Sentences with phrase «even boards of companies»

«In terms of being on boards of charities, or even boards of companies, I have no problem with that.

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Times editorial board member Elizabeth Williamson writes that wealthier tech employees seem to support Clinton; meanwhile, those living in «a less glamorous Silicon Valley, inhabited by brainy young people whose long hours power the big companies and whose college debt is so heavy that some of them can't even qualify for a credit card» are «feeling the Bern.»

By replacing the directors — who presumably would side with Dauman — Redstone and his daughter Shari, who serves as Viacom's vice-chair, have given themselves a solid majority of the company's 11 - member board, aimed at withstanding even a challenge to Redstone's mental capacity.

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.

Lately, even Twitter's board of directors has reportedly begun to discuss whether it is finally time to sell the company.

We even know that, if there is even one woman on a company's board of directors, attendance is better at board meetings.

At 17, Rosemary was even younger than her niece when she took a seat on the board of the holding company that in turn owned Cara Operations.

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.

As a public company, your board of directors will become much more visible, so it's even more important to have the right team.

Eugene Qian, chairman of UBS» China strategy board, says Chinese companies are still acquiring even though the size of each deal is now smaller.

Even if they don't have a majority vote on the company's board of directors, investors are still part owners and have legal rights.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or even a corporate governance expert, to understand that having a former Ontario premier on a company's board can offer plenty of potential upside, especially for an Ontario - based auto parts maker such as Magna International.

For instance, since he is no longer working for Microsoft, not even as a board member, he no longer has to report his holdings in the company, so he doesn't, although he's still widely known to be one of Microsoft's biggest shareholders.

You can sit on a major board of directors and not know anything about the company, its industry or even know how to read a financial statement.

Even with a very limited definition of what constitutes a forced CEO dismissal and a large gap between the actual forced dismissal rate and what theoretically might happen if a board puts aside its personal barriers to firing a CEO, quite a few CEOs are forced out of their companies.

Even though the announcement indicated that this change in direction had yet to be reflected in any real actions other than a discussion by the company board of directors, NextGen's share price jumped 22 %.

Even when a company's board of directors is fully informed of and authorizes a self - dealing transaction — which is not the case with the transactions at issue here — the transaction must not be unfair to the company, either as a matter of process or price.

The board also turned against Patrick Soon - Shiong — who even as he closes on the L.A. Times sale still remains Tronc's second - largest shareholder, with something less than a quarter of the company.

Women continue to be severely underrepresented on the boards of tech companies, both public and private, even as the number of women on corporate boards overall ticks up slightly, new research shows.

These provisions are not intended to make us immune from takeovers and will apply even if the offer may be considered beneficial by some stockholders, but could delay or prevent an acquisition that our board of directors determines is not in the best interests of our company and our stockholders.

Longtime CEO Sally Smith announced her retirement by the end of this year, and the reshuffled board of directors has announced plans to try to sell 83 locations to franchisees, even though franchised locations have historically underperformed company - operated ones.

But, while he says the board and even former CEO Travis Kalanick are on board to take the company public, that's not a condition of SoftBank's investment in the company.

She will receive $ 14 million in severance pay and a $ 7.4 million bonus for 2004, according to terms of the agreement submitted Friday in regulatory filings — even though Wednesday the board singled out her failure to accelerate the company's strategy, the newspaper reported.

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?

Later, media enquiries had revealed that FT was a company in which Trevor Trefgarne is a Board Member, even as Mr. Trefgarne is also a Board Chairman of Enterprise Group, a company co-owned by the Finance Minister and Keli Gadzekpo, who is CEO.

He has been with the NDC for so many years and I even believe he is a card - bearing member... by virtue of the [fact that he is] NDC, he is a board member of a company so for some of us, we are not worried at all.»

For example, JetBlue partners with small, sustainably minded producers to bring healthier food on board, and the company has even started a farm of its own at JFK airport — a green outcome among the concrete jungle where employees can escape to pick produce between flights.

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 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.

A primary solution, according to these education reformers is to remove public schools out of the control of local community school boards and hand them over to boards made up of corporate leaders or even hand them over to private management companies.

Private Eye (2 Sept 2016) revealed how the two founders of North West Academies Trust (NWAT), the only two board members, had paid # 100k of schools funds to their own companies before their first free school even opened.

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.

At last night's New Haven Board of Education meeting, New Haven Board of Education President Carlos Torre and member Alicia Caraballo, «peppered proponents with skeptical questions and declared themselves unprepared to vote yet» on the plan to divert even more New Haven and Connecticut taxpayer funds to Achievement First Inc., the large charter school management company with operations in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.

