Valiantly presiding over the Chicago-based parent of United Airlines is Glenn Tilton, a 54-year-old former oil executive who took the chief executive job in September.
It separated the chief executive job from the position of chairman, currently held by George Hayter , once an executive at the London Stock Exchange.
In 1989 he was recruited for his first chief executive job, at Target Therapeutics, which then made catheters for minimally invasive liver surgery and later for brain surgery.
He was there when Henry Paulson ousted Jon Corzine (who had plucked Thain from obscurity and named him CFO) to take sole command of the chief executive job.
Sources reportedly said that Whitman was keen to take on another executive job, following her ten-year stint as CEO of eBay and and unsuccessful bid to become governor of California.
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With this announcement, both Pfizer and longtime rival Merck, which just named its former chief counsel and then marketing head Kenneth Frazier to the chief executive job, are under new leadership.
Far-flung outsiders like Mr. Newman, Ms. Mosley and Ms. Banikarim represent "the on-steroids version" of executive job switchers, notes Erika Andersen, their coach and CEO of Proteus International, a leadership and strategy consulting firm.
At US retailer Sears, chief executive Louis D'Ambrosio will stand down for family health reasons in early February, being replaced by Edward Lampert, who will add the chief executive job to his current role as chairman.
Just about anyone with a high-flying executive job and a decent monthly income can afford all the trappings of wealth- from new BMWs to country club memberships, first-class trips around the world, and a cozy home fueled by an alternative energy source, complete with a butler at the front door.
Here's where you run into the executive assistant whose job is to run interference.
So what advice does the veteran executive have for job seekers, career changers, and aspiring do-gooders?
Following Sir Nigel's departure, the NHS chief executive's job will be split.
"It was a pretty bleak picture, " recalls 42-year-old Chopp, who was thrust into the chief executive's job in the midst of the crisis.
Owner of The Gordon Group, an executive recruiter and job coach, Stacey supports diversity initiatives and gender equality by helping companies increase the diversity of their candidate pool.
Owner of The Gordon Group, an executive recruiter and job coach, Stacey A. Gordon supports diversity initiatives and gender equality by helping companies increase the diversity of their candidate pool.
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Shareholders duly signed up to the rights issue, and by the end of that year, not only had the chief executive lost his job, but they'd lost about 90% of their shares' value.
But insiders say Mr. Horn, a 70-year-old industry veteran, has brought gravitas to the top of a studio embroiled in drama since 2009, when Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger filled the job with Rich Ross, a television executive who had no filmmaking experience.
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But struggles turning HP's plan into reality cost HP Chief Executive Carly Fiorina her job in 2005.
In 1987 Valdiserri was ousted from his job as executive vice president at Weirton in a boardroom coup.
O'Neal is the highest-profile executive to lose his job this year in the wake of the market meltdown.
An executive who had the job of reinventing the Disney Store once called up Jobs and asked for advice.
In 1987, in a boardroom coup, Valdiserri, then 50, was ousted from his job as executive vice president at Weirton.
On his own, the executive got a new job last month as chief operating officer of a California technology concern.
Zurich's next chief executive will have a job restoring investor confidence.
Look, obviously the executive branch's job is to implement law.
Years ago Michael Keaton touched on the topic in the movie "Mr. Mom" in which he was a corporate executive who lost his job while his wife shot up the chart at her company.
On the day NPR chief executive Vivian Schiller lost her job, I was reporting from Egypt.
Mr Kahn's job as chief executive, which starts in August, is to manage the police force.
Left BBC in October for job as chief executive and president of the New York Times.
When Ko graduated in 1996 he landed a job in the executive training program at Macy's department store.
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