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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. Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. How do you get back on top?

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 3/18/13)

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I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results Gary Keller with Jay Papasan The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Third Edition Warren Buffett; Edited by Lawrence A. Cunningham Judgment On the [.].

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

In the “ Scientific Background ” essay on Tirole’s work provided by the Nobel committee, the focus is on Tirole’s work on industry structure, which has had a big impact on antitrust and other regulation, especially in Europe. But Tirole’s 1980s work on industrial organization also found its way into thinking about business strategy.

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. Some examples include “Collective Impact” initiatives and industry cluster organizations such as the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.