XPeng recalled 47,490 P7s after water got into the steering assist motor connector
A harness connector that let in water could short the steering assist motor; XPeng replaced the steering gear assembly on 47,490 P7s for free
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDCox & Kings: fictitious sales and siphoned sale proceeds ended a 261-year travel brand
India's best-known tour operator defaulted in June 2019; PwC found ₹6,400 crore booked to fictitious customers and ₹4,367 crore of sale proceeds siphoned off.
Read the caseSekisui House paid land fraudsters ¥5.5B — then kept its own investigation report sealed
A fake landowner sold Sekisui House a Tokyo site for ¥5.5B. Ten red flags were missed — and the company kept its own probe report secret.
Read the caseHnoss closed 36 stores after 17 years — Seedcom's fashion bet couldn't outrun its losses
Vietnam's Hnoss grew to 36 stores after a major investor backed it. When the investor withdrew, the brand closed in two days.
Read the caseSilla's succession rule kept the throne safe 200 years — then made it irrelevant
The bone-rank system restricted power to hereditary elites. When talent was excluded by birth, excluded talent built its own kingdoms.
Read the caseFord sold 2 million cars with a transmission its engineers knew was defective
Ford launched the PowerShift dual-clutch knowing it shuddered, then repaired it endlessly — earning an AU$10M fine, a $35M settlement and a criminal probe.
Read the caseThe sugar industry paid Harvard scientists to blame fat for heart disease
In the 1960s, the Sugar Research Foundation paid Harvard scientists to produce research downplaying sugar's role in heart disease — the consequences remain.
Read the casePluralsight's sales-productivity story cost $20 million to settle
Pluralsight tied billings growth to sales-force productivity; investors later settled the disclosure case for $20 million.
Read the case'On fabrique, on vend, on se paie' — Lip's workers ran the watch factory themselves
Bankrupt in 1973, the Besançon watchmaker's workers hid the stock, restarted the line and paid themselves — the slogan still titles books and exhibitions.
Read the caseGoogle's Sidewalk Labs spent years on a Toronto smart city — then abandoned it
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs promised a high-tech Toronto neighborhood. Privacy backlash, a leaked 'Yellow Book,' and COVID killed the project.
Read the caseAWB paid A$290 million in kickbacks to Iraq — and lost its monopoly
Australia's state-chartered wheat exporter paid A$290 million in disguised kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime, destroying the company.
Read the caseXinba sold 'bird's nest' that was mostly sugar water — and denied it before the tests
Top Kuaishou livestreamer Xinba sold 'bird's nest' that tested as sugar water. He denied it, was fined, banned 60 days, and paid tens of millions in refunds.
Read the caseOpenAI's ChatGPT redis-py bug exposed one user's data to another
A March 2023 change spiked Redis cancellations, corrupting connection reuse and exposing chat titles plus payment details of some ChatGPT Plus users.
Read the caseSunac China bought Wanda's theme parks with borrowed money — then had to restructure twice
Sunac funded takeovers like its 43.8B-yuan Wanda deal with offshore bonds — when credit tightened, it needed two separate restructurings to survive.
Read the caseBank of America sold shareholders the Merrill deal as its losses exploded - $2.43B
BofA pushed the Merrill Lynch acquisition through while Merrill's losses and a $5.8B bonus pool went undisclosed - it paid $2.43B and a record SEC penalty.
Read the caseBetel nut brand faked a Bentley collab — Bentley: no authorization, no association
A Group-1 carcinogen betel nut brand staged a 'Bentley collab' it never had; Bentley China publicly denied it, dismantling the fake luxury image
Read the caseWuyou Media announced a 'health' strategy — then a star creator collapsed
Months after China's largest livestreaming agency named 'health' its keyword, its most talked-about creator collapsed after a punishing schedule and cut ties.
Read the caseNichi-Iko: Japan's biggest generic drugmaker suspended as 75 drugs recalled for GMP fraud
An unannounced GMP inspection exposed a decade of skipped tests at Nichi-Iko: 75 recalls, a 32-day shutdown, then debt restructuring.
Read the caseThe learning styles myth cost schools billions — and the science never supported it
The idea that students learn best in their preferred style is still taught in every teacher training program. It was debunked 20 years ago.
Read the caseGo Sport was France's sports shop for 44 years — then its owner walked away
The same holding group that lost Camaïeu chose not to fight for Go Sport: liquidation, 72 stores, and Intersport taking 50 of them and most of the jobs.
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