United 328's fan blade cracked at an internal radius — the 2016 inspection missed it
Fatigue crack in a PW4077 fan blade separated at 12,500 ft; a missed 2016 inspection reading and intervals too long were cited — 239 aboard landed safely.
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2,000 게시된 사례 · 정기 업데이트Estée Lauder paid $1.45B for Too Faced, then wrote off $641M of it
Estée Lauder paid $1.45B for Too Faced in 2016; three years later, cooling prestige makeup forced a $641M write-down — nearly half the price gone.
사례 읽기Electrolux's $3.3B GE Appliances takeover died at the DOJ — exit fee: $175M
Electrolux agreed in 2014 to buy GE's appliance unit, its largest deal ever, bet on a divestiture package the DOJ refused, and paid $175 million to walk away.
사례 읽기Loblaw rushed its PC Optimum loyalty merger — and it broke on day one
Loblaw merged PC Plus and Shoppers Optimum into PC Optimum in February 2018. The rollout broke at once — apps crashed, points vanished, and customers revolted.
사례 읽기Lightspeed replaced its founder after a short-seller crash, then undid it 26 months later
The Canadian payments firm handed the CEO role to a hired executive after a short-seller crash, then brought the founder back as interim 26 months later.
사례 읽기Quirky raised $170M to invent products by committee — then burned through all of it
The crowdsourced-invention startup turned community ideas into dozens of money-losing products; by September 2015 it was in Chapter 11, Wink sold for $15M.
사례 읽기Pons and Fleischmann announced cold fusion — the world could not replicate it
Two chemists claimed tabletop fusion at a press conference. The world's top labs raced to replicate it — and found nothing.
사례 읽기Sesame Street English: 280 China franchises sold on a borrowed brand and 237% ROI charts
China's 'Sesame Street English' licensed a TV brand through a Japanese middleman, then sold franchises on invented returns until illegal textbooks caught up.
사례 읽기Gameloft lost half its workforce after Vivendi's hostile takeover
Vivendi bought Gameloft in a hostile 2016 takeover. Within three years, the mobile gaming pioneer had closed 10 studios and halved its 5,000-person workforce.
사례 읽기Slimpay left a fraud-research server open for years; CNIL fined it EUR180K
A 2015 anti-fraud test copied real SEPA debtor data, then nobody retired the server. About 12M people were exposed.
사례 읽기NordLB's shipping loans cost German taxpayers €3.6B
NordLB, a German Landesbank, owned the world's largest shipping loan book. When shipping collapsed, it lost €2B in a year and needed a €3.6B bailout.
사례 읽기Kent RO refused to modify its 'purest water' tagline after ASCI — and got a court stay
ASCI told Kent RO to modify its 16-year-old 'purest water' tagline; Kent sued, and the Delhi High Court stayed the order.
사례 읽기Facebook's self-healing config checker turned one bad value into a 2.5-hour blackout
An automated config verifier flagged its own bad value, every client raced to 'fix' it, and Facebook had to switch itself off to stop the feedback loop.
사례 읽기Philadelphia Newspapers: a $562M LBO, Chapter 11, and a landmark credit-bid fight
Local investors bought Philadelphia's two big papers with borrowed money — then litigated for a year to stop their lenders taking over.
사례 읽기McDonald's served coffee at 190°F — 700 burns later, a $640K verdict
Stella Liebeck suffered third-degree burns from McDonald's 190°F coffee. The verdict became a frivolous-litigation symbol — but McDonald's had 700+ prior burns.
사례 읽기Fender sent cease-and-desist letters to guitar builders — top YouTubers cut ties
Fender's legal campaign against Stratocaster-style guitars triggered a boycott from the guitar YouTubers who drove its sales.
사례 읽기Touradji Capital fought its traders over profit shares for a decade — and lost $46M
Paul Touradji never paid the profit share he promised two star traders, fought them for ten years, and a New York jury made him pay $46 million plus interest.
사례 읽기Facebook launched a smart display with a camera in 2018 — killed it four years later
Facebook's Portal was a smart display with an always-on camera for video calls. Privacy fears, weak sales and Meta's pivot to enterprise killed it in 2022.
사례 읽기3M's Post-it Notes were a failed glue that became a global office staple
In 1968, 3M scientist Spencer Silver invented a weak adhesive with no use. Six years later, a colleague used it for a bookmark. Post-it Notes were born.
사례 읽기Toyota set minimum Lexus resale prices in Jiangsu — China fined it ¥87.6M
Toyota Motor (China) dictated minimum resale prices for Lexus dealers in Jiangsu for four years — regulators fined it ¥87.6M, about 2% of its 2016 China sales.
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