Sentences with phrase «company boards because»

Godfrey Bloom's «bongo - bongo land» comments and Stuart Wheeler's claim that women don't deserve to be on company boards because they're not very good at chess and bridge, will deter many of the protest votes that might otherwise have gone their way.

Not exact matches

Critics complain «say on pay» votes are ineffectual because boards aren't bound to the results, but of the 53 U.S. companies for whom shareholders rejected compensation plans in 2012, 45 made changes and got positive votes the following year, according to Institutional Shareholder Services.

In 2008, the Conference Board concluded that, on average, foreign takeovers of Canadian companies were more positive than all - Canadian deals because «product and geographic overlap of businesses is less with foreign owners.»

Robert Stone, an analyst with Cowen and Company, thinks that board sales will decline by 5 % in 2015 because of a weak U.S. education - related spending.

«Because Mylan's Board has determined that risk oversight is the responsibility of the full board, all incumbent directors should be considered accountable for material failures of risk oversight over a number of years, when warning signs were available to the company but no actions appear to have been taken to mitigate or head off the significant potential risks that have since materialBoard has determined that risk oversight is the responsibility of the full board, all incumbent directors should be considered accountable for material failures of risk oversight over a number of years, when warning signs were available to the company but no actions appear to have been taken to mitigate or head off the significant potential risks that have since materialboard, all incumbent directors should be considered accountable for material failures of risk oversight over a number of years, when warning signs were available to the company but no actions appear to have been taken to mitigate or head off the significant potential risks that have since materialized.

There have been numerous times when Musk's endeavors would have benefited by having more capital, yet he has resisted the urge to take SpaceX public because the board of directors of a publicly - held firm would undoubtedly force him to make changes in the company that would improve its profitability at the expense of its chances for reaching Mars.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

The city argues in a news release that the company should be required to comply with all municipal bylaws, despite its argument they were unconstitutional because they conflicted with approval from the federal government and the National Energy Board Act.

I would like to bring them all on board and offer comprehensive health benefits for everybody, but right now it's not feasible because we're a small company.

Few public company leaders could have done this, in part because few public company boards would have supported it.

A member of the board, James Coulter, expressed interest in selling the company, in private, to the CEO because he / his firm would like to buy it.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of the company's board are being sued because a shareholder thinks the pay the directors were awarded in 2013 was too high.

Meanwhile, another Uber board member is trying to squeeze Benchmark out of the company because of its lawsuit.

That's in part because companies reach for the limited list of well - known women with board experience.

The proxy access resolution (so named because board nominations and ballots are contained in company proxy statements) got a majority vote of 55 percent at Chevron and 49.4 percent at Exxon.

Research suggests businesswomen are not only more wary of risk than men but that companies with women at the top are more successful and in tune with their customers because their boards have a wider range of views.

In this article in The Tyee, Andrew Nikiforuk levels some very serious allegations with respect to the National Energy Board, suggesting that the Board has been captured (see * below for definition) by industry, that it can not be objective because it is industry - financed, and that it does not appropriately balance the interests of energy companies -LSB-...]

Finding a replacement for Mr. Kalanick, who built up the company aggressively, is likely to be complicated because he will remain a presence at Uber: He still has a board seat and voting rights.

The Board determined to adopt a «net long» definition of ownership because it believes that only stockholders with full and continuing economic interest and voting rights in our common stock should be entitled to request that the Company call a special meeting.

Up until now, researchers weren't able to quantify the impact diverse boards had on businesses because there weren't enough women sitting on boards of major companies, according to the firm.

Finally, while some companies have had problems with director independence because of the number of insiders on their boards, this was not true of all the failed boards, and board makeup was generally the same for companies with failed boards and those with well - managed ones.

The Board has determined that Mr. House and Ms. Reisman are independent under the NYSE listed company rules and applicable law and that Mr. Sloan is not independent under these rules because of his interest in a limited partnership from which the Company leases space for operation of three of our retail company rules and applicable law and that Mr. Sloan is not independent under these rules because of his interest in a limited partnership from which the Company leases space for operation of three of our retail Company leases space for operation of three of our retail stores.

Qualifications, Attributes, Skills and Experience: Rich is qualified to serve on Zillow Group's board of directors because of the broad range of relevant leadership and technical skills he possesses as a founder and former chief executive officer of companies in the mobile and Internet industries.

We believe Mr. Klausmeyer is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors because of his financial, accounting, and operational expertise from his prior experience as an executive and director for public and private technology companies.

The proposal also may be harmful to the Company and its stockholders because it could result in a fragmented and less effective Board.

