Right now, skeptical faculty members and enthusiastic administrators alike are looking to the foundation's choice of executive director as a signal of its intentions.
Consider Rick Wysocki, who spent 14 years at Computer Associates and last year found himself with his choice of executive posts at start-ups.
But Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, who has traditionally had veto power over the choice of executive director for the agency, was noncommittal, saying through a spokesman that she wanted to discuss Mr. Boyle's future with Mr. Pataki before commenting publicly.
The choice of executive function as a primary outcome is supported by meta-analysis [ 46].
In turn, Mr Murdoch's choices of executives are made on curious grounds, such as the "crush" he is said to have developed for Robert Thomson, who now edits the Wall Street Journal.
For good measure, Cavill was at one point the first choice of studio executives to play the role of Edward Cullen in vampire romance series Twilight, eventually losing out to Robert Pattinson.
Hisun's case suggests that the enormous human and environmental toll of China's rapid development is not just an unintended side effect but also an explicit choice of business executives and officials who tolerate deaths and degradation as the inevitable price of progress.
Last month, the two settled, with First Manhattan gaining a majority of board seats and its choice of chief executive.
The board of J. C. Penney has embraced its interim chief executive, Myron E. Ullman III, and its chairman, Thomas J. Engibous, after pointing out that the hedge fund manager already caused the company distress with his previous choice of chief executive.
A couple of family seats on the board can pack lots of power, especially if they go with seats on the nominations committee, and so control over the choice of chief executive.
And more companies, chivvied by corporate-governance rules, now have at least a cursory succession plan.Probably neither the choice of chief executive nor the boss's performance has deteriorated.
