HGS Picks Watkins as New Chief Executive
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Human Genome Sciences Inc. plans to announce today that it has hired a 20-year product development veteran from Abbott Laboratories Inc. as chief executive. H. Thomas Watkins, 51, will face the challenge of completing the Rockville company's makeover from gene hunter to drug marketer.
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The former head of LG's Korean mobile carrier, LG Telecom, will become the new chief executive officer of LG Electronics, the company said Monday.
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Wyeth  said on Thursday it had named Chief Operating Officer Bernard Poussot as chief executive officer, effective January 1, to replace retiring CEO Robert Essner.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. announced today that Patricia Dunn will be replaced as HP chairwoman in January by CEO Mark Hurd. The move follows a scandal related to leaks from the company's board of directors.
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New Ford chief realigns management to cut waste.
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Money manager Legg Mason  on Monday named Senior Vice President Mark Fetting as its next chief executive officer, replacing Raymond Mason, who is retiring as CEO.
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Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. has appointed a new chief financial officer following the resignation of former CFO Kevin Thompson and the recent restatement of its revenue after an accounting policy change.
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By Damon Darlin  Moving to quell its boardroom upheaval, Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday that its chairwoman, Patricia Dunn, would step down in January and would be succeeded by Mark Hurd, the chief executive. The announcement was made before the U.S.
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Kellogg Co. on Monday announced the appointment of James M. Jenness as chairman and chief executive, following the resignation of Carlos Gutierrez to take the post of US Commerce Secretary.
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Bleach and household products maker  Clorox Co.  on Wednesday named Donald Knauss, the  departing president of Coca-Cola Co.'s  North American  operations, as chairman and chief executive, effective October.
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Insurance broker Willis Group Holdings  Ltd. WSH.N on Monday said it hired a top executive from  embattled rival Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. MMC.N.
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Vodafone picked a successor to long-time finance chief Ken Hydon yesterday and restructured its board in an effort to give chief executive Arun Sarin more operational control of the mobile phone company.
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PALO ALTO, California  - Hewlett-Packard   Co.HPQ.N Chairman Patricia Dunn resigned as a director on   Friday as the embattled computer maker unveiled new details of   the boardroom leak probe, including the role of chief executive   Mark Hurd.
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President Bush named environmental chief and former Gov. Michael Leavitt Monday to take over the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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Troubled engineering group Jarvis  appoints a new chief executive as angry shareholders grill the company over executive pay and the collapse of its share price.
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The giant student lender whose $25 billion buyout has run aground said on Friday that its executive chairman would again take up the role of chief executive.
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Migros, Switzerland's largest retail chain and the country's largest employer, has appointed company veteran Herbert Bolliger as its new boss.