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| Company | Fork date | The fork | Options | Choice | Stated rationale | What happened | Judgment analyst | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abercrombie & Fitch Read the story → verified | 2022-06 | Rebuild through buying discipline and set a formal turnaround plan rather than chase brand heat |
| Institutional buying-discipline rebuild | The problem was a company that had stopped reading its own customers, so it rebuilt inventory and buying discipline before touching marketing | 5 years · 2026-06-23 stock price from peak: Closed at all-time high of $192.34 on June 12, 2024, and by mid-2026 sat around $84 - a decline of roughly 56% from peak | reversibility low verdict held | Abercrombie & Fitch Co. / SEC EDGAR (8-K) (2022-06); Abercrombie & Fitch Co. / SEC EDGAR (8-K investor presentation) (2023); Abercrombie & Fitch Co. / IR website (8-K earnings release) (2024-03); Abercrombie & Fitch Co. / SEC EDGAR (8-K earnings release) (2013); Abercrombie & Fitch Co. / GlobeNewswire (8-K earnings release) (2024-03); Abercrombie & Fitch Co. / SEC EDGAR (8-K earnings release) (2025-03); MacroTrends (2026-06) |
| Adidas Read the story → verified | 2022-10 | Whether to write off the stranded Yeezy inventory or sell it down |
| Sell down Yeezy inventory | Selling the stranded stock turned a near-write-off into a profit stream | 3 years · 2025 Yeezy revenue and profit will not recur: ~€650M of Yeezy revenue and ~€200M of profit will not recur in 2025 | reversibility low verdict held | adidas AG (2024-01); adidas AG (2025-03); adidas AG (2025-03); adidas AG (2025-03) |
| Adidas Read the story → verified | 2023 | Whether to write off the dead Yeezy inventory or sell it and donate proceeds |
| Sell stock, donate proceeds | Selling the stock turned a feared liability into a salvage operation generating profit | Latest · 2023 Net loss: net loss of €58 million from continuing operations | reversibility low verdict held | Hypebeast (2023-08); adidas Group (2023-03); adidas Group (2024-03); adidas Group (2024-03); adidas Group (2025-03) |
| AMD Read the story → verified | 2018 | Whether to ship a leading chip roadmap before the 2019 debt wall |
| Commit 7nm to TSMC | Putting Zen 2 on a better manufacturing process than Intel could match turned parity into a lead | 1 year · 2019 chip performance: Zen 2 shipped in Ryzen 3000 on TSMC's 7nm node, delivering a 15% IPC gain and clocks up to 4.7 GHz | reversibility low verdict held | HotHardware (2018-08); Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (2024) |
| Apple Read the story → verified | 1997-08 | How to resolve Apple's 1997 crisis: fund liquidity or restore platform confidence via a Microsoft deal |
| Strike Microsoft partnership deal | The Office commitment signaled the Mac had a future, reviving developer and enterprise confidence that Apple's own cash could not buy back | Latest · 1998 net profit: posted a $309 million profit the very next fiscal year after the roughly $1.04 billion loss of fiscal 1997 | reversibility low verdict held | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / Apple Computer, Inc. (1997); Engadget (2014-05); SlashGear (2022-04) |
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