31.   Charlie Gustin, founder of Gustin Partners, a search firm in Boston that specializes in placing technology executives, is another doubter of the wisdom of diversification.

32.   Calsters will choose an executive search firm shortly to try to attract more candidates.

33.   Christian said search firms were entitled to an equity position for their work.

34.   Christoph Gruenberg, who has been a curator there for two years, has been named acting director, and the board has hired a Manhattan search firm.

35.   Cheryl Ziino, an executive assistant at Gillard Associates, a legal placement search firm in Dedham, Mass., agrees.

36.   Companies have been more interested lately in hiring woman and minorities, said Lou Rieger, managing director of the executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

37.   Cupertino, California-based PointCast is using executive search firm Ramsey Beirne to find a CEO, a process that is expected to take about three months.

38.   EFL is an executive search firm that helps employers find managerial and professional talent.

39.   Even before negotiating with job candidates, it had to deal with the demand for a stake from the executive search firms.

40.   Executive search firms have high turnover rates, providing the potential to seriously burn investors if a firm is hit by a wave of defections.