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Cavanagh’s first goal was the key score of the game. His rebound tap-in of junior Tim Pettit’s slapshot extended what had been a too-close-for-comfort Harvard lead into a 2-0 advantage, and made it difficult for the offensively-starved Huskies to come back...
...reaching beyond CEOs, who are overwhelmingly white and male, boards are tapping a rich new source of talent. "This is going to be the largest short-term opportunity we've seen," says Carl Brooks, president of the Executive Leadership Council, an organization of African-American businessmen. Of its 283 members, all of whom serve within three levels of the CEO position at their companies, only one-quarter serve on a board. But after years of only spotty interest from boards and recruiters, the organization now gets inquiries every week. Similarly, 16% of corporate officers of the 500 largest public companies...
Palepu says he is optimistic that as companies are forced to find financial experts for their audit committees, they will also start to think more carefully and creatively about all their board seats. Instead of fixating on CEOs, they will tap the likes of venture capitalists, retired partners in accounting firms and retired investment bankers. Rising pay will help generate interest. Until recently, outside directors of publicly traded companies typically received $45,000 to $150,000 a year in cash and stock, based largely on the size of the company and the number of committees a director joined. As directors...
Having donned striped vests and bowler hats, they emerged for an energetically choreographed ragtime medley, complete with tap dancing and the classic 80s dance move, “The Robot...
That attacking mentality nearly paid off in the first period. Captain Dominic Moore’s tap-in following a scramble in front of the Brown net was waved off when referee Dan Murphy ruled the whistle had already blown, much to the chagrin of Mazzoleni...