Covers the history of Hermes, a large telecommunications company and network equipment, as it grows from one company to a diversified business firm from 1980-95. Considering the use of entrepreneurial subsidiaries product development and rapid growth. Other issues include the problems of management and organization problems symmetric general manager faces in keeping control of the fastest growing divisions. Rewritten version of the previous case. "Hide
by Michael L. Tushman, Daniel B. Rads Source: Harvard Business School 17 pages. Publication Date: December 20, 1999. Prod. #: 400056-PDF-ENG
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