Word: rakesh
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...position--as soon-to-be ex-CEO and chairman--as trouble for Prince. It's "pretty unusual and pretty inhibiting" for a departing CEO to stay on as chairman for two years, says Robert Mittelstaedt, a professor at Wharton Business School. "It means Sandy Weill is still in charge." Rakesh Khurana, the author of a book about America's obsession with charismatic CEOs, says of Prince, "He's in CEO purgatory." Weill insists he is moving on. "This was my decision and my timing," he told TIME. "Why in the world would I do it if I wasn't ready...
...will more diverse boards necessarily perform better? They should, because homogeneity among directors often leads to a boardroom culture that "avoids conflict, avoids impoliteness and as a result does not permit hard questioning," says Rakesh Khurana, a professor at Harvard Business School who studies CEO behavior...
...took 48 hours to discover that the bombers' car was owned by a Mafia don?and all but ignores their imprisonment (and sometimes torture) of hundreds of innocent Muslims. In one typical partial passage, Zaidi describes how on March 15, "after three days of running around furiously," one investigator, Rakesh Maria, "was hoping to spend most of the day at home" but was suddenly called to work just "as lunch was announced." The cop's sense of duty, it seems, knew no bounds...
...director Mukesh Duggal was shot and killed in Bombay and producer Manmohan Shetty barely survived a murder attempt. In 2000, director Rakesh Roshan (Kaho Naa...Pyaar Hai), whose son Hrithik is the current heartthrob, survived a murder attempt after refusing to procure Hrithik's services for a Mob-backed film. Last year the onslaught started. Gangsters killed the secretary of Manisha Koirala, a top actress and niece of the former prime minister of Nepal. Hrithik, Govinda, veteran actor Amrish Puri and top director Karan Johar (Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham) were assigned armed police protection after receiving death threats. And earlier...
...giga-charmer Shahrukh Khan, 36, to suave, elaborately muscled Hrithik Roshan, 28 (all three graced the 2001 blockbuster Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham). Bollywood operates under the vulture eyes of a voracious entertainment press and under the shadow of organized crime. Two years ago, Hrithik's father, director Rakesh Roshan, was shot (though not fatally) after he reportedly refused a "request" for his son to appear in an underworld-financed film...