With two 80-year-olds, Henry Kaufman and John D. Macomber, standing for re-election, Lehman has what may be among the grayest -- and most entrenched -- sets of directors in corporate America.
In the end, Mr. Chan lost, and ChinaCast's board was reorganized with a mostly new set of directors.
Elliott wants to keep chief executive Amos Genish but insisted on a new, and independent, set of directors.
"We also have a great set of directors and set, lighting, costume and sound designers that we collaborate with on a regular basis," Ms. Mitchell said.
I didn't fully comprehend how much external work there was — just something very simple, like making sure you have the right set of directors.
Their prerogatives, whenever Kmart emerges from its Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, will include naming a fresh set of directors to the company's board.
A shareholder group pressing for change at The New York Times officially proposed its own set of directors for four vacant seats on Friday.
Board Could Be Split The interim director of the New York Stock Exchange plans to split the board of the exchange in two, with one set of directors dealing with compensation and regulation while the other handles nongovernance issues like listing standards.
"I want to look down the board table and see a set of directors every bit as good," he said, "as top management". And to bring that out, he would go around the table and ask each director for informed direction at pivot points, allowing no place for the uninformed to hide.
At present, he is abusing himself on the set of directors Andy and Lana Wachowski's latest movie, Jupiter Ascending. .
While Chion notes in his Preface that he has tried to avoid the 'heroic' approach to film sound development, the book tends to concentrate on a particular set of directors, including Chaplin, Tati, Lynch, Wells, and others (xi).
