‘this paper examines the relation between the monitoring of CEOs by inside aud outside directors and CEO resignations. CEO resignations are predicted using stock returns and earnings changes as measures of prior performance. There is a stronger association between prior performance and the prhability of a resignation for companies with outsider-dominated boards than for companies with insider-d...

Orthodontic programs spend considerable amounts of effort to attract, recruit, and interview the best and brightest applicants. Applicants and programs submit ranked preferences, and resident positions are filled by a computerized matching system (Match). The specific aims of this study were to determine the relative importance of certain factors in applicants' Match ranking of orthodontic prog...

PURPOSE To explore the congruence between students' and clerkship directors' perceptions and attributions of students' struggles during the transition to clerkships. METHOD Focus groups and interviews were conducted with third- and fourth-year medical students and clerkship directors at 10 U.S. medical schools in 2005 and 2006. Schools were selected to represent diverse locations, sizes, and ...

This article reports the findings into patterns of governance on nonprofit boards in Australia. The research surveys 118 boards, upon which serve a total of 1405 directors. The findings indicate that nonprofit boards can mimic some aspects of a shareholder approach to governance. But nonprofit boards, in the main, indicate priorities and activities of a stakeholder approach to governance. The f...

OBJECTIVE To describe the factors and attributes that obstetrics and gynecology fellowship directors use in selecting applicants for interview and ranking. METHODS Anonymous questionnaires were completed by obstetrics and gynecology fellowship directors using a web-based survey (adapted from a previously published questionnaire) before match day 2011. Fellow selection practices were evaluated...

Debugging and performance measurement tools are becoming more important in the development and maintenance of increasingly complex software. These tools belong to a class of programs, called directors. Directors are programs that monitor and control other programs. Through monitoring, directors analyze program execution at runtime. Monitoring provides tracing primitives as well as access to pro...