Korn Ferry International News

The California-based international partnership Sea Launch Co. has successfully launched a satellite for Intelsat customers from its land-launch operation in Kazakhstan.

Kara Kelley Retiring Embed The end of an era is coming to the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.

By Sarah Knapp Compensation for first year top-level executives dropped 7.3 percent this year according to the "Executive Compensation Index." The study analyzed executive firm Korn/Ferry clients over a five-year period beginning in 2005, in the three main geographical areas of North America, Asia and Europe.

CPS Energy 's board of trustees has retained an executive search firm to help select a successor to CEO Milton Lee.

Since the start of the recession, the advertising industry has whittled away more than 11% of its workforce.

ANN was informed late Monday that 'Counsel provided to the EAA by Korn/Ferry International culminated in the award of the global executive search engagement for the EAA's next President.' The search will be led by senior client partners Clarke Havener and Lorraine Lavet, with additional aviation sector expertise provided by Dr.

Alongside novelist, Eckhart Schmidt, Thomas will be questioned about his successes and struggles in Hollywood and the Entertainment Industry under the topic "Hollywood - " Myth and Reality". Planet Wissen hosts, Brigitte Pavetic and Andreas Korn will question Thomas on the myths of success and failures Germans face while working in Hollywood.

Nov. 5 -- Gary Burnison, chief executive officer of Korn/Ferry International, talks with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox about executive compensation.

Big things do come in small packages . Diedrich Coffee is a fine example of that axiom -- in more ways than one.

Sacramento's DEFTONES has issued the following update: "On November 2nd, 2008 our bass player and brother Chi Ling Cheng was involved in a horrific car accident which has left him in a semi-conscious state.

1. "I'll play you for a sucker." Headhunters come in two flavors. "Retained" executive search firms, such as blue-chippers Korn/Ferry International or Heidrick & Struggles, charge a company up front to locate candidates for client openings.

For as long as there has been outrage over Wall Street megabonuses, executives have justified their handsome rewards by warning that if companies didn't pay up, talent would flee to rival firms.

Dennis Carey , a senior client partner at the executive search firm Korn/Ferry International, shares his insights on board management in today's changing oversight paradigm, especially in the area of CEO succession in the recently released book " Owning Up: The 14 Questions Every Board Member Needs to Ask " by Ram Charan.

With the announcement of General Reinsurance Corp.'s departure by the end of January from the sprawling East Main Street office building in Stamford it has occupied for 25 years, other tenants are fleeing the complex as well, and the owner of two commercial properties is benefiting from the arrival of two of them.

Paul Reilly will take over at Raymond James Financial in May. Until then, he's "shadowing" Tom James.

An executive headhunting firm has been charged with the task of filling a new job overseeing Allegheny General Hospital , its Bellevue campus hospital and The Western Pennsylvania Hospital , furthering the difficult integration of the region's second-biggest hospital network.

A former senior client partner for Korn/Ferry International Inc. is suing the executive-search and consulting firm for allegedly firing her because she is gay.

Attention gay males: Even if you'd prefer to remain closeted on Facebook, two MIT students have developed software that can out you anyway.

Reduced headcount s, salary freezes and rough business sentiment: if you thought the gruelling work environment in India would impact employee confidence for long, think again.

If you can't wait a few days to hear Pearl Jam 's Backspacer when it hits stores on Sunday, you can head over to their MySpace page , where it's streaming now.