While visions of strategic synergies and competitors running for cover danced in the heads of company executives, the scores of freelancers who use oDesk and Elance to find work or hire support don't seem ready to break out the pom-poms.
Even as this ratio falls short of the score among chief executives, it remains astonishingly high.
Even with the lowered rates, Robert L. Waldron, chief executive of Score, says he was far from certain how Bedford-Stuyvesant would respond to the center.
According to the charges, Richard K. Goldring, chief executive of Scores Holding Company, which is publicly traded; Harvey B. Osher, manager of Scores Showroom; Cheryl Osher, his niece and a Scores bookkeeper; and five corporations associated with Scores are accused of funneling revenue from the club into dummy corporations, which Mr. Osher and Mr. Goldring used to pay personal expenses.
A long staff email from the chief executive of News UK scored a lofty 41.9 — on a par with Shakespeare, as the guide points out.
There is no one-size-fits-all advice for dealing with bigger businesses because there are so many variations, said Ken Yancey, chief executive of the Score Association, a nonprofit group in Washington that provides counseling and training services to small businesses through its Web site (www.score.org) and hundreds of local chapters.
C1 Icahn on Blockbuster Board Carl C. Icahn, the billionaire financier who has been engaged in an increasingly hostile fight with the executives of Blockbuster, scored a significant victory when he was elected to the board.
The chief executive of Duck9, a credit score preparation program for college students, says he stops to talk to so many people these days that he's averaging 25 minutes, far short of his record of more than an hour at the height of the dot-com bubble but up from the 10 minutes it took him after it collapsed.
Scores of executives of the McDonald's Corporation, based in Oak Brook, Ill., flew to Germany for a glossy introduction in a Munich nightclub of the campaign, part of a comprehensive, two-year marketing plan covering 119 countries.
8 P.M. (Comedy Central FUTURAMAA: BENDER'S BIG SCORE (2007) The executives of the Box Network have been ground into powder and Planet Express is back in business in this feature-length "Futurama" film (released last year on DVD), the first of four.
More telling, his Negative Q Score, or the percentage of sports fans who do not like him, jumped to 30 from 18 in 2009, according to Henry Schafer, the executive vice president of the Q Scores Company.
