Business failures, costly decisions and the lessons they leave behind.
The full archive, in the appThe Bradford shoe chain treated administration as a recurring reset until 2013, when the rescue equity vanished and only a rival's bid for 14 stores remained.
Read the caseMicrosoft bought WebTV for $425M when it had 56,000 subscribers; sixteen years later the service was shut down having never passed a million.
Read the caseChairperson Rashmi Saluja sold ₹34.7 crore of Religare shares two days after a takeover dinner; SEBI ordered ₹1.99 crore disgorgement and a ₹40 lakh fine.
Read the caseTRAI cleared Jio and Airtel of predatory pricing but made them state that 'unlimited 5G' has limits — Airtel set a 300GB monthly commercial-use threshold.
Read the caseVyStar downgraded 135 critical defects to launch its banking platform on time; the app went dark for a month and full features took seven months to return.
Read the caseHarbinger bet $4B on a 4G network over satellite spectrum. When the FCC moved to suspend its license, LightSquared filed Chapter 11 four months later.
Read the caseFrance's best-known health site quizzed users about cancer and endometriosis without consent, stored passwords in obsolete MD5 and served pages over HTTP.
Read the caseIndia's top online pharmacy charged thousands for a ₹99 membership they never knowingly bought, then called it a technical glitch. The regulator didn't buy it.
Read the caseDukaan's CEO tweeted the layoff like a victory lap. The internet called it tone-deaf, and a paying customer said the bot drove him to cancel.
Read the caseHeinz launched EZ Squirt colored ketchup in 2000: green, purple, pink, orange, teal and blue. By 2006 it was gone.
Read the caseIowa researchers told 12 orphans their speech was defective when it was not. The study was suppressed. In 2007, subjects won $925,000.
Read the caseIndia's money-circulation law made Amway's standard MLM a crime: the CEO spent two months in jail, and the ED later alleged ₹4,050 crore in proceeds of crime
Read the caseA Dh4bn 'world's first Tiger Woods design' with 22 palaces and an Elie Saab hotel: work stopped at three holes in 2009 and no opening was ever announced.
Read the caseTax credits launched in 2003 on systems that 'did not work as intended'; overpayments hit £2.2bn a year and contractor EDS repaid just £70m.
Read the caseFive dead stocks were pumped for years with 2.1 crore bulk SMS and employee demats; SEBI's 394-page final order clawed back ₹143.79 crore.
Read the caseA studio ended its most profitable comedy star's services mid-season, then watched the show's ratings climb with his replacement.
Read the caseThe motor empire built by M&A could not keep its factories honest: 805 unauthorized design and process changes, most of them in three business units.
Read the caseNorth Sea producer EnQuest leveraged up for its first big development just as Brent halved — then agreed bond coupons payable in cash only above $65 oil.
Read the caseCCI ruled a clause promising IPL broadcasters no rival T20 league for a decade was abuse of dominance, fining BCCI Rs 52.24 crore.
Read the caseIndia's best-selling EV was sold on a lab-test 312 km figure. Owners got ~200 km, Delhi pulled its subsidy, and a court later ordered a full refund.
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