But Mr. Carson has been pushing harder to eliminate duplication of management and back-office functions and to encourage heads of subsidiaries to take more responsibility for the performance of the entire corporation.
A year before Kate (not her real name, the head of the subsidiary) had been moved from head office to take charge.
(He was fired, but has since resurfaced in Pakistan as the head of a subsidiary of a prominent business consortium, a position that required government backing).
But Mr. Seymour, head of the subsidiary now running the operations, says only one of the six ports whose fate is being debated so fiercely is equipped with a working radiation-detection system that every cargo container must pass through.
Bird, the head of Time Warner subsidiary Turner Broadcasting Systems until 2003, where he ran the Cartoon Network and other channels, joined Disney as president of Walt Disney International in 2004 and coordinates the Walt Disney Company businesses outside the US.
Ford Motors will replace CEO Mark Fields with the head of its subsidiary responsible for developing self-driving cars, reports the New York Times.
And on Dec. 6, three weeks after launching its service in Brazil, AOL said the head of that subsidiary was stepping down for unspecified reasons.
Hansell worked for General Electric, becoming head of its subsidiary in the Netherlands until 1967, when he retired to Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Archives|Walter Harris Jr., 65; Headed Dunhill in U.S. Walter Harris Jr., 65; Headed Dunhill in U.S. Walter E. Harris Jr., a former head of the American subsidiary of Alfred Dunhill, the London tobacco merchant, and earlier an executive at Abraham & Straus in Brooklyn, died on Tuesday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Before that time, the control of marionettes seems to have been by a stout wire to the crown of the head, with subsidiary strings to the hands and feet; even more primitive methods of control may still be observed in certain traditional folk theatres.
Leonard A. Muller was named head of the new subsidiary.
