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101 Dumbest Moments in Business

101 Dumbest Moments

The year's biggest boors, buffoons, and blunderers


101 Dumbest Moments in Business
101 Dumbest Moments in Business
Business 2.0 Magazine's 7th annual look at the year in bungled layoffs, customer-service snafus, executive follies, and other madness. See all 101. (more)
• The complete 101
• 10 Grand-prize winners
• Where Wal-Mart went wrong
• Sex, drugs & celebrities
• Bosses behaving badly
• Top tech flops
• Worst moments in customer service
• Misadventures in marketing

Where are they now?
Where are they now?
See how past dummies have fared since earning their dubious distinction. (more)
• Grand-prize '05 winners
• Grand-prize '04 winners
• Grand-prize '03 winners

Business...It's 'Dumbtastic!'
Business...It's 'Dumbtastic!'
Business 2.0 Magazine, with the help of a few comedians, highlights the doozies from 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. (more) VIDEO
• Go dumpster diving! VIDEO
• How not to love your customer VIDEO

Blog: What readers say...
Blog: What readers say...
Tell us what you think was the Dumbest Moment in Business in '06. (more)
• Quiz: How 'dumb' are you?
• Ask Annie: Made a dumb move at work? You can recover.
• The Other End of the Telescope: Riffs on today's headlines
SMART TAKES
How to Succeed in 2007
How to Succeed in 2007 We asked Google's Sergey Brin and 49 more of the brightest minds in business how they do what they do - and how you can cash in on their advice. (more)
Invest to Win 2007
Invest to Win 2007 Money Magazine's 5 perfect money makeovers for the year. Plus: The best mutual funds. (more)
Quick Vote
What was the dumbest moment in business last year?
  Making employees eat baby food and get spanked at a company retreat.
  Advising laid-off workers to save money by dumpster-diving.
  Awarding stock options to a dead executive.
  Giving away MP3 player infected with a virus.
  Forcing laid-off workers train their replacements in order to get severance.
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