Nancy G. Brinker, the group's charismatic founder and chief executive, built Komen into a pink powerhouse, thanks to an army of dedicated local volunteers and donors.
He took over in October 1997 after the death of Roberto C. Goizueta, who in 16 years as chairman and chief executive built Coke into a formidable global competitor with profit and sales growth that made it a favorite on Wall Street.
Myers cofounded U.S. Cable in 1975 and, as chief executive, built it into one of the biggest privately owned cable operators in the U.S. Now the business that left little time for anything else is enabling Myers to pursue his dream.
The partners also shook up club management, bringing in Hall of Fame player Jerry West, who as an executive built the Los Angeles Lakers into a juggernaut, as a special advisor; former NBA chief marketing officer and Phoenix Suns CEO Rick Welts as team president; and hard-nosed NBA point guard Mark Jackson as head coach.
Marketing and distribution weigh in on whether they can sell and disseminate the film, and then, after totting up expected costs and examining "comps" — the receipts of comparable films — the executives build a spreadsheet showing a range of outcomes.
I think a lot of people — and business executives — build up a lot of angst about the "threats" that openness presents to a company's success, and their bottom line in particular.
As the New Year brought bad economic tidings, newspaper executives built up newsprint supplies.
But the dirty secret of these campuses and the gated enclaves where their executives built their houses is that they had nowhere to put their trash.
"They wanted to see if they could get a small housing scheme going for local people, rather than have houses for executives, built by developers," she says.
Many of AIG's highest ranking executives built and bought homes in Stowe.
We define this new handler on top of the real-time executives built with the Orccad design environment for control systems, which is applied, e.g. to robotics and real-time networked control.
