Boeing took a fixed-price deal to build Air Force One — it has eaten $3B in losses
Boeing took a fixed-price deal to convert two 747-8s into the next Air Force One. It has absorbed over $3 billion in losses; first delivery slipped to 2028.
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2,000 게시된 사례 · 정기 업데이트Austin Reed, 116 years of suits, shut all 120 shops a month after administration
The tailor that dressed Churchill entered administration a week after a debt fund bought its loans; by June all 120 shops were gone and only the brand survived.
사례 읽기Mühle Glashütte was hit with a €63M contractual penalty — and the bill cracked the company
A 140-year-old watchmaker bought movements from Switzerland, used the 'Glashütte' label, and was sentenced to a penalty that exceeded its entire equity.
사례 읽기DHC's CEO called Koreans a slur — the next year his brand left the Korean market
DHC's CEO Yoshiaki Yoshida posted anti-Korean slurs on the company website in 2020. Korean retailers dropped the brand, and DHC exited Korea in 2021.
사례 읽기Acer's hand-picked successors missed mobile, and the founder had to come back
Stan Shih founded Acer in 1976 and handed it to his lieutenants. They missed the smartphone shift; a record NT$13.1B quarterly loss in 2013 brought him back.
사례 읽기Careem was a corporate car booking service — the wrong model hid a $3.1B ride-hailing win
Careem was founded as a corporate car booking website. The B2B model was limited. The pivot to consumer ride-hailing made it the Middle East's first unicorn.
사례 읽기Stanford president resigned over manipulated images — 5 papers retracted or corrected
Marc Tessier-Lavigne led Stanford through a golden era. Then an investigation found manipulated images in 5 papers — he resigned within days.
사례 읽기A Xinxuan anchor cut prices live on stream — 170,000 units sold and ¥10M lost
Xinxuan anchor Zhao Mengche slashed prices without approval during Double 11. The link sold 170,000 units in minutes, costing the company nearly ¥10M.
사례 읽기Groupe Royer ran 100% on wholesale — the court sold it in five months
France's biggest shoe wholesaler — Kickers, Chevignon, Dim licenses — ran 100% on wholesale. October 2025: receivership. March 2026: sold off, 140 jobs cut.
사례 읽기MobiKwik's app update let UPI payments clear on wrong PINs — ₹40 crore gone in 48 hours
A release broke MobiKwik's wallet UPI limits: users could send more than their balance even with the wrong PIN. A collusive ring drained ₹40 crore in two days.
사례 읽기Indodax kept $22M in hot wallets — a single breach drained six chains at once
Indonesia's largest crypto exchange lost about $22 million across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron and Polygon in one attack on its internet-connected wallets.
사례 읽기Fabindia named a Diwali-season line 'Jashn-e-Riwaaz' — the ad was pulled in two days
A festive clothing collection got an Urdu name and a #BoycottFabindia trend. The company withdrew the ad and insisted the line was never the Diwali one.
사례 읽기One fiber cut killed both of Wikipedia's 'redundant' data-center links for 63 minutes
Wikimedia paid for two diverse fiber routes between its data centers. One construction cut killed both links at once.
사례 읽기Chime's third outage in months froze 5M customers' cards during its $5B raise
A database failure at Chime's processor Galileo left 5M neobank customers without cards, ATMs or their app for days in October 2019 — mid-fundraise.
사례 읽기United Rentals failed to force Cerberus to close its $7B buyout; it got $100M
Conflicting remedies clauses let Cerberus walk from its $34.50-a-share buyout of United Rentals, and the seller's suit for specific performance failed.
사례 읽기Patanjali promised the Supreme Court its cure claims would stop — the ads kept coming
Patanjali promised India's Supreme Court its cure-claim ads would stop. Two apologies were rejected before an eight-month contempt case ended in a warning.
사례 읽기ABC dropped Glenn McGrath days before the Ashes over his bet365 deal
Days before the Ashes, Australia's ABC dropped commentator Glenn McGrath over his bet365 campaign — a direct betting deal its rules forbid on-air talent.
사례 읽기Facebook launched the News Feed — users revolted, then it became the platform
In 2006, Facebook launched the News Feed without user consent. Over 700,000 protested. Zuckerberg apologized. The Feed became the core of the platform.
사례 읽기Reinhart and Rogoff set a 90% debt threshold — one omitted Excel row collapsed it
A 2010 paper claimed growth collapses above 90% debt and became the citation for austerity. A graduate student found the number was a spreadsheet error.
사례 읽기Cotti Coffee closed 617 stores in 90 days — more than it opened for the first time
In 90 days Cotti shut 617 stores, opened 544 — net negative for the first time. Franchisees lost money. High-city franchising was paused.
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