Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. The Case of IBM. Both strategies are evident in the case of Gerstner and IBM.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

"When I first started studying mentoring in the 1970s it was a much more stable world. Kram, the Shipley Professor in Management at the Boston University School of Management and author of Mentoring at Work. Case Study #1: Using multiple mentors. Case Study #2: When you think you don't need it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. To help bring cool new technology to the world? Case Study #1: Get to know the founder and spend quality time with the team. ” Get to know the team.

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