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Decisions on record
2 verified Decision Records on Toshiba, and the casebook each one belongs to.
| Fork date | Decision type | What Toshiba chose | Where it stood | The story | Casebook |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Crisis Response | Sell memory-chip stake | Toshiba sold its flash-memory chip unit to a Bain Capital-led consortium for $18 billion, retaining roughly a 40% stake in what became Kioxia (2018) | Read the story → | Crisis Response Casebook → |
| 2022 | The Fork | Cut to two-way split | Management's plan to split Toshiba into two companies failed to win the required majority (2022-03) | Read the story → | The Fork Casebook → |
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The analyses
Crisis Response · Crisis & Reinvention
Toshiba's $1.2 Billion Profit Fraud Left a $3 Billion Cushion — Then Westinghouse Blew Through It
Toshiba padded profits by about $1.2 billion over roughly seven years, and the 2015 scandal is blamed for costing it the memory business. It didn't. It thinned Toshiba's equity to $3 billion — so when a separate nuclear writedown that media pegged near $6 billion landed, there was nothing left to absorb it.
7 min
The Fork · Decision Forks
Toshiba's Shareholders Rejected Both the Split and the Sale on One March 2022 Ballot
Toshiba planned a three-way split in November 2021, cut it to two in February 2022, then watched shareholders reject that plan and a rival buyout motion on the same day. The company that spent a year trying to break itself apart ended up as one firm, taken fully private for about 2 trillion yen.
7 min