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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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sounds like a much more effective use for the money than distributing it to three executives who are already receiving a large amount of compensation.

Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company's executives - is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America's public spaces.

Some perks are justified. Many companies have corporate jets to save their executives time as they travel all over the world. Now they will just have to explain that.

One can only wonder what message the U.S. attorney was thinking of sending to other executives who engage in such behavior. It is indeed rare that a federal prosecutor would stand shoulder to shoulder with the defense counsel of an admitted felon who bilked investors of over $3 billion, and against the advocate for investors, the SEC.

Company executives exercise wide discretion over the use of corporate assets for charitable purposes. Absent a system of accountability for charitable contributions, executives may use corporate assets for objectives that are not shared by, and may be inimical to, the interests of a company and its shareholders, potentially harming long-term shareholder value.

Automotive executives in our survey have been predicting market share advances by Asian brands for years now.

A vast majority is equity that is already vested in the company. It's not a result of this merger at all -- 90 percent of the options that are granted to the executives would vest with our without the deal.

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

Barbara is one of the most astute and successful programming executives in the industry. She has terrific creative instincts, excellent industry relationships and the management skills necessary to further advance the goals of our expanding television business.

You wouldn't want sales executives using USB sticks they'd picked up from a trade show, but you might let them use company-issued devices.

also urge other company executives to talk up their companies regardless of their true state?

A lot of business executives have a hard time getting away from the job and when you own a small business, the returns are very close.

Television executives only commission something that somebody else has already commissioned that's doing well on another station - they're afraid of expecting an audience to concentrate for longer than three minutes on any particular item.

Sales compensation models and incentive-based reward and recognition programs provide executives with critical strategic management tools.

People say these companies are closely held and that the executives are trying to diversify, but why now?

Our executives challenged us to find new and greater uses for space as part of asset intensification at Simon. We are taking a look at our properties along those guidelines, and it starts with world-class retail.

Our customers range from small startups to Fortune 100 enterprises, and span industries such as electronics and high tech, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods. One major theme that has emerged from the majority of our customers is how they can better manage product innovation and development while competing in an increasingly global economy. Agility 2006 will provide our customers and partners with the opportunity to participate in discussions and debates on globalization, compliance and innovation. Industry leaders and business executives will also have the opportunity to share their future business strategies, and learn how PLM will enable them to gain and maintain leadership in their markets.

Technology executives get less compensation in cash and more in stock so there's more of an incentive to sell. So if you do see a bit of insider buying going on, that is a positive sign.

PeopleSoft executives are traveling around telling customers that we will 'kill' PeopleSoft's products and force them to move to Oracle's applications, ... These are lies and scare tactics.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

This case is a reminder that cashless exercise transactions are no different from other stock sales from a legal standpoint. Executives are under a duty not to trade when they have material information that the market does not.

This caught everybody, including executives at both networks, by surprise.

The whole idea of parachutes was to keep executives from standing in the way of valid transactions. What they seem to have become, because of their large size, is an incentive to do transactions.

This is pretty much what we expected based on market research and conversations with executives from ECA member companies. It's good news, but it's difficult to ascertain whether it is a trend. We had a strong January in 2004 before the index went downhill, and we had a weak start last year before a sustained rebound that began around June.

This is the best hope that the investor community has today, ... This is the first time that a group made up of this type of individuals has come out for expensing stock options and curbs on the excessive compensation executives have been receiving.

This indictment sends a clear message to corporate America that executives will be brought to justice not only for cooking their own company's books but also for knowingly helping their counterparts at other companies do the same.

This is a critically important topic for today's financial managers, for whom real property holdings have long been seen as nothing more than a bill to pay. Executives responsible for financial decisions across a broad federal organization will gain important professional development advice from the government and industry experts on hand at this informative seminar.

This is a most significant appointment. We are delighted to have attracted one of North America's most respected and successful executives to head Burger King, ... From his career with Marriott he brings significant experience of the restaurant and foodservice industry, which we will benefit from as he leads Burger King's turnaround.

This is a business of reputation, and when chief executives are making M&A decisions that could affect their own career paths, they don't want to take a chance.

