Sentences with phrase «for company boards»

Judge slams deception by Hardie board Ten former directors and executives of building materials group James Hardie have been found to have breached their duties by making misleading statements about the firm's ability to pay asbestos compensation, in a decision that has wide - ranging implications for company boards.

In fact, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Chancery Court actually had some positive words for the company board's conduct.

Not exact matches

Now, it appears Whitman traded her HP Inc. board slot for one at Dropbox, a company that is a close partner of HPE.

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

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.»

Board members matter a lot, and independent board members are a particularly special opportunity for a company; they are purposefully not monetary investors in the busiBoard members matter a lot, and independent board members are a particularly special opportunity for a company; they are purposefully not monetary investors in the busiboard members are a particularly special opportunity for a company; they are purposefully not monetary investors in the business.

He dabbled in other industries, including film and television, but never left the energy sector entirely, continuing to sit on boards for oil companies and teach geophysics.

Arianna Huffington, an advocate for women and the CEO of a wellness company, also sits on the board.

The settlement with the Federal Trade Commission is the latest setback for Uber, which is facing a divided board of directors and angry shareholders after an investor lawsuit was filed against the company's ousted chief executive.

«If you bring in more external people in the firm and board, it'll be positive for the company,» said Einar Lier Madsen, the study's author and a researcher at the Nordland Research Institute in Norway.

Companies like Constellation also have significant experience dealing with provincial liquor control boards — the same entities that will oversee retail and distribution for cannabis.

Ellis and partner Nikolay Djibankov use a strategy called Gender Lens Investment, which targets companies with at least three women on their boards of directors, in the creation of a so - called «parity portfolio» for clients.

She co-founded the media company Huffington Post before launching the wellness site Thrive Global and is currently on the board of directors for ride - sharing app Uber.

Rob Ferguson has resigned as chairman of litigation funder IMF Bentham after failing in a push for the company's three executive directors, including founder Hugh McLernon, to retire from the board.

But that disappeared in July when the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board admonished the company for its handling of a Michigan oil spill in 2010.

Activist investors, who now manage some $ 174 billion in assets, have exploded onto the scene, shaking up boards and pushing for share repurchases, company breakups, or outright sales in order to get stock prices higher.

One of the hardest tasks for small businesses is making sure it has the skills and equipment on board to allow it to compete with other larger companies in the same field.

But as a company grows and after you've hired a marketing team the CEO needs to make sure his or her message is planned, synchronized with other activities in the company and designed to be released when the organization is ready to respond (such as having sales teams ready to talk about the announcement, customer service being ready to handle in - bound questions and certainly for a board to be synchronized).

With more companies vying for consumers» attention (and money), businesses need to create loyalty programs to get customers on board and to stay.

«The successful candidate will have prior experience as GC or deputy GC of a multi-billion dollar public company responsible for all legal matters (including corporate & other regulatory matters, board governance, legal aspects of M&A, legal aspects of commercial contracts, litigation & dispute resolution, privacy, employment contracts, global public policy, etc.).»

The Morgan Stanley presentation was requested by Founders and Board to have options for review and informed the decision - making process for all — and everyone agreed with the decision that the company would not go public in 2018.»

We were in a board meeting for one of our EdTech companies and talking about the usual KPIs and basic business stuff and about how various aspects of the company's product development and enhancement efforts were progressing — especially how quickly we were moving to bring some of these new and critical features to market.

New Conference Board of Canada research finds that companies that proactively innovate and adapt their EU offerings will be able to achieve much larger gains than companies that sit passively and wait for the deal to boost their sales.

The company has already produced highly popular products for male customers, including regularly stocked items such as underwear, as well as capsule collection pieces for men, such as board shorts.

Total target timeline from first day on payroll to first points on the board: two to three weeks for small - business reps, two to three months for the enterprise reps who sell to big companies.

According to not - for - profit Catalyst, about 20 percent of board seats at S&P 500 companies are held by women.

Ameeta's background includes marketing, consulting, and board experience for SaaS and digital health companies.

ANALYSIS: Worldwide demand for lithium is rising and more than 20 companies in WA are on board for the ride.

By day, I reported on risk to a board of directors for a $ 2 billion US company.

She says she understands the need for employees to get a decent wage, but estimates that an across - the - board increase of that size would cost the company about $ 40,000 annually.

Company director and former WA attorney general Cheryl Edwardes has been appointed as the new chairperson for agribusiness CropLogic while St John of God Health Care has appointed Azure Capital managing partner Adrian Arundell to its board.

Most importantly, an independent board can also deliver difficult news to the founders — for example, that an entitled heir apparent may lack the necessary skills to run the company.

The week after Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico and unleashed the single largest blackout in US history, Blake Richetta, the senior vice president of a renewable - energy company called Sonnen, boarded a plane bound for the island.

Former Speaker of the House John Boehner joined a board of advisors for cannabis company Acreage Holdings earlier this month after changing his own views on cannabis.

More women than men are being appointed to the boards of Australia's top 200 companies for the first time on record.

The board also promised to establish «a new mind - set» at the company, with «more capacity for criticism» — seemingly conceding there was something poisonous about the culture Winterkorn presided over.

In 2012, women accounted for 19 % of board seats on U.S. companies.

«On behalf of everyone at MTS, I want to thank Alon for his service and substantial contributions to the Company since he joined us in 2007 and wish him great success in his new professional path,» said Mr. Haim Mer, the Company's Chairman of the Board.

The company set a funding record in 2014 with $ 13 million for a do - it - all cooler with a waterproof Bluetooth speaker, USB charger, cutting board and blender.

On May 12, Tim Hortons held a conference call with financial analysts who had plenty of questions for Don Schroeder, a long time executive who everybody assumed held the confidence of the board as company CEO at the time.

During the first quarter of 2018, the company repurchased approximately 0.4 million shares for approximately $ 30 million related to the $ 500 million share repurchase authorization approved by the company's board of directors in February 2017.

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Activist investors in both Canada and the US recently proposed — for Hess Corporation and Agrium Inc. — that their nominees to serve as independent directors on the companies» boards should receive incentive pay directly from the activist investors themselves, with the amount that tied to share price appreciation.

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

The appointments are significant at a time when more and more companies are coming under fire for their lack of board diversity.

A mentor, Sculley says, should never be making key decisions for your company; he or she is not a «co-decider» but a sounding board, someone who can provide much needed outside advice and perspective.

If you ask Bill Doyle, the executive chairman of the board of Novocure, the two - pronged strategy for expanding his tumor - tackling biotechnology company is «relatively simple.»

On May 25, Tim's board announced it was starting an «active search for a new chief executive officer (CEO) following an extended succession planning process undertaken in connection with the Company's strategic plans.»

He was incredibly successful in raising money for this Better Place thing, like $ 400 million or $ 500 million, but the board of directors weren't happy with the performance of the company, which has only sold 500 cars.

Just last week, the company faced headlines like this: Apple's mostly white board says a call for diversity is unduly burdensome and not necessary.