Sentences with phrase «about board independence»

Further, as noted, a non-independent label generally disqualifies a director from service on an audit committee, but it more generally informs disclosures about board independence and non-binding guidelines about best practices, which raises the question of whether «disclose and explain» frameworks result in positive change in the first place.

Not exact matches

Rite Aid's board should prepare to take some heat over concerns about board member independence and other issues at its annual shareholders meeting this week.

Further, he spoke urgently about the need for independence in corporate boards and strong corporate governance

They also expressed concern about the independence of the investigation, which will be led by Eric H. Holder Jr., the former United States attorney general, and Arianna Huffington, an Uber board member.

This is all pretty ironic when you consider the fact that leaders from the WFP and the Conservative Party, which appears to have done the best of all the minor parties, bumping the Independence Party from its perch on Row C, were so worried about the results of this election that they unsuccessfully sued to challenge the state Board of Elections» so - called «double - vote» decision.

The revelation that it was Gov. Andrew Cuomo's chosen enforcement counsel at the Board of Elections who sparked an investigation into de Blasio's fundraising activities has raised a number of questions about motivation and independence.

According to Board of Elections numbers, there are about 8,000 registered Independence Party voters in that district.

The revelation that it was Gov. Andrew Cuomo's chosen enforcement counsel at the Board of Elections who sparked an investigation into Mayor BIll de Blasio's fundraising activities, in the mayor's 2014 effort to flip control of the state Senate, has raised a number of questions about motivation and independence.

A national search for a new director had been undertaken after some JCOPE board members said they were concerned about the board's independence from Cuomo.

If you were perusing opportunities on job boards recently, you may have noticed a somewhat unusual listing: a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Intramural Research (OIR) ad for recent doctorate recipients interested in partnering with an intramural research institute to apply for the NIH Director's Early Independence Award (EIA), an extramural program we have written about in the past.

But Burke, who now teaches at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, remains concerned about the move, in light of previous actions by Pruitt that he thinks have weakened EPA's Scientific Advisory Board and put the independence of the agency's chemical assessment program at risk.

Betsy DeVos has served on the board of the Acton Institute which has featured events by Christian Dominionist Gary North who is on record writing, without irony: «So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government.

At the May 1 AAAS Forum on S&T Policy, presidential science adviser John Holdren empasized the importance of maintaining NSF's independence in making research funding decisions, and earlier in the week the National Science Board raised concerns about some aspects of the bill.

We frequently advise our clients about whether and how to conduct an internal investigation, and we conduct such investigations for companies when we conclude we have sufficient independence to do so, sometimes acting as special counsel to companies or their boards of directors.

Every now and then this blog has mentioned general counsel in relation to Boards of Directors (See my post of Feb. 7, 2006: «general counsel should report to the board of directors»; March 25, 2009: general counsel of McDonald's sits on the board of directors of Aon Corporation; May 11, 2011: doubts about general counsel serving on another company's Board; Sept. 5, 2011: four benefits when a general counsel serves on the board of another company; and Nov. 3, 2011: reporting line to the board gives the general counsel more independenboard of directors»; March 25, 2009: general counsel of McDonald's sits on the board of directors of Aon Corporation; May 11, 2011: doubts about general counsel serving on another company's Board; Sept. 5, 2011: four benefits when a general counsel serves on the board of another company; and Nov. 3, 2011: reporting line to the board gives the general counsel more independenboard of directors of Aon Corporation; May 11, 2011: doubts about general counsel serving on another company's Board; Sept. 5, 2011: four benefits when a general counsel serves on the board of another company; and Nov. 3, 2011: reporting line to the board gives the general counsel more independenBoard; Sept. 5, 2011: four benefits when a general counsel serves on the board of another company; and Nov. 3, 2011: reporting line to the board gives the general counsel more independenboard of another company; and Nov. 3, 2011: reporting line to the board gives the general counsel more independenboard gives the general counsel more independence.).

3) Shahmir is unquestionably telling lies about BeLeave — either he was lying to VL's board member in charge of compliance, who has detailed written notes taken after talking to Shahmir in 2016 about the independence of BeLeave (when Shahmir said it was all ethical and legal), or he is lying now.