9-710-442 FEBRUARY 14‚ 2010 JAN W. RIVKIN Revitalizing Dell From the early 1990s until the mid-2000s‚ Michael Dell and his company thrived in the tumultuous personal computer industry. Revenue of Dell Inc. rose from $3.5 billion in 1993 to $55.9 billion in 2005‚ making Dell the world’s largest producer of PCs‚ while net income climbed from $149 million to $3.6 billion. In many of those years‚ Dell earned more on PCs than all of its main rivals combined‚ and among top vendors‚ only Dell
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A Brief History of Spreadsheets by D. J. Power Editor‚ DSSResources.COM Spreadsheets have been used by accountants for hundreds of years. Computerized or electronic spreadsheets are of much more recent origin. Information Systems oral history and some published newspaper and magazine stories celebrate Dan Bricklin as the "father" of the electronic spreadsheet. In 1978‚ Harvard Business School student‚ Daniel Bricklin‚ came up with the idea for an interactive visible calculator (see email from
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* How did Rajat Gupta‚ who belonged to the highest echelons of corporate America‚ the golden boy of Indian Americans‚ get convicted of insider trading? How did Rajaratnam get tips on companies like Intel? * Rajat Gupta’s impending journey into the federal prison system for criminal insider trading ends a remarkable success story and punctuates his swift fall from grace. * A native of Kolkata‚ Mr. Gupta‚ 63 years old‚ moved at a young age to New Delhi. His father‚ Ashwini‚ a disciple of Mohandas
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Planning at Apple Inc.‚ Ivey Management Services‚ Richard Ivey School of Business‚ The University of Western Ontario‚ London‚ Ontario‚ Canada 3. Prof. David B Yoffie‚ Apple Inc. in 2010‚ HBS No. 710-467‚ June 21‚ 2010‚ Harvard Business School Publishing‚ Boston 4. Prof. David B Yoffie & Renee Kim‚ Apple Inc. in 2010‚ HBS No. 9-710-467‚ March 21‚ 2011‚ Harvard Business School Publishing‚ Boston 18
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201-029 Dell’s Working Capital 2 Dell maintained an inventory of components. The cost of individual components‚ such as processor chips‚ comprised about 80% of the cost of a PC. As new technology replaced old‚ the prices of components fell by an average of 30% a year. 1 Dell ordered components based on sales forecasts. Components were sourced from about 80 suppliers in the mid-1990s – down from a high of 200 or more. Dell issued “releases” for a certain amount of product from
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Dell-New Horizons HBS case-9-502-022 Introduction As a consecutively successful and fast-growing company‚ Dell’s management got the pressure of maintaining the rapid growth. On the other hand‚ the hyper-growth in the PC industry over-drafted some growth potential in the coming years and the bubble of the internet economy burst so the speed of the growth would slow down. Since March 2000‚ Dell’s performance in market capitalization and stock prices had got a slump. In addition‚ competitions were
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|Week Assigned |Title |Author/Year/Source |Topic | |Week 1 |Integrated Marketing |Dolan‚ 2000 (HBS) |Overview of marketing communication | | |Communications | |principles | |Week 2 |“Discover the Blind Spots in Your |Farquhar‚ 2003‚ Marketing Management| | | |“Branding in the Digital Age: |Edelman‚ 2010 | | | |You’re Spending Your Money in all | | | | |the Wrong Places” | | | | |“Intel Voice: The Written |Intel‚ 2002 |Provides written guidelines for creating a |
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homozygous for the sickle cell trait often cannot exercise.Individuals who are heterozygous for the trait can have sickle cell attacks under extreme conditions.Normal individuals (HbS Hbs) have only normal hemoglobin.Homozygous sickle cell individuals (HbS Hbs) have only sickle cell hemoglobin.Heterozygous individuals (HbS Hbs) have both normal and sickle cell hemoglobin. Jerry smith collapsed while running a race for his track team.A doctor said that he had a sickle cell attack.Genetic tests were run
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and HbS (defective hemoglobin) have varying frequencies and while the HbS gene is present in populations it is important to understand how Malaria in particular can affect the sickle cell frequency. The way that diseases such as malaria impact the HbS gene may be different than how populations unaffected by malaria are impacted by HbS. What will happen to the sickle cell frequency in the presence of Malaria? Hypothesis: 1: In the presence of malaria‚ the sickle cell allele frequency HbS will
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changes in allele frequencies in a population as a result of a selective force Hypothesis The starting ratio of HbA to HbS is 3:1; in a typical population‚ the Homozygous Dominant Gene would become the standard‚ but because carrying the Heterozygous version of the allele has an advantage to fighting Malaria it will become the dominant Allele for the population. The HbA/HbS gene will thrive because it helps in the fight against Malaria‚ turning a typically negative trait into an advantage. The
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