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John Roth’s Legacy

By Mark Evans | Published: November 7, 2009
The National Post has been running a series of feature stories exploring the demise of Nortel. It will interesting to read Monday’s instalment, which is focused on ex-CEO John Roth, who decided to depart Nortel in 2001 just before the telecom boom started to meltdown. Note: Here’s the story in the Ottawa Citizen about Roth, [...]
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John Roth’s Legacy

By Mark Evans | Published: November 7, 2009
The National Post has been running a series of feature stories exploring the demise of Nortel. It will interesting to read Monday’s instalment, which is focused on ex-CEO John Roth, who decided to depart Nortel in 2001 just before the telecom boom started to meltdown. Roth retired to bucolic Caledon, Ont. with a $130-million (most [...]
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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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