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Stuff You Missed in Business Class

Stuff You Missed in Business Class

De : Nathan Pali
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Stuff You Missed in Business Class is a business and history podcast about the real lessons they don’t teach in school.

While business classes focus on case studies with clean endings and heroic CEOs, this podcast digs into the messy reality of leadership, bad management, and disastrous business decisions that shaped companies, industries, and entire economies.

Each episode explores real historical cases of business failures, leadership mistakes, corporate collapse, and decision-making under pressure. From bankrupt empires and toxic CEOs to failed strategies and organizational dysfunction, the show breaks down what actually went wrong—and why it made sense to the people making the decisions at the time.

This isn’t a podcast about hustle culture, productivity hacks, or inspirational business stories. It’s a narrative-driven look at business history, management failure, power dynamics, and the uncomfortable truth that most business disasters start with reasonable-sounding ideas.

If you’re interested in business lessons, leadership history, management mistakes, corporate scandals, organizational failure, and understanding how smart people keep making the same bad decisions—this podcast is for you.

Stuff You Missed in Business Class Because real business lessons are written in failures, not slideshows.

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    • Frobisher's Fool's Gold Fiasco
      Feb 22 2026

      In this episode, we explore the incredible true story of Martin Frobisher's expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage and gold for the English crown. We learn how faulty leadership and a desperate desire for wealth led to three massive expeditions that mined 1,100 tons of worthless rock.

      Chapters

      00:00 The Quest for Riches

      02:02 A Miraculous Black Rock

      04:52 Nature Needs Encouragement

      08:55 The Largest Arctic Expedition

      12:00 The Aftermath and Lessons

      17:38 Avoiding Sunk Cost

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      12 min
    • Why Calm Leaders Sometimes Create Chaos
      Jan 19 2026

      James Buchanan valued calm, order, and restraint above all else. In this episode, we explore how those virtues—when applied without courage—can accelerate instability and empower the very forces they’re meant to contain.

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      10 min
    • The Ford Edsel: A $2.5 Billion Failure
      Feb 21 2026

      In this episode, we explore the epic failure of the Ford Edsel, a car designed by committee and data that became an infamous flop. We discuss how overwhelming data, a lack of common sense, and market misjudgment led to one of history's most expensive product failures.

      Chapters

      00:00 The Birth of the E-Car

      00:17 The Edsel Story Begins

      03:14 The Whiz Kids and Poor Design

      07:21 Assembly Line Chaos and Mechanical Failures

      10:12 Market Misjudgment and Sales Failure

      15:03 Lessons from the Edsel Debacle

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      12 min
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