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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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It’s Not Just Mike Z.’s Fault

By Mark Evans | Published: August 11, 2009
As much as Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski did an excellent job over the past 3+ years in killing Canada’s flagship high-tech company, it would be remiss to not shine the spotlight on the board, and the role it failed to play in providing much-needed supervision of the senior management, as well as serve the interests [...]
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