On the figurative side, executives took time during their remarks to defend the power of old-school broadcast television.
Three months ago, it dismissed the Gap brand's top business-side executive.
Nonetheless, he was the father of the modular sofa and the slab-side executive desk.
Three months ago, when Gap Inc., the retail chain, fired the top business-side executive overseeing its Gap division, it blamed merchandising, how items are presented in stores, for the brand's faltering sales, not design.
Q. Would the situation be different, maybe tougher, if a general manager or basketball-side executive came out? A. In some ways, it would have been a different story because it would have been more high profile.
In addition to dismissing the top business-side executive overseeing the Gap brand in the United States, the company has named a new global chief marketing officer for the Gap brand.
Frantic to hold on to the Nissan account, Robert Schwartz Robert Schwartz, a creative-side executive at Chiat\Day, blocked out a totally new campaign.
As president, Rosen would have been a business-side executive.
And soon there will be more, as business-side executives who authorized the payments to professional phone hackers and bribes to Scotland Yard for tips are exposed.
In my experience, editors and reporters don't think that way, and business-side executives at newspapers that value their independence simply don't exert that kind of pressure on journalists.
Mr. Shafer said, "Although no one — not ITV or 'Panorama' or the newspapers — has located a smoking gun, suspicions abound that top news executives at the BBC, and perhaps business-side executives such as Thompson" nudged the editor of "Newsnight" into dropping the Savile investigation.
