The recent news that struggling imaging company Eastman Kodak lost three outside
directors in a single week prompted me to consider the extent to which non-executive directors flee their companies in times of trouble and why.
Not exact matches
Army Col. John Hope was the
director of operations for the Pentagon's $ 800 million Afghanistan Task Force for Stability and Business Operations — which was designed to focus on economic redevelopment
in US war zones — when he complained about a lack of financial accountability, and now says he has been «
singled out for retaliation and retribution,» Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) said last
week in a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.
«We really wanted to make sure that we tapped into a lot of the beautiful properties that we showcase on our website and
in our app every
single week,» Sarah Myers, Domain's group marketing
director, told CNBC Make It.
«Every
single week I have young mothers and grandparents requesting diapers,» but they are rarely available, said LaVerne Morris,
director of the St. Columbanus Church Food Pantry
in Chicago.
Last
week OMB
director Mitch Daniels foreshadowed the move during a Washington, D.C., speech
in which he
singled out NSF for praise and warned other agencies to shape up or suffer the consequences.
And Sergei Paradjanov's debut feature Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) makes its DVD debut this
week, available as a
single - disc special edition or
in a box set with the
director's other three feature films.
Fresh off of this
week's news that Bill Nighy, Stanley Tucci and John Kassir have joined the cast of
director Bryan Singer's Jack The Giant Killer, Deadline are reporting that said Jack has been cast
in the form of About A Boy and A
Single Man star Nicholas Hoult.
Crowe's second film as
director, 1992's
Singles, arrived on Blu - ray this
week not
in anticipation of the filmmaker's next effort but as part of Warner Bros..
A decade later, that film's writer and
director, James Toback («Bugsy»), saw Downey on television after one of his drug arrests, and something about the actor's appearance inspired him to write the screenplay for this film
in the space of a
single week.
Last
week, I had the chance to check out the game for a few hours
in both the
single player and multiplayer modes as well as interviewing the Game
Director.
Edward Lendner, who was
director of climate issues
in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.&raqu
in a previous White House administration, wrote last
week: «
In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.&raqu
In what would be the
single most important contingency that could impact civil society
in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.&raqu
in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world
in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.&raqu
in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos
in both wealthy and poor countries.&raqu
in both wealthy and poor countries.»
Richard was
singled out as the «Litigator of the
Week» by The American Lawyer
in February 2009 for his «huge victory for corporate
directors»
in obtaining dismissal by the Delaware Chancery Court of a derivative suit against the
directors of Citigroup.