Your biggest cost offenders may be sitting across the board room table from you.
And what was the logic in the board room when this decision was taken?
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To others, it is an expensive bobble to be flashed in the board room or country club.
If stories are repeatedly told in the locker room, why are they left out of the board room?
"Except instead of a board room, you're on the Pacific Ocean, " he says.
To adjust to the altitude, get out of your hotel room, board room or meeting room and take a walk.
Is your make-up more appropriate for a club than the board room?
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.
"Mr. Gupta has now exchanged the lofty board room for the prospect of a lowly jail cell, " said Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan.
Unfortunately, though, many CMOs seem to be struggling to gain alignment and to build consensus across their lines of business and into the board room.
As part of its intensified focus on Silicon Valley, Nokia also made changes in the board room by recently appointing an outside director with strong Valley connections.
Why is it that News Corp has not separated the roles of Chairman and CEO, a move that would bring a strong independent voice into the board room?
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According to Mobley, creating magnetic missions, articulating them, and convincing everyone from the board room to the mail room to go along, is the mission critical task of leadership.
While he was due at the end of the month to become chairman, the ousting on Friday of John Mayo, finance director and chief executive designate, prompted a board room rethink.
The pressure to deliver short term profits is intense and reaches through every level of the company, cascading down from the Board room to the executive suites to the line managers.
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Joohee An, a portfolio manager at Mirae Asset in Hong Kong sits beside me in a board room in Bank of America tower in midtown on a mild and sunny Friday afternoon.
This new way of looking at the playwright's career - from treading the boards to the board room - also shows how different Shakespeare was from his contemporaries, says Dr van Es.
He recently mandated a "bullpen" session every afternoon, in which he and the company's executive officers sit and work on small couches outside a board room in Building 43 at Google's headquarters.
For marketing to be relevant in the board room there needs to be a direct link made between what is happening in the marketplace, marketing investments, and the resulting revenue and profit generated.
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.
As the Aprimo CMO, I have shared five multi-faceted, strategic initiatives all the way from the board room to our sales and finance sister organizations, and while revenue targets are a critical part of these proposals, other metrics are equally important, too.
Even though the company experienced several low-level nuclear accidents in recent years TEPCO has never appointed a board-level committee to oversee enterprise risk management, and because of the limited presence of independent directors on its board, suffered from a lack of alternate perspectives in its board room.
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They would have known that they would not get the Windows Phone playground to themselves, but to have Microsoft swing in and push their own handset as opposed to the whole platform will lead to some long conversations in the board room over strategy and alternatives.
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That is why Mr Cable also wants more "diversity" in the board room - more "lawyers, public servants and academics", according to a briefing from the Business Department - to introduce the views of the wider world into discussions about how and how much an executive should be rewarded.
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The committee's heard a lot of evidence about whether or not having a good gender balance in the workforce, and in particular, in the board room makes a company more competitive - and it will be interesting to see whether the two sides of the Coalition sing from the same hymn sheet.
To have less than 2% of the voices in the board room from biotech while trying to become more biotech-like seems like an absurdity, especially when there are a large number of seasoned (and often retired) executives from biotech available with experiences at Genentech, Gilead, Genetics Institute, Immunex, Centocor, and certainly an even longer list of venture-backed biotechs.
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Maybe the board will have room for some independent directors charged with looking out for the little guy?
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On board there is room for two people, their position slightly staggered and at a sporty, low level.
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To accomplish the trick, he trimmed the Game Boy's circuit board to make room for the guts of a Wiimote, which he then connected to the buttons.
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