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Our goal is to elevate the dialogue around post-sales service and address issues that go beyond the tactical operations of workforce or inventory management. We are building a community of senior business and technology executives to help shape the role service organizations should play in the product value chain.

Other states have an advantage in recruiting businesses, they say, since they can give hope of stability to the business executives compared to Virginia, whose system guarantees unknown change every four years.

Risk initiatives require active cooperation among the business line heads who will ultimately benefit from risk done right, the IT department that implements it, and the key executives who identify the institution's risk appetites and policies. Best practice risk management cannot be implemented without the involvement of all three.

Rising energy costs aside, the key difference between today and a year ago is the fact that businesses have far more confidence in future economic conditions, and this gives executives comfort when signing new leases.

Pilot season can be maddening. You're basically putting yourself and your talent out there to be scrutinized several times a day for months by network executives who have probably never acted in anything since their junior high school production of 'The Wiz.'

Recent trends are such that 'reasonable prudence and responsibility' are no longer adequate to protect executives from liability in the case of security or performance breakdown. You need to show extraordinary efforts are taken to ensure policies exist, are applied consistently and that rigorous searches to look for, identify and resolve vulnerabilities are made regularly.

Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.

Organizations in Asia that are growing aggressively simply can't find the senior executives that they need to underpin their growth,

Participation at CARTS should be an indicator of the level of industry confidence. We expect that engineers and marketing executives will make the small investment of time to gain a competitive edge by finding out where the industry is going from both a technology and market perspective.

People in the industry don't want to believe it, and most of the executives are still talking about the higher growth rate.

Such executives are unlikely to be willing to look at new ways of doing business.

Stanford and Harvard Business School share a common mission: to educate leaders around the world. Over the last several months, as we have explored the advantages of working together, we have become enthusiastic about the opportunity to deliver online an unparalleled management-education portfolio to executives and leaders around the world.

That ain't bad. In our humble forecasting, we've been predicting a gradual decrease in unemployment. Business executives have been reporting to us they feel as though their region is coming out of a slow-growth business environment. It's not rampant optimism, but for the fi rst time in a number of years, executives from every corner of the state are showing more optimism for growth.

My resignation from Oracle is not a reflection on the company, its executives or employees. And I wish Oracle and my former co-workers the very best.

I was very surprised. I assumed, probably like most senior executives in most organizations, that I knew all of what was going on around here,

It doesn't really change anything. It's not like people will get their jobs back or their retirement savings back. But I do think the trial is important. It will set a precedent of what's acceptable corporate conduct. Is it OK for executives to do anything so long as it's technically legal?

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Most of the executives of publicly held companies are on the job for five years and these companies are more concerned with quarterly earnings. However, family-owned businesses are in there for the long run. It might even take decades for some of their ventures to pay off,

Most fund company executives are very careful about what they say, ... Everybody could use a Jack Bogle.

Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.

Most executives are oblivious to the security challenges. You have to disarm all the security stuff because the executive can't figure out how to work it.

Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

Most automakers develop multiple options for a single project. Then they present those options to a committee of executives who decide which one to go with. That takes a lot of time.

Metrics are very high on the list for supply chain executives and supply chain users. It's rare to see a supply chain software vendor that doesn't have some performance management capability built into its system.

While the executives played around with the notion of safer cigarettes, the lawyers in the company said, 'Listen, if you make a safer cigarette, you'll indict all the rest of our cigarettes'

When Spielberg was talking with the other executives about making this movie, he said he was only interested if they were going to tell the truth about the westward crossing, which means how the Native Americans were disrespected.

We have to send a message that the risk is real. Chief executives no longer have to rest assured that if they don't hear of a problem, it doesn't mean it is not going on.

We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the 21st century. It is in all of our best interests to work together. In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself; you have to form alliances.

Users will be under pressure to show the benefits of these new technologies, ... Executives will want measurable results.

Users were down on the future right after Katrina, and it showed in our surveys. Then last month they more than doubled their spending outlook when users realized the economy was still perking along. This month they came back to earth. Small business executives were especially realistic.

Thousands of executives and professionals and homemakers have their own automatic labelers, ... and my archives are full of their comments, like, 'Incredible -- I wouldn't have believed what a difference it makes!' the labeler will be used to label your file folders, binder spines and numerous other things.

While we haven't received details from the state AG, the notion that former WorldCom executives committed fraud is not new news.

We are quite pleased to have raised $10.3 million. This capital will help us bring our innovative technologies to market more aggressively. In order to execute our business objectives, we recently added several experienced executives to our sales team. I'm confident that we now have the right products, team and resources to capitalize on our tremendous growth opportunities and drive shareholder value.

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

We distill content for Fortune 500 executives every day. We know how to take a twenty-minute speech and edit it down to the three or four minutes that apply directly to a specific constituency. We can leverage any existing or future communication initiative, adding to the value of those efforts.

Tomorrow's successful technology professionals and leaders will be power users of technology, have a strong grasp of technology topics, and will integrate and work closely with other business executives and staff.

