Emma Leech, head of marketing at Nottingham University, is taking part in a panel discussion in Leeds on Friday that will focus on research into how changing HE trends have affected the way marketing directors function.
The five of us who serve on the board of directors function as one in the sense of one full-time chief executive officer, but each of us has our own area of the organization we head up.
The cabinet at the Frick doesn't hold the same range of marvels, but the current show of 10 drawings donated by Charles Ryskamp, a former Frick director, functions almost like a wunderkammer.
The old research director function seemed to just disappear into thin air".
But before television personalities like Heidi Klum saw fit to pass judgment on aspiring designers, the fashion director functioned as part sage, part seer, bringing to the job an educated — and impartial — eye.
"We believe that our current board makeup (with every director other than Mr. Dimon being independent) and strong presiding director function provide appropriate accountability to our shareholders and counterbalance to the combined C.E.O./chair role," the letter said.
Directors would function as facilitators rather than auteurs.
Ben Streltzer, executive director of functions at Congregation Rodeph Sholom in Bridgeport, said that the social hall under the sanctuary on Park Avenue acted as a "point of connection" for the community, available for activities that have more to do with civics than worship, such as voter registration.
For example, she laughed when showing a visitor the beau parlor, a chintz-filled room with flowers, and laughed again when asked if any men might have found their way into the women's rooms without the knowledge of the resident director, who functions in many ways like a dorm mother.
Bowden also took issue with "monitoring fees" -- money that private equity managers charge to serve on the board of directors and function as advisers to the companies they control.
He wore it to business, to directors meetings, social functions, etc and his impression was that all admired his suit.
