"There is industry input, but there is not industry control, " he insists. (Ten members of a 22-member board are from the industry.) Still, that built-in conflict of interest is hardly the only problem.
Christie Hefner took the helm of a male-dominated company in a male-dominated industry at a time when few women held board room positions.
This was hardly unexpected, as the advisory board was stacked with GPS industry insiders including Brad Parkinson, a Stanford professor emeritus who sits on the Trimble Navigation board.
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We view Terracciano as a credible independent board chairman with strong banking industry experience, who is well respected by the investment community, Ball said.
First, the sheer numbers at the top: women make up less than 20 percent of executive officers and board directors in the industry and less than a quarter of senior officers.
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It is hard to overstate how revolutionary that rope and Andon board were for the auto industry: Allowing a mere blue-collar worker to stop the line would have been heresy in Detroit a few decades ago, as managers were more concerned about keeping up volume than quality.
The lady on the bank board did have that industry knowledge (and also a good sense of humor about how many boards look at the diversity issue).
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As a privately held company whose management owns the enterprise, management chose to recruit several outside industry experts to join a newly formed board of directors.
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Optimized for customers in oil and gas exploration and the defense industry, a single Tesla K10 accelerator board features two GK104 Kepler GPUs that deliver an aggregate performance of 4.58 teraflops of peak single-precision floating point and 320 GB per second memory bandwidth.
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In fact, learning about a new industry is part of the appeal of board work.
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That friend tells a friend who posts it on an industry bulletin board and the story goes viral.
He has also submitted to the board a modernization plan that would bring the venue up to entertainment industry standards through capital projects, improvements in the box-office operation and refinements in management.
The Conservatives want the new independent self-regulatory body to be governed by a board which would be set up "without any direction from industry or influence from government".
Smithfield and other pork producers in the U.S. follow a set of guidelines developed by the National Pork Board, an industry group, called the "Pork Quality Assurance Plus" program that governs the feeding and care of pigs.
The new board members, led by chairman Sivavong Changkasiri, a former permanent secretary for industry, have little banking experience.
In a recent survey of Welsh companies, the Construction Industry Training Board found that 69% of participating companies had found difficulties in recruiting skilled staff, with employers experiencing the most difficulty in recruiting carpenters and joiners and bricklayers.
For comparison, the strategy board game industry considers any game that sells more than 10, 000 copies a hit.
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Giri Hadihardjono, deputy director of the Strategic Industries Development Board, admits Indonesia has lagged behind many other Asian nations in fostering a car industry.
The G20 asked the Financial Stability Board to oversee the process, and with a push from the top, the industry responded with real cooperation, he added.
"It's across the board--it's a very tumultuous time for people in the energy industry, " says Brian Kennedy, a spokesman for the oil-friendly Institute for Energy Research.
The Pittsburgh project will be overseen by a 12-member board consisting of four seats for environmentalists, four for industry and four for independent figures, including former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Christine Todd Whitman, the former New Jersey governor and Environmental Protection Agency chief.
For the tech luminaries on board, this industry shows the same kind of limitless promise that Silicon Valley did a few years ago.
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When the researchers examined this data, which is normally secret, they discovered that a bank represented on a board in one year tended to lend more to other companies in the same industry the next.
The independent self-regulatory body would be governed by an independent board "appointed in a genuinely open, transparent and independent way, without any direction from industry or influence from government".
The British Board of Film Censors, which he joined in 1975, and which later became the British Board of Film Classification, was set up as a self-regulatory body for the film industry.
In addition to Future Savvy (Amacom, 2009) I am published in Foresight (IIF) and over a dozen other academic and industry-consulting publications, and am an Editorial Board Member of World Future Review: Journal of Strategic Foresight.
Both Cruz and Crawford have securities industry experience, a skills-set critics have said was missing from the board.
Eventually, in 1981, the Irish Film Board was founded by the government to both promote both the national film industry and Ireland as a destination for on-location shooting.
New product applications are reviewed by the ASN and NSF and the program is governed by a board of nine directors: Four seats belong to independent experts, four are held by food industry executives and the ninth is for someone with "no skin in the game, " according to Hughes.
The inductor-free, single-stage design delivers the industry's highest system efficiency and saves up to 60-percent board space compared to a multi-stage implementation.
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