This is especially egregious because at the very time when these HMO executives are getting these huge paydays - whether or not the merger does well for shareholders or consumers - 6 million Californians have no health insurance and millions of working families are just struggling to pay their health care premiums,

This is not a plan cooked up by executives of the company to feather their own nests.

This is the first time that media companies and media executives are part of the show.

I'm sure it's not lost on Microsoft executives that the world's third largest computer company is from China. Microsoft has a problem: PC growth is highest in emerging markets like China, where software piracy rates are high. China deals could be construed as generating goodwill, which Microsoft would want to use to gain greater Chinese government cooperation fighting piracy.

Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.

I'm no longer interested in having executives supervise other people. I want everyone to be doing their own work.

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I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.

If Madison Avenue advertising executives were to pick a song that would best represent America, the last one they would choose is 'The Star Spangled Banner.'

In our conversations with executives outside the region, we still hear the perception that crime is still a problem.

In the current environment, it's fashionable to accuse departing executives of misconduct in an effort to avoid paying their severance.

Insurance is a tough industry for investors to analyze, so we know we have to work harder to earn their trust. This ranking recognizes the diligence and energy of our investor relations team plus the hard work and commitment to disclosure of executives across our enterprise. We're gratified that investors acknowledged their efforts.

If you can fund a deferred compensation program for senior executives using a pool of assets that's in effect found money, you're much better off.

In the last few days, Oracle executives have had the opportunity to speak with the holders of a majority of PeopleSoft shares, ... Many of those shareholders indicated the prices at which they would tender their shares.

If you look at the infraction records, oftentimes it's the same firms that are getting caught, a sign that the executives are condoning bad behavior. The tone is set from the top, and it doesn't cost anything to change that.

If you look at things in a one- or two-year time frame, they are not as bad as they seem but executives are emphasizing the here and now.

O.J.'s decision to speak to NBC was based on a combination of factors. He has appreciated the network's fairness and objectivity. Since NBC was his most recent employer, he also feels some sense of obligation, in particular to some executives who've shown support for him in his darkest times.

The CEA Industry Forum is a gathering place for more than 350 industry visionaries, technology experts and retail executives to come together to focus on the market trends and issues affecting the CE industry, ... This year's keynoters will bring unprecedented value to our attendees in terms of business strategy and information they can use to give their businesses a competitive edge in the marketplace. Needless to say, we are extremely pleased with the heavy hitters in this year's line-up.

At certain banks, the senior executives really understand how important the online experience is overall for driving business. But you see differences in senior executives whose priority is on Web site service levels versus customer experience.

At a time when 6.5 million Californians cannot afford their health care and millions more are underinsured, it is obscene to allow executives to feed at the trough of huge cash and stock payouts.

The average search time for executives earning over $100,000 is about a month longer than other wage earners in the same community.

Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.

Stock options are a red herring, ... The issue is excessive compensation for executives in whatever currency is used -- stock, money, apartments and whatever else.

Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last recession, middle-class families have not. About 95 percent of income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the top one percent.

It's really not uncommon for the chairman or other executives to visit the factory.

Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.

About 51 percent of nonprofit executives have been in their positions five years or less.

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.

It's rare executives get the Net economy and he's really aggressive about pushing it forward. He's talking about what can be, not what is.

It surprised us out of the blue. They requested some dates we couldn't accommodate. Trying to get available dates for executives around the holidays was a challenge.

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Executives at these companies are often isolated from the horrors of what the farm animals have to endure. The resolutions will raise the issue because they are printed in the companies' proxy statements and mailed to the shareholders. This way, our campaign moves into an actual agenda, and companies will have to address it and argue their case.

Executives can help set the stage by clarifying and focusing on the core information essential to conducting, managing, and leading the company and then by demanding and promoting high information quality throughout operational processes and systems.

Executives have always wanted to make better, faster decisions. But brutal, global competition makes this imperative even more acute. Oracle's database heritage gives credibility to their claim to being the best at helping companies with this issue.

Executives have always wanted to make better, faster decisions. But brutal global competition makes this imperative even more acute. Oracle's database heritage gives credibility to their claim to being the best at helping companies with this issue.

Executives in New York or Chicago usually talk about retiring somewhere else. That's not going to happen with Bill. He will be a big part of this community.

