At 29, François Michelin took over in 1955 and bet the firm on the radial tire
The founder's grandson took charge of a tire maker ranked only 10th worldwide and bet on the radial, making it a global 'Big Three' player.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDJPMorgan bought Bear Stearns and WaMu at panic prices and emerged as the strongest bank.
Dimon answered the Fed's call on Bear Stearns, then took over Washington Mutual — turning crisis fire sales into the foundation of JPMorgan's dominance.
Read the caseAfter the founder died, the Hoffmann family pooled Roche's votes and kept control
Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche died in 1920; heirs kept control via dual-class shares and a 1948 voting pact, holding most votes with a fraction of the capital.
Read the caseMillerCoors brought Zima back for one summer and fans emptied the shelves
A few months of 90s nostalgia reopened a drink discontinued in 2008, and demand outstripped supply.
Read the caseHenry Ford II took over in 1945 and stopped the company losing $9M a month
In 1945, at 28, Henry Ford II became president, fired Harry Bennett and hired the Whiz Kids, turning Ford from deep loss into a corporate giant.
Read the caseMattel's 2016 Barbie relaunch with new body types ended a multi-year sales slide
Barbie's gross sales fell 10% in 2015; Mattel unveiled curvy, tall and petite dolls in January 2016, and Q4 2015 sales turned positive with Q3 2016 up 16%.
Read the caseYiheng Battery joined Temu and found a new channel for 100 daily orders
When domestic sales stalled, Huang Qianqian convinced her family battery factory to join Temu; it reached around 100 orders a day, albeit at thin margins.
Read the caseTSUTAYA: 1983 rental shop to Japan's #1 bookseller and a 70M-member points empire
A 1983 rental shop grew into Japan's #1 bookstore chain and a 70M-member T-Point ecosystem; MBO'd private in 2011, folded into SMBC V-Point 2024.
Read the caseEtsy's CEO cut 22% of staff and refocused the marketplace; revenue growth hit 37%
Josh Silverman replaced Etsy's CEO, cut a fifth of the staff, raised seller fees and refocused on the core marketplace — revenue growth jumped to 37%.
Read the caseChina State Construction listed its whole group, then grew fivefold in nine years
In 2009 China's biggest builder listed as one company, raising 50bn yuan and unlocking a decade of growth
Read the caseCorvex and Related ousted CommonWealth REIT's entire board
Corvex and Related fought RMR's control for a year, then removed the whole CommonWealth REIT board and installed Sam Zell.
Read the caseTexaco used Chapter 11 to cut a $10.5B verdict to $3B, then merged into Chevron.
Facing a record $10.53B judgment, Texaco filed Chapter 11, settled for $3B, emerged in 1988, and kept growing.
Read the caseRose Marie Bravo turned neglected Burberry into a luxury powerhouse worth £1.8B
Burberry was near-obsolete in 1997 with £250M sales; CEO Rose Marie Bravo repositioned it as luxury, and by 2004 analysts saw £670M turnover worth £1.8B.
Read the caseKarl Toosbuy's daughter took over ECCO and kept it family-owned
When ECCO's founder died in 2004, daughter Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak and her husband took over management; the shoe maker stayed in the family.
Read the caseAlfa Romeo revived the 1967 33 Stradale as a 33-car halo and sold every one
Alfa relaunched its 1967 33 Stradale icon in 2023 as a 33-unit, made-to-order supercar; every example was sold within weeks.
Read the casePham Van Thoai turned livestream spectacle into a high-volume sales engine
Vietnamese influencer Pham Van Thoai used theatrical livestreams to pull in viewers and convert attention into bursts of thousands of product sales.
Read the caseAnta: 2009 bought a loss-making FILA China for ¥332M — and grew it into a twin engine
A 1991 shoemaker IPO'd 2007, bought loss-making FILA China for ¥332M, rebuilt it, led the $5.2B Amer Sports buyout — ¥70.8B revenue by 2024.
Read the caseiQiyi's first annual profit after 12 years of losses
Gong Yu's cost discipline and hit-driven content took iQiyi to its first annual operating profit (RMB1.31B) and first non-GAAP net profit in 2022.
Read the caseA daughter left finance to save her father's failing machine shop
Nicole Wolter joined struggling HM Manufacturing in 2009, uncovered a secret side business, and rebuilt sales from $80,000 to about $3 million in six years.
Read the caseCevian's campaign helped Ericsson cut costs, refresh the board and return to profit
Cevian demanded Ericsson fix Digital Services and lift margins; by 2024 Ericsson was profitable again with a new chairman and a 9B-krona cost program.
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