Sentences with phrase «from executives of companies»

But lo and behold, Mr. Lender finds that Senate Minority Leader McKinney and Greenwich businessman Foley each may also have erred by accepting money from executives of companies that appear on the State Elections Enforcement Commission's list of state contractors or prospective contractors.

Not exact matches

Aside from the arrest of former SNC Lavalin CEO Pierre Duhaime in early 2012 (and the subsequent arrests of other SNC executives), the RCMP unveiled its new National Division this past June, which will, among other responsibilities, oversee corruption involving Canadian companies and individuals both domestically and abroad.

Two professors from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee found that when a company hires an attractive CEO, it sees a spike in its stock prices, and when the executive appears on TV, the effect is similar.

Tom Szaky, TerraCycle's founder and chief executive, said the two companies share a vision of diverting more materials from landfills and incinerators and his company is «excited and ready to accept Progressive Waste Solutions» challenge to scale our operations and impact using their vast infrastructure.»

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Friday requested public testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder and CEO, adding to the list of congressional panels looking to haul in the company's top executives.

U.S. oil major Chevron Corp has evacuated executives from Venezuela after two of its workers were imprisoned over a contract dispute with state - owned oil company PDVSA, according to four sources familiar with the matter.

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.

Chief executives at S&P 500 companies make about 127 times what their median employee takes home, according to new data taken from about half of S&P 500 companies.

However, I'm a huge fan of the hand - written thank - you notes from your company's executive leadership team thanking customers for their business.

In a sign of its ambition, last month, CVS hired a senior executive from a startup that specializes in primary - care clinics to oversee expanded health - care services across the company.

When it came time to reward top executives last year, more leading companies handed out performance - based awards instead of time - vesting stock options, according to a new study from human resources consulting firm Mercer.

Phil Soper, chief executive of real estate company Royal LePage, said the new stress test for uninsured mortgages introduced by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions has «interrupted» the flow of move - up home buyers looking to upgrade from their entry level home or move to a more desirable location.

Just over half of S&P 500 companies had the same CEO and chairman last year, down from 71 % a decade ago, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

«The crystal ball for all of us is cloudy,» said Lorenzo Simonelli, the company's chief executive, who will relocate to Houston from London.

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.

Jassim Alseddiqi, chief executive office of Abu Dhabi Financial Group — a multi-billion dollar investment company from Abu Dhabi — told CNBC that Saudi Arabia is becoming increasingly more attractive.

Some executives try to keep at arms - length to maintain a facade of power, but Kelleher demonstrated that a culture of connectedness and personal interest — from the top ranks to the bottom — could become a corporate asset, even as his company grew to massive proportions.

Executives from Fortune 500 companies including General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Royal Dutch Shell, and BASF have attended Breakout Labs» annual showcases and done «portfolio reviews» of its companies.

A survey of 34 executives from leading US fashion companies last year found that, for the first time, fewer US brands were looking to China for products, even though the country remains the top sourcing destination for the industry worldwide.

The rise of a Chinese aircraft manufacturer is «a real plus» for Honeywell, which makes everything from jet engines to software systems used in planes, a company executive told CNBC Thursday.

During recent years, Werklund has been focusing on philanthropy — in March he donated $ 16 million to Olds College, the biggest single donation in Alberta colleges» history — after stepping down from executive control of his company Canadian Crude Separators in 2010.

Other matching fund offers flooded in from techies, including Patrick Collison, chief executive of online payment company Stripe, and Nat Friedman, co-founder and chief executive of Xamarin, the software development company acquired last year by Microsoft (msft).

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.

Executives from Nuinsco Resources, a Toronto - based mineral exploration company, recently checked in to the Corinthia Hotel in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.

Leroux overhauled the whole organizational structure at Desjardins so that, for example, females would make up at least 30 % of the talent pool at all levels of the company — from executive to branch.

From small - company owners to enterprise executives, partnerships are a delicate yet necessary part of any successful business strategy.

Along with professional athletes, they now work with companies like Cisco, AT&T and GlaxoSmithKline, and the open enrollment Corporate Athlete training courses they hold in Orlando and across the U.S. attract C - suite executives happy to pay up to $ 5,000 a head for two days of coaching from a team Procter & Gamble CEO A. G. Lafley credits with helping him stay «calm and cool under fire.»

