Sentences with phrase «board running of this company»

Hutton says that because M's «google» everything, they're less apt to believe a CEO or other top - management level exec who claims cluelessness regarding what skullduggery her underlings were up to, figuring she should've searched for, say, «Ways my traitorous employees are undermining my fastidious, ethical and totally above - board running of this company.»

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When Charlie Emery set out to build Spooky Pinball, his Benton, Wis. - based company, he ran into a snag: finding a resource to manufacture the circuit boards that power each of his custom - made, $ 5,995 pinball machines.

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.

Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn is set to be grilled by the executive committee of the company's board as the fallout from its emissions cheating scandal spreads.Winterkorn issued a video apology Tuesday, after the company admitted that 11 million vehicles worldwide run software that cheat local emissions tests.

A partner might ask how you felt about the idea he presented during the last board meeting; what he really wants to talk about is his diminished role in the running of the company.

They are asking for policies that most well run companies have adopted; things like majority vote standards, so directors are only elected to the board if a majority of shareholders want them there.

While a board of directors has a duty to maximize shareholder value by running a fair sales process, the Murdochs own about 17 percent of Fox and control the company through voting shares.

These may seem like arcane governance issues but they can make a big difference in how a board is run — and how well it acts as an effective control of a company's executives: in this case, both the executive chair and the CEO.

After 13 years of running my own company and being active on several boards, as both an advisor and board member, I have learned a lot about the importance of surrounding yourself with the right set of advisors.

Then one of Cline's board members — a venture capitalist who also ran a SPAC — told him about CEA Acquisition, a public shell company based in Tampa that was trading on the OTC Bulletin Bboard members — a venture capitalist who also ran a SPAC — told him about CEA Acquisition, a public shell company based in Tampa that was trading on the OTC Bulletin BoardBoard.

One of Facebook's prominent advertisers, Swiss food and drink company Nestle SA, is already on board, Everson said, and the council should be up and running by early 2017.

Salmon points out that «not a single one of the 12 [candidates] is a CEO who was hired to run a company by its board of directors.»

In «real» ownership, they argue, the owners control their assets by determining such things as who runs the company, who sits on the Board of Directors, when major corporate decisions are made that might impact the future of the company, and so on.

«From the highest levels of the Company including the board level, Uber makes an intentional decision to look the other way when hiring and supervising its executives, essentially letting them «run wild» so long as new business ventures continue to succeed and profits continue to roll in,» the suit reads.

«That means we are not a small family run business anymore — we are running a real company with lots of employees and that comes with the need for better structure, execution and quality across the board.»

A member of the WHC board, who was also an investor in Mexican Restaurants, brought the company to WHC's attention over concerns it was not being run properly, staying stagnant and not living up to its potential.

This week former Chief Executive David Gill explained to BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek that the club has two different boards: the quoted company board which primarily focuses on the key decision - making in view of the financial running of the club on the New York Stock Exchange, and the ambassadorial board, on which Gill and Sir Alex Ferguson sit.

Responsible for running the day - to - day operations of the organisation, Jamie first joined British Cycling as finance director in 2011 having previously been finance director and main board director at companies in the manufacturing, construction and renewable energy sectors.

«They should have to come in and follow the rules of Nassau County,» said board chairman Larry Blessinger Jr., who runs local cab companies.

I'm going to hazard a guess that National Grid could do a much better job if they did not have to work around a group of political appointees put on a nonsense board who know nothing about running a utility company.

The race has become something of a proxy war for the fight over the online rental site Airbnb, with the company funding advertising against Serino and an independent expenditure campaign backed by the Hotel Trades Council and the Real Estate Board of New York running commercials critical of Gipson.

Zray is also one of those crazy paddle board companies that apparently tested these things by running them over with a car!

And a lot of hi - tech companies are run by engineers, and there's nothing wrong with that because obviously you need somebody to design circuit boards and to write code and all of these things, so you've got programmers and you've got hardware engineers.

The human side is portrayed especially in Graham's own serious self - doubt, not only about taking on a paper as the only woman at the time to be running a Fortune 500 company but also fighting a board full of men who urge her to keep the paper's business interests above all else during a sensitive time when they were taking it public.

McClary who co-founded the company and has always championed the little guy runs afoul of Salinger for spouting off in board meetings.

Tonight, The Irish Film board are hosting a two - hour party at Long Beach, one of the private stretches of sand across from the necklace of glittering six - star hotels where all the top stars and movie companies are holed up for the festival, which runs for another week.

If employees of charter schools or any outside management companies that run them serve on the schools» boards of directors, they must avoid any «real or apparent conflict of interest» if the school receives money from the Department of Education's charter school program, under new guidelines released late last month.

