If the Wall Street Journal is to be believed, there's a whiteboard in Whitacre Tower with Dish, Leap and MetroPCS written all over it.
He takes a daily stroll with Mark Whitacre, the Archer Daniels Midland whistle-blower who is serving a ten-and-a-half-year sentence for fraud.
Ed Whitacre is a good leader and he made an incremental improvement to the organization.
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Jay Whitacre, a Carnegie Mellon professor as well as founder and chief technology officer of Aquion, is trying to change the equation.
Mark Whitacre is a thoughtful person these days, often speaking about his Christian faith, his wife, Ginger, and his 3 children, who are all now grown.
Whitacre holds a PhD in Biochemistry from Cornell University, was a top executive (Division President) at ArcherDaniels Midland (ADM), and has a wonderful wife and 3 kids.
However, January 2001 came and went leaving tax fugitive Marc Rich a free man, but Whitacre behind bars.
"There's not much growth in our business without a new product, " Whitacre says.
Whitacre Jr. keeps a Texas-size ranch house, five man-made ponds stocked with hungry bass, and a beaten-up bulldozer built in 1955.
Whitacre is also making a difference through his volunteer work with JPW3 prison ministries and The Sean Costello Memorial Fund for Bipolar Research.
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In a statement announcing the merger, Whitacre outlined the company's strategy.
Whitacre expressed his misgivings at a recent Management Briefing Seminar in Michigan's Traverse City, according to Sean McAlinden of the Ann Arbor-based Center for Automotive Research.
At first, we think that Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon, with a wavy pompadour and steel-rimmed glasses) is the epitome of Midwestern square.
During a question and answer period, Markey asked Whitacre and Seidenberg to pledge that their residential consumers would not see an increase in prices following the completion of their respective mergers.
Mark Whitacre, whose case was written about in three books ( The Informant, Rats in the Grain, and the newest book, Mark Whitacre Against all Odds) is such a person.
It is something he wrote about in a book he wrote with Stevin Hoover, Mark Whitacre Against All Odds.
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Whitacre reported to the medical facility in Butner, NC for a psychological evaluation as a precaution since he had an unsuccessful attempt at suicide prior to reporting to prison.
But Whitacre's departure won't change the risk--"a big risk in my mind, " says O' Keefe's Coulter--that the IPO could turn into a PR nightmare for GM if its opening price is too low.
At Nordstrom, where the family controls 24% of the stock, Chairman and Chief Executive John Whitacre, an outsider, will probably target the most promising successor from a cluster of relatives--five co-presidents, all family members.
"When unrealistic and outmoded regulation results in our having to lay off highly trained workers and constrains our investment in our networks, it is a disservice to all local-phone users in the states we serve, " Whitacre said in the statement.
Perhaps hitting closer to home were the comments of Chairman Joe Barton (R-Tex.), who told Whitacre in his opening comments how he's shutting off service on a phone line coming into his house and planning to use a cable modem for Internet access.
In 1992, Whitacre, an executive at the agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland, was part of a price-fixing scheme.
Mr Whitacre, who took up the posts in 1990 and is the longest-serving boss of a large telecoms company, made several huge acquisitions during his tenure and is credited with instigating the industry's consolidation.
At Nordstrom, where the family controls 24% of the stock, John Whitacre, the chairman and CEO and an outsider, will probably pick the most promising successor from a cluster of relatives--five copresidents, all family members.
Whitacre spent almost all of his prison time in minimum-security camps and was released in 2006 to a halfway house after serving 8 and half years in prison.
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