Today, when considering the hiring of an executive one must go past what used to be the appropriate background checks to now include an extensive “Google” search. Until now unknown dirty laundry may be thus revealed by so doing. For example, recently a private university announced its new president and within a week came forth evidence of questionable, perhaps indictable, actions that caused his removal at his prior school. Surely a “Google” search by the recruiter would have raised the issue beforehand.

