Mr. Parseghian took over as chief executive in June after several top executives, including the previous chief, Leland C. Brendsel, either resigned or were ousted.

After a lengthy leadership dispute between founder Larry Jones and the board and top executives of the charity, Jones agreed to give up operational control in August 2009.

Sometimes after executives who pick ad agencies leave, companies re-evaluate those decisions, and sometimes they stick with their picks.

After protracted discussions between the designer and executives at Celine's parent company, LVMH Mo t Hennessy Louis Vuitton, they have agreed to part ways.

After Dark executives and a lawyer representing the company did not return telephone calls seeking comment.

We now know that some companies engaged in grandiose programs of acquisition and expansion that ended in grief - but only after top executives had profited immensely.

Mr. Padula never loved television, however, and later recalled that he left that industry after executives at NBC responded to a proposed arts program with the question "What's that going to sell?"

Impatient with old journalistic principles that they say have led newspapers to the brink of suicide, many new editors model themselves after corporate executives.

Instead of relying on class-action suits in securities cases, why not encourage regulators and prosecutors to go after executives who cause the problems?

The launch of a children's range and a furniture range helped deflect the looming crisis but by 1997, after a torrid few years and numerous chief executives, the company was in serious financial difficulties.