Superlative: How Espionage May Have Helped Shape Watch History, With Aaron Stark
This week on the SUPERLATIVE Podcast, our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by Aaron Stark, author of Disrupting Time: Industrial Combat, Espionage, and the Downfall of a Great American Company. As Aaron states on his LinkedIn page, “Disrupting Time is the account of a remarkable turn of events driven by cunning spies, visionary leaders, and strategic choices that put the Swiss and American watch industries on entirely different trajectories. Had the events of 1876 never happened, we would likely know little of Swiss watches today.” Our host, Ariel Adams, has Aaron Stark dive even deeper into the story for our listeners to enjoy as he shares more unknown information about watch history and how the industry evolved into what it is today.
Aaron Stark is the author of the book Disrupting Time: Industrial Combat, Espionage, and the Downfall of a Great American Company. He is also a co-author of the Harvard Business School case study “Stealing Time: America’s disruption of the Swiss watch industry.” Before entering the business world, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at West Point, with a specialization in finance. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School with a focus on finance and business strategy, and a BS in Economics from West Point. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army with two combat tours in Afghanistan, serving as an Apache helicopter pilot.
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LinkedIn: Aaron Stark
Amazon: Disrupting Time book
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