Jacobs Engineering Names Watson Chairman
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Shares of the engineering company closed earlier down 37 cents, or just under 1 percent, at $40.36 on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Carl Yankowski, who headed the handheld maker during the PDA boom, is tapped to head Ambient Devices, a Cambridge, Mass.-based consumer products company.
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AUBURN, Ala. (Sports Network) - Auburn announced on  Wednesday that Jay Jacobs will take over as athletic director  for David Housel, who is retiring after 10 years at the post.
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JC Penney (JCP:NYSE - news - research) said Wednesday it hired a new chairman and chief executive, Myron Ullman. Ullman, a former executive at LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH:Nasdaq - news - research), will succeed Allen Questrom.
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Baker Hughes Inc. has chosen as its new chairman and CEO Chad C. Deaton, who is the current CEO and president of Hanover Compressor.
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HP (NYSE:HPQ)(Nasdaq:HPQ) today announced that Mark Hurd, HP chief executive officer and president, has been appointed to the additional role of chairman, succeeding Patricia Dunn, who is leaving the company's board, effective immediately.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 25 -- James D. Watson, who shared a 1962 Nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA, announced his retirement Thursday after controversy erupted over comments he made suggesting that black people are less intelligent than whites.
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Volkswagen's new chief executive Martin Winterkorn has been nominated as chairman of Swedish truck maker Scania in a new phase in the plans for a three-way tie-up with German group MAN, Scania said Tuesday.
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AUBURN, Ala. -- Jay Jacobs was hired as Auburn&#39;s athletic director Wednesday after nearly two decades of working in the department.
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AUBURN, Ala. - Jay Jacobs, a former Auburn football player who has worked in the athletic department for nearly two decades, was named athletic director Wednesday.
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Computer Associates International Inc.  CA.N on Tuesday named former IBM software sales head John  Swainson as president and chief executive, seven months after  Sanjay Kumar stepped down amid an accounting scandal.
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BOSTON, Feb. 16  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The MIT Sloan School of Management will welcome United Technologies Corp.  Chairman and CEO George David as part of its Dean's Innovative Leaders Series.
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Computer Associates today officially announced that John Swainson, an IBM veteran, has been named president and CEO-elect, as well as a member of the CA board.
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David Collier has been named as the England and Wales Cricket Board&#39;s (ECB) chief executive, replacing Tim Lamb. Lamb, who had been in the job since the ECB&#39;s inception in 1997, resigned in May but stepped down last month.
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A former Fortune 500 business executive has been tapped to become the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, replacing outgoing chairman Porter Goss, House Republicans announced.
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Complementary metal oxide semiconductor power amplifier (CMOS PA) provider Axiom Microdevices Inc. announced today that it has appointed Raymond Wang as director of Asia Pacific (APAC) sales, and Taiwan-based electronics distributor Watson-Bell Co.
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The German automaker Volkswagen named Stefan Jacoby, left, as president and chief executive of Volkswagen of America, the company said. Mr. Jacoby, currently executive vice president for marketing and sales with the companyâs Volkswagen Group, succeeds Frank Witter, who is moving to Volkswagen Credit to become co-president with Kevin Kelly, Volkswagen said. It added that Mr. Jacoby, 49, would reorganize the automotive business in the United States âin close coordination with the board of management.â It said in a statement that âthe objective is to achieve further significant expansion in the position of Volkswagen and Audi on the U.S. market through attractive and competitive products.â.