The information, including abundant personal details, is added to Spencer Stuart's crown jewel--the executive database.
Y. that night, Amazon recruiter Norbert Gottenberg, then of Spencer Stuart, was waiting in the lobby.
Particularly coming off a year when the average CMO tenure was a disheartening 28.2 months, according to the much-cited Spencer Stuart study.
Spencer Stuart typically works on a per-hire basis and collects one-time fees.
Cornell used recruiting firm Spencer Stuart and a 12-person search committee comprised of alumni, students and administrators, to select the new dean.
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What's more, a failed expatriate hire can be a costly mistake and slow a firm's progress in the region, said Phil Johnston, a managing director at recruiter Spencer Stuart.
Spencer Stuart began its annual CMO tenure study in 2004 and uses the Advertising Age list of top 100 advertised brands as its initial list of companies to survey.
Board member Kelvin Westbrook, chief executive of Millennium Digital Media, led the committee, which hired headhunter firm Spencer Stuart and told it to look for someone with experience as a chief executive.
Megamergers like Vodaphone's bid to buy Mannesmann in telecom and Glaxo Wellcome's embrace of SmithKline Beecham in drugs are reducing the supply of big, rich companies that can pay Spencer Stuart's hefty fees.
Spencer Stuart's intelligence gathering begins like ordinary head-hunting.
In fact, three out of four senior executives hired in Asia by multinationals were Asian natives already living in the region, according to a Spencer Stuart analysis of 1, 500 placements made from 2005 to 2010.
Keller, a newspaper reporter for most of his career, learned just how extensive the Spencer Stuart database can be when, two years ago, Dennis Carey recruited him--and asked how things were going for Honey, Keller's blind, 17-year-old beagle.
According to Greg Welch, who launched Spencer Stuart's marketing practice and now heads the firm's global consumer goods and services business, the average CMO tenure has grown to just over 28 months in 2008, up four months since Welch started measuring CMO tenure in 2004.
And outgoing Marks and Spencer boss Sir Stuart Rose has said the government had taken "very sensible action".
Ipswich's two town centre shopping centres have empty units, the former civic centre site is still undeveloped and Sir Stuart Rose, the former chairman of Marks and Spencer, has offered his input into revitalising the town centre.
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