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The Dell Deal Explained: What a Successful Turnaround Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. That''s the question Michael Dell has been asking himself since 2007, when he retook the top job at the computer company he founded in 1984. How do you get back on top? For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse. This was the situation facing Collins Consulting , a Chicago area provider of contingent staffing services. Partner with procurement.

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Have Our Attitudes About Sexual Harassment Really Changed?

Harvard Business Review

The self-congratulatory consensus seems to be that things are different now than they were in 2004, the last time O’Reilly faced a major uproar over his conduct with a coworker. Collins and Timothy Blodgett, who had conducted a survey of HBR subscribers the prior year in coordination with Redbook. Using the U.S.

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