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The Board’s CEO Miscues

By Mark Evans | Published: August 12, 2009
You can look long and hard at what Nortel’s board could have done or should have done, particularly over the past three years while it let CEO Mike Zafirovski drive the company into the ground. (And folks, let’s stop sugar-coating Mike Z.’s performance by citing accounting issues, the economy, fierce competition, the credit crunch, etc.) [...]
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Looking Back in Time…2005

By Mark Evans | Published: July 27, 2009
With Nortel being sold off in parts – aka death by a thousand blows – it’s interesting to look at back in time to when Nortel’s prospects were uncertain but there was still hope. Here’s a good quote from Nortel chairman Harry Pearce upon the hiring of Mike Zafirovski in late-2005: “Mike Zafirovski has the [...]
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