There's the likelihood that instead of being a true Alexa problem, it's related to President Trump's longstanding feudwith Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and was an attempt to turn consumers against one of Amazon's top-selling products, and thereby Amazon itself.
In the email, Rometty points to IBM's history of attempting to remain more apolitical than some of its tech industry peers, while also noting the longstanding tradition IBM CEOs have of engaging directly with the U.S. president.
"The popularity of veganism has a lot to do with the positive image that it now has in the media, and that's helped by celebrities who are taking pledges or who are longstanding vegans," said Jasmijn de Boo, CEO of the Vegan Society.
In a new interview on CNBC, the company's executive chairman, serial entrepreneur Michael Rubin, suggested that his longstanding relationship with SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Sun, and longtime SoftBank executive Ron Fisher, helped.
"History has demonstrated that [MOAs], which are not court-enforceable, are not robust enough to remedy longstanding problems," added Vanita Gupta, the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and former head of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department under Obama.
Deadline, which first broke the news, notes that Willis has a longstanding relationship with Randall Emmett and George Furla, MoviePass Films' dual CEOs, who founded the company as Emmett/Furla Films way back in 1998.
"We want to thank the Daimler Group for our longstanding partnership since 2012 within car2go Europe," Caroline Parot, Europcar CEO, said in a statement.
In Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras surveyed CEO's of major organizations to select longstanding Fortune 500 companies that were considered visionary and compared these to a control group that were less successful in an effort to identify characteristics of these successful companies that could possibly be adopted by other organizations.
Vikram H. Dewan, President and CEO of the Zoo commented on Mr. McNeil's longstanding support, "Bob McNeil's philanthropy was both abundant and visionary the McNeil Avian Center exists as a result of his generosity and farsightedness, changing the way visitors think about the Zoo.
Regarding claims that Danone has failed to secure a solid foothold in China, in the press release CEO and Chairman Franck Riboud only stated: "Danone has a longstanding commitment to China, where it has been present since 1987, and we are keen to accelerate the success of our Chinese activities, in keeping with our mission of bringing health through food to the largest number of people".