What to include: Business plans vary in length — anywhere from 20 to 50 pages — but typically cover the same topics, such as: Cover Page (essential contact information); Executive Summary (what your business does and what market need it solves); Company Overview (profile of company and successes); Industry Analysis (details about the market); Customer Analysis (who are the customers); Competitive Analysis (identify key competitors); Marketing Plan (your brand and how do you plan on getting it in front of customers); Operations Plan (daily and yearly operational processes for success); Management Team (identify key company personnel); and Financial Plans (revenue projections for three to five Company Overview (profile of company and successes); Industry Analysis (details about the market); Customer Analysis (who are the customers); Competitive Analysis (identify key competitors); Marketing Plan (your brand and how do you plan on getting it in front of customers); Operations Plan (daily and yearly operational processes for success); Management Team (identify key company personnel); and Financial Plans (revenue projections for three to five company and successes); Industry Analysis (details about the market); Customer Analysis (who are the customers); Competitive Analysis (identify key competitors); Marketing Plan (your brand and how do you plan on getting it in front of customers); Operations Plan (daily and yearly operational processes for success); Management Team (identify key company personnel); and Financial Plans (revenue projections for three to five company personnel); and Financial Plans (revenue projections for three to five years).

In fact, the authors of the study, who looked at wage data covering all U.S. companies from 1978 to 2012, found that the wage gap between the average worker at individual companies and the highest ranking executives (CEOs and other C - suiters) at those firms had only grown by a «small amount» in the past three - and - a-half decades.

According to new research from Vantage Point Performance and the Sales Management Association, 44 percent of executives surveyed reported that their organizations were ineffective at managing their companies» sales pipeline.

Bobby Murphy, co-founder and chief technology officer at Snap Inc., from left, Evan Spiegel, co-founder and chief executive officer of Snap Inc., ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with Tom Farley, president of the NYSE Group, during the company's initial public offering (IPO) in New York, U.S., on Thursday, March 2, 2017.

As the first person from a non-radio background appointed to a senior executive position in the company, Ms Wayman oversees all aspects of the MIX 94.5 and 92.9 radio stations, leads a team of 84 staff and is responsible for a $ 27 million budget.

While neither Harvey nor his brother Bob were due to receive any cash from the proposed sale, the suit alleges that members of the company's board and its executives failed to protect employees from Weinstein.

Thirty - two percent of shareholders supported the split in roles, down significantly from last year's tally of 40 percent on the same issue, a reversal that will emboldened companies that still embrace having one person serve in the chairman and chief executive roles.

The company «will not shrink from that responsibility,» declared Chief Executive Tim Cook on stage at the launch of a new iPhone on Monday.

«I have decided to step down as Chairman of the Group and retire from the position of Executive Director at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting of the Company,» Li said in a statement.

Michael C. Bush and Kim Peters are CEO, and Executive Vice President, respectively, at Great Place to Work, the longtime research partner for Fortune's annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For and other best workplaces lists, including the 30 Best Workplaces to Retire From.

Yet that principle hasn't stopped the company from cutting, and a recent string of executive departures suggests that some cuts are drawing blood.

While the amount companies spend on CEO security varies from year to year, the percentage of Fortune 100 companies that provide personal and home security to their chief executives has held steady, fluctuating only slightly in the range of 45 % to 54 % over the past five years.

In a survey of executives from 91 companies with revenue greater than $ 1 billion across more than 20 industries, Innosight asked: «What is your organization's biggest obstacle to transform in response to market change and disruption?»

Researchers from the Kellogg School of Management and the University of Michigan interviewed 42 executives at large U.S. companies and identified several flattery techniques the executives used successfully on their peers to secure board seats at other firms.

While it provides some insight into employee views on chief executives, it largely comes from a small subset of a company's employees.

When 3G led InBev's hostile takeover of Anheuser - Busch, it quickly cut 1,400 jobs from the American company (75 % of them in St. Louis) and brought in Brazilian executives from InBev — itself the result of a 2004 merger of Belgian beer maker Interbrew and Brazilian beer maker Ambev, which was the result of a 1999 merger between Brahma and Antarctica — to run things.

The U.S. oil company removed executives from Venezuela after two of its workers were imprisoned over a contract dispute with state - owned oil company PDVSA.

Several years of widespread layoffs at BlackBerry (TSX: BB) are finally over, according to an internal memo from the company's chief executive officer.

The report likened the businesses executives» lack of urgency toward protecting their companies from security breaches to people who smoke cigarettes and «eat bad food» despite knowing that these habits can be dangerous.

Gregory Simon, the chief executive of large - scale crowdfunding site Poliwogg, told the Washington Post: «There's another kind of fraud, and that's when Congress and the president pass and sign a law, and thousands of companies organize according to the principles in that law... but academics and people in consumer groups who disagree with the law make it their mission to prevent the law from going into effect.»

The company imports wines from France, Italy and Spain, with between 10 percent and 20 percent of the company's $ 8 million in revenue coming from the sale of French wine, says company founder and chief executive Michael Votto.

Investigators surmised that the executives set prices at both sides of the transaction, enabling them to pocket millions from the company's treasury.

After garnering feedback from more than 80 Kaplan executives and technology experts, and tinkering with their revenue models, design plans and presentation speeches for three months at Kaplan's New York City offices, the teams behind these disruptive education technology companies have learned their fair share of business lessons.