However, under a corporate governance structure that allows insiders to control key corporate decisions through dominating voting power, independent monitoring by the board of directors or intervention by external shareholders is difficult.
The timing of the NHS medical director's intervention could not have looked more suspicious, and yet he insists he could do nothing else.
Only after the FBI director's intervention, less than two weeks before the election, was it widely imagined that the tables might turn in Mr Trump's favour.
This time around, without the director's intervention, the committee took a bold step by naming Omar's country of origin simply as "Palestine".
The IMF managing director's intervention came after the surprise decision of the leftist-led government in Athens to put unpopular pension and tax changes to a vote on Sunday.
Not incidentally, James Comey, the F.B.I. director whose intervention almost surely swung the election, had previously worked for the Whitewater committee, which spent seven years obsessively investigating a failed land deal.
As Fairfax, a sprawling, affluent county, becomes more racially, culturally and economically diverse, schools are educating students who face steeper challenges, said Mary Ann Panarelli, Fairfax schools' director of intervention and prevention.
Project staff reported findings and suggestions for adaptations to the project director at weekly project meetings, which were in turn considered at monthly meetings of senior staff, including local principal investigators, the project director, and intervention component coordinators.
Thus research questions are asked which are of direct relevance to the control programme directors; candidate interventions are feasible in the economic, socio-cultural and political setting; and issues of scale-up are addressed at the inception of the research.
Although there was not much difference in the level of involvement of the Boards of Directors of the intervention UMCs compared with the control UMCs, the self-reported impression by the UMC evaluation teams was that such involvement led to positive intentions among HCWs.
