Color cases should be printed in color to optimize their effectiveness. The company, which he had founded in his dorm room as a college freshman and which had made him the youngest Fortune 500 CEO in history, had been the market leader in PC sales in the early 2000s.
Recently, but competitors had surpassed the business and, worse, the PC market was becoming less profitable, due to more turnover rates on PCs, overseas competition, as well as the rise of tablet computers and smartphones. Michael Dell expected to react to by altering shifting the company form its core to a "new Dell" based around "Enterprise Solutions and Applications" (like servers, consulting along with sotware-as-a-service) and recently declared he must take the company private to do so.
By the summer of the year 2013, Dell board along with its shareholders must choose whether to accept his offer to take the company private for $13.65 a share. Meanwhile, Carl Icahn bought a big stake in Dell Inc., accused Dell of trying to steal the business, and encouraged investors to rebel and demand a "leveraged recapitalization" instead. This case presents the advice the Dell board worked with as its verdict was debated by it.
Taking Dell Private case study solution
PUBLICATION DATE: August 29, 2013 PRODUCT #: 714421-HCC-ENG
This is just an excerpt. This case is about STRATEGY & EXECUTION
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