In recent weeks, Ms. White has started to overhaul the staff, naming co-heads of the agency's enforcement unit, new leaders of other major divisions and her own chief of staff.
And they provide some lessons for AOL Time Warner, which has started to overhaul the ad-sales process at its online unit, which is only now facing some of the same difficulties.
Having promised to safeguard Britain's much-loved public health service, he has started a massive overhaul that puts the public ethos at risk by exaggerating the importance of the market.
Joining a rapidly growing list of technology companies reeling from the financial turmoil, Sun Microsystems, which sells server computers, has started a broad overhaul in which up to 6,000 employees could lose their jobs.
The work and pensions secretary has started the biggest overhaul of the UK's welfare state since it was brought in.
UBS's overhaul has started to pay dividends.
Since the beginning of the decade, Nortel has started a series of overhauls that have included 16 rounds of layoffs.
With much fanfare, he has handed more power to superintendents, started overhauling the way teachers are recruited and sought to privatize some failing schools.
However, this has started to change following an overhaul of investment charges, snappily titled the "retail distribution review", since January 2013.
But his stature, the Hungarian public's commitment to fully embracing Europe, and the need to remain in compliance with the I.M.F.'s austerity program, all suggest that he has started working on an economic overhaul.
