John Chambers

GRAPHIC: Inequality In America

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.01.2011

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Since September, the Occupy Wall Street protests has focused greater attention on America's huge wealth gap between the rich and everyone else. But wh...

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S&P Official: U.S. Now Has 'Less Ability' To Stimulate Economy

Posted 11.15.2011

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Standard & Poor's decision to strip the United States of its AAA rating suggests the country has less room to boost growth with fiscal spending, t...

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Will Cisco Lose Its CEO?

Posted 11.13.2011

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By Nadia Damouni and Nicola Leske (Reuters) - When John Chambers takes to the stage on Tuesday, many will be wondering if it is the last time t...

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Elise Foley

S&P Officials Blame Downgrade On 'Degree Of Uncertainty' In Politics

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 10.07.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Ratings agency Standard and Poor's defended its decision to downgrade the United States credit rating, arguing on Sunday that the downgr...

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S&P: Deficit Reduction Of $4 Trillion Would Be 'Good Downpayment'

Posted 09.27.2011

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NEW YORK (Walter Brandimarte and Daniel Bases) - A U.S. deficit reduction plan that promises $4 trillion in savings over time would be a "good dow...

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Cisco To Cut Thousands Of Jobs In Its Biggest Layoffs In History

Posted 07.13.2011

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BOSTON (By Jim Finkle) - Cisco Systems Inc is expected to cut thousands of jobs in possibly its worst-ever round of layoffs to meet Chief Executiv...

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Give Flip Cameras a New and Better Life

Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Smartphone, Humanitarian, Kibera, John Chambers, Cisco Systems, Nairobi, Smithsonian, Technology, Flip Camera, Smart Phone, Impact News
Tamar Abrams

There are places on this planet where the Flip camera can change a life.

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Cisco Insider Sales Raise Eyebrows

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Dorfman

Cisco's brisk insider sales were a huge red flag to investors to stay away from the stock, that something might be wrong.

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Six Ways Leaders Can Fuel Excellence at Anything

Tony Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tony Schwartz

There is precious little scientific evidence to suggest that genes are our destiny--and more and more evidence of neuroplasticity--the capacity to influence the way our genes express themselves.

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Condoleezza Rice - What a Procrastinator!

Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reveals in her new book, "A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me" that she has battled with p...

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Coup d'Etat: Standard & Poor's Is Now Giving Orders to Congress ... and the American People

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard (RJ) Eskow

Standard & Poor's just put our elected officials on notice: Submit to the proclamations of the Deficit Commission or we'll downgrade our rating of government debt. That's blackmail, plain and simple.

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Let the N.E.A. Lead Them

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Susan Corso

We in the theatre have known for a long, long time that the show must go on. I'd venture to say that there's only one man in Washington who knows this in his bones -- National Endowment for the Arts chair, Rocco Landesman.

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Do You Have the Postrecession Blues?

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ron Ashkenas

Now that the "official" recession, as measured by government statistics, is ending, it may be a good time to ask whether your "psychological" recession has ended as well.

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Best CEOs Of The Decade (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser | Posted 05.25.2011

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The 2000s certainly seem like a ghastly decade. The era's already fabled financial debacles -- among them, Enron's bankruptcy, the burst of the tech b...

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Cisco Janitors Take to the Streets

Natasha Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Natasha Chen

Chanting "No peace outside, no respect inside" and "Si se puede," workers filed down East Tasman Dr., where Cisco's tens of buildings line both sides of the street.

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Familiar Faces Top Fortune's Power 25

Fortune | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some are empire builders. Others are hired guns. But if they truly have world-class oomph, they're on Fortune's subjective - yet really quite accurate...

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Cisco To Spend $16 Billion To Expand In China

Forbes | Melanie Lindner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cisco is dropping dollars like they're going out of style. Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), the world's largest network equipment maker, announ...

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