Eli Lilly spun off Elanco and refocused on medicines before the GLP-1 boom
Lilly separated animal health, concentrated on human medicines, and rode Mounjaro to 2023 growth.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDEGA merged Dubai and Abu Dhabi smelters into a global aluminium champion
Mubadala and ICD combined DUBAL and EMAL into EGA, creating a $15bn UAE aluminium group with global scale.
Read the caseDyson stopped waiting for licensees and built its own vacuum brand
Rejected by manufacturers, James Dyson moved from inventor-licensor to maker; DC01 became Britain's best-selling vacuum.
Read the caseDynata used a five-week prepack to keep its data platform moving
Dynata cut debt from about $1.3B to $780M in 2024 while keeping Mike Petrullo's transformation plan intact.
Read the caseDP World listed in Dubai and made a state port group investable
Dubai listed 23% of DP World in 2007, raising $4.96B and giving its port champion global-market discipline.
Read the caseDocuSign turned lockdown signatures into an Agreement Cloud expansion
DocuSign used 2020 demand to move beyond e-signature; fiscal 2021 revenue grew to $1.5B.
Read the caseDisney turned streaming from a loss center into a small profit
Disney cut streaming losses through pricing, bundles and cost discipline; DTC swung to $143M of operating income.
Read the caseDisney bought Pixar and rebuilt animation as a franchise engine
Disney issued 279M shares for Pixar in 2006; by 2010 Toy Story 3 helped lift studio operating income to $693M.
Read the caseDiscord killed its failed game and became gamers' chat layer
Hammer & Chisel shut down Fates Forever and turned its communication insight into Discord, reaching 45M registered users by 2017.
Read the caseDubai Islamic Bank integrated Noor Bank in 283 days and crossed Dh300bn
DIB used a share-swap acquisition to absorb Noor Bank, then completed integration in 283 days despite the pandemic.
Read the caseDelta Electronics replaced its founder with managers and kept its green pivot
Bruce Cheng stepped aside in 2012, handing Delta to Yancey Hai and Ping Cheng while the firm moved from components to solutions.
Read the caseDBS turned a bank into a tech company that does banking
DBS began its digital push in 2014; by 2019 digital customers produced twice the income of traditional ones.
Read the caseDatadog used 2020 cloud chaos to expand from monitoring into security
Datadog launched security and incident products in 2020 as revenue rose 66% to $603.5M.
Read the caseDAE bought AWAS and became a top-10 aircraft lessor
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise used the AWAS deal to more than double its leasing arm and build a $20bn fleet platform.
Read the caseCrown Holdings took Icahn directors and refocused on cash and cans
Icahn's 8.5% stake won two Crown board seats; by late 2024 beverage performance and lower capex lifted free cash flow.
Read the caseCrowdStrike turned 2020 endpoint sprawl into Falcon platform growth
CrowdStrike leaned into cloud-native security in 2020, lifting fiscal 2021 revenue 82% to $874.4M.
Read the caseCloudflare turned 2020 remote work into a Teams security platform
Cloudflare used the pandemic to push beyond CDN into Zero Trust, lifting 2020 revenue 50% to $431.1M.
Read the caseChangi Airport became a company to defend Singapore's hub status
Singapore split Changi Airport out of CAAS in 2009, giving it autonomy to compete as rival hubs rose.
Read the caseCelsius handed distribution to Pepsi and became a billion-dollar energy drink
Celsius traded control of distribution for Pepsi's system, lifting 2023 sales to $1.32B.
Read the caseCAVA turned Zoes Kitchen into a national Mediterranean growth engine
CAVA finished converting 153 Zoes Kitchen sites in 2023, then grew revenue 35.1% in 2024 with 367 restaurants.
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