From the Brink of Disruption to the Year’s Top Corporate Comebacks

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In 1991, LL Cool J rocked MTV Unplugged, rapping to the audience, “Don’t call it a comeback.” He didn’t wish to dwell on the flops of the past or to jinx the future.

Today, three companies – Best Buy, Delta Airlines, and General Motors – could say the same thing. Only a few years ago, each was dismissed and left for dead. But each has since come back and now stand as the turnaround story of 2013.