Samara became quite the international media mogul, hobnobbing with Nelson Mandela and Prince Charles.

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Some small companies find online hobnobbing more effective than waiting for folks to find their Web sites.

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He and his wife Patricia are familiar figures in high society, hobnobbing with former presidents like George H.

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Far from hobnobbing with the corporate elite, her main connection to the company was her father-in-law, who worked there as a foreman.

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The parallels are interesting: Bert Brodsky was a poor kid growing up in the Bronx who ended up hobnobbing with the ultra-wealthy Bernie Madoff.

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Global warming may help bring people together, but, once they're hobnobbing, they "love to discuss what they've bought, " says Lush Chief Executive Mark Constantine.

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Instead of moving down market where roosters roost, she goes hobnobbing with Lords in the English countryside, conscious enough to wonder if she belongs there.

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As FORBES went to press Rovio had just hired the former chairman of Marvel to produce its first feature film, and Vesterbacka was hobnobbing with movie studio execs at Cannes.

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Abramovich also has a history of hobnobbing with celebrities.

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In a 2009 study, Ulrike Malmendier of the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA's Geoff Tate found that companies performed poorly after their leaders were voted "CEO of the Year, " because of the distractions that came with the fame, like writing a book and hobnobbing at Davos.

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