Five students in business casual and the two authors in board shorts were crammed into a small classroom in Southern Bangalore.
Most importantly, the attitudes about China that have built up in Washington, in board rooms and on Main Street need to change.
Wars between major countries are no longer fought on the high seas, or on land with vast armies, but in board rooms and markets.
The information Gupta passed to Rajaratnam represented a breach by disclosing strategic decisions Goldman was making in board meetings prior to them being publicly released.
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The competition between major countries is no longer fought on the high seas, or on land with vast armies, but in board rooms and markets.
They held a conference at the stadium on Saturday where they heard from fans of Hamburg and Espanyol, who have some influence in board decision-making.
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She saw a future where women, successful yet still thwarted in board service, would be able to reach for the highest levels of leadership and not be denied it because of their gender.
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The hard inner laissez-faire certainties of past years in board rooms and the government have given way to a strange neo-socialism played with green yo-yos called the public's billions entrusted to failed bankers.
The program offers participants the opportunity to take part in board simulations with sitting board members, meetings with board recruiters to help hone their resumes, and a dedicated mentor and coach for twelve months.
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He notes that full-size projectors are already entrenched in board rooms, and argues that in casual settings users are more likely to share a notebook display than transfer files and set up a phone projector.
Changes in board practices and behavior will be essential if directors are to provide independent oversight of executives--real-time performance information unfiltered by management, new meeting formats that foster more open discussion, and the freedom to interact, unfettered by management, with the leaders of business units.
Yet in 2010, only 11% of board seats in Europe and 14.9% of board seats in the U.S. were held by women.
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During one of her chemo regimes, Barry was in a board meeting in a stifling hot room.
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.
He added that he had "very little faith" in a board statement in the summer in which it said every effort was being made to maintain and improve the service on the ward.
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The President opined that it was always important for the Chair and the Director-General to consult before such matters were taken up in the Board, in order to ensure that the discussions taking place enabled Member States to have a better understanding.
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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The board had been sitting in a conference room for three hours prior, talking in great detail about the business, but there is absolutely no question that I learned more in the 30 minutes of that sales pitch than I did in the board meeting.
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In March, I sat in a Board meeting of a small company in the Midwest whose business is the manufacture and sale of refractory products.
Players refused to compete in the three scheduled matches in the board's regional four-day competition in protest at money allegedly owed to them.
Over the past few years many of the small-cap trading desks that made markets in Bulletin Board issues have been shut down or drastically reduced in size, including those run by Goldman Sachs (which bought Spear Leeds, the NYSE market specialist firm, in late 2000), Sherwood Securities and Fleet Securities.
But Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board (ABM) said the hospital will still play an important role in the board's plans.
"Research firm Jon Peddie Research pegged Nvidia's Q4 2007 share of the add-in graphics board market at 71% of all units shipped, up from 64% in the prior quarter, " he says.
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.
Calum Steele from the Scottish Police Federation said limiting the number of board members of the Scottish Police Authority to between seven and 11 would result in a board "far too small" unable to have the resilience to deliver all that would be expected of it.
In theory, if executive pay rose too high because it was set in a market dominated by cronyism (ie, a board of directors who are chums of the boss, who appointed them), then shouldn't a move to a system in which the board actually tries to get value for the shareholders' money result in lower pay?
And what was the logic in the board room when this decision was taken?
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But I think there needs to be a spirit of accountability in all board meetings.
To others, it is an expensive bobble to be flashed in the board room or country club.
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