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Unilever redrew itself into five business groups in January 2022 — before its activist held a single board seat
Unilever
Toshiba's $1.2 Billion Profit Fraud Left a $3 Billion Cushion — Then Westinghouse Blew Through It
Toshiba
Xerox Settled Its SEC Fraud Case for $3 Billion — Then Restated $6.4 Billion
Xerox
A single plant made 99% of Toyota's brake valves — it burned down and Toyota restarted in 5 days
Toyota
Foxconn Keeps About 1.8% of an iPhone's Value — and Runs the World's Largest Electronics Factory On It
Foxconn
AMD Took the PS4 and Xbox One Chips at Thin Margins to Buy Guaranteed Volume
AMD
Salesforce Shipped Three Agentforce Prices in 18 Months and Killed None of Them
Salesforce
WPP Paid £130m in Earn-Outs in One Year — Then Took a Separate £3.1bn Impairment Hit
WPP
P&G Told Shareholders It Beat Nelson Peltz — Then the Recount Said He Won
Procter & Gamble
Total's CEO died in a Moscow crash on a Monday night. By Wednesday it had a permanent chairman and CEO.
TotalEnergies
Carl Icahn ran a McDonald's proxy fight on 200 shares — and lost 743 million to 9 million
McDonald's
Capital One disclosed its 106-million-record breach in ten days, and the $80 million fine was for something older
Capital One
Microsoft raised its Yahoo bid to $33 a share in 2008 — and it was Microsoft that walked
Yahoo
Apple made 77% of Dialog's sales — then paid $600M to hire away its engineers and stay a customer
Dialog Semiconductor
GE Reshored Its Water Heater to Louisville in 2012 — and Sold the Whole Division to Haier by 2016
GE Appliances
Shareholders Threw Out All 12 of Darden's Directors — After the Red Lobster Sale Was Already Done
Darden Restaurants
Norsk Hydro Livestreamed Its Own Ransomware Attack Instead of Paying the Bitcoin Ransom
Norsk Hydro
Boeing Sold Its Wichita Fuselage Plant for $900 Million in 2005 — and Reabsorbed It in a $8.3 Billion Deal
Boeing
Slack refunds you for coworkers who stop logging in — and turned the refund into a sales pitch
Slack
Apple Switched Off Blood-Oxygen on the Apple Watch Rather Than License Masimo's Patents
Apple
Ericsson single-sourced its radio chips from one Philips fab, and lost 7 million phones when it burned
Ericsson
Apple split Jony Ive's job in two and handed both halves to its operations chief
Apple
Texas Roadhouse named a new CEO one day after its founder's death — and nobody blinked
Texas Roadhouse
Uber's security chief got probation for hiding the 2016 breach, and the CEO the judge called just as culpable walked
Uber
A security blogger broke Target's 2013 breach a day before Target did, and the slow recovery cost the CEO his job
Target
The 1980 IBM contract barred IBM from reselling DOS — and left Microsoft free to sell it to everyone
Microsoft
Microsoft kept Copilot's $30 seat and stacked a metered track for AI agents beside it
Microsoft
Sanofi paid $74 a share for Genzyme, then $315 million more to settle the fight over the part it didn't pay
Sanofi
Master Lock's 2011 Milwaukee comeback returned about 100 jobs — and the plant closed in 2024
Master Lock
Foxconn Pledged $10B and an LCD Plant to Wisconsin. It Spent $1B and Never Built the Factory
Foxconn
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