The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005 is the first full-length feature film made by directors nick Park and Steve Box with their amazing plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit.
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Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive, it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship.
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But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news breaks, even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred.
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firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives.
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If the sky, and the share price is falling, outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.
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Otherwise outside directors will follow the example of Ms. Simmons, once again very popular on campus.
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Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful, yet less biased, advisers on a firm's board.
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The most likely reason for departing a board was age, so the researchers concentrated on those "surprise" disappearances by directors under the age of 70.
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The researchers from Ohio University used a database that covered more than 10, 000 firms and more than 64, 000 different directors between 1989 and 2004.
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Then they simply checked which directors stayed from one proxy statement to the next.
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