Hanging over everything has been the uncertainty about the company's plan to spin off its $ 26 billion stake in Alibaba, which was announced a year ago but was abandoned last month by the company's board of directors because of tax concerns.

The Board has concluded that Mr. Nickerson is qualified to serve as a Director because, among other things, he has over 30 years of experience in oil and gas operations, with a focus on midstream asset development and management, a critical element of the Company's current strategy.

We spend time with them because they often attend the board meetings of our portfolio companies and we work with them when we sell our companies or implement stock option plans.

A board acting in this capacity and with the knowledge of the company's business and the implications for a particular proposal on that company's business is well situated to analyze, determine and explain whether a particular issue is sufficiently significant because the matter transcends ordinary business and would be appropriate for a shareholder vote.

Because there is no public market for our common stock, our board of directors determined the common stock fair value at the stock option grant date by considering several objective and subjective factors, including the price paid by investors for our preferred stock, our actual and forecasted operating and financial performance, market conditions and performance of comparable publicly traded companies, developments and milestones in our company, the rights and preferences of our common and preferred stock, the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, and transactions involving our preferred stock.

Because we will be a «controlled company» under the rules of the, we are not required to have a majority of our board of directors consist of «independent directors,» as defined under the rules of the.

Because the company and the board, they were just beaten to the ground.

James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing that women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering, has filed a class action lawsuit against the company in Santa Clara Superior Court in Northern California.

Sean Gordon, who owns nearly 9 percent of NTN's shares, began seeking a board nomination in January because he was frustrated with the company's lagging financial performance and stalled roll out of additional services to Buffalo Wild Wings.

Maier reminds us all that being on a board is a big responsibility and that it's really important to take it seriously, especially for startups because the impact for the company is huge.

Finally, because investors often take a seat on the board of the companies they invest in thus becoming a director, these investors will require the coverage be purchased in order to protect their personal assets and the assets of the investment fund they represent and invest through.

Because the CEO is ultimately responsible for the day - to - day operation of the Company and for executing the Company's strategy, and because the performance of the Company is an integral part of Board deliberations, the Board believes that Mr. Pearson is the Director most qualified to act as Chairman of theBecause the CEO is ultimately responsible for the day - to - day operation of the Company and for executing the Company's strategy, and because the performance of the Company is an integral part of Board deliberations, the Board believes that Mr. Pearson is the Director most qualified to act as Chairman of thebecause the performance of the Company is an integral part of Board deliberations, the Board believes that Mr. Pearson is the Director most qualified to act as Chairman of the Board.

Clients come on board and stay with the company, Romanoff notes, because of Nebraskaland's quality and service.

When Peter Hillwood is endorsing you you know somethings not right, maybe Hillwoods pocket is in goodshape but how can anybody in a position of influence on the Arsenal Board be excepting this unless it was because of the personel, not even company, financial gains?

Because of a 1996 State Board of Elections ruling, limited liability companies are treated as individuals rather than corporations in New York.

Meanwhile, Cox is being criticized by Democrats because he is on the board of directors of the Texas - based natural gas drilling company Noble Energy and holds about $ 3 million in its stock.

Kramer: «Do you regret not overhauling LIPA after you became governor, because you could have appointed more board members or done something to overhaul what was clearly a bad company?»

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.

Furthermore, the project you're assigned to can get dropped, because a company's research plan is always evolving in response to changes in funding or to feedback from investors or the board of directors.

When Standfor reached out to me and asked if I would like to help spread the word about their #Quitphubbing initiative I was completely on board because I appreciated the message and it is always good to work with a company who promotes positivity.

Despite having grown up with the Washington Post and her extensive social and political network, Kay's board of directors privately lack faith in her ability to manage the company as publisher because she is a woman.

It is built around the idea that Tim Conrad [Paul Rudd] can win a promotion not because of a brilliant idea he pitches at a board meeting of Fender Financial, but by bringing the most spectacular guest to a very special dinner — a dinner where each of the company's top executives befriends a person of «extraordinary talent» and brings them to said dinner.

Turns out Ben, who cuts a dapper figure in his expertly tailored gray suits, has arrived in the nick of time because the board for Jules» company is clamoring for a more seasoned CEO.

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.

Schools have changed relatively little, mainly because of turf battles fought by the knot of organizations that we politely call «the education system»: teachers unions and school boards try to protect their monopolies, publishing companies try to reinterpret all new ideas back into the profitable forms of the past, various levels of government try to protect their relevance by getting in front of every new concern, pretending to lead while aggressively and often destructively following whatever trends they have the wit to perceive.