For comparison, the strategy board game industry considers any game that sells more than 10, 000 copies a hit.
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Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ - news - people ), whose board split over the departure of former CEO Mark Hurd, has now recruited five executives to its board with industry expertise but also with business ties to the new CEO, Leo Apotheker.
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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Valiant efforts to interpret these rules are being made by the International Private Equity Valuations Board, an industry body that some buy-out firms support.
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.
"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.
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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He was recruited to Georgia by an industry development board from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
The study was carried out by industry training body Opito and the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board.
That friend tells a friend who posts it on an industry bulletin board and the story goes viral.
Below board level, German industry has also retained some bad habits which truly international businesses have largely eradicated.
This could bring even the health insurance industry on board, as they would have the opportunity to enter new markets.
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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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Mandatory audit firm rotation was an old tune sung again by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the audit industry regulator, beginning in August of 2011.
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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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After two fires on board cruise ships in the 1990s, the then-chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said the cruise industry needed to do more in the way of training and fire prevention.
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.
The NYSE also said board members from securities industry firms are prohibited from serving on the compensation committee, bowing to the opinion that the influence of high-paid financial executives may have contributed to the as-of-yet unrevealed lofty pay of NYSE executives.
Clubster, initially founded as a web app, debuted its iPhone app at the Club Managers Association of America World Conference, where it was honored with the Product of the Year Award, presented by private club industry publisher Board Room Magazine.
The non-profit U.S. Pharmacopeia, an industry-backed board, created voluntary standards for compounding pharmacies to follow.
FASB's controlling board of trustees comes from industry groups and its funds from audit firms, industry and financial groups.
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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.
Through it all, Nyko has come out on top as number one in the industry across the board for these kinds of accessories.
Changes to the board, including size, industry mix and terms of service, according to Grasso, Panetta and McCall, would require a constitutional amendment and vote of NYSE members.
In addition, he has co-founded several high-tech companies, including one supported by the late Neil Armstrong and other notable space and industry leaders as board members.
The British Horseracing Board, which runs the industry, is delighted.
In August of 2012, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the US audit industry regulator, issued its first report on the auditors of broker-dealers under a pilot inspection program.
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Four years ago, as Ford was facing challenges, its board went outside the auto industry and tapped Alan Mullaly, chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airlines, to serve as its CEO.
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