Sentences with phrase «during company meetings»

2 min readEach month during our company meetings we take time to highlight customer success stories: authors who, after multiple years, have completed their dream or have realized an unforeseen sales increase.

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During his presentation alongside Berkshire vice chairman Charlie Munger at the company's annual meeting in April, Buffett remarked, «Union Pacific's rail network is much better positioned for Mexico than BNSF.»

He met Mike Peasgood and Steffen Lindner, both U of W alumni, during early work stints at local technology companies, and they decided to start a robotics business.

During the meeting, Jehn Balajadia, the Boring Company's operations chief, argued for permission to put part of a 6.5 mile «proof of concept» tunnel beneath Culver City.

During those meetings, the staffer said they were notified they could be fired due to budgetary restrictions when the company transitions to IAC.

For example, during his company - wide monthly status meetings, co-founder and CEO Doug Winter takes time to celebrate the accomplishments of individual employees over the past month, showing exactly how their work has contributed to the success of the company.

During a recent heat wave, the school responded to the power company's difficulty meeting power needs by reducing the air conditioning.

(L to R) Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon, Larry Page, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. (parent company of Google), Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, Vice President - elect Mike Pence listen as President - elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting at Trump Tower, December 14, 2016 in New York City.

«People have to be patient a little bit,» Robert Brown said Friday during the company's annual meeting.

During a meeting I attended at my company, Confirm BioSciences, a conflict broke out between a team player and a technical person over a product's features.

Fink speaks during the General Membership Meeting of the Investment Company Institute in Washington, D.C.

A bombshell report from the New York Times said a manager had been fired for groping women's breasts, employees had done cocaine in the bathrooms during company retreats, and a director had yelled gay slurs during meetings.

Dell knew all of the founders — James Davidson, David Roux, Glenn Hutchins, and Roger McNamee, whom he had first met in the late»80s, during his company's IPO «road show» (at that time, McNamee was running T. Rowe Price's science and technology fund).

Dene L. Rogers, President and Chief Executive Officer for Sears Canada Inc., speaks during the company's annual general meeting in Toronto.

«As part of the preparation of the new strategy, executives of Vnesheconombank met with representatives of leading financial institutes in Europe, Asia, and America multiple times during 2016,» the bank said, adding that the meetings took place «with a number of representatives of the largest banks and business establishments of the United States, including Jared Kushner, the head of Kushner Companies.

Kalanick's leave of absence follows a day - long board meeting on Sunday during which members of Uber «s board of directors discussed the possibility of Kalanick temporarily stepping away from the company.

He ended the email by inviting me to do a series of keynote presentations and workshops during the company's global leadership meetings the following month in Hong Kong.

During Tesla's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, Musk recounted the company's bumpy road to building an electric car.

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.

The company approved many new programs, including half - day professional shadowing, social networking events during the summer sales meeting, and peer mentorships.

During this period, every entrepreneur I met talked about his goal of taking his company public as his exit strategy.

The company said it has secured $ 2 million in new debtor - in - possession financing from an independent third - party investment firm, which will be used to meet its working capital needs during the Chapter 11 process.

«During the meetings, we stated that Amazon has long supported net neutrality protections to ensure our customers can enjoy an open internet, and we emphasized that the company remains committed to that position,» Gerard Waldron, a lawyer who represents Amazon and participated in the meeting, wrote in an account filed with the FCC.

«I believe that the city condones behavior that's on these listservs by utilizing our staff in posting on this,» Desley Brooks said during a meeting of a council committee earlier this month, in which she suggested the city send Nextdoor a letter asking the company instate a stricter process for users to report crimes and suspicious activity.

To meet the workforce's demand for more flexibility, organizations need to lay out clear guidelines for working remotely during office hours (76 % of respondents said their company lacks one).

He testified to the committee that he met with members of Russia's presidential administration and Igor Sechin, one of the heads of Russian state - owned oil company Rosneft during the trip.

Those who took to the microphone to ask questions of CEO Thorsten Heins and co. were often complimentary and polite during the meeting's Q&A session, but a few were still looking for an explanation as to the company's latest less - than - stellar quarterly results.

