A Long Time In Finance

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City Editors #NeilCollins & #JonathanFord @grepsul (ex Telegraph/FT) tackle the big financial issues in a sharp weekly pod sponsored by Briefcase.News

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A Long Time In Finance @ALTIFpodcast Jul 8

Listen up, the second part of this epic piece of industrial history is here and (spoiler alert) it has a genuinely happy ending!

Jonathan Ford @Grepsul Jul 8

OUT TODAY, the second part in my Substack series on the collapse of Rolls-Royce in February 1971 and its subsequent resurrection. How the failure proved an essential ingredient in Rolls's subsequent success..
jonathandrewford.substack.com/p/the-turning-…

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A Long Time In Finance @ALTIFpodcast Jun 10

An amazing story of British engineering genius and financial incompetence: The 1971 collapse of Rolls-Royce.

Jonathan Ford @Grepsul Jun 10

My latest post looks at the story of Rolls-Royce's epic 1971 bankruptcy, how it happened and how it turned out to be the making of the company. Today is part one: The Fall open.substack.com/pub/jonathandr…

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A Long Time In Finance @ALTIFpodcast Jun 5

In this week's Turning Point, the first of two episodes, Neil and Jonathan look at the failure of Rolls-Royce in 1971, and ask whether what was seen as a national humiliation was in fact the making of the company. Today: the via dolorosa to 1971. pod.fo/e/4286f2

A Long Time In Finance @ALTIFpodcast Apr 17

Our latest TURNING POINT is on Bernard Arnault and how a small patron running a construction company in Lille became Europe's richest man. We look at the moment that changed everything for "the Wolf in Cashmere": his audacious takeover of LVMH. pod.fo/e/400496

A Long Time In Finance @ALTIFpodcast Apr 7

Check out Jonathan's Substack for our latest Turning Point - the story of how a brilliant idea proved fatal for the company that invented it

Jonathan Ford @Grepsul Apr 7

My latest Business Adventure is on Kodak, the powerhouse that invented mass market photography and flourished for a century. Then in 1975, a young engineer created a fatal product, the digital camera.
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