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BusinessWeek November 22, 2004 Andrew Park	Michael Dell: Thinking Out Of The Box His credo -- cut out the middleman -- turned the computer business on its head. To this day, despite a decade of effort by rivals to emulate his approach, Dell remains the only consistently profitable big PC maker.
BusinessWeek November 22, 2004 Stanley Holmes	First the Music, Then The Coffee Starbucks' new chain of Media Bars is grabbing customers by the ears. Now the Seattle company is making a major push to add new ways of listening -- and buying -- music for its 35 million weekly customers. Collaborating with record labels is just one element of that strategy.
BusinessWeek November 22, 2004	A Full-Bodied Talk with Mr. Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz discusses the Starbucks biggest problem, its philosophy, and its future strategy.
BusinessWeek November 22, 2004 Mehring & Arndt	Nice Tax Break While It Lasted In March, 2002, Congress passed a bill that let companies take an immediate bonus depreciation allowance on capital investments such as computers and cars. But that bonus is now set to end on January 1.
BusinessWeek November 22, 2004 Nanette Byrnes	Auditing The Auditors J.D. Power & Associates is now evaluating the very audit firms that are supposed to protect investors from improprieties.
HBS Working Knowledge November 15, 2004 Harding & Rovit	Writing a Credible Investment Thesis Every deal your company proposes to do---big or small, strategic or tactical---should start with a clear statement how that particular deal would create value for your company. A credible investment thesis should describe a concrete benefit, rather than a vaguely stated strategic value.
HBS Working Knowledge November 15, 2004 Sean Silverthorne	TiVo Ready to Fast Forward? TiVo created a new product category: the digital video recorder. Here's how CEO Michael Ramsay believes the company can fight off the forces of commoditization.
HBS Working Knowledge November 15, 2004 Porter & Stewart	Solving the Health Care Conundrum This executive summary of a presentation on reforming health care focuses on how the way in which competition takes place in health care today is at the root of the problems in health care.
InternetNews November 15, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Dow Jones Snaps Up MarketWatch Pursuing a "best of both worlds" online content strategy, media giant Dow Jones & Company said it will buy financial news site operator MarketWatch for approximately $519 million in cash.
BusinessWeek November 22, 2004 Jay Greene	Microsoft Sharpens Up Its Elbows Microsoft is on the move again. As it has in the past, the software giant is trying to elbow aside rivals who have pioneered new markets. It's taking on TiVo in TV digital recording and Google in Web searches
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