Pivots, reinventions and changes that made a meaningful difference.
The full archive, in the appAfter interim certificates expired, Yatri's bikes faced impoundment; government intervention produced a registration clause and its first registered bike.
Read the caseAfter losses and a 3% share, Hero's 2016 relaunch grew gold-nib sales 72% and made it Tmall's No.1 by 2019
Read the caseAnand Mahindra split the chairman and MD roles in 2016, ran a five-year trial with Pawan Goenka as MD, then handed the group to ex-GE executive Anish Shah.
Read the caseAfter telecom demand collapsed, Corning tripled LCD glass to 38% of sales, posting first profit since 2000.
Read the caseDidi merged with rival Kuaidi (2015), then bought Uber's loss-making China business (2016) — turning two years of subsidy war into a near-monopoly overnight.
Read the caseSony's exotic Cell chip and $599 price sank the PS3; the PS4 was designed around developers, hit $399, and sold 10M units in nine months.
Read the caseNavistar's diesel engines couldn't meet EPA rules after every competitor's approach worked. It scrapped its tech and licensed a rival's system instead.
Read the caseWhen every large Spanish bank declined to bid for the intervened savings box CAM, Sabadell did — and took a 75% jump in assets for the price of one euro.
Read the caseFacing AI displacement, Voices built an opt-in voice-data and licensing model; its AI voice jobs now pay up to 85 times traditional voice-over work.
Read the caseLosing ground to Korean brands from the late 1990s, Voltas rebuilt its room-AC business on Indian insight and full price-band range, overtaking LG in FY17.
Read the caseThe 'King of Cashmere' spread the next generation across the business — son-in-law as co-CEO, daughters over creative — while the family kept 51%.
Read the caseAnnounced in 2015 and launched in August 2017, the DuckTales reboot drew 5.4 million viewers for its premiere and ran 75 episodes across three seasons.
Read the caseThree years after seizing Mindtree in a hostile takeover, L&T folded it into its own IT arm, creating India's fifth-largest IT services firm.
Read the caseQ1 2020 revenue fell 42%; Trip.com slashed costs, bet on domestic China and live commerce, and returned to profit in Q3 2020.
Read the caseAMD lost $3.1b in 2008 funding its own chip factories against Intel's far larger capital budget. It spun the factories into a joint venture and went fabless.
Read the caseHong Kong sold 20% of its state subway in a HK$9.4 billion 2000 offering, wrote commercial discipline into law, and built a railway that runs cities worldwide.
Read the caseMeta trained generative AI on public Instagram and Facebook posts, offered Europe opt-outs, and rolled features into other markets without the same choice.
Read the caseA Frenchman registered the faded Feiyue plimsoll abroad in 2006, turned it into a fashion sneaker — and the fight over it revived the brand in China.
Read the caseThe man who built 7-Eleven tried to fire his heir-apparent. The board came one vote short — and handed Japan's biggest retailer to the activist's candidate.
Read the caseKodak Alaris announced Ektachrome's return at CES 2017 and shipped the revived E100 slide film worldwide in September 2018, adding Super 8 and 16mm versions.
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