The more relationships you build within the company, the more people can share positive things about you if your name gets brought up during a meeting.

During this process, AMs facilitate the conversation, expressing clients» agendas to the company and the company's abilities and concerns in meeting those agendas in turn.

General Electric met with the Department of Justice last month to discuss the ongoing investigation into its now defunct WMC mortgage business, the company revealed during its earnings report Friday.

But U.S. officials have since received intelligence reports that during that same three - day trip, Page met with Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin associate and former Russian deputy prime minister who is now the executive chairman of Rosneft, Russian's leading oil company, a well - placed Western intelligence source tells Yahoo News.

Wei said that during the past year the company has strived to meet «demand for high - end and healthy products of the middle class,» with its premium soup series containing less additives to cater to health - conscious consumers.

During a meeting at the Kennedy Space Center, Vice President Mike Pence announced candidates for the reinstated National Space Council, and pushed for collaboration between commercial space companies and the government.

The company hosted weekly all - hands meetings during which any question was fair game.

FILE PHOTO: A Phantom drone by DJI company, equipped with a camera, flies during the 4th Intergalactic Meeting of Phantom's Pilots (MIPP) in an open secure area in the Bois de Boulogne, western Paris, March 16, 2014.

For example, before leaving for a two - week honeymoon in Greece in September, he met with the company's two designers and discussed a jewelry box they were creating for a big retail client that had to be shipped for approval during his vacation.

HRC's determination that the Company has met as of December 31, 2012, certain performance criteria specified in the award; (2) the Performance Shares granted during 2010 that will vest in full if at all in the third quarter of 2013, subject to the HRC's determination that the Company has met as of June 30, 2013, certain performance criteria specified in the award; and (3) the Performance Shares granted in 2011 that will vest in full if at all in the first quarter of 2014, subject to the HRC's determination that the Company has met as of December 31, 2013, certain performance criteria specified in the award.

According to a report in technology news outlet Recode, Kalanick made the announcement at an all - hands meeting at the company's San Francisco headquarters during a slide presentation about Uber's business.

The move comes on the heels of Uber's marathon board meeting in Los Angeles on Sunday, during which members unanimously approved recommendations from former U.S. Attorney Eric Holder on how to reform the company's culture following a monthslong investigation by Holder and his team.

During the past year, the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee met with management and reviewed matters that included the design, amounts, and effectiveness of the Company's compensation of senior executives, management succession planning, the Company's benefit and compensation programs, the Company's human resources programs, including review of workplace discrimination and harassment reports, and feedback from the Company's shareholder engagement.

During the past year, the Audit Committee met with management and reviewed matters that included the Company's risk assessment and compliance functions, information security, public policy expenditures, treasury and investment matters, accounting industry issues, the reappointment of our independent auditor, and pending litigation.

Price executives talked with shareholders about performance during the company's annual meeting, held in one of its new buildings in Owings Mills.

On Tuesday, a Facebook executive answered questions from employees on the issues during internal town hall meeting at the company's Menlo Park, California, headquarters.

This is key to its value proposition, the company's chief strategy officer Raj Kapoor said during a press briefing, because automakers or tech companies don't have to worry about not meeting rider demand as they incrementally deploy self - driving cars into the network.

This paper also includes an addendum addressing some of the most frequent questions that we received from companies during our meetings, as well as an overview of changes we made to the application of our UK policy based on the feedback we received from issuers, investors and other stakeholders.

This review focuses specifically on shareholder proposals brought at U.S. companies during the 2017 season, with an eye toward notable meeting results, relevant data, and general developments in ESG practice.

During the company's annual shareholder meeting in Calgary, Porter said Canada's ongoing slide in productivity behind its global peers is a major problem that needs to be addressed.

During the quarter, we met the new CFO and expect him to implement continuous improvement procedures so that the company can increase profitability and reduce variability across its businesses.

GRIFFETH: Well, the heads of North and South Korea are meeting tomorrow for the first time during that historic inter-Korean summit, and the meeting is going to take place in the heart of the demilitarized zone, an area you might be surprised to learn is home to some very big companies.

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