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...banks are being forced to remake their corporate boards. The companies are being told they need to add more independent directors with backgrounds in the financial industry. And with government playing a larger role in banking these days, the firms are looking to add people to their boards who know their way around Washington. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
Richard Breeden, a restructuring expert who led the turnaround of WorldCom, is also probably on a number of board-recruitment wish lists. In addition to his Wall Street experience, Breeden knows Washington. From 1989 to 1993, he was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. William Donaldson, another former chairman of the SEC, also has the Washington and Wall Street experience that would make him a good get in today's bank-board race. "The problem these boards have had is that the people who know the most are the insiders," says top financial-services recruiter Gary Goldstein...
...maintained its creed while diversifying its participation, now attracting members from many different backgrounds.A MISSIONShazrene S. Mohamed ’04, originally from Zimbabwe, says she joined Gumboots her freshman year as a means of meeting other African students. Mohamed says that before coming to America, she did not know anything outside Zimbabwe. Gumboots was an opportunity to feel close to her home culture.“It was the people there,” she says. “In a lot of ways I was like the miners looking for comfort and company and something familiar...
Cosby said she did not know what her son was doing on Harvard’s campus. She saw reports of the shooting on television Monday evening, she said, but went about her life with no idea that her son was involved in the incident until she got a call from a friend of his at the hospital...
Barricaded in their rooms by police caution tape, students in Kirkland House did not know how to react in the stressful aftermath of Monday afternoon’s shooting. Three types of uniforms—Harvard, Cambridge, and state police—quickly flooded the area, but they provided no information. Until an hour later, the much-publicized University Emergency Communication system was mum; the House master did not contact the residents until 5:32 PM, and the only community-wide e-mail we all received was from Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds dealing with, of all things, the shuttle service...