Earlier this week, Allied named Charles H. Cotros, 67, as chairman and chief executive to improve the company's financial performance.
The motion picture division of Disney, meantime, has been under pressure from Robert A. Iger, the company's chief executive, to improve the quality of its live-action movies and introduce bigger "event" hits.
Kathy August, the superhead who runs ULT's most successful academy, the Manchester academy, which has been rated outstanding by Ofsted, was appointed as deputy chief executive to improve standards across all the ULT academies.
For more than a year, Mr. Icahn, who owns some 6.4percentt of Motorola's shares, has pushed executives to improve the company's weak performance.
But Steinbrenner is a sentimentalist second and a hard-driving owner first, someone who pushes his executives to improve the team after every season, regardless of longstanding ties.
Correction: July 30, 2000, Sunday An article last Sunday about ways for executives to improve their chances of selection to corporate boards misstated the surname of a managing director at Russell Reynolds Associates, an executive recruiting firm.
Clayton Dublier, which was started by the 80-year-old Mr. Rice in 1978, was among the first leveraged buyout firms to hire operations executives to improve the performance of its portfolio companies.
Some shareholders and analysts remain concerned about the way Barclays values some assets held by its securities unit despite efforts by the bank's president, Robert E. Diamond, and other senior executives to improve transparency.
Wu Song, the deputy general manager of the Guangzhou Automobile Group, which has alliances with a several Japanese automakers, said that President Hu Jintao of China had visited the company on Aug. 14 and told executives to improve technology.
With public-stated goals urging senior tech executives to improve diversity (à la Pinterest), generous parental leave policies and increasing examples of valued female-founded companies to lead the way, there has never been a better time to be a woman in tech who dreams of building a big company.
Different interventions (educational presentation, engaging clinical opinion leaders, performance data sent to hospital executives) to improve compliance with this practice had variable results.
