy College. Soon, he's going to build a product that will change the Internet ...
10.02.2019 Facebook vs Snapchat - Vanishing Act \| 1 It’s April 2011, and Evan Spiegel is about to present his class project. Right now, it's called Picaboo. Soon, it's going to become Snapchat. But for Spiegel, this is more important than grades--at stake are potential investors and the future ...
09.30.2019 WWF vs WCW - The Future of Pro Wrestling \| 7 World Wrestling Entertainment is the dominant name in professional wrestling but new promotions are now challenging the WWE’s dominance. We conclude our series on WWF vs WCW with David Shoemaker, author of The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling. ...
09.25.2019 WWF vs WCW - Down for the Count \| 6 It’s 1998 and the slugfest between Vince McMahon’s WWF and Ted Turner’s WCW is reaching a critical juncture. McMahon’s on a mission to pull wrestling fans back to his TV shows with a strategy focused on maximum controversy. And to ...
09.23.2019 WWF vs WCW - Shock Tactics \| 5 It’s 1996 and with Monday Nitro topping the TV ratings, WCW is out to end WWF’s time as the biggest player in the wrestling business. It’s plotting to establish two brands: one that WCW boss Eric Bischoff hopes can suck ...
09.18.2019 WWF vs WCW - New World Order \| 4 It’s 1995 and the Monday Night Wars are underway. WCW’s new show Monday Nitro is grappling with the WWF’s Monday Night Raw to win TV viewers’ attention. WCW isn’t pulling its punches either. Under the command of Eric Bischoff, WCW ...
09.16.2019 WWF vs WCW - Prime Time \| 3 It’s 1994 and WCW is stepping up its game. To get the jump on WWF, Ted Turner is writing big checks to steal away the WWF’s biggest stars and sponsors. And as WCW’s star power increases, so does its popularity ...
09.11.2019 WWF vs WCW - Bulking Up \| 2 It’s the dawn of the 1990s and Vince McMahon’s WWF is the king of wrestling. But trouble’s brewing: a steroids scandal is about to deal a body blow to the WWF and its family-friendly reputation. The scandal will leave WWF ...
09.09.2019 WWF vs WCW - Titan Rising \| 1 It’s the early 1980s and there’s peace in the wrestling business. For years regional wrestling companies have maintained order by sticking to their own slices of US and Canadian territory. But that’s all about to change. Vince McMahon has just ...
09.04.2019 Electric Bikes \| 7 Harley Davidson built its brand on big, loud and heavy bikes. So why is the company staking its future on an electric motorcycle? It turns out Harley's main demographic, baby boomers, are aging out of the motorcycle scene and the ...
09.02.2019 Harley and the Biker Wars - Live to Ride \| 6 By the early 1980s, Harley-Davidson is fighting to survive. Japan has glutted the American market with bikes, creating a war Harley can’t fight alone. The company turns to the U.S. government. It’s something they tried in the ‘50s with no ...
08.28.2019 Harley and the Biker Wars - The Freedom Machine \| 5 It’s 1969, and the iconic film Easy Rider stars Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson and—most prominently—Harley choppers. It boosts the brand’s cool cred even higher with the American counterculture, much to the chagrin of the aging, conservative company owners in Milwaukee. ...
08.26.2019 Harley and the Biker Wars - Japan Takes No Prisoners \| 4 It’s 1963. After battling the wave of British bikes vying for the high-dollar U.S. motorcycle market, Harley-Davidson is slammed by a tsunami of machines from Japan. Kawasaki, Yamaha, Suzuki and—the biggest, most popular of them all—Honda. It’s a nightmare that ...
08.21.2019 Harley and the Biker Wars - Uneasy Riders \| 3 By the late 1940s, World War II has ended, but Harley’s battle with a few disenfranchised veterans is just beginning. Bored and looking for kicks, these men are forming clubs based around a love of boozing, brawling and Harley Hogs. ...
08.19.2019 Harley and the Biker Wars - The Hog Is Born \| 2 It’s 1903, and Harley-Davidson is entering the spanking new motorcycle market. Of the hundreds of fledgling brands, the bike to beat is Indian, and Harley has the company in its crosshairs. But a decade later, Harley is on the defensive, ...
08.14.2019 Harley and the Biker Wars - The British Invaders \| 1 By the late 1940s, Harley-Davidson has become America’s leading motorcycle manufacturer. The family-owned Milwaukee brand has battled hundreds of companies since its first bike rolled out of a backyard shack in 1903. Now they’re facing the birth of the outlaw ...
08.12.2019 The Latest from Business Wars Daily \| 1 A shakeup in the maple syrup industry. The slowest pizza delivery in the world. Pet food companies cashing in on your love for Fido. On our sister show Business Wars Daily, we bring you breaking news about the business rivalries ...

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Boeing vs. Airbus - The Max Controversy | 7

Boeing vs Airbus - Mayday | 6

Boeing vs Airbus - Losing Altitude | 5

Boeing vs Airbus - An Unholy Alliance | 4

Boeing vs Airbus - Air Bandits | 3

Boeing vs Airbus - Cleared for Takeoff | 2

Boeing vs Airbus - Get Your Wings | 1

Ford vs Chevrolet - Technology in the Fast Lane | 4

Ford vs Chevrolet - Fast and Sexy | 3

Ford vs Chevrolet - Detroit Joins the War | 2

Ford vs Chevrolet - Tin Lizzie Becomes Roadkill | 1

Macy’s v Gimbels - Last Store Standing | 6

Macy’s vs Gimbels - Wartime Wagers | 5

Macy’s vs Gimbels - Diversify or Die | 4

Macy’s vs Gimbels - Showdown over Manhattan | 3

Macy’s vs Gimbels - Fathers, Sons, and Civil War | 2

Macy’s vs Gimbels - The Frontiersman and the Whaler | 1

The Raisin Cartels - Gambling the Future | 3

The Raisin Cartels - A New Sheriff in Raisin Land | 2

The Raisin Cartels: A Desperate Brotherhood | 1

Business Wars Goes Global

Chocolate and Sustainability | 7

Hershey vs Mars - Global Chocolate Domination | 6

Hershey vs Mars - A Chocolate Rolls Royce | 5

Hershey vs Mars - Mars Attacks! | 4

Hershey vs Mars - A Candy-Coated Prayer | 3

Hershey vs Mars - Blast Off | 2

Hershey vs Mars - Chocolate Town | 1

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