The 101 Dumbest Moments In Business 2003 EDITION (Business 2.0) By Mark Athitakis April 1, 2003 (Business 2.0) – GRAND PRIZE WINNER, DUMBEST MOMENT OF 2002 1| Whiffed pitch No. 1: naked grannies. Six months after Midas hires marketing firm Cliff Freeman & Partners, lauding its “strategic insight into our business,” that insight shows itself [...]

101 Dumbest Moments in Business (Business 2.0) By Adam Horowitzl, Mark Athitakis, Mark Lasswell and Owen Thomas January 1, 2004 (Business 2.0) – GRAND PRIZE WINNERS, DUMBEST MOMENTS OF 2003 1 (TIE)| Two greedy Richards. Richard the First | In August, the board of the New York Stock Exchange decides to give CEO Dick Grasso [...]

101 Dumbest Moments in Business (Business 2.0) By Adam Horowitz January 1, 2005 (Business 2.0) – GRAND PRIZE WINNER, DUMBEST MOMENT OF 2004 1 Defrauding investors is sooooooo 2002. These days it’s all about hosing your customers. When you’re a bike-lock maker whose slogan is “Tough World, Tough Locks,” it doesn’t get much tougher than [...]

101 Dumbest Moments in BusinessNotorious former mental institutions being converted into high-end condos. Candy bars with curious names. And more stupidity. See our list of the year’s most boneheaded blunders.Fortune MagazineBy Adam HorowitzFebruary 1, 2006: 4:57 PM EST (Business 2.0) – GRAND PRIZE WINNER, DUMBEST MOMENT OF 2005 “If you grew up in Danvers, and [...]

The Squash Blossom Solution At the high, high end of the market, the Jones family of Huron, Ohio, outruns the economics of modern farming. From: Inc. Magazine, October 2006 | By: Arthur Lubow On a blustery day last March, Ferran Adrià, who is often acclaimed as the most influential chef in the world, toured a [...]