"We had an opportunity to say 'Look, there is an alternative and we're going to make it easier for you to switch to Dish Network,' " said Charles Ergen, the chief executive of EchoStar.
The grid lost about half the generated energy, and missed out swathes of the country.It would be far better for Haiti to switch to solar power, argues Jigar Shah, the bumptious chief executive of the Carbon War Room, a ginger-group in Washington, DC, who formerly ran SunEdison, a solar power company.
That approach was recognized when he got an onstage hug in June 2005 from Steve Jobs, then Apple's chief executive, who had agreed to switch to Intel technology for the company's popular Macintosh computer line.
When Mr. Thompson, who is black, considered leaving, the company's diversity chief advised him to switch to operations, where there was more room for advancement, according to a profile last year in Crain's Chicago Business.
Andrew Schmedake's evocative lighting employs more than 150 independently operated filament bulb pendants strung through the performance space to switch between the Chief's rich interior perceptions and the catatonic persona he presents to the outer world.
There is no barrier to former police chiefs switching to the private sector despite concerns over a "revolving door" between the sectors.
Chief Pfeifer switched to the lower-wattage, point-by-point system, which, he emphasizes, helped to save the lives of many civilians and firefighters.
The forum, hosted by the Web site GothamSchools.org and Manhattan Media, was an hourlong discussion on a main topic in the election among five likely candidates — all Democrats but one, Tom Allon, Manhattan Media's president and chief executive, who switched to the Republican Party last month.
"IBM put an attractive deal on the table for us to switch," says Benoit Gaucherin, chief technology officer at Sapient in Cambridge, Mass.
The government is appealing against his decision.Attention will now switch to San Francisco, where Gregory Reyes, a former chief executive of Brocade Communications, is the first boss to stand trial on charges relating to the backdating of employee share-options.