Executives might not want to make cuts in travel budgets, but businesses are insisting on it.

Executives who get there and stay suggest solutions when they present the problems.

Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.

The intent is to bring together executives responsible for the technology needs of their organizations and those in charge of orchestrating responses to emergencies.

It will stand or fall on the quality of the writers. They need a team of directors and writers with a shared aesthetic and a coherent outlook, who won't be dominated by executives and commissioning editors.

In prior years, saddled with heavy incentives and a sagging economy, industry executives pushed profitability out as far as they could. Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging.

In terms of the executives involved, they've got every incentive to do a deal, whether it makes sense or not, because if they don't do one, they give the money back.

I have worked closely with Sandra over the past 15 years, and she is one of the savviest business executives in the television industry, ... The teaming of Sandra's business acumen and Kevin's creative instincts positions Lions Gate Television for continued profitable growth.

High pay is partially due to competition for executives and being able to keep them, ... They know other companies in that field pay that kind of money. If they don?t the person is going to be gone in a very short period of time.

In the normal process of evaluating the end of the season, I meet with key executives for thorough discussions and evaluations of all aspects of football operations.

In the 1950s, about a quarter of corporate executives died before they hit 65 so they died in office. There was a notion that you better get out by 65 if you want a retirement. Now, people are living longer and they're also living healthier. People don't have to retire so they say the heck with it. You see these founding CEO-type folks hanging around forever.

Because these executives see a connection between their company health benefit plan, employee health, and workforce productivity, they have a vested interest in maintaining and improving employee health. There also may be a connection between providing healthcare information and improved workforce health.

Howard and Craig are two of the most respected producers and entertainment executives in the film business. I have always admired their work, which has included some of the most popular feature films of all time. They are also among the few with an eye to the future of the technologies and innovations that will drive the entertainment business. They are bringing the type of top-notch producing, acting and writing talent normally only seen in major Hollywood productions to our cutting-edge games.

Hospitals are huge moneymakers. Their executives enjoy big bonuses.

He's regarded as one of the top five executives in this industry. I think he'll make a tremendous owner and be a real credit to the community.

Genetic engineering companies want to create a situation where you have to get permission from a corporation to eat. And the corporate executives don't live in the community. They don't send their kids to the same school. They don't go to the same churches. They don't play in the same parks. They don't swim in the same pools. They don't go to the same movies.

The two appointments underscore the government's intention to do what is needed to meet the goals set out for financial reforms... and to better control its China policy. While they are seasoned executives at government firms, they are still more of policy executors rather than policy makers.

These two experienced and highly effective executives will bring Sears Holdings a new level of creativity and focus on marketing and our customer relationships. I particularly value the winning attitude and record of success that they will bring to Sears Holdings, and I expect them to help lead the ongoing change in Sears' culture.

The severity of the sentences serves as an ominous reminder of the consequences of misconduct. Executives engage in cost-benefit analysis every day. It's not surprising that they would be more responsive to deterrence.

I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

In a down economy, our survey has found executives always pushing profitability a few years out, and this year is no different. But what the executives are telling us this year is that they have seen the worst and that the industry is poised for a rebound.

A.R. Baron was created and existed for no other reason than to line the pockets of its executives and employees at the expense of unsuspecting members of the investing public, ... Today's indictment depicts an investment firm totally out of control.

The most surprising finding in this survey is the large amount of time executives spend searching for information. At today's executive salary levels, four hours of search time can cost companies $1,000 or more per week -- not including the cost of lost opportunities, delayed decisions, or other work not completed. If you apply this estimated figure to Fortune 500 companies, the money spent adds up to $60M each year.

A short time ago, I joined other studio executives in a meeting with White House senior adviser Karl Rove to explore ways in which the film industry could step up its efforts to aid the men and women serving our country. As a first step, we decided to bring 'Behind Enemy Lines' directly to those who helped inspire the movie and make it happen.

As government and public scrutiny intensify, managed care executives need to be adept at making staff accountable for improving operational efficiencies, successfully adapting to new regulations, and increasing customer satisfaction. This type of change requires complex leadership skills and highly evolved leaders.