On This Day in Business History2026. 05. 21. 20:42:52Three May 21 Disasters: All Predictable, All PreventableThree May 21 moments across 31 years — Transamerica's forced sale of United Artists after Heaven's Gate destroyed the studio (1981), Olivetti's David-vs-Goliath hostile takeover of Telecom Italia that debt then unwound (1999), and Nasdaq's infinite-loop glitch that stranded 30,000 retail investors on Facebook's IPO day (2012). Each shows a different version of the same lesson: preventable failures that institutional players could see coming.
On This Day in Business History2026. 05. 20. 20:47:34Three decisions that landed on May 20Three May 20 moments across 146 years — Levi Strauss's patent (1873), Yahoo's $1.1B Tumblr bet (2013), and Google's Huawei cutoff (2019) — and what each one still teaches about moats, M&A, and supply-chain leverage.
On This Day in Business History2026. 05. 15. 17:08:31Five Decisions That Landed on May 15Five May 15 moments — from the TSE to Amazon's IPO — and what they still teach.