Volunteering is one of the greatest experiences you can ever have at the festival. It's the ultimate breeding ground of opportunity for all those interested in the arts, education, entertainment, film, music and event production fields. Whether you're here just to have some fun this summer or if you really want to explore career opportunities, it's all here, including the work experience and the networking with successful professionals, executives and Hollywood icons.

The question for oil executives is whether you're in the oil business or the energy business.

When you add standard weather delays and labor issues to the mix, travel can be challenging for executives traveling for business during this peak time.

The executives were asking me if this political movement will affect China's way of doing business. The Chinese immediately reassured us that it wouldn't.

The executives really took a huge hit. That's typical in a bankruptcy, where executives lose a significant part of their compensation.

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

The really cool challenge of '24' was learning on camera how to be a dramatic actress. The biggest difficulty was the industry side of things. I was very lucky that I had Joel Surnow, one of the creators of '24,' in my corner. Early on, the Fox executives couldn't believe that I was on the show.

With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products.

Tyrepower will also have access to a corporate suite at the raceway which will enable them to entertain corporate clienteles, and guests from within their company. When Tyrepower executives held discussions regarding the partnership, it came to light that a number of them had enjoyed the facilities on offer in the past and thoroughly enjoyed themselves to boot.

We have found that when companies establish a physical presence, and locate executives and senior people in a market, they tend to be successful. When companies try to manage a market remotely, they tend to be spectacularly unsuccessful.

This research shows IT executives should ask themselves if they have a modern blueprint for managing their organizations.

There has been back-room maneuvering, and Aaron Spelling expressed his disappointment in the show to the executives at WB.

Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that: senior executives. Leadership doesn't automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees.

To the degree that she reflects the franchise's style and savvy, she is well respected in a male-dominated sports property. That respect goes all the way up through the league's operations. She has established herself as one of the major team executives in all of sports.

Yet one thing has not changed, ... A moviemaker's single indispensable asset -- as elementally essential now as it was in the Golden Years -- is the Story. And that means studio executives of this era must share the same DNA as industry pioneers in at least one particular -- the ability to find a narrative with heart and heat.

The Phoenix area is so compact that it's not that far to full-service hotels if that's what the executives want. But to have them right in Chandler would be an advantage that is not there now.

When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.

There are lots of brownfield sites in Stoke, but they are not suitable for building executive homes. It needs to be surrounded by fields. It needs to be on greenbelt land. That's what executives want.

With decades of experience in network management, Sean, Gary and Jim are intimately familiar with the old way of thinking: a secure network equals a secure environment. That approach simply won't get the job done in a world where 70 percent of the vulnerabilities reside in the applications running across those networks. These executives work extremely well together and provide an outstanding balance of industry knowledge, business and sales expertise. They are helping Security Innovation break new ground in the market, extend our offerings more broadly and fuel our steady upward momentum.

With the complexity of litigation growing more and more dense, if you will, we are seeing, and we will continue to see, executives who think they are doing the right thing because they consulted with counsel,

With so much money invested in their most promising projects, Hollywood executives will understandably do everything in their power to make their products a success in the marketplace. Therefore, the most expensive films often also get the highest marketing budgets, and are slotted into the most favorable opening weekends.

We are encouraged by the strong interest in our program in London from executives and from leading corporations throughout Europe and other areas. This is a unique learning system.

Under the old world order, senior executives of companies that were most aggressive were the ones that won most often, ... We have to be able to convince the senior executives at companies that the world has changed and that under the new rules you are going to consistently lose if you are using accounting tricks.

First and foremost it is the company, it's these executives that put these numbers together, it's not the auditors. So the people who are actually in the kitchen, cooking the books, stirring the stew, so to speak, are these executives, and there is no excuse for what happened.

Film executives look at things like star power, film release dates, target audiences and soundtracks. This software is going to give you information that is probably already known.

The government, when it settles a case, ordinarily seeks jail times for officers and directors and high executives who are implicated in the conspiracy. I know that it is something that the government tries to get and will try to get it in this case, no doubt.

While the law strengthens a company's controls over financial reporting, SOX compliance also creates an opportunity for financial executives to evaluate their financial processes. These results show that many companies have benefited from their investment in SOX compliance by improving their overall financial operations with a stronger control environment.

While the job market is picking up, many companies remain selective when hiring IT professionals. Executives seek individuals with a deep understanding of the issues, challenges and tools specific to their industries, and who can contribute immediately to the company's success.

You can't compete on price and reselling hardware. Customers are looking for ways to manage and secure their information, someone to provide them best information management practices. They're looking for someone to provide them a storage vision. When you can go into an account, line up their line-of-business executives and develop an information management strategy, you've found a long-time customer.

To many people, that's what the true compensation is and what the executives get taxed on. Not until the stock vests can individuals put it in their pockets, and now investors are going to be able to see what it's worth.

To manage, rather than be managed by the market, health plan executives need to be proactive. They need to look now at the issues likely to face the industry this year.

