Directorships

Most of the people that he placed in directorships at District agencies have absolutely no experience. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He holds a multitude of directorships, is a Governor of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and a Trustee of Bishop's University. ❋ Unknown (1966)

Further, Whitaker with his facts is at hand to help them; for since he proves that all the fruits of professional culture — such as directorships of art galleries and museums, professorships and lectureships and editorships — are still beyond their reach, they should be able to take a more purely disinterested view of culture than their brothers, without for a moment claiming, as Macaulay asserts, that they are by nature more disinterested. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Further, a limited pool means women could end up holding too many directorships, putting further pressure on the effectiveness of decision-making. ❋ Renée Schultes (2011)

These days she has a portfolio of non-executive directorships, including at house builder Barratt. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Then again, they don't offer non-executive directorships to ex-politicians. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The SEC believed that the announcement of an enforcement action would prompt Mr. Gupta to resign from his remaining board directorships, the people familiar with the matter say. ❋ Jean Eaglesham (2011)

Government types skip away from their Cabinet posts or their directorships or their undersecretaryships of this or that with a kind of cred that no university degree can impart. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In Australia, an initiative was launched in 2009 to encourage more women in directorships. ❋ Javier Espinoza (2011)

He was particularly interested in governance and had already taken up independent directorships at global firms such as Perot Systems. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Since leaving government, she has picked up a clutch of directorships, including at global pharmaeutical company AstraZeneca, and mining group BHP Billiton where she is a non-executive director. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Desai, who attended her first Rovers fixture by watching the 1-0 home defeat by Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday, is expected to appoint a new chairman from within the Venky's group, having already handed Blackburn directorships to Gandhi Babu and Mahesh Gupta. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Clearwire said the move came "out of an abundance of caution to address questions raised by Clearwire regarding new developments in antitrust law," such as a recent decision involving the National Football League and how it relates to the Clayton Act. That law bars so-called interlocking directorships in order to preserve competition and avoid possible collusion or exchange of sensitive pricing information between rivals. ❋ Roger Cheng (2010)

A Marketplace article about directorships' effects on CEO performance on May 23 failed to mention these appointments. ❋ Unknown (2011)