Hasbro vs Mattel - Boy Toy | 2

With all the hype around portable and smart speakers, it’s easy to forget that they didn’t always exist. In fact, it took one fateful meeting with Monster Cables and Interscope Records to really kick the industry off. In this one-episode Business Battle, we explore the time when ...  Show more

It’s the 1960s, and two climbing buddies are about to lay the foundations for a new industry.The older of the two is an outdoorsman and part-time blacksmith Yvon Chouinard. His younger buddy is Doug Tompkins, who abandoned his Connecticut rich-kid life to find his kicks in the wi ...  Show more

Estamos no final da década de 1940 e dois pequenos fabricantes de brinquedos estão dando os primeiros e inquietos passos. Os nomes dessas jovens e esperançosas empresas são Hasbro e Mattel. Um deles é uma ramificação de um fabricante de lápis. O outro é uma empresa de garagem ini ...  Show more

A Mattel tropeça nos negócios com sucessivas decisões equivocadas. A Barbie enfrenta uma concorrente das quebradas. E os filmes de cinema e a Disney colocam a Hasbro na frente da disputa.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art1 ...  Show more

Enquanto seus brinquedos disputam a preferência das crianças, a Hasbro e a Mattel disputam as aquisições de empresas menores. Até que a Mattel faz uma proposta indecente pra Hasbro.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/ ...  Show more

In this episode, Ruth and Elliot Handler are gone, and the new Mattel team, led by a man who feared the volatility of the toy business, diversified the company and made a big gamble on electronics. It didn’t work. Fortunately, Barbie ends up in the sure hands of some trailblazing ...  Show more