Now, the cream of Wall Street's executive crop is in the process of being questioned by regulators, including Mr. Cayne; Henry M. Paulson Jr., the chief executive of Goldman Sachs; Richard S. Fuld Jr., the chief executive of Lehman Brothers; Laurence D. Fink of BlackRock, the asset management company; and David H. Komansky, the former chief executive of Merrill Lynch.
As the auction house's president and chief executive, she cropped up on "Charlie Rose" or "Today," talking up the forthcoming sales.
Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World and Sun editor who now runs Murdoch's UK newspaper arm, dines regularly with the Camerons in Oxfordshire, where Brooks and her husband Charlie have a weekend retreat and the PM has a constituency home.Rupert's son James, who is chairman of BSkyB and a senior executive at News Crop (and Brooks' boss), was at one such social event last Christmas.
And yet the countries' vote authorized the European Commission the European Union's executive arm to allow the crop on fields across the union.
Of chief executives at the current crop of Internet companies, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook most epitomizes the approach I think Yahoo needs.
Fox executives point to a crop of comedies that have shown enough promise that they may open up one night, possibly Tuesday, to run four comedies in a row — a bold move for a network that has rarely found success outside cartoon comedy.
Jobs calls the crop of executives brought in to run Apple after his ouster in 1985 "corrupt people" with "corrupt values" who cared only about making money.
At their predraft news conference, the senior personnel executive Terry Bradway labeled the available crop of players as "decent" in the top of the first round.
"The general public is not going to look at trees at this point as a row crop," said Susan McCord, executive director of the Institute of Forest Biotechnology in Raleigh, N.C.
Nobody appears inclined to take responsibility, certainly not the usual crop of non-executives "drawn from the same narrow social and professional circles as the executive team", to use May's words again.
But executives wonder if the new crop possesses the same entrepreneurial vision -- or the discipline to carry it out.
