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Buffett Said He Overpaid for Kraft Heinz. He Actually Said Something Much More Precise.
Kraft Heinz
Starbucks Borrowed Schultz's Words and Ran Chipotle's Playbook
Starbucks
John Deere Signed a Repair Truce and Kept the One Tool That Matters
Deere (John Deere)
GE Didn't Break Up Because It Got Too Big. It Broke Up Because a Regulator Drew a Line.
GE
Burberry Keeps Turning Itself Around. That's the Whole Problem.
Burberry
Estée Lauder Didn't Get Unlucky in China. It Built a Business With Only One Engine.
Estee Lauder
The New York Times Stopped Selling Eyeballs and Started Selling Readers. It Worked - With an Asterisk.
New York Times
WBD Was Born Owing a Fortune It Couldn't Pay. The Breakup Just Moves the Bill.
Warner Bros Discovery
Marvel Didn't Get Tired. It Got Drowned — by Its Own Parent Company.
Marvel
ESPN Just Started Selling Cord-Cutters the Channel That Pays It $8 a Month to Stay on Cable
Disney
Blockbuster Didn't Miss Netflix. It Was Killed in the Boardroom.
Blockbuster
Blockbuster Didn't Spurn Netflix. It Declined a Distressed Seller Begging for a Lifeline.
Blockbuster
Netflix Didn't Reverse Qwikster Because the Strategy Was Wrong. It Reversed Because It Split a Product Nobody Wanted Split.
Netflix
Netflix Said Ads Were 'Exploiting Users.' Three Years Later It Sold Them Itself.
Netflix
Blockbuster Didn't Laugh Netflix Out of the Room. The Truth Is Worse.
Netflix
DoorDash Won the Suburbs First. It Just Didn't Plan To.
DoorDash
Moderna Bet Everything on a Platform It Never Got to Test. A Pandemic Tested It Instead.
Moderna
Sears Didn't Lose to Amazon. It Was Taken Apart from the Inside.
Sears
Macy's Didn't Lose to Amazon. It Lost the Customer It Was Built For — Decades Before Amazon Existed.
Macy's
Best Buy Didn't Beat Amazon. It Made Amazon Pay the Rent.
Best Buy
Digital Didn't Kill GameStop. The Story That It Did Is the Real Cover-Up.
GameStop
Tesco Didn't Fail in America Because It Misread the Customer. It Ran Out of Runway.
Tesco
Walgreens Didn't Die at the Pharmacy Counter. It Died Buying Doctors' Offices.
Walgreens
Intel Didn't Miss the Future. It Was Too Heavy to Turn Toward It.
Intel
Intel Could Have Owned 15% of OpenAI for $1 Billion. The Real Reason It Said No Isn't the One You've Heard.
Intel
TSMC Built Fabs in Arizona and Japan to De-Risk Taiwan. It Kept the Crown Jewels at Home.
TSMC
Google Didn't Buy Android to Win Mobile. It Bought Insurance.
Alphabet (Google)
Google Wasn't Caught Sleeping. It Was Wide Awake and Chose Not to Ship.
Alphabet (Google)
Apple Didn't Lose the Port War. It Was Marched Out of a Toll Road It Had Held for a Decade.
Apple
Michael Dell Didn't Win His Buyout on Conviction. He Won It by Changing the Rules.
Dell