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Sycamore Networks

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Daniel J. Green
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Abstract

Founders Desh Deshpande and Dan Smith reflect on Sycamore's sales strategies and consider how going public might affect the morale of its key employees. In the optical networking sector, technological change and exploding demand has created a market for talent in which many capable employees strike out on their own to found new competitors--taking their important sales relationships with them. Sycamore needed to learn how it could continue to attract--and retain--the brightest in the business.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship; Sales; Business Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Retention; Employees; Communication Technology; Applied Optics; Technological Innovation; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry

Citation

Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Daniel J. Green. "Sycamore Networks." Harvard Business School Case 801-076, July 2000. (Revised July 2001.)
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