However, Major League Soccer executives are upping their game when it comes to line management.
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Bill Saikin of the Los Angeles Times did it the other day with this scoop about Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt meeting with Major League Baseball executives to apparently see if he can borrow money to keep his team.
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For them, the connection between delaying parenthood and career success is stronger than it is for men: A 2008 study by the Families and Work Institute found that, among senior executives at ten major U.S. companies, female executives were nearly three times more likely than male executives to delay parenthood (35% vs. 12%).
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NYSE's Board of Directors is loaded with executives whose major scandals erupt at their own companies.
In 2011, Forbes examined how well chief executives of major corporations had delivered value to shareholders relative to their total compensation.
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First, in case you missed the memo, virtually nothing most senior executives at major corporations say publically is spontaneous, unfiltered, or remotely authentic.
Buffenbarger chose an interesting tack, in a room full of executives from major airframe manufacturers and suppliers with whom the IAM regularly negotiates.
Enron and its executives were major contributors to both political parties, giving millions in campaign contributions to President Bush and members of Congress.
The difference between the lowest-paid employees in major corporations and top executives has gone from approximately 100 to 1 to over 500 to 1.
Our firm recently polled executives at major corporations around the world to ask them about the operational risks they perceived to their supply chains, and the response strategies they had in place.
In the first three months of 2008, eight chief executives of major U.S. companies, including Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley and First American agreed to forgo their bonuses, compared to 4 for the previous twelve months, according to Equilar's research.
As a communications coach who prepares leading global executives to launch major products or to tackle difficult questions, I can tell you exactly why Romney looked so well-prepared.
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Those are the major concerns being expressed by executives of the nation's top property and casualty insurers, who fret that a changing landscape could dampen the good times they've been enjoying.
On Wednesday, the chief executives of eight major banks told lawmakers they will suspend foreclosures, and on Friday JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup extended their moratoriums into early March, or at least until the details of the Obama plan come out.
Schmuan was among 100 or so major league and minor league executives at the Winter Meetings in Nashville listening to a talk from beer industry veteran Matt Borgard, director of venue sales for Crown Imports, the importer of Corona.
Search firms have been used for decades to place executives and presidents at major companies and universities, but only recently have they extended their reach to college coaching.
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Vanguard executives say cost is a major reason the firm saw an greater inflow of funds from investors.
Also, senior PR executives from each of the major U.S. pro sports leagues and the NCAA will be coming to the Sports PR Summit.
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Over the last several months, the chief executives of a number of major gold-mining companies said they are putting more emphasis on spending restraint and returning capital to shareholders, rather than a race for more total production.
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Starr, a holding company, has attracted executives from AIG and is a major Greenberg insurance and investment vehicle.
Grayer opened Kaplan centers in every major U.S. city and now executives are pleased to point out that the largest city in America without a Kaplan testing center is Wichita, Kan.
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Another major trend identified by the survey is that of top executives swapping the boardroom for the classroom and teaching in business schools.
Oil company executives and analysts suspect that Chevron and Italian major Eni may be the other two firms in talks with the KRG.
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The country no longer needs to import natural gas, and some 15% of energy executives believe natural gas exports will become a major driver of demand by 2017.
But mom-and-pop store owners were outraged, a major retailer threatened to yank Maytag from its stores and Maytag executives reversed course.
Obviously this implies a disruption of current drug discovery approaches as well as related business models, which constitutes a major challenge to the pharmaceutical industry and therewith to all, executives and scientific leaders as well.
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Executives licensed to fly small aircraft led 176 of 2, 073 major public companies at some point between 1992 and 2009, a recent study says.
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Together they are joint chief executives of the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), which owns major independent theatres in the UK, including the Donmar Warehouse and the Edinburgh Playhouse.
My firm, CEO to CEO, is a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the skills of mid-market CEOs who are navigating major shifts in their business or marketplace.
What about executives who learn a piece of bad news, say when the sales manager tells them a major customer just canceled his order?
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