Each Bertelsmann division operates with a high degree of autonomy, and the compensation of its executives is based only on the performance of the division.
Besides improving performance at the division, Mr. Timmer was instrumental in expanding Polygram Records Inc., the Philips subsidiary, into the world's No. 3 record company, after Warner Records and CBS Records.
Keep the club chairman and board happy by hitting your own targets in terms of the team's performance in the division.
His performance in the division series against the Twins showed why he is a three-time Most Valuable Player and a clutch performer.
In particular, prosecutors are said to be examining statements made at meetings with Wall Street analysts in 2000 and 2001 about the prospects and performance of the division.
L.I. @ WORK Correction: May 1, 2005, Sunday The L.I.@Work column last Sunday, about the Health Care Products division of the Hi-Tech Pharmacal Company, referred incorrectly to the financial performance of the division and the company.
IN this instance, while some experts consider the accounting appropriate, others said it misrepresented the performance of the division, largely because there was no real market to judge the contracts.
"Racist white commanders and deliberate neglect from the War Department doomed the performance of the division from the start, while its black officers … endured humiliation after humiliation," Williams said in a Radcliffe talk in the fall.
The cabling of baseball's postseason recalls a kerfuffle in 1996 when Don Ohlmeyer, then NBC's head of West Coast operations, was irked at the network's depressing performance in the division series and the L.C.S.
Ion is crucial to efforts by Saturn to at long last broaden its product line as well as stimulate sustained growth instead of the stop-and-go performance of the division since its debut in 1990.
