$999one-time · Excel, JSON, PowerPoint, Word, PDF

284 verified records, re-issued whenever a story a record rests on changes.

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About the Decision Forks Bundle

The pivotal calls where the path split — why this road, and what the other one would have cost. Which companies answered it best, and what did it cost them? The knowledge of these decisions will help you glean insights, inspiration and actionable ideas. The Decision Forks Bundle comprises 284 verified decision records with dated outcomes from Apple, Boeing, Nokia, Hugging Face, Kodak, Google-Android, IBM, WeWork and 156 more.

Every record follows the same structure, which is what makes the set useful rather than merely interesting. You see when the fork came, what was on the table, what the company chose and the reason it gave, what it committed, and what happened at one, three and five years. Every fact is cited to its source, and where we offer a judgment, it is labeled as one. Across the 284 records, which span 1957 to 2026, 275 carry dated outcomes; 192 of the decisions held, 57 were reversed, 25 held in part, and 10 are still too early to call.

Why it is worth your time

The Decision Forks Bundle brings together every verified record in the decision forks family, the casebooks of 4 decision types (The Fork, The Counterfactual, Bet-the-Company and The Reversal) in one set, with forks between 1957 and 2026. If the question you are working on sits anywhere in this family, the bundle saves you buying the casebooks one at a time and lets you read across them: the same fields, the same checks, and every source named.

Who reaches for it

Strategy and corporate development teams whose question sits anywhere in this family, consultants who serve clients across it, and faculty building a course around it. If you would otherwise buy two or three of these casebooks, the bundle is the cheaper and more useful way in.

What it saves you

Assembling comparable precedents by hand is slow work: find each decision, date it, read the filings and the coverage, pull out the same fields, and check every number. At three to four hours a record, this set is roughly 994hours of a strategist's time. It is $999, once, and every record has already been through the same fields and the same checks.

How people use it

In the memo, you cite the records that match your question, outcomes and sources included, straight from the Word appendix. In the room, the PowerPoint gives you one record per slide with an action title and a source line. In the model, you sort the Excel by verdict, horizon or capital committed. And in your AI workspace, you load the JSON as vetted context, so the assistant reasons from verified records instead of inventing them.

What is in the download

ExcelSortable records, outcomes and sources
JSONDrop it into your AI workspace
PowerPointOne record per slide, action titles, source lines
WordEditable, with the source appendix
PDFThe reading copy

The casebooks in this bundle

4 decision types, each with its own casebook page and free sample record. The bundle is all of them in one download.

A sample record

One record, free, exactly as it appears in the files. The other 283 verified records are in the purchased files.

CompanyFork dateThe forkOptionsChoiceStated rationaleWhat happenedJudgment analystSources
Apple
Read the story →
verified
2020-06-22Keep buying Intel processors for the Mac, or design the Mac's chips in-house
  • Buy from Intel Keep buying best-in-class chips on Intel's roadmap and release cadence
  • Build your own Design the Mac's processors in-house, on Apple's own schedule
Build your own: transition the Mac to Apple siliconControl over the most consequential component, rather than accepting a supplier's schedule and priorities3 years · 2023-06-05
transition completion: The transition completed at WWDC 2023 when Apple silicon reached the Mac Pro
reversibility low
verdict held
Apple Newsroom (2020-06); Apple Newsroom (2005-06); AnandTech (via 9to5Mac) (2020-11); Apple Newsroom (2023-06)

Who is in this bundle

284 verified records across these companies.

