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If corporate executives lie during a conference call, they can be sued.
Since at least 1954, food-industry executives have known that excess sugar consumption causes health problems.
Business executives – often from the construction industry – who stand to gain from the Games’ preparation usually lead a prospective city’s bidding process.
It also built bus lanes that run between Olympic venues, which will ease travel for IOC executives but only further congest the city’s now-narrower roadways for everyone else.
Senior Indian executives whose businesses require them to recruit competent scientists or engineers complain that demand for such talent vastly exceeds the supply.
The desperation of local potentates and SOE executives has created powerful resistance to reform.
Multinational executives frequently cite China as their favorite investment destination, but many of them also complain about rampant graft.
Beyond that, stories of highly profitable banks paying huge bonuses to their executives have also inspired people to think that things are not so bad in the business world.
The New Deal created an image of a commercial transaction, like the buyout of a company or an incentive package for executives – something that contracting parties bargain over and agree to.
We have come a long way in the eight months since Facebook, Google, and Twitter executives appeared before Congress to answer questions about how Russian sources exploited their platforms to influence the election.
But Western executives invariably describe Chinese officials as smart, decisive, knowledgeable, and far-sighted – roughly the same adjectives that they once used to describe Bo Xilai, the disgraced Communist Party boss of Chongqing, before he was purged.
Either the Chinese public is impossible to please, or Western executives are hopelessly wrong.
But, given that daily experience places Chinese citizens in an infinitely better position than Western executives to evaluate Chinese officials and their conduct, one would have to conclude that they are almost certainly right.
Another selling point for Western executives is that many Chinese officials have engineering backgrounds, in contrast to their Western counterparts, most of whom are lawyers.
A more subtle reason for Western executives’ perceptions is their subconscious frame of reference when assessing Chinese officials.
Senior executives of multinational companies tend to have pre-conceived notions of China as just another developing country, and thus evaluate Chinese officials by comparing them with those in other developing countries.
Of course, sometimes these executives do miss the rule of law that prevails in the West.
The most regrettable aspect of Western executives’ misconceptions of the Chinese government is that they are likely to persist, at least among those who have no direct experience with the dark side of the Chinese state.
Moreover, Western corporations are hierarchical and autocratic, similar to the Chinese one-party state, so senior executives’ errors of judgment are rarely challenged directly by their underlings.
Few Western executives understand the political consequences of their misperceptions.
This arises when executives have overly narrow views of their industry, underestimate their competitors’ capabilities, or fail to see how the competitive landscape is changing.
A long track record of success can warp executives’ analysis, distort their decision-making, and leave them blind to incipient paradigm shifts or rapid changes in a market.
Guarding against blind spots takes careful thought, but executives and boards can put processes in place to protect against them.
Executives should make special efforts to break taboos, examine unchallenged assumptions, and question their businesses’ most sacred rules.
That $5 trillion dollars is not money invested in building roads, schools, and other long-term projects, but is directly transferred from the American economy to the personal accounts of bank executives and employees.
Our subsidizing of bank managers and executives is completely involuntary.
Prosecutors have revealed a wide-ranging kickback scheme centered on the state-owned oil company Petrobras and involving executives, parliamentarians, and government officials.
Not only are they held to targets of 7% annual economic growth or better (like many corporate executives), they must also improve environmental quality, build better infrastructure, and reduce local crime levels.
The Group brings together top UN officials and business executives, including from Edison International, Statoil, Suntech Holdings, and Vattenfall.
Several high-level politicians and corporate owners and executives have been convicted and imprisoned.
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