Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. For more background on the potential deal, click here.) Dell returned as CEO in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

The company was hell-bent on entering a new market but knew it had to automate its warehouse to do so. Unlike a Fortune 500 company that can spend tens of millions of dollars on external consultants to help implement such a system, this company was stingy with its IT dollars. Their ability to execute. Forecasting acumen.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Monster is the most iconic of those that brought the service to market, and the first to do it at scale. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996. Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999. The early 2000s saw Careerbuilder and Monster going head-to-head for market leadership – largely in a race for distribution.

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