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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. Dell returned as CEO in 2007. As Lerner summed it up for me in an interview, "There seemed to be a pretty positive track record in terms of technology companies after buyouts.". How do you get back on top?

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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. Instead, businesses see them as in their longer-term strategic interests. In the long-term, the success of U.S. Competitiveness Project.