Focuses on the 2000 restructuring of AT & T, in which the company has broken into four divisions: business services, personal services, broadband and wireless. Examines the company's strategy at this time: (1) to provide information in any form (voice, video, data) to any destination anywhere in the world, (2) its numerous acquisitions to implement its strategy, and (3) the reasons behind based on decomposition. Describes the benefits of restructuring and how the company plans to maintain a relationship between entities on contractual terms.
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by Michael G. Rukstad, Tyrrell Levine, Carl Johnson Source: Harvard Business School 34 pages. Publication Date: March 19, 2001. Prod. #: Seven hundred and one thousand one hundred twenty-seven-HCB-ENG