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The Dell Deal Explained: What a Successful Turnaround Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

A Short History of Dell. 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. Yet the improved financial position came at a cost.

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

In short, every company benefits from “the commons,” the set of communal resources that allow firms and workers to be productive. 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. Competitiveness Project.