Sentences with phrase «number of board of»

Total Number of Board of Directors — 7

High school graduates earning an Advanced Studies Diploma out of the total number of Board of Education - approved diplomas awarded (percent increases annually, state goal 60 %)

They are taking broader and more proactive roles in enterprise - level operational functions and shared services, forming business strategy and leading execution, and winning an increasing number of Board of Director seats.

Susan has served on a number of Boards of Directors and Committees, including City of Miami Beach Art in Public Places, Tigertail Productions, 801 Projects, SFCA's interdisciplinary Sound Arts Workshop, and the Children's Cultural Coalition.

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When you're boarding a plane, you see pilots working through a number of preflight checklists to make sure everything is in order and no steps are overlooked.

Ravichandran has founded other successful businesses focused on business - process outsourcing and web security, and sits on the boards of a number of growing companies.

The Conference Board of Canada ranked the country 14 out of 16 nations in terms of the number of patents per capita.

In addition to the removal of Fielding as CEO, the startup is «taking a number of steps to improve Ripcord's culture, including but not limited to increased training, reporting mechanisms and Board oversight,» the representative said.

A good number of board meetings don't have somebody managing the clock.

So Benchmark is setting things up where growing numbers of well - intentioned third parties, including early investor Shervin Pishevar, are demanding that it sell its Uber position, (lately worth about $ 8.4 billion), and get off the board.

For a number of years, I had been on the board of Project Hope, which operates a shelter and provides services for homeless women and children in Boston.

His philanthropic service includes founding and serving as former chairman and current board member of the Robin Hood Foundation, director of JUST Capital Foundation, as well as current advisory, chairman, director and trustee roles with a number of not - for - profit, educational and other charitable organizations.

We are taking a number of steps to improve Ripcord's culture, including but not limited to increased training, reporting mechanisms and Board oversight.

The WE NYC advisory board includes a number of well - known women business leaders, including fashion designer Norma Kamali, Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, and Shelly Lazarus, former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather.

A new train - themed restaurant started off well, but the number of diners on board is dropping.

National Amusements, the Redstone family holding company, recently said it plans to remove Dauman from the Viacom board of directors, along with a number of other directors.

About 100 Boardlist candidates (some of whom already sit on not - for - profit, for - profit, or advisory boards, and the vast majority of whom live in the U.S.) were asked a number of questions about their experiences in business, and also about the fact that so few women serve on corporate boards.

The FORM Act also calls for an annual GAO audit of the Federal Reserve, doubles the number of times the Fed Chairman testifies before Congress, and makes some other tweaks to the makeup and protocol of the Federal Reserve Board.

Southwest even creates other reminders that there are humans in the company by still using manual boards in airports to post flight numbers and other information instead of using digital screens.

Harford is a prominent diversity champion, both in the financial services sector and the wider business community, and served as the co-head of Citi Women and on the board of directors of The Forte Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of women leaders in business.

The numbers have nudged up from 15.9 % in 2013, when Catalyst Canada surveyed the number of women on Financial Post 500 boards, and new comply - or - explain regulations initiated by the Ontario Securities Commission will likely push the statistics higher now that companies are required to disclose female representation on boards and in senior management.

He is an activist investor and has been able to influence a number of companies by getting board members appointed.

Procter & Gamble (pg) waged a number of battles last year with activist investor Nelson Peltz, who succeeded in gaining a board seat after months of fighting.

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

The new research shows that something different has been happening: Boards have been allowing CEO pay to climb ever higher by offering executives the same number of options year in and year out, regardless of company stock prices.

The researchers also found that when boards did vary the number of options granted to CEOs, they often picked round numbers, such as increasing the number of options by 10 % or doubling it.

• Karin Klein of Bloomberg Beta writes that LPs should force their GPs to report data on how many female founders they back, how many female non-partner investors the firm hires, the number of female partners, and the composition of VC - backed startup boards:

Such behavior, the researchers argue, suggests that boards indeed tend to think about grants in terms of the number of options, not their dollar value.

Because option values can be difficult to understand, boards have tended to issue a certain number of options from year to year, regardless of the grant's dollar value, rather than calculate a desired dollar value and vary the number of options.

The short - term rental site has pledged that its next board hire will be female, saying that it is already in «serious discussions with a number of incredible people.»

Progress has been slow when it comes to getting more women into executive roles (the number of female board members is climbing but just 13 percent of these female board members are employed as executives).

The research crunches numbers to determine the cost to large companies of having all - male executive boards running the show, and while it's far from the first report to conclude a lack of gender diversity is a terrible idea from a business perspective, this analysis produced one particular attention - grabbing finding.

According to the census, approximately 40 % of companies (177 in 2011) had no women serving on their boards — a shockingly high number.

A number of years back, I started a success board, which is nothing more than a whiteboard in the corner of my office on which I capture my achievements throughout the year.

The number of small business loans, defined as loans of $ 1 million or less, declined 4.7 % in 2011, according to the Federal Reserve Board of New York in its most recent survey of 544 small business owners.

«At the same time we took on board the concerns of the people, who are worried about the future, and this means we want to reduce, we want to drastically decrease the number of people coming to us,» Merkel told broadcaster ARD.

Half of the board of Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has walked off the job, including chairman John Cooper, after it flagged a change in direction, a number of redundancies and cost - saving initiatives in response to the tough climate for local contractors.

The Conference Board report identifies a number of possible labour market imperfections such as workers lacking the information they need to make informed decisions.

Women are being appointed to ASX200 boards at a faster rate than ever, but a number of major Western Australian companies remain without any female representation on their boards.

The number of women on corporate boards could be improved.

When consultancy McKinsey & Co. surveyed C - level executives on the sources of pressure for producing short - term results, almost half named the board of directors as the number one culprit.

Mining junior RNI says a number of recent cost - cutting measures included staff redundancies and salary cuts across the board, as the company announced a $ 26.5 million recapitalisation plan to pay off debt.

Perth - based gold miner Minera Gold has raised $ US1.55 million ($ A2 million) from existing shareholders and a new investor, while also announcing a number of board changes that includes the retirement of both its chairman and chief executive.

An outpost in Miami is seen as a way to link local «treps to the growing number of business tycoons who are based in Latin America, where Endeavor first got its start and has access to board members in sectors such as tech, telecoms, retail and finance.

It means that when we discuss policies to increase the number of women on boards, we're not arguing about where we're going — we're just arguing about how to get there.

Shareholder returns at family - controlled corporations significantly outperform those of widely held public companies, even though family - controlled boards tend to break governance rules, such as having a certain number of independent directors.

Or might they have second thoughts, knowing that Siebel's board has granted the company's management the authority to increase the number of options granted to 20 million?

«There are a number of requirements that public companies have independent board members,» says Mike Gould, a partner in the Chicago office of PricewaterhouseCoopers» capital markets transaction services practice.

In theory, since both sides of the board begin equally and with the same number of pieces, every game should end in a tie.

Over the next week, the board will encourage the apparently large number of shareholders that had not cast votes to support the deal, said mergers expert Brian Quinn, an associate professor at Boston College Law School.