Nortel Networks: How Innovation and Vision Created a Network Giant

MacDonald, Larry

ISBN 10: 0471645427 / ISBN 13: 9780471645429

Published by John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd, Etobicoke, Ont., Canada, 2000

About this Item

259, endnotes, index, some sticker residue on rear DJ. MacDonald's book fills a critical gap in the history of Canadian telecommunications, and chronicles the remarkable transformation of Nortel from a sleepy telephone manufacturer into Canada's most valuable corporation.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nortel Networks: How Innovation and Vision Created a Network Giant
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd, Etobicoke, Ont., Canada
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471645427
• ISBN 13: 9780471645429
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: very good, very good

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Synopsis

Praise for Nortel Networks How Innovations and Vision Created a Network Giant "Nortel rising from Canadian industrial age corporation to a global network powerhouse is a fabulous story of determination and foresight, and new business modal innovation. MacDonald shows why Nortel will remain pre-eminent in the brutally competitive digital economy." -Don Tapscott, Chair, Digital 4Sight, and Author of Paradigm Shift, The Digital Economy, Growing Up Digital, and Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs "Few companies are changing the world today. Nortel is one of them-and has been for generations. This is a human adventure of corporate renewal-about visionary leaders who transform today's success into tomorrow's innovation." - E. F. Peter Newson, Associate Professor, Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario "MacDonald's book fills a critical gap in the history of Canadian telecommunications. His Nortel Networks is a valuable and extremely readable chronicle of the remarkable transformation of a sleepy telephone manufacturer into Canada's most valuable corporation." -Lawrence Surtees, research analyst, IDC Canada Ltd., and former telecommunications reporter. The Globe and Mail Visit Our Companion Website at www.wiley.com/canada/nortelnetworks

About the Author

About the Author Larry MacDonald writes technology columns for the Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Investor's Digest, and the Financial Post. Previously, he was an economist with the Canadian federal government. He is the author of Outperforming the Market: A Case-Study Approach to Selecting Investments.