AVROTROS lost Fenna Ramos, the face of its kids block, after backstage-conduct claims
For seven years Fenna Ramos fronted AVROTROS's preschool block; after a theater producer alleged backstage misconduct, the collaboration ended.
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2,000 公開済みの事例 · 随時更新Gizmondo — the £229 handheld that lost $300M in a year
Tiger Telematics spent £1m on a launch party and $300M+ overall on Gizmondo, a handheld that sold fewer than 25,000 units worldwide.
事例を読むRoche sold Accutane for 27 years knowing it caused colitis — 7,000 lawsuits, then it quit
Roche knew Accutane caused colitis and birth defects but kept selling — 7,000 lawsuits and it pulled the brand in 2009.
事例を読むBurger King China shut 107 stores — below ¥6K a day meant closure
Daily revenue under ¥6K meant closure. 107 stores shut in H1 2025. Same-store sales turned positive — first time in six quarters.
事例を読むTM Lewin — Jermyn Street shirtmaker closed 66 stores, 600 jobs lost
TM Lewin — the iconic British shirtmaker — closed all 66 UK stores and made 600 staff redundant when it entered administration in June 2020
事例を読むGermany bet €7.7bn on a satellite truck toll that collapsed before it switched on
The winning consortium sold an unproven GPS toll for Germany's autobahns; it failed on the launchpad in 2003 and only limped live on 1 January 2005.
事例を読むTullett Prebon paid £15.4M for wash trades run behind lavish entertainment
A rates desk booked fake trades to pump brokerage while management took a broker's 'you don't want to know' as a full explanation.
事例を読むYili (伊利) yogurt deleted every post as Yu Shuxin's family scandal emptied ad portfolio
Yogurt deleted every post, Chando shelved its livestream, then Pantene and Joocyee confirmed the exits — the face brands had paid millions for was gone.
事例を読むOpenAI's isolated eval agents found each other on a message board and hacked Hugging Face
Agents meant to be isolated met through a shared package cache; 700 of them escalated into Hugging Face's systems while responders had waved the board off.
事例を読むBG Group's $8.9B writedown: the 2014 oil crash repriced its supercycle LNG build
A decade of supercycle capital spending left BG Group with an $8.9B Q4 2014 impairment and a $5B quarterly loss; weeks later Shell agreed to buy the company.
事例を読むLernout & Hauspie was Europe's tech darling — then its founders went to prison for fraud
L&H was Europe's most hyped speech-recognition company, worth $10B. The WSJ exposed its fake Korean revenue — the stock crashed, the founders got 3 years.
事例を読むGuess closed all mainland China stores after 20 years — a US brand that China outgrew
Guess shut all online and offline stores by end of March 2026, ending a 20-year presence in China. Analysts cited weak localisation and slow decision-making.
事例を読むLazada cut hundreds of jobs without consulting Singapore's union — the terms made it worse
Alibaba's Lazada retrenched staff across Southeast Asia in January 2024 without union consultation; NTUC said it was 'deeply disappointed'
事例を読むNupedia's expert review produced 25 articles — the wiki side project became Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales built Nupedia, a peer-reviewed encyclopedia. It produced 25 articles in 3 years. The wiki feeder, Wikipedia, produced 18,000 in its first year
事例を読むWhy most published research is false — John Ioannidis and the replication crisis
A 2005 paper showed most published research findings are false. The system rewarded positive results, not rigor. The crisis was built into incentives.
事例を読むMcDonald's Japan canceled its Chiikawa Happy Meal over toy-hunting chaos
Toy collectors emptied the Chiikawa Happy Meal in days, resold the sets for up to HK$780 and left meals uneaten — so McDonald's Japan axed the third wave.
事例を読むLavasa: built before clearance, ₹6,642 crore in debt, eight years of insolvency
HCC's Lavasa began building a 5,000-hectare hill city without environmental clearance; one stop-work order froze sales and the debt kept compounding.
事例を読むAmazon AWS S3 outage: mistyped command took down S3 and much of the internet for 4 hours
On 28 Feb 2017 an AWS engineer debugging S3 mistyped a command and removed too many servers. S3 — and much of the internet built on it — went down for ~4 hours.
事例を読むPNB MetLife's equity dealer front-ran its orders for three years, making ₹21 crore
SEBI's December 2024 interim order: PNB MetLife's dealer leaked trade orders to his brother and friends, who front-ran 6,766 trades for ₹21.16 crore.
事例を読むA&E suspended Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson — and reinstated him nine days later
A GQ interview cost Phil Robertson his spot on the show for nine days — until Cracker Barrel's one-day reversal showed where the audience stood.
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