MIT's Sloan School of Management, most boards give the chief executive a honeymoon of between two and three years.
As a result, they framed the laws and constitution of the new nation to give the executive a very limited role.
Of course, an interview with a Samsung executive wouldn't be an interview with a Samsung executive without a mention of Apple, and amazingly, Eun opened up just a little.
In August, the executive awarded a contract to build three vessels for the executive to a Polish yard claiming that European competition laws prevented them from giving "preferential treatment" to a Scottish shipyard.
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For what it's worth, the gossip in bank boardrooms is that Mr Varley is so miffed at the apparent implosion of his assiduous efforts to agree a deal with ministers (which went by the moniker of Project Merlin) that it contributed to his decision last week to step down as chief executive a few weeks earlier than originally announced.
In April, chief executive David Brennan was pushed out, and the company is expected to unveil both a new chief executive and a new strategy for the future soon.
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Like Dennis Masellis, Francis Vitale Jr. looked like a successful executive with a serious hobby.
In any case, it's no different from a chief executive having a PR person writing their speeches.
If you are a corporate executive at a company that goes belly up, this is not a good time to stand trial.
When I met Sandy, a rising executive at a big-time digital media company, she had two children under two years old.
In the entire financial meltdown of 2008-9, not a single executive from a big Wall Street firm has gone to jail.
It is hard to blame any of this on Mr Simmons, a bright executive with a rare ability to be candid.
Lauren Rosenstadt was working at home as a marketing executive for a Chinese herbal company, but she wanted to be her own boss.
An information technology consultant at a software services company in Bangalore is typically not up against a marketing executive at a luxury goods business.
Here's some investment advice: If a public company or a top executive of a public company buys one of these teams, dump the stock.
After all, he was a senior executive at a big company, had an Ivy League pedigree and was part of the WASP-y country club set.
The EC released its assessment a day after a top executive from a Galileo contractor was dismissed for allegedly calling the project a "stupid idea".
Jimbo Fisher is not a top executive of a for-profit corporation.
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When I was in Beijing this summer, I had the chance to catch up with an old friend, a former executive of a few publicly-traded companies.
Second, I am mesmerized by her ability to discuss basketball and the state of the league only after being a sports executive for a few short months.
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Contrast that with a different executive in a similar pickle.
"What he is so good at is making the right gesture at the right time, before the right audience, " says a senior executive of a rival Hong Kong company.
Also charged on Friday: James Mazzo, Advanced Medical's former chief executive and a current executive at Abbott, who is accused of tipping Mr. DeCinces (pronounced de-SIN-say), his neighbor in an exclusive Laguna Beach, Calif.
Rather, Keys tweeted a copy of a "final written warning" he said he received from Reuters in October, which admonished him for unprofessional behavior after he mocked a Google executive from a fake Twitter account.
This is voluntary disclosure of email from one legal executive to another legal executive regarding a potential deal, publicly exploited for marketing purposes through an official company channel by a third executive not party to the communication.
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That immediacy is likely exactly what the company needs: the ousting of a chief executive and a change business strategy is symptomatic of a company that only has 12 months worth of cash left in their coffers.
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Hailing from the U.K., Cambridge-educated Darbyshire is a former barrister and management consultant who helped launch a California wine company, and was a strategy executive at a number of dotcoms during the halcyon days of Web 1.0.
As in the case of SAIC, the move came when a new executive replaced a predecessor with family ties to the legacy location, and decided that the company could compete more effectively by being nearer to federal customers.
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So will giving shareholders increased authority over executive pay serve as a brake on bosses remuneration, or will this reform just give politicians and the public someone else to curse as and when the chief executive of a mediocre company pockets millions?
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But they're probably right that the field of available candidates is tiny, not least because - since the great crash of 2007-8 - the Financial Services Authority has set the bar much higher in respect of the qualifications and experience required of a chief executive of a big international bank (the FSA's approval is required for any senior bank appointment).
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