Word: boardroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consensus builder, Bok certainly does not fit the image of corporate culture. When he first set up shop as President with his three children and wife Sissela, the daughter of the late Nobel-prize winners Gunnar Myrdal and Alva Myrdal, Massachusetts Hall was more like Camelot than a boardroom...
...million or $15 million, it might have made the studio happy. But even the misery of its unrecoupable costs is cushioned; the management that initiated the project has been replaced, and the new team can cheerfully disown it. And the Great Seducer skips off to the next bed -- er -- boardroom...
Behind the sedate granite facades and oak-paneled boardroom doors of Wall Street, a bitter power struggle is under way that could well decide the fate of the $2.7 trillion U.S. banking industry. The battle pits behemoth against behemoth, commercial banks against investment-banking houses, prestigious names like Citicorp, Bankers Trust and BankAmerica against equally blue-chip concerns like First Boston, Salomon Brothers and Goldman, Sachs. But fundamentally, the struggle matches traditional U.S. bank-lending practices against computer-driven techniques that are drastically changing the way that more than $6 trillion worth of nongovernment credit is channeled through...
...Secret of My Success. The film resembles a financial fantasy from the mind of Alex P. Keaton, Fox's Family Ties character, with Brantley blasting up the corporate ladder in a relative nanosecond. With creativity as his only asset, Brantley parlays his way from the mailroom to the boardroom of his uncle's conglomerates...
Haig has no geographic or ideological base of support. The support he does have is mainly among boardroom Republicans. One unlikely backer is Comedian Mort Sahl, who appeared at a Haig fund raiser on the eve of the announcement and later quipped, "I'm the head of Radicals for Haig in Beverly Hills." If nothing else, a Haig campaign -- with its promise of exuberant intensity and occasional mangled jargon -- should make for good copy...