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263 analyses · Crisis & Reinvention
Theater Chains Killed The Interview First — Sony Just Got Blamed for It
Sony Pictures
Capital One disclosed its 106-million-record breach in ten days, and the $80 million fine was for something older
Capital One
Colonial Pipeline Paid $4.4M the Same Day It Was Hacked — and Still Sat Dark for Six Days
Colonial Pipeline
Norsk Hydro Livestreamed Its Own Ransomware Attack Instead of Paying the Bitcoin Ransom
Norsk Hydro
Maersk Reinstalled 45,000 PCs in Ten Days After NotPetya — and Then Never Trued Up the Bill
Maersk
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
Equifax found the breach on July 29, 2017 and told the public 40 days later
Equifax
GE Took a $6.2 Billion Insurance Hit in 2018 — but Its Books Were Never Wrong
General Electric
Steinhoff's Furniture Empire Delisted at 2 South African Cents a Share in 2023
Steinhoff
Luckin Coffee Faked $300M in Sales, Got Delisted, and Passed Starbucks in China Three Years Later
Luckin Coffee
Hertz sued four ex-executives for $70M in 2019 — five years after it first flagged the accounting
Hertz
Toshiba's $1.2 Billion Profit Fraud Left a $3 Billion Cushion — Then Westinghouse Blew Through It
Toshiba
Waste Management restated $1.43 billion in fake profits — then got swallowed by a rival a third its size
Waste Management
Xerox Settled Its SEC Fraud Case for $3 Billion — Then Restated $6.4 Billion
Xerox
Intel's exclusivity checks were 76% of Dell's operating income the quarter before it embraced AMD
Dell
Nintendo Shipped the Virtual Boy Unfinished to Hold Shelf Space for the N64
Nintendo Virtual Boy
The Arch Deluxe's Fatal Flaw: A Focus Group That Told McDonald's What It Wanted to Hear
McDonald's Arch Deluxe
Unity Turned Down a 48% Premium to Buy a Falling Knife. On Purpose.
Unity
Gelsinger's Turnaround Asked a Shrinking Intel to Fund a Foundry as Revenue Fell to $53.1B
Intel
Everyone Blames the Opioid Settlement. CVS Decided to Close the Stores a Year Earlier.
CVS Health
Nokia Bought Its Networks Lifeboat Eight Months Before the Microsoft Phone Sale Closed
Nokia
Southwest's Pilots Told It the Bomb Was Ticking. It Went Off a Month Later.
Southwest
Time and a Slow-Burning Paywall Saved the New York Times After a $250 Million Loan at 14%
New York Times
Chipotle's Turnaround Started in 2018, When a New CEO Rebuilt It Around a Digital Kitchen
Chipotle
Adidas's Turnaround Story Rests on a €58M Tax Artifact and a Brand That Held Strong
Adidas
Nintendo Returned to Operating Profit Two Years Before the Switch — the Crisis Was Identity
Nintendo
CrowdStrike Fixed the Bug in 78 Minutes. The Reputation Took Longer—and Cost More.
CrowdStrike
Baidu's Revenue Slid About 3.8%, Then 3% — the Quiet Derating of a Monopoly
Baidu
Sony Relapsed Into ¥128B Losses After 'One Sony' — the Durable Fix Came in FY2016
Sony
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