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.

Again, even though the local board of education voted against the proposal and testified against the project before the State Board of Education and the Connecticut General Assembly, less Connecticut taxpayer funds will be going to public schools and instead, a Bronx charter school company will be getting millions so that it can open a charter school in the Governor's homeboard of education voted against the proposal and testified against the project before the State Board of Education and the Connecticut General Assembly, less Connecticut taxpayer funds will be going to public schools and instead, a Bronx charter school company will be getting millions so that it can open a charter school in the Governor's homeBoard of Education and the Connecticut General Assembly, less Connecticut taxpayer funds will be going to public schools and instead, a Bronx charter school company will be getting millions so that it can open a charter school in the Governor's hometown.

An even more important, but unresolved issue, is how Perry can even replicate Capital Prep Magnet School in Bridgeport and Harlem when federal copyright laws and Hartford Board of Education policies appear to make it clear that the concepts, materials, curriculum, policies and procedures that Perry has said he will be using in his charter schools actually belong to the Hartford Board of Education and the taxpayers of Hartford and do not belong to Perry or Perry's private company as he claimed in his Bridgeport and Harlem charter school proposals.

BMW's board of directors were keen to move the company's image into the future, and the initial styling sketches from 1998 by Adrian van Hooydonk were of a fastback body style - even more radical than the eventual production model.

The Vigor even gave it a real run for its money at the highest resolutions, surpassing it once or twice (on DX9 Company of Heroes at 2,560 x1, 600, with a result of 182.9 fps, and across the board — if just barely — on our DX10 test with the same game, turning in 59.3 fps, 59.3 fps, and 54.7 fps at 1,280 x1, 024, 1,600 x1, 200, and 2,560 x1, 600, respectively).

With Basillie selling off his stake, what remains to be seen is whether his former co-CEO and current Vice-Chairman in Mike Lazaridis will do the same, since both left the company's CEO positions after the board of directors dismissed them in a shock board meeting held on the evening of Super Bowl Sunday in 2012, in a bid to minimize media attention and scrutiny after years of splitting responsibilities in a bid to correct the increasing losses faced by the company, only to be replaced by current CEO Thorsten Heins.

With a certain degree of share concentration, some mutual funds may even seek board seats of their portfolio companies and try to exert a more active role in corporate governance.

Ramius further stated it believes a significant opportunity exists to adjust the cost structure of the Issuer to achieve acceptable operating margins, even at the current revenue run rate, and urged management and the Board to focus its attention on driving cost improvements by re-focusing on the Company's core businesses and de-emphasizing growth investments in non-core product lines such as WiMAX.

Fire - power covers a host of tactics: Sometimes it's just sheer weight of money (and they become the largest shareholder), but it also includes nominating directors to the board, conducting proxy fights, deposing and / or appointing management, suggesting operational changes and / or asset / business sales, scaring up bidders for a company (or even bidding themselves), demanding strategic reviews or even wind - downs or liquidations, etc..

Before you even consider thinking about reading / learning about a company, before you read any of the message boards, before you absorb management's investor pitch, before you react to some talking head's sound - bite or some hack's regurgitation, why not dive immediately into the historic financials & take a first crack at a valuation?

Even the notion that the boards have an «arm's - length bargaining» relationship with the advisory companies they hire and oversee is something of a legal fiction.

While outrageous, it is unfortunately not surprising that a board which owns virtually no shares and has almost zero economic interest in the fortunes of the Company would be making these payments and failing to act even remotely in the interests of shareholders.

In light of the above, we again ask you to finally show that even this Board is serious enough about its fiduciary obligations to allow shareholders, and not themselves, to decide whether to sell the Company at a substantial premium over the current market price.

Here at Cahaba Mountain Brook Animal Clinic we can provide everything your pet could ever need, from the highest standard of veterinary care, to boarding, grooming and even training, including puppy classes with our sister company Dog U, owned and operated by Calvin Brown.

The first dog DNA tests became available to the general population of pet owners back in 2007 and from that point on, companies have been working on improving these testing kits to have them even more accurate and consistent across the board.

The company's business model incorporates grooming, boarding and even pet hospitals, essentially turning its 42 stores into one - stop - pet centers, and that is exactly what attracted Cherryl Vernon, owner of Market Street Pet Depot in Gilbert, Ariz..

On the evening of 8 September 1923, Chauncey in company with a large group of destroyers was sailing through a heavy fog from San Francisco to San Diego, when a navigational error on board the first ship in her column turned that destroyer and the six that followed toward the rocky California coast rather than on a reach down Santa Barbara Channel.