The reason the C.E.O. got the job in the first place was to increase long-term revenue. The daily operational results are affected by executives much further down the chain.

There is no justification for these executives to pocket over $300 million in payouts for just engineering a merger, ... enriching themselves at the expense of shareholders.

The record is not only clear, it's public. ... (The trading plans) provide for pre-arranged sales of stock over a six-month period. These plans are typical for senior executives of public companies and the plans were approved by the company's board of directors.

We've heard too many stories of top executives of bankrupt companies sticking workers with unfunded pensions while running off with millions of dollars of so-called nonqualified pension benefits.

Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did not master the courtroom as other chief executives have.

Those union executives have no idea of what justice is, ... So, I will let the court decide if justice is being served.

This was a very difficult determination in an extremely close race. Both men will make far better Virginia chief executives than their critics would lead you to believe.

With sales now, it's not a signal that tech companies are about to fall apart. Executives want to diversify away from having their money being tied up in one asset.

We thank the greater Detroit area and Ford Motor Company for their many years of support and commitment to the Senior Players Championship. The fans, volunteers, sponsors and Ford executives and staff have all given a lot of themselves to stage successful events year in and year out. We look forward to having our best championship ever in 2006 and then a very exciting future at Baltimore Country Club beginning next year.

We welcome these distinguished technology executives to our Technical Advisory Board. These IT visionaries bring a wealth of experience and unique perspectives that will be enormously valuable in helping define ANTs' future product strategy and direction. I look forward to working with them as ANTs moves forward to strengthen its presence in the marketplace.

The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.

We are very pleased to present this year's award to Mr. Iwai. His leadership models important traits that have brought Konica Minolta to its present position of strength: the courage to make the right decisions, even when they are difficult; unwavering focus on innovation; and emphasis on a healthy corporate culture. Though not every company can have its own Track & Field Team, Mr. Iwai's leadership provides an example for other executives - whatever the industry - to emulate for their great benefit. I3A is privileged to present our 2006 award to Mr. Iwai.

We are very excited to co-host this bi-annual event in China again after the overwhelmingly positive response we received from the more than 440 summit attendees in 2004. We look forward to meeting with the world's leading contractors, design firms, developers, financiers and building product manufacturers in Beijing this April, as well as networking with the top industry executives and policy makers in China.

We have executives running this city. We need to wait for a master plan to make a decision? It's part of my frustration.

Bloom's exit coming at the heels of COO Ray Lane's departure leaves only Ellison with the kind of universal clout to call on senior executives at Fortune 500 companies to deliver Oracle's suite message. We think that the leadership question increases the risk to the story.

Big Oil would rather fill the pockets of its executives and shareholders, rather than spend sufficient amounts to reduce the price of fuel, letting consumers, during tough economic times, pick up the tab.

As the recognized leader in helping hospitals improve patient outcomes while at the same time lowering costs, Premier understands that many variables impact clinical quality and operational efficiency. For hospital executives and management, Rapid Improvement is a window into the culture and leadership that enables top-performing hospitals to achieve excellent results. For physicians and staff, this resource-rich tool offers a wealth of proven practices, policies and procedures that will allow them to generate significant quality and financial improvements in a short time.

Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.

Dispersed work groups have increased by 600 percent and executives attend an average of 60 meetings per month -- the market is ripe for video-conferencing.

Director Mueller and other FBI officials have recognized many of the issues and have already dedicated resources to initiate a variety of near-term improvements in the human resources area. The FBI has accomplished much in this area and its efforts are bearing fruit, ... During the course of this review, we had extraordinary cooperation from, and access to, FBI personnel-from senior executives and managers to unit chiefs and line employees. We believe that this type of access, and the openness of those interviewed, contributed significantly to our ability to understand the issues and develop meaningful and helpful recommendations.

Corrupt corporate executives are no better than common thieves when they betray employees and investors,

Compliance mandates like Sarbanes-Oxley have thrown a wrench into many email security strategies. It's fine to wipe out worms and viruses. But that's not enough. If your email system leaks confidential financial information, or if you can't retrieve old emails when regulators knock on your door, your executives can wind up in legal trouble.

Doug is one of the most highly respected executives in baseball and this extension validates our belief that his leadership is vital to the Milwaukee Brewers continued development,

Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service.

Even corporate executives who have been hostile to the environment are waking up to the realities. The challenge is what do they do about it. And there is still a huge gap between recognizing the problem and doing something about it.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the ''four P's'' -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

There's a deep Chrysler team that helped the company -- it wasn't just him -- but he's very, very highly regarded, certainly considered among the top auto executives in the world. So it is a question, why can't you have a role for perhaps one of the most talented guys in the industry?

The top executives get the potential Microsoft has. But the next tier of employees doesn't because of the stock price.

is not a reflection on the company, its executives or employees.

I see very senior executives doing this. What disgusts me the most is seeing people with money and in high-level positions using disgusting table manners. I'll never run out of work.

I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable the country to surmount the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century.

The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.'