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  <description>Long-form, documentary-style case studies on history’s greatest corporate turnarounds — the rise, the fall, the crisis, and the strategy that brought each company back from the brink.</description>
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    <title>Chipotle: Rebuilding Trust After the Outbreak</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How Chipotle recovered from a 2015 E. coli crisis that erased billions in value, rebuilding under CEO Brian Niccol into a stronger, digital-first chain.</description>
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    <title>Burberry: Reclaiming a Brand From Its Own Success</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How Angela Ahrendts rebuilt Burberry from an overexposed, devalued brand into a global digital-first luxury powerhouse.</description>
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    <title>Samsung: Burning the Old Way of Making Things</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How chairman Lee Kun-hee’s 1993 quality overhaul turned Samsung from a cheap imitator into a global technology leader.</description>
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    <title>Best Buy: Answering the Amazon Threat</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How CEO Hubert Joly’s “Renew Blue” plan used price matching and vendor showcases to save Best Buy from “showrooming.”</description>
    <category>Consumer &amp; Retail</category>
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    <title>General Motors: Rebuilding From Chapter 11</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How General Motors rebuilt after the largest industrial bankruptcy in U.S. history through a government-backed restructuring.</description>
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    <title>Chrysler: The Turnaround That Wrote the Textbook</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How Lee Iacocca secured a federal loan guarantee, cut his salary to $1, and repaid the government seven years early — the case that defined the genre.</description>
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    <title>Ford: The One That Didn’t Take the Bailout</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How Alan Mulally’s “One Ford” plan and a $23.6 billion loan let Ford avoid the bankruptcy GM and Chrysler required.</description>
    <category>Automotive</category>
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    <title>Domino’s: Admitting the Product Was the Problem</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How Domino’s admitted its pizza recipe was failing, rebuilt it, and became one of the decade’s best-performing stocks.</description>
    <category>Food &amp; Beverage</category>
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    <title>Xerox: The Insider Who Refused to File Bankruptcy</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How Anne Mulcahy restructured $10 billion in debt, settled an SEC fraud case, and rebuilt Xerox without filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.</description>
    <category>Technology</category>
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    <title>Starbucks: Reclaiming the Third Place</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How Howard Schultz’s 2008 return and a company-wide quality reset saved Starbucks from its own rapid overexpansion.</description>
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    <title>LEGO: Rebuilding, Brick by Brick</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How LEGO recovered from its 2003–2004 near-collapse by selling its theme parks and refocusing on the core brick system.</description>
    <category>Toys &amp; Consumer Products</category>
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    <title>Marvel: Betting the Company on Iron Man</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How Marvel recovered from 1996 bankruptcy to build the Marvel Cinematic Universe, financed by a $525 million bet on Iron Man.</description>
    <category>Entertainment &amp; Media</category>
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    <title>Nintendo: From the Wii U to the Switch</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How Nintendo recovered from the Wii U’s commercial failure and first operating loss in decades by building the Nintendo Switch.</description>
    <category>Entertainment &amp; Media</category>
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    <title>Netflix: Surviving Its Own Worst Idea</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How a botched 2011 price hike and DVD-streaming split cost Netflix 800,000 subscribers — and the reversal that rebuilt the company.</description>
    <category>Entertainment &amp; Media</category>
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    <title>Adobe: Killing the Box to Save the Business</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How Adobe risked its customer base to kill packaged software and rebuild around Creative Cloud subscriptions — and why it worked.</description>
    <category>Technology</category>
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    <title>IBM: Saving Big Blue From Itself</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How outsider CEO Lou Gerstner rejected a board plan to break up IBM and rebuilt it around technology services in the 1990s.</description>
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    <title>Microsoft: Rewriting the Culture of a Giant</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How Microsoft ended its stagnant Ballmer-era decade and rebuilt around cloud computing and a growth-mindset culture under CEO Satya Nadella.</description>
    <category>Technology</category>
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    <title>Apple: The Return of the King</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How Steve Jobs’ 1997 return and the iMac pulled Apple back from 90 days of bankruptcy to become the world’s most valuable company.</description>
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