Mr. Ballmer and the board have discussed the attributes they want in the next chief executive and have been appraising internal and external executives who might be candidates.
The results indicate that external executives with an appropriate professional background can provide valuable specific knowledge and expertise to the board.
Based on panel data on the largest German companies, the econometric analysis shows a positive influence of external executives on innovative firm performance, measured by patent applications.
Employees have access to external executive coaches who assist employees with communication, leadership and management skills.
Poor planning at the top means businesses increasingly have to go into the external executive search market where the pool of candidates simply gets more and more expensive.
Likewise, the anterior insula, potentially together with the anterior cingulate cortex, appears to pivotally influence the dynamics between large-scale brain networks subserving internal (default-mode network) and external (executive control network) information processing.
His board was pressuring him to hire an external executive coach in order to strengthen the company's culture.
And now, to add the cherry on top of the suck sundae, with me capable of regulating my own behavior and not needing him to be my external executive functioning, he has gone flaky on me.
National Health Service (NHS) trusts, which provide the majority of hospital and community health services to the English NHS, are increasingly adopting a 'public firm' model with a board consisting of executive directors who are trust employees and external non-executives chosen for their experience in a range of areas such as finance, health care and management.
"New York State treats its cemeteries like quasi-charities and quasi-public utilities, but without the legal protection of either," said Bob Fells, external chief executive officer and general counsel of the International Cemetery and Funeral Association in Reston, Va., which filed a brief in suppport of the motion.
Researchers and practitioners largely agree that firms benefit from their executives' external ties (e.g., Connelly and van Slyke 2012; Geletkanycz and Hambrick 1997).
