Word: boarded
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Lucky's vision of replacing traditional Sicilian strong-arm methods with a corporate structure, a board of directors and systematic infiltration of legitimate enterprise failed to impress Maranzano. An ancient-history aficionado and would-be Julius Caesar, Maranzano aspired to be boss of all bosses. Most of all, he wanted to avoid Caesar's fatal miscalculation. He found Lucky too ambitious, too enterprising, too dangerous...
...professional, managerial and administrative work force--is stunning. Our much increased presence in the offices of Big Business--yes, even a few of the corner offices--has made the world we knew unrecognizable. Clearly, with 86% of all FORTUNE 500 companies having at least one woman board member (right now it is only one, but this too shall pass), the impact of women's changing focus and fortune is being felt at the very top of the corporate hierarchy...
Almost exactly five years ago, Akio Morita--Mr. Sony--fell to the ground during a game of tennis. The co-founder and chairman of the board had suffered a stroke. He has since been in a wheelchair. This is particularly sad, as Morita had never been able to sit still and relax. At 72, he was playing tennis at 7 a.m. each Tuesday. I know this well because I would practice on the court next to him. My tennis, however, was very different from his. I played with an instructor, and if I was tired, I would just take...
...middle of the century, bosses had to be more clever, if not more subtle. Armand Hammer, whose business career lasted nearly the entire century, required many on Occidental Petroleum's board of directors--most of whom were employees--to give him signed, undated resignation letters that he could use if they tried to vote against him. His closest employees, according to one biographer, formed the Occidental Mouseketeers--with official membership drawings of a cowering mouse on a red carpet. But they weren't as beaten as the ITT execs of the 1960s and '70s, who were regularly grilled and even...
1910s As powerful corporations emerge, the government becomes active in regulating them. The Standard Oil Trust is broken up. A War Industries Board manages production...