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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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The Growing Conflict-of-Interest Problem in the U.S. Congress

Harvard Business Review

Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) Both Collins and Price sit on House committees with potential to advance the firm’s interests and, at the same time, in theory, their own pocketbooks. But there’s still a lot we don’t know about what actually happens at a company level when members of Congress own stock.