Pivots, reinventions and changes that made a meaningful difference.
The full archive, in the appRejecting a $950m Flipkart takeover in July 2017, Snapdeal sold Freecharge, cut costs, went cashflow positive by 2018 and filed a $166m IPO in 2021.
Read the caseElliott's 2023 stake forced board changes and a fiber review; Crown Castle sold its fiber and small cells for $8.5B and became tower-only.
Read the caseWidowed at 27 with a failing cellar, Barbe-Nicole Clicquot kept the maison going, invented the riddling table and made Veuve Clicquot a global brand.
Read the caseThe 2017-2018 all-stock merger of lens maker and frame maker created a €46B eyewear giant — then the two camps fought a governance war
Read the caseBAA's July 1987 flotation raised about £1.2 billion; the tender drew bids at 283p, forcing a clawback of 125 million shares placed at 245p.
Read the caseAbbott launched BinaxNOW and Panbio rapid tests at scale; 2020 diagnostics sales rose 40% to $10.8B and total sales hit $34.6B.
Read the caseCEO Kaeser's 2014 Vision 2020 merged Siemens' 16 divisions into 9 around three axes; the 2018 Healthineers IPO raised €4.2B as proof
Read the caseStarboard's 2019 preferred investment bought board control and a new chairman; Papa John's sales turned positive and hit records by 2020.
Read the caseLogitech bet the pandemic shift to home work was permanent; fiscal 2021 sales rose 76% to a record $5.25bn.
Read the caseThe over-leveraged Aladdin filed Chapter 11 in 2001 and was sold in 2004 to a Planet Hollywood-led group for $635M, becoming a new brand.
Read the caseAfter a $1B loss in 2022, Klarna cut costs and credit losses and used AI, reaching its first full-year profit since 2018 in 2024.
Read the caseAfter the show was canceled in 2007, creator Rob Thomas raised $5.7 million from 91,000 backers in 2013; the movie came out in 2014.
Read the casePrivatized in 1985 and floated in Tokyo in 1994, Japan Tobacco survived a weak IPO debut and bought its way to the world's third-largest tobacco group.
Read the caseAfter Elliott's 2023 stake, Phillips 66 promised $3B of asset sales and cost cuts; Elliott then won two board seats pushing for a refining focus.
Read the casePiaggio revived the heritage marque with an investment in the retro V7, which became its best seller.
Read the caseIndia's 2006 airport PPP handed its two busiest gateways to GMR and GVK, with AAI keeping 26% — a privatization that rebuilt them into world-class hubs.
Read the caseAfter Ackman's Pershing Square became Fortune Brands' largest shareholder, the company split: spirits became Beam Inc. and home & security was spun off in 2011.
Read the casePost relaunched the beloved 1990s cereal in June 2017 with a Walmart exclusive, and the licensed product helped lift its cereal sales.
Read the casePicking Volkswagen over Renault in 1990 turned a state carmaker known for clunkers into a 500,000-vehicle-a-year exporter — the Czech Republic's biggest.
Read the caseSwitzerland parked up to $60bn of UBS's illiquid assets in an SNB fund the bank could buy back; UBS repaid the loan three years early and reclaimed the rump.
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