Word: boardrooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basic plot remains, and it's an engagingly complex one as most of Crichton's scenarios are wont to be. A gorgeous party girl is found strangled on the boardroom table of a Japanese conglomerate one floor above a gala bash celebrating the opening of the new company headquarters...
...fixed price become more valuable. While stock options are rare in countries such as Japan and Germany, about 90% of U.S. firms provide them to their senior-level executives. Some companies -- such as PepsiCo, Pfizer and Silicon Graphics -- offer options to all employees, from the mail room to the boardroom. U.S. executives cashed in some $4 billion worth of stock options last year, in contrast to $2.1 billion...
Last week's three ousted chairmen thus joined a long line of executives who ) have fallen prey to the most significant new trend in American corporate governance since the takeover mania of the 1980s: boardrooms, as they discovered, are ceasing to be clubby havens for beleaguered executives. Puppets no more, directors are responding to financial and legal pressures from angry shareholders by rising up against management in open revolts that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. While such boardroom activism is nothing new at smaller companies, where directors tend to hold large ownership stakes, it is now spreading...
With all the glowing words of praise, one might have forgotten that the party was an idea conceived in a corporate boardroom...
...automotive redeemer who would bring out the best in GM. Like soldiers in a conquered army, many roamed aimlessly last week along the corridors of the company's limestone-clad Detroit headquarters. The ouster shook even Stempel's union adversaries, who feared what life would be like after the boardroom coup led by John Smale, 65, the hard-charging retired chairman of Procter & Gamble. Smale has emerged as a possible Stempel successor and the real power inside the embattled company...