• August 2013 (Revised December 2014)
• Case

Taking Dell Private

By: David J. Collis, David B. Yoffie and Matthew Shaffer

In July 2012, Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, Inc., met with a representative of Silver Lake Partners to explore taking his company private. The company, which he had founded in his dorm room as a college freshman and which had made him the youngest Fortune 500... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Going Private; The PC Market; Market For Corporate Control; Corporate Strategy; Leveraged Buyouts; Change Management; Private Equity; Market Entry and Exit; Private Ownership; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Technology Industry; United States

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Collis, David J., David B. Yoffie, and Matthew Shaffer. "Taking Dell Private." Harvard Business School Case 714-421, August 2013. (Revised December 2014.)

• 08 Jan 2016
• Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

indicates the answer is yes. That is, by enhancing employee value managers can potentially add significant value to an organization. This research is particularly important to recall this week, when, with the close of the NFL’s regular... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

• 22 Apr 2002
• Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

spirituality in business. Can Spirituality Drive Success? Should It? In a session exploring how spirituality can lead to business success, panelist Tony Schwartz confessed to one distinction: he was perhaps the only person in the world who was "driven to the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

• 14 Feb 2019
• News

Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

HBS Professor Mike Toffel; Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), cofounder and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC; Gina McCarthy, Director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and David Perry... View Details

• 24 Feb 2014
• News

Searching for the True Cost of Health Care

• 02 Jan 2001
• Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

interviewed share one habit: they refuse to make decisions for the entrepreneurs. Otherwise, their teaching methods vary tremendously. Learning by Doing When Michael Chiarello, founder and CEO of NapaStyle,... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

• 13 Jul 2016
• News

For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance

• 10 Sep 2020
• Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

submitted, from managing a remote workforce to making decisions in the face of vast uncertainty. Not surprisingly, one significant challenge reported by many CEOs was how to position their company to survive, or even thrive, during the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

• 18 Sep 2007
• Panel Discussion

The Competitive Challenge For America in the 21st Century

By: Michael E. Porter

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce, The National Summit on American Competitiveness convened leaders of business, government, academia and the research community to address the core components of U.S. competitiveness. Michael Porter participated on the panel... View Details

Keywords: Economics; United States

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Porter, Michael E. "The Competitive Challenge For America in the 21st Century." National Summit on American Competitiveness, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington, DC, September 18, 2007.

• 04 Aug 2017
• News

The negative side of positive thinking

• 15 Sep 2016
• News

Harvard economist never thought his new study would take him where it did

• 22 Dec 2010
• News

Capitalism Reconstructed

• 13 Apr 2016
• News

Consumer Reports in the Age of the Amazon Review

• 15 Aug 2017
• News

5 Reasons Why Quality Audits Need To Become Routine In Manufacturing

• 01 Jun 2016
• What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

Yet a third view is that the odds of success in achieving important change are enhanced by coordinated efforts to alter, as Michael Beer puts it, “the organization model” (including culture) and the... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett