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A Conversation with Michael Dell

Michael Dell: September 26, 2002; Running Time: 01:05:01

About the Lecture

About the Lecture

Michael Dell came to Sloan for an informal talk and question and answer period with Sloan students. In this lively talk, Michael Dell talks about a wide range of topics, including the future of personal computers, Dell's role in the Japanese computer market, his reaction to the HP/Compaq merger, Dell's experience entering the printing market, and many more.

Lecture Details

Location: Wong Auditorium

About the Speaker

Michael Dell

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Dell

Michael S. Dell is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dell, the company he founded in 1984 with $1,000 and an unprecedented idea in the computer industry: sell computer systems directly to customers. In 18 years, the company's sales have grown from $6 million to $31.2 billion. The latest global innovation to come from Dell is its leadership on the webDell is acknowledged as the largest online commercial sell of computer systems. Mr. Dell has been honored many times for his visionary leadership, earning a spot on Time/CNN's list of the 25 most influential global executives in 2001 and being named the 2001 Chief Executive of the Year by Chief Executive Magazine.

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About the Host

About the Host

MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of the world’s leading business schools — conducting cutting-edge research and providing management education to top students from more than 60 countries. The School is part of MIT’s rich intellectual tradition of education and research.

MIT Sloan began in 1914 as engineering administration curriculum in the MIT Department of Economics and Statistics. The scope and depth of this educational focus have grown steadily in response to advances in the theory and practice of management to today’s broad-based management school.

A program offering a master’s degree in management was established in 1925. The world’s first university-based executive education program — the MIT Sloan Fellows — was created in 1931 under the sponsorship of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., an 1895 MIT graduate who was then chairman of General Motors. A MIT Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with a charge of educating the “ideal manager.”