Chile's San José mine collapsed despite known safety lapses — 33 men survived 69 days
San Esteban's under-inspected mine caved in and trapped 33 men for 69 days; the state-funded rescue cost $10–20M, and no one was convicted.
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2,000 公開済みの事例 · 随時更新Toshiba let activists in to survive 2017, then paid ¥2 trillion to buy them all out
A 2017 emergency share sale to foreign hedge funds kept Toshiba listed, but the boardroom war it caused ended in a ¥2 trillion buyout to go private.
事例を読むCareem's rapid growth left 14 million users' data exposed to hackers
Hackers took names, emails, phones and trip data of ~14 million Careem riders and drivers in January 2018. Careem disclosed the breach three months later.
事例を読むWendy's hired a manicurist for a hamburger ad — she became a cultural phenomenon
Wendy's ad agency cast 80-year-old manicurist Clara Peller for a commercial. Her line 'Where's the beef?' became a national catchphrase and boosted sales 31%.
事例を読むGozyuger cut its heroine from a finished episode after underage drinking
Underage drinking got Imamori Maya dropped and removed from Gozyuger — Toei and TV Asahi rewrote a finished episode around her absence.
事例を読むBluesmart built a suitcase around a battery airlines then forbade
A smart-luggage startup sealed the battery inside the case. When airlines banned non-removable lithium cells, the bags could not fly — and nor could the firm.
事例を読むHaeckel fudged his embryo drawings — and textbooks copied them for a century
In 1868 a German biologist drew embryos of different species more alike than they are — critics knew by the 1870s, yet the fakes ran in textbooks until 1997.
事例を読むSaudi flour giant First Mills fined SAR 10M for barring its distributor from rivals
The privatized state mill required a distributor not to sell rivals' products and was fined SAR 10M eight days before its stock-market debut.
事例を読むFarglory's Taipei Dome added commercial space, cut fire safety — and sat idle for 5 years
Farglory packed a hotel, mall, and theater into the Taipei Dome without fire safety — the city halted construction for 5 years, and the cost jumped to NT$40B.
事例を読むCapcom Vancouver's Dead Rising 4 sold half as expected — so Capcom closed the studio
Capcom's Vancouver studio bet on Dead Rising 4. It sold less than 1M copies against a 2M target. Capcom wrote off ¥4.5B and shut the studio down.
事例を読むA ring propped up eight Korean stocks with CFD leverage — then they all crashed together
Ra Deok-yeon's club used SG Securities' CFD desk to hide who owned eight mid-cap stocks; when the leverage broke, all eight hit limit-down within days.
事例を読むArgentina's top agency sold to Lowe — the founders walked, the legend dissolved
Agulla & Baccetti was named the best agency in Iberoamérica. The founders sold control to Lowe; the stars left, the name was retired, and the legend dissolved.
事例を読むOne missing concurrency limit took Bluesky down for half its users for eight hours
A new internal client sent 20,000-URI batches to the one RPC without bounded concurrency; port exhaustion, a logging storm, and OOM crashes did the rest.
事例を読むBDNI's Rp47.3tn state debt was closed with a 2004 release letter
BDNI lent 76% of its Rp16.9tn book to its owner's group, ~50x the legal limit; a 2004 release letter closed Rp28.4tn of claims, Rp4tn uncollected in 2022.
事例を読むA fake 'Fuse Lending' ran a lending site on GCash's old brand name — SEC shut it
An unlicensed lender squatted on the name GCash's lending arm had vacated in January 2025; the SEC's July 31 cease order shut the operation.
事例を読むNetflix split its DVD service into Qwikster and lost 800,000 subscribers in a quarter
In 2011, Netflix announced it would split DVD rentals into a new brand called Qwikster, triggering a backlash that cost 800,000 subscribers.
事例を読むStitch Fix's CEO lasted 17 months — her Freestyle strategy cost the company its growth
Stitch Fix hired Elizabeth Spaulding to lead a turnaround. Seventeen months later, 20% of salaried staff were cut and she was out.
事例を読むAmazon's $1,599 home robot shipped a few hundred — Wired: 'a robot without a cause'
Amazon launched Astro at $1,599 in September 2021. Six months later Bloomberg reported only a few hundred shipped. Reviewers found no compelling use case.
事例を読むPercival Lowell staked his observatory on Martian canals — they were an optical illusion
A Boston millionaire built an observatory to prove Mars was crossed by irrigation canals; the lines were an optical illusion his own staff could not see.
事例を読むNike severed 27-year China distributor ties for DTC — Topsports stock fell 25% in a day
Nike told Topsports and Pou Sheng to stop selling Nike online by Jan 2027 — clearing thousands of Chinese dealers in one day for a DTC-only future.
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