So on August 28th, Sandra Lerner was asked to leave the company. ... Additionally, if provoked, buyers can switch their orders between companies at a low cost, thus creating small price wars that force down the prices. ... Cisco begun as an innovative company and is still viewed as an innovator. ... Because Cisco has assembled so much scarce engineering talent, it can design new generations of products faster that anyone else; it has the power to wage and win price wars against its competitors. ... As a result Cisco could seek to acquire new companies and use their existing values to succ...

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The Cold War engulfed the entire world for nearly half a century. ... A country's policies and behavior must appeal to the international community, and war discourages this community from writing useful investment checks. Potential wartime governments have two options from which they can decide: either fight wars and risk losing international support, or make peace with adversaries and keep cash flow infiltrating steadily. ... When people begin to demand information and analyze trades, a separation between companies is created, forcing the good upwards and the bad downwards. ...

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Many big companies such as Cisco Systems, Proteon, and later Wellfleet (now Bay Networks) and 3Com became interested in Internet contributing to network growth rapidly. ... Examples include the Wide Area Information Service, Archie (which spawned a company called Bunyip in Canada), LYCOS from Carnegie Mellon, YAHOO from Stanford, and INFOSEEK. ... Today, at least a dozen companies are engaged in providing electronic funds transfers on the Internet in support of electronic commerce. Other companies are exploring the provision of packetized video, videoconferencing, packetized voice (packet tel...

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Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin notes that in the post-Cold War era, America's power and prestige may ultimately depend less on being a military superpower than on being an information and entertainment superpower. ... Mobile telephony is growing rapidly in Europe and parts of Asia, for example, making hardware market leaders out of companies like Nokia and Mitsubishi. ... Cable companies such as TCI are already deeply involved in the local British telephone market, and phone companies such as US West and NYNEX are involved in consortia to deliver cable service. ...

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Brand communication was just in the beginning due to low level of mass communication media, and the most effective communication channel had been personal recommendations by satisfied customers.3 After the Second World War, the situation changed, product design became much more important than before. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate