Non-voting shares were donated to MIT by founder Amar Bose and receive cash dividends.

This design aimed to achieve a dominance of reflected over direct sound in home listening spaces.

[16][17] In 1991, a team of Bose researchers debunked a 1989 experiment that claimed to have created energy through cold fusion.

[19] In 2011, then-chairman and primary stockholder Amar Bose donated the majority of the firm's non-voting shares to his former employer and alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[28] In January 2020, Bose announced that they would be closing all their more than 100 retail stores in North America, Japan, Europe, and Australia.

[31] In August 2020, Bose selected their first female CEO, Lila Snyder, who was formerly an executive at Pitney Bowes.

[2] Snyder, who took her position in September 2020, is an MIT alumna, having earned her masters and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering there.

The Malaysian Bose factory is located in Batu Kawan and is the company's Asia-Pacific and Middle East distribution hub.

[38] In 2015, two facilities in Columbia, South Carolina, US and Carrickmacross, Ireland, were closed (with the loss of 300 and 140 jobs, respectively) as part of a "global streamlining of Bose's supply chain.

Bose used the Columbia facility, which opened in 1993, for distribution and repair, sub-manufacturing and regional manufacturing, and final assembly for some headsets.

The Carrickmacross factory began operations in 1978 and did the final assembly for some home theater systems, Wave radios, and other regional manufacturing.

[39] The operation of the San Luis and Batu Kawan factories were taken over by contract manufacturer Flex in 2016 and continued to produce Bose products.

[40] Following an unsuccessful attempt to sell aftermarket car speakers, Bose's first OEM audio installation was in a MY1983 Cadillac Seville.

In 2007, the Bose media system won the International Telematics Award for the "Best Storage Solution for In-Car Environment.

"[43] A prototype active suspension system, using electromagnetic motors instead of hydraulic/pneumatic power, was unveiled by the company in 2004[44][45] and was due for release in 2009.

[48] The system used electromagnetic linear motors to raise or lower the wheels of an vehicle in response to uneven bumps or potholes on the road.

[49] The wheels are raised when approaching a bump (or lowered into a pothole) to keep the vehicle level, using principles similar to noise cancelling audio devices.

[53] In May 2018, it was announced that five major car manufacturers had expressed interest in the technology and that it may be available in 2019 for low-volume vehicles and by 2020 for the mass market.

[59] Vehicle brands that currently have Bose audio systems available in their vehicles include Alfa Romeo,[60] Buick,[61] Chevrolet,[62] Cadillac,[63] Geely,[64] GMC,[65] Honda,[66] Hongqi,[67] Hyundai,[68] Infiniti,[69] Kia,[70] Mazda,[71] Nissan,[72] Opel,[73] Porsche,[74] Renault,[75] Roewe[76] and Vauxhall.

Initially, the Federal District Court found that Consumer Reports "had published the false statement with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of its truth or falsity" when it changed what the original reviewer wrote about the speakers in his pre-publication draft, that the sound tended to wander "along the wall."

"[96] Bose sued Thiel Audio in the early 1990s to stop the audiophile loudspeaker maker from using ".2" at the end of its product model "CS2.2".

At the end of 2002, the earlier judgment was upheld, but by this time, Bose's court expenses had risen to $8 million, all to be paid by Harman.

In 2002, a court decided that the "Wave" trademark was worthy of greater protection because it was well-known on its own, even beyond its association with Bose.