The founder soon quit, leaving Herbig in charge of a company that was in open revolt against its new owners.
But if you were in charge of a company whose greatest accomplishments (Walkman, PlayStation, etc.) occurred many years ago, what would you do?
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His death left his wife, Katharine, in charge of a company she was utterly unprepared to run, yet she eventually flourished in the role with the aid of advice from Warren Buffett, among others.
And then there's the question of whether the leadership of the company can be considered fit and proper persons to be in charge of a TV company - an issue currently beyond the committee's horizon.
Ron Johnson is doing exactly what a CEO should be doing when put in charge of a moribund company.
If West Ham's owners sell in the next 10 years, they will have to give a share of the sale to the company in charge of securing a legacy for London's Olympic venues.
Whether the person is in charge of a Fortune 500 company, or the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, leadership is exhausting.
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In a big company, that might mean taking charge of a division or a region.
In addition to Mr. Hogan, the company said it is nominating as directors a Japanese life-insurance executive and the head of a company in charge of clearing and settling securities transactions.
For instance Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, a failing hardware company, and put a fired CEO in charge of it.
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You said yesterday that the White House and the administration don't want to be in charge of an auto company for an hour or a day.
When they are painted onto a surface, this arrangement forces them into a kind of checkerboard pattern which makes it much harder for barnacles and mussels to stick, according to David Williams, who is in charge of commercialising the idea at AkzoNobel, a multinational chemical company.
Goodyear told CNN on Monday that on the question of writedowns, the company had looked at its assets and saw no need for a charge in any of its businesses.
David Packard, who, with Bill Hewlett, founded Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto garage in 1939, hired Perkins in 1957, at a time when the company was entering a period of rapid expansion, and Perkins was put in charge of the research labs.
Bakan argues that the essentially anti-social nature of a company will predominate even if those in charge have good intentions.
In charge of commerce was Donald Evans, former chief of a Denver-based oil company.
Frank Appel, chief executive of German mail and logistics group Deutsche Post DHL, took charge of the company in February 2008 after his predecessor Klaus Zumwinkel stepped down following a personal tax evasion scandal.
He is in charge of the pilot program, working with companies that have come to the company requesting a wearable computing solution.
The ax fell after a series of embarrassing setbacks in his failed attempt to turn the charge card company into an international financial supermarket.
The government then moved to take over MetroGas, the company in charge of gas distribution, for having interrupted such distribution as a result of the need to keep the reserves given increasing expected demands in the short run.
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Since first disclosing the loss, Dimon has largely pinned the blame on a hedging strategy gone wrong, a synthetic credit portfolio initially intended to protect the company that became a successful position and blinded those who were in charge of managing it to the rising threat it posed.
However, before starting the works, the giant oil company must complete a long bidding process to select who will be in charge of the construction of projects.
An 88-year-old man who was forced to wash in water boiled on a stove for weeks is to get a new boiler free of charge from his energy company.
The company said the Fine Silicon charge reflects a sharp drop in the spot market price of polysilicon.
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Novartis contends that 95% of patients in India, roughly 16, 000 patients, receive Glivec free of charge under a support program funded by the company.
It was a little more than a month later when Scott Forstall, vice president in charge of iOS, was ousted from the company, reportedly, in part, for not wanting to apologize for Maps.
Soderquist was in charge of data processing at Ben Franklin, a chain of retail stores owned by individual proprietors and franchised by the company.
In January it emerged that the man in charge of Bulgaria's roads, Veselin Georgiev, had granted contracts worth hundreds of millions of euros to a company owned by his brother.
Mr. Chapman stayed with Shearson through further mergers and Mr. Weill's eventual sale of the company to American Express, where Mr. Chapman became vice chairman and in charge of developing a global private-banking network.
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