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- A practical guide to SEC ï¬nancial reporting and disclosures for successful regulatory crowdfunding
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- The Health Equity Accelerator at Boston Medical Center
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- Assessing the Value of Unifying and De-duplicating Customer Data, Spreadsheet Supplement
- Building an AI First Snack Company: A Hands-on Generative AI Exercise, Data Supplement
- Building an AI First Snack Company: A Hands-on Generative AI Exercise
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- Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel (Abridged)
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Cisco: Early if Not Elegant (B)
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Cisco Systems' relentless pace of acquisitions between 1993 and 2000 ground to a halt in 2001, with Cisco buying only two businesses that year. By September of 2002, it had acquired Hammerhead Networks and Navarro Networks for $258 million in stock and planned to buy Andiamo Systems for up to $2.5 billion. Market conditions may have shed light on cracks in its acquisition methodology, but the most profound change, according to CEO John Chambers, was the decision to acquire companies at a later stage of product development than previously. Now, a target had to have a proven product, customers, and management team before any transaction was considered. The (B) case includes a brief update on the company and financials up to July 2002.