"The world has gotten smaller, and there has been globalization of everything, including crime, " says Bradley Bryant, the FBI's violent crimes unit chief, pointing to the bureau's offices in 75 cities around the world.
Several leading executives, touted by outsiders at one time or another as potential successors to Ballmer, have left the company in the last few years, most recently Windows unit chief Steven Sinofsky, who departed in November.
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Camera-shy and soft-spoken, Giuliano, 55, joined ITT in 1988 as vice president of the defense unit before becoming chief executive in February 2001.
Melo, the former head of BP's biofuels unit, is its chief executive.
As part of that initiative, Motorola has been searching for a new chief for its handset unit.
In October he appointed a new merchandising unit, led by former food chief John Dixon.
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Two months after resigning last February as cochairman (with Iovine) of the Universal unit, he popped up as chief executive of ArtistDirect.
The project accelerated late last year after Gordon Shank, then president of Levi's Americas unit and now Levi's chief marketing officer, visited a customer-service center and heard the frustration firsthand.
The unit would be headed by a chief election enforcement officer, appointed by the governor and requiring confirmation by the state Senate, and authorized to investigate and prosecute both civil and criminal cases, with subpoena power.
"Timbuktu in the 14th to the 16th century was an important university city where many manuscripts referring to knowledge of astronomy, economy, religion, mathematics, physics, and medicine were produced, " said Lazare Eloundou, chief of the Africa unit for UNESCO's World Heritage Center.
The CIO is the Chief Investment Office, the unit where the bets that led to the loss were made.
Barry is the chief of the general medicine unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and president of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making.
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From 1986-1992, Spitzer was an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, rising to become chief of its labor racketeering unit, where he prosecuted organized crime and political corruption cases.
"It was a bad legacy practice that we don't do anymore, " says Dave Hudson, who in June took over as chief executive of the Nielsen unit that scraped PatientsLikeMe in May.
Carly Fiorina, HP's chief executive, blamed the unit's poor performance on the absence of a traditional uplift at the end of the quarter and disruption caused by a new supply chain system.
Hasse was chief of the organized crime unit when he was an assistant prosecutor in Dallas County in the 1980s, and he handled similar cases in Kaufman County, 33 miles southeast of Dallas.
"It looks like we have found a key genetic gatekeeper of puberty in mice and men, " said Dr William Crowley Jr, chief of the reproductive endocrine unit and one of those involved in the study.
Prannoy did not have television in his genes--his mother was a teacher and his father the chief executive of the Indian unit of a British company--but since the age of 10 he had been fascinated by elections.
The school's announcement last week in a letter sent to faculty, staff, parents and alumni said the committee's leaders would include Lisa Friel, the former chief of the sex crimes unit in the Manhattan district attorney's office and a school parent.
"This vaccine will have a huge impact, " predicts Jean Stephenne, chief of GlaxoSmithkline's vaccine unit.
McAfee business unit, is the company's interim chief executive and president, effective immediately.
Citigroup shares lost over 4% Monday, after the firm named Mike Corbat Chief Executive of its Citi Holdings unit.
Mitsuru Homma, the chief of Sanyo's power unit, said the hybrid power pack should be available within two years.
Some Republicans voted against Lew because they were not satisfied with his answers about his previous employment with Citigroup, including a brief time when he was chief operating officer for an investment unit in 2008.
Berg has been an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan since 1989, apart from a four-year stint from 1999 to 2003 when he served as Chief of the High Tech Crime Unit at the Michigan Department of the Attorney General.
"We're not tethered to one company, " said Bill Goodwyn, chief executive of Discovery's education unit.
"We thoroughly embrace the concept, " says Rhonda Robinson Beale, chief medical officer at the behavioral health unit of UnitedHealthcare.
That "is a regulatory, compliance and anti-money-laundering challenge, " says Jeff Howkins, chief executive of Upromise Investments, a unit of Sallie Mae.
Mark Gregory, chief executive of Bowring Marsh, a unit of insurance broker Marsh, says clients particularly admire the skill of Lloyd's underwriters at dealing with unusual and complex risks (try Ugly Betty's smile).
John Long, vice president and chief technical officer of the Midwest Generation unit, thinks he can coax another 15% increase out of those aging boilers over the next five years without running afoul of environmental rules.
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