Jordan will also resign as the Wizards' president of basketball operations, a position he has held since January 2000.
Before being elected a vice chairman, he was the head of Ford's Americas operations, a position he held for 19 months before being succeeded by Mark Fields.
Ms. Loving, a black woman, watched, twice, as much-younger white women were promoted to director of work-experience operations, a position she believed entailed more responsibility.
Upon his graduation from Yale in 1995, he joined the San Diego Padres as a public-relations intern, and in 1997 he became the Padres' director of baseball operations, a position at which he honed his data-driven analysis of players and established a reputation across the league as a front-office prodigy.
Each step of the evolution comprises a coin-tossing operation and a position shift.
I had asked the surgeon I thought was the best -- though they were all very good -- and he let me watch an open heart operation from a position just beyond the draping of the patient's head.
The Pentagon asserts its longstanding policy precludes coverage of special operations missions, a position that is intended to keep secret the military tactics used by elite soldiers.
Ronald L. Johnson, a two-star general in the Army Corps of Engineers, will serve as the N.B.A.'s senior vice president for referee operations, a new position.
In 1969 he became president of Chase Manhattan's banking operations in Brazil, a position he held until 1992, six years after civilian rule was re-established.
McHale stepped down as the Timberwolves' vice president for basketball operations on Monday, a position he has held since 1995, to become the coach after the team owner, Glen Taylor, fired Wittman.
Austin heads Central Command, which runs U.S. military operations in the Middle East and South Asia, a position made famous by former General David Petraeus.
