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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. If Michael Dell and Silver Lake are to succeed, they should look to the case of IBM in the 1990s, what Rivkin calls "the gold standard for turnarounds in the computer industry."

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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. These collaborations might include city or statewide councils on competitiveness and economic growth, civic alliances, and local, CEO-membership organizations.