Fret not, said a Chase executive, because, as The Times paraphrased, "Chase believes that it already has an effective 'Chinese Wall' between these two aspects of its business".
They were unable to dislodge the company's chief executive, because the Walton family stood behind him with their substantial voting shares.
In the third, a senior executive asks a staff member to go to Tulsa, Okla., on business the next day; the trip is passed from employee to employee until it is dumped on an obviously junior executive, because, as the ad says, "someone's got to go".
He was late for his first board meeting as chief executive, because a customer needed help.
That could help Mr Eisner's number two, Bob Iger, who wants to become chief executive, because ABC is his responsibility.
Banco do Brasil, the state-owned giant, last week got rid of its chief executive because of political pressure.
But Indiegogo did not, said Slava Rubin, the company's chief executive, because it did not want to share trade secrets.
"This is the game," said Noël Forgeard, the Airbus chief executive, "because there is no ground whatsoever to attack Airbus".
In January, Ambac's board replaced its chief executive because of a disagreement about whether the company needed more capital.
Was the Obama White House so easy on big Wall Street banks - never putting tough conditions on them for getting bailout money or prosecuting a single top Wall Street executive - because Tim Geithner, Barack Obama's treasury secretary, and Peter Orszag, his director of the Office of Management and Budget, anticipated lucrative jobs on the Street?
I guess if someone started out with the intention of manipulating these systems, the first step would be to ensure that the board is both weak and beholden to the staff executive -- because for most of us, it is the board that is the first line of compliance.
