Palm's shares have fallen by 90% over the past six months (see chart).The company's difficulties do not all lie at the feet of Mr Yankowski he took over only a year and a half ago, as Palm was freeing itself from 3Com, its former corporate parent and the source of its risk-averse corporate culture.
Sony is doing this to spread out the cost and, perhaps more important, to help validate the acquisition strategy to its risk-averse parent in Japan by being able to say it has formed a partnership with "smart money".
The military has been bemoaning its risk-averse culture for a decade but has done nothing to correct it.
When Arizona needed money last year, its tax-averse lawmakers decided to balance the budget by selling some buildings and leasing them back from the investors.
It was a quintessential Obama speech — intelligent but not stirring, firm and sober and rather solemn, altogether in the image of his refurbished Oval Office with its risk-averse muted neutral tones.
In 1994, she said in an interview, the losses of tens of millions of dollars caused by Goldman's traders had opened a deep rift between them and its risk-averse investment bankers.
Like others who have written extensively about the N.B.A., I have had my quarrels with its criticism-averse commissioner through the years over lockouts, dress codes and, yes, compromise to racial perceptions and bias.
Credit its debt-averse chairman, Elliot Jaffe, who's 75 years old and hoards cash and securities as if the Depression happened yesterday.
But the retraction of these statements should not make us blind to the larger context from which they emerge, one where we are constantly hammered with the slogan of an Aspirational India, even as its cheerleaders are averse to recognizing the persistent (if not growing) levels of inequality in society.
Nonprofit experts said that the Red Cross needed to move quickly to fill its top job, but that its culture, which is averse to change, coupled with the missteps of over more than a decade, would make it a difficult job to fill.
