Reuters reports that while doing that research at NYU, "Zhu, meanwhile, had been working with the United Imaging executive leading a similar MRI research project funded by the Chinese government, the [criminal] complaint said".
Asked if Barclays cared about its public image, chief executive John Varley said: "Of course we care.
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After an agonising two-year process of racking its brains and hiring consultants to pep up its image, chief executive John Roberts announced in early 2001 that it would take on a completely new identity – "Consignia".
DESPITE their relaxed image, industry executives like Mr. McKnight are not as laid back as one might think.
Criticism began to emerge on Twitter after the studio tweeted the image, with executives later delivering an apology.
One issue that has been a sticking point in the talks with Ms. Carey is how much say the label will have in molding her image, recording executives said.
Indeed, the embarrassing image of executives from the Big Three automakers flying to Washington in private jets in 2008 to ask for private bailout money looms large in the current debate.
The sheer image of executives pleading the Fifth before the klieg lights of Congress, as Kenneth L. Lay, the former chairman of Enron, and Samuel D. Waksal, the former chief executive of ImClone, have done, has begun to motivate directors across America to rethink the way they oversee companies, compensate executives and scrutinize accounting practices.
On Tuesday, in defiance of that image, the chief executive and two of his predecessors resigned, along with several lesser executives, over accusations that they drove the company to overstate its earnings by $1.2 billion over the last seven years.
