The company now has a validated model that helps top executives make decisions about leadership, organizational design, and training programs which have a dramatic impact on store sales.
But BoA countered that its executives made their decisions after consulting their lawyers at Wachtell Lipton, who advised against the disclosure.
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The difference, said Zik, is that GRI is a sustainability-reporting framework, whereas Energy Points helps executives make effective decisions by providing comparative analysis.
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That is, a command and control environment that stifles initiative and permits only senior executives to make decisions will not encourage worker initiative by offering a free lunch.
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No less than 21% were run by chief executives who generally made decisions entirely on their own.
In their lending decisions, executives used a hybrid approach that combines hard-nosed cultural analysis with microlending techniques.
Finally, at a House panel in Washington today, General Motors and Chrysler executives stood by their decisions to close a number of dealerships.
It isn't a lack of intelligence that causes executives to make poor decisions, but a lack of awareness of the feelings that drive their reactions, he said.
Executives all make big decisions, about hiring, company valuations, product launches, investments, strategic direction, building new facilities, mergers, acquisitions, changing technology, new approaches to doing business, and more.
It transferred a huge amount of money from the productive sector of the economy to the government, and also exacerbated "moral hazard" by rewarding companies and executives who made dumb decisions.
Against this, top executives have to base their decisions less on direct experience and more on corporate information systems.
For the past sixty years, TV executives have been making the decisions about what we watch in our living rooms.
At one of the firms we analyzed a new CEO came on board and found that some of the executives had never made any decisions.
Dividend payments should also cause corporate executives to make better fiscal decisions since ceasing the payment of dividends implies that the company is struggling financially.
Executives who make spectacularly bad decisions can only be subjected to criminal prosecution if they engage in fraud or deliberately close their eyes to it.
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That being said, the law has changed little with regard to the fiduciary duties that govern the actions and business decisions of corporate executives and financial advisors.
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Why do executives make the wrong security decisions?
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The same could apply to products at monstrous companies like Samsung or Sony, where executives need to make planning decisions based on product performance, and could benefit greatly from having all of the necessary information for a single gadget listed around each cube.
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President Jacques Chirac has used his influence to hire and fire the company's top executives and to intervene in management decisions.
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It was Nardelli's call, but as with any important capital or personnel decisions, Cerberus' top executives had a hand in it.
D. economists may know a great deal about building economic models that help business executives and government policy makers pursue intelligent decisions.
The U.S. executives, unsurprisingly, tended to make decisions on the spot, while the Swiss liked to sleep on it overnight and then regroup.
As a staff person on the corporate management team, though, she participated in discussions of strategy and acquisitions that revealed how the executives heading publicly-traded companies made decisions.
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Faced with adapt-or-die decisions, shareholders are counting on executives to integrate social technologies with corporate culture in order to meet the expectations of their customers.
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In his Monday staff meetings with a dozen executives, issues are pasted on the walls and decisions made on the fly.
Executives like to pride themselves on the ability to make decisions based upon data.
The responsibility still lies with the company, however, so executives must have systems in place to make sure firing decisions, for example, follow procedure and higher-ups are notified.
Despite hiring talented people to fill roles and fulfill needs, many managers and executives feel compelled to think for their people, make decisions for them, and try to manage their transitions through change.
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And because workers can see information normally kept under wraps, they may weigh in on decisions, which can slow things down, company executives say.
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A. in 1987, has instead wrested control of research and development spending decisions away from the divisions and centralized them with the executives at the company.
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