  • 23andMe
  • Abercrombie & Fitch
  • Adidas ×2
  • Adobe ×2
  • AIG
  • Airbnb
  • Airbus
  • Aldi
  • Alibaba ×2
  • Alphabet (Google) ×3
  • Amazon ×3
  • Amazon Fire Phone
  • AMD ×3
  • AOL-Time Warner
  • Apple ×10
  • Apple Newton
  • Apple Vision Pro
  • AstraZeneca ×3
  • AT&T
  • AT&T-Time Warner
  • Atlassian
  • Baidu
  • Bayer
  • Berkshire Hathaway ×2
  • Best Buy ×2
  • Beyond Meat
  • BlackBerry ×4
  • Blockbuster ×3
  • Boeing ×6
  • Booking Holdings
  • Borders
  • BP ×2
  • Burberry
  • BuzzFeed
  • Chevron
  • Chipotle ×2
  • Circuit City
  • Cisco
  • Coca-Cola
  • Comcast / NBCUniversal
  • Costco
  • CVS Health ×2
  • Deere (John Deere)
  • Dell ×2
  • Diageo
  • Disney ×7
  • Dow
  • DuPont
  • eBay ×3
  • Electronic Arts
  • Eli Lilly
  • Emirates
  • Enphase ×2
  • Epic Games
  • ExxonMobil ×3
  • Facebook ×2
  • Ford ×3
  • Ford Edsel
  • Fox
  • FTX
  • GameStop
  • Gap ×2
  • GE
  • General Motors ×3
  • GM
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Google
  • Google Glass
  • Google Stadia
  • Google-Android
  • Google+
  • Hermes
  • HP ×2
  • HP TouchPad
  • HSBC
  • Hugging Face
  • Hyundai ×2
  • IBM ×6
  • Intel ×5
  • Kering (Gucci)
  • Kodak
  • Kroger ×2
  • L'Oreal
  • Levi's
  • Lucid
  • Lyft ×2
  • Macy's
  • Marvel ×3
  • McDonald's
  • Mercedes-Benz ×2
  • Merck
  • Meta ×6
  • Microsoft ×8
  • Microsoft Kinect
  • Microsoft Zune
  • Milton Hershey School Trust
  • Moderna
  • Mondelez
  • Morgan Stanley
  • MySpace
  • Netflix ×3
  • New York Times ×3
  • Nike
  • Nintendo ×3
  • Nintendo Virtual Boy
  • Nintendo Wii U
  • NIO
  • Nokia ×3
  • Nordstrom
  • Novartis
  • Nvidia ×3
  • Oracle
  • Palm ×2
  • Pan Am ×2
  • Paramount
  • PayPal
  • Pepsi
  • Pfizer
  • Philip Morris International ×2
  • Purdue Pharma ×2
  • Qualcomm
  • Quibi ×2
  • RadioShack
  • Rio Tinto ×2
  • Rivian
  • Salesforce
  • Samsung
  • SAP
  • Sears
  • Shell ×2
  • Shopify
  • Siemens
  • Silicon Valley Bank ×2
  • Snap ×2
  • Sony ×3
  • Southwest
  • Starbucks ×2
  • T-Mobile
  • Target ×2
  • Temu
  • Tesco ×2
  • Tesla ×5
  • Theranos ×2
  • Toyota
  • Toys R Us
  • Uber ×2
  • UBS ×2
  • Under Armour ×2
  • Uniqlo (Fast Retailing)
  • United Airlines
  • Unity
  • Universal Music
  • Verizon
  • Vodafone
  • Volkswagen
  • Walgreens ×2
  • Walmart ×3
  • Warner Bros Discovery ×3
  • WeWork ×2
  • Windows Phone
  • Xerox ×2
  • Yahoo
  • Yeezy
  • Yum Brands

Questions

What do I get in the Decision Forks Bundle?
284 verified decision records from Apple, Boeing, Nokia, Hugging Face, Kodak, Google-Android and 158 more. Each one tells you when the fork came, what was on the table, what the company chose and why, what it committed, and what happened at one, three and five years, with every source named, as Excel, JSON, PowerPoint, Word and PDF.
How do I know the records are accurate?
Every record is drawn only from the story it comes from and that story's sources. Every fact carries a citation and a verbatim excerpt, a mechanical check rejects anything the story does not contain, a second model from a different vendor reads the record against the story, and a third arbitrates any disagreement. Only records that pass all of it are in the files.
Is this a subscription?
No. It is a one-time purchase, re-issued whenever a story a record rests on changes. The library license keeps every casebook current for a flat annual fee.