Looking back over a year in which many high-profile executives abruptly left their jobs, one question seems hard to shake: Can't anybody play this game?

In addition, Transamerica has brought in two high-profile executives from the insurance industry to manage the new company.

The last two years have offered a spate of 55-plus divorces among high-profile executives.

A whole other level of threat is directed at high-profile executives.

Healy hired several high-profile executives to oversee the process.

Mix scientists and movie stars, politicians and authors, athletes and high-profile chief executives.

It isn't the loss of Jeffrey Katzenberg, the high-profile executive who ran the studio until 1994; he approved this project in 1993.

He was one of three high-profile creative executives who discussed joining Lowe several years ago, Adweek reported last week.

But finding a high-profile executive to take what increasingly appears to be a fairly prosaic job with little operational flexibility is a difficult task.

The agency is looking to hire a high-profile creative executive to oversee the tasks.