A September, 2005 New York Times editorial noted, our schools were being run by «default» by textbook publishing companies and the thousands of local school boards nationwide because the educational establishment had no plan in place — anywhere.

Charter Schools USA, a Florida - based private school management company, will run the school next year — and the Indiana Board of Education grappled with how to fund it at its Wednesday meeting.

The Plato Academy charter application is from an out - of - town charter company with an out - of - town school board run by a for - profit management company.

Even though K12, Inc. is notorious for churning students through its programs and failing to demonstrate academic progress, both of the companies» virtual charter programs are likely to get the green light since the legislation compels the State Board of Education to get the pilot program up and running this fall.

The ASD's superintendent (chosen by a search committee headed up by the Lieutenant Governor, who is a vocal critic of public education) would be in charge of recommending to the State Board of Education which charter management company should run the schools.

Commissioner Pryor and the State Board of Education originally approved the Booker T. Washington Charter School based on the fact that it would be run by Jumoke / FUSE, but after the collapse of that company, the proponents of the Booker T. Washington School were allowed to find a new «management» operation.

Tony Walker, who represents Gary on the State Board, urged fellow board members not to think of funding as money flowing to EdPower or the other companies running the state takeover schools, but as providing the resources the schools need to sucBoard, urged fellow board members not to think of funding as money flowing to EdPower or the other companies running the state takeover schools, but as providing the resources the schools need to sucboard members not to think of funding as money flowing to EdPower or the other companies running the state takeover schools, but as providing the resources the schools need to succeed.

Both applicants for a legislatively - mandated pilot program, N.C. Connections Academy and N.C. Virtual Academy, will be governed by a non-profit board of directors, but both groups plan on contracting with virtual education companies to actually run the schools.

The State Board of Education voted to give Milner to Jumoke at their meeting in August 2012, but FUSE, the parent company that signed the contract to run Milner, wasn't even formed until October 2012 ---- more than six months AFTER Pryor and his team had decided to hand over millions of state taxpayer dollars to run Milner.

DPI officials presented sobering reports to the N.C. State Board of Education this month that detailed high withdrawal rates at North Carolina's two virtual charters, both of which are run by for - profit companies dogged by allegations of lagging student performance in other states.

Further, the NOLA system means that if you don't like your child's school you're less likely to have a way to do something about it, because the charters are often run by private boards and management companies, many of which aren't based in New Orleans or even based in Louisiana.

The Parents» Campaign supports allowing charters near chronically low - performing schools, requiring operators to have a successful track record, prohibiting for - profit companies from running charter schools, and ensuring the Mississippi State Board of Education is the only agency that can authorize charter schools.

Company run by Malloy appointee to the State Board of Education collects $ 517,128 in funds allocated by the State Board of Education.

The State Board of Education, which oversees public education in the state, is expected to approve two charter schools today that will teach children from their home computers in schools run by Wall Street - traded companies.

For more background about this issue, read: Company run by Malloy appointee to the State Board of Education collects $ 517,128 in funds allocated by the State Board of Education.

The appeals court heard arguments Wednesday in litigation filed over the N.C. State Board of Education's 2012 decision to disregard an application for a virtual charter school run by the company because it was submitted outside the time period allotted by the bBoard of Education's 2012 decision to disregard an application for a virtual charter school run by the company because it was submitted outside the time period allotted by the boardboard.

There has been nothing but silence from Connecticut's elected officials even though one of Governor Malloy's recent appointees to the State Board of Education runs a company that is collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from the very State Board that Malloy has appointed him too.

Andrea Comer, the former COO of Jumoke / FUSE charter school company has resigned her position on the State Board of Education, while the Bridgeport Board of Education prepares to end ties with Jumoke / FUSE, the charter school company that was given a lucrative no - bid contract to run Bridgeport's Dunbar Elementary School thanks to Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor and Paul Vallas, the ousted former head of Bridgeport's Schools.

A year ago, almost to the day, a group of Bridgeport citizens, including Maria Pereira, attended the State Board of Education meeting to request Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees REJECT applications by two more charter school companies to open privately run, but publicly funded facilities in Bridgeport.

The city's 90 charter schools are run by a host of education management companies and organizations that report to charter school boards and are overseen by 11 different colleges, universities, and school districts.

A Cleveland Plain Dealer article explains why the boards felt the need to challenge White Hat in court: In the case of White Hat contracts, the board then hands over about 96 percent of the school's revenue to the company to handle the day - to - day business of running the schools.

Whereas if you look at some states, sometimes it may be private entities that actually authorize charter schools, and charters are established through boards of private citizens who then might contract a private company to run their school.

Charters are self - governing public schools, sometimes run by private companies, which operate outside the authority of local school boards, and have greater flexibility than traditional public schools in areas of policy, hiring and teaching techniques.