Death By One Thousand Cuts : Identify an organization that has died in recent years or is about to.

Death By One Thousand Cuts.

Identify an organization that has died in recent years or is about to.

Choose from the list below, or identify your own. Do a complete business decision-making post-mortem autopsy on the organization.

What happened? How did poor decision-making relative to organizational and operational issues affect the success of the organization? What business decisions could have been changed to add some longevity to the organization’s life?

As corporate leaders, what specific lessons can each of us learn from the demise of this organization? Your paper should be double-spaced

  1. Business Boneyard
  2. A & P
  3. Abercrombie & Fitch
  4. American Apparel
  5. BlackBerry
  6. Border’s Books
  7. Crystal Cathedral
  8. Circuit City
  9. Hilton Hotels
  10. Loehmann’s
  11. RadioShack
  12. Sbarro
  13. Sears
  14. Shoney’s
  15. Solyndra
  16. Sports Authority
  17. United Airlines
  18. Blockbuster