[3] In 1940, Paramount Pictures took control of DuMont after failed attempts to work with other established companies in its field, including CBS, RCA and AT&T.
[4] After the death of his youngest daughter in a freak car accident late in 1974, the aging Anheuser–Busch CEO Gussie Busch, who had already become unusually wary of spending company money on new projects, was so consumed with grief that he was impossible to work with.
In May 1975, his oldest son, August Busch III, put into action a plan he had been working on with executives close to him for several years, and persuaded the board to replace his father with him.
Despite the success of a new advertising campaign release in 1984, there was significant backlog of unsold stock, which was worth millions in revenue.
After that failure, with no sign of improvement in profits at the corporation, a boardroom meeting was set up to decide Apple's and, unknowingly to him, Jobs's future as well.
However, this time a clear decision was reached and a couple of weeks later Woolard, a member of the Board of Directors, delivered the news to Amelio by telephone that he would no longer be the head of Apple.
[12] An economic recession hit the globe in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s[13] which significantly impacted on GM and the automotive industry in general.
Chan was not an employee of Blackberry but instead a technological entrepreneur who set up his own business, the XPD Media Inc group.
[18] After Blackberry's share prices plummeted to $16 in 2012[19] Chan began to plan a takeover of the company with a team of specialists in finance and technology.
Within the slides there were details of Blackberry's current losses in a number of graphs and how he envisaged, with his team, to turn the company around.