Category: Telecom
- Published: 21 March 2014
- Written by Editor
By Carmi Levy
In the wake of a University of Ottawa study released this week that suggests Nortel was brought down by a “culture of arrogance”, Canadian businesses have much to learn from the largest corporate bankruptcy in Canadian history.
The three-year study, which is based on 343 surveys and 133 interviews involving Nortel leaders, competitors, consultants and other stakeholders, is the most comprehensive to-date of Nortel, which entered bankruptcy in 2009 after a nearly two-decade run that saw it grow into a global telecom giant before being undone by a series of compounding decision-making failures.