"Back in the '70s, the corporation genuinely thought that we were going to run out of fuel, and soon, so identifying potential alternative powertrains and fuels was critical," said Mr. Ulrich, who is now retired.
Back in the queue, corporations that were waiting to issue wanted to hedge the risk of further widening.
When Garcia died, in keeping with an agreement made 25 years ago, the remaining members of the band bought back his interest in the corporation while his estate continued to receive his royalties from music and merchandise.
As Antony Jay pointed out back in the 1950s in Corporation Man, human beings weren't designed to work in big groups.
Back in the day, a corporation's private data might be stored in a server under lock and key, and you'd need physical access to get at it.
There is no love lost between Johnson and the BBC director general, Mark Thompson, who defected from Channel 4 to go back to the corporation in 2004 soon after Johnson had started as chairman, despite giving assurances that he would stay put.
Formula 1 on the BBC enters a new era this year - it is the first time since the sport came back to the corporation in 2009 that we will not be showing every race live on television.
Back in the 1990s, many large corporations used illegal tax shelters.
Already, there are fears at the BBC that the governors' public backing of the corporation's journalism in the Kelly affair - while some governors harboured private doubts - was an error of judgment.
The balance of power between the Murdoch empire and the BBC, a long-running narrative of the MediaGuardian 100 and one played out in successive MacTaggart lectures in Edinburgh – first by James Murdoch, then last year by BBC director general Mark Thompson – has swung back in favour of the corporation.
