“Mark Tritton, of BBBY. You have to be a certain level of bad to have your CFO climb up to the top of a building and jump to his own death abandoning his wife and three daughters because the books were that horrible. Then to have the audacity to sue the company after bankruptcy for not honoring the golden parachute after the way you left the company.” —12whistle

“Possibly Gerald Ratner. He tanked a very successful jewelry company with one misjudged joke about their products being total c—p. Shares dropped by around $1.3 billion within a few days.” —Correct-Fun-516

"’It's one thing to oversee the collapse of one of Wall Street's most esteemed firms, Lehman Brothers, but when you're hubris triggers a national financial panic as well, you're a shoo-in for top prize. Fuld's reckless risk taking may have been typical for Wall Street, but his refusal to acknowledge that his firm was in trouble, and take steps to save it, was beyond the pale. Since filing the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history ($613 billion in debts outstanding), Fuld has been belligerent and unrepentant.’" —nomoremammoths

“Ken Lay has to be mentioned. As the CEO of Enron, he could have simply sat in a chair and made millions of dollars. Instead, he decided to defraud investors so he could have a few more million dollars. He got caught and caused the biggest fraud-related bankruptcy in history. You might be looking for incompetence rather than malice, and if so, ignore me. But I don’t want people to forget about Ken Lay. He was a bad man.” —apollo_reactor_001

“Bob Nardelli. Was CEO of The Home Depot in the early 2000’s. Reversed the core company beliefs, and decided that he wanted to compete with Walmart. Made the stock tank. Lost my 401k entirely. Then resigned with a huge amount of money and I had to change jobs. Almost 20 years ago, and HD is still recovering.” —Npatrick93

Long before he — pun avoidable — crashed and burned Boeing, Calhoun garnered a less-than-stellar reputation for his work as higher-up at GE, where he worked for 26 years on various transportation initiatives. As Redditor u/Good-Gold-6515 so aptly put it, “wow this dude got a lot of practice helping run a brand into the ground way before Boeing!”

“Chris C., CEO of Hasbro Comes in to a money printing organization. Describes in his opening speeches about how no one at his cocktail parties knew was magic the gathering was, nor did he. Printing a collectable card game is a simple business model; wait for card values to go up, reprint them, and sell boxes due to value of staple cards inside. He immediately prints everything into the ground. Then, he goes back and even reprints cards the company had promised for 25+ years to never reprint. Alienating all of the companies whale spenders. Whale mtg collectors and finance nerds share space in a Venn diagram. They begin writing articles in finance news that hasbron is killing its golden goose. The stock has plummeted.” — JohnLaw1717

“It’s gotta be Stockton Rush. Not only did he make terrible decision after terrible decision when it came to designing their “innovative” submersibles, but then he was dumb enough to take a one way trip to the bottom of the ocean in his accumulation of bad decisions.” —Pfolty

“Steve Ballmer belongs somewhere on the list. That meathead was CEO for ~15 years and managed a -30% return on MSFT. Dude was the luckiest m'fer on the planet to cross paths with Gates early on in life.” —blazing_straddles

“Activision CEO Bobby Kotick knew for years about s—l-misconduct allegations at video game giant.”

“Jamie Dimon. About to be head of big bailout bank financial crisis number two. 2008 and 2022…DRS YOUR GAMESTOP NOW!!”

“For failing to capitalize on one of its own inventions and have that invention, in the hands of others, obliterate its core business model, Kay Whitmore of Eastman Kodak.” — Mm_Donut

“Hector Ruiz was the CEO from 2002 to 2008, which is the time frame where AMD was ‘mysteriously’ losing hardware contracts while having superior/competitive chips, followed by the Core 2 launch. Whatever else you think of his decision making, it can't be easy to lay down a plan for your company when the market isn't behaving in any predictable way.” —OftenSarcastic

“Have people forgotten that Jeff Bezoz runs warehouses with so bad work conditions that youd be better off homeless? Basically exploiting the lack of workers rights in the US. The warehouses he tried to run in other first world countries couldnt even function because he was forced to actually pay workers and give them better hours/conditions.” —bumpmoon