Sentences with phrase «have on their boards in»

«All chairmen of FTSE 350 companies should set out the percentage of women they aim to have on their boards in 2013 and 2015,» the report states.

I have him on board in four ways: We eat lean and green, with healthy fats and lots of protien.

Go on a shopping spree with these amazing salwar kameez that we have on board in different colours and patterns.

You'll want to make sure that you have enough bodily injury coverage to protect the maximum number of passengers that you may have on board in the even that your day - of - fun goes wrong.

Not exact matches

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).

Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

Zymeworks already had some heavy hitters on its board, but no one with deep experience in biotech.

«The Newell Board recognizes the importance of having the right mix of skills, expertise and experience and is committed to continuously reviewing its capabilities and ongoing refreshment on behalf of shareholders,» it said in a statement.

I point to the fact that I've been on this journey with Starbucks for nearly eight years now on the board — be eight years in March of 2017.

Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.

A Wall Street Journal report later quoted an anonymous source claiming that independent directors on RIM's board have long deferred to Balsillie, «the most forceful presence in the room by far.»

At the University of Southern California this year, Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and chairwoman on several boards, not only spurred students to find someone to be passionate about — but also to expand their bandwidth of diversity by getting to know people with whom they have seemingly nothing in common.

Simply building platforms for others to test their drugs on, Tehrani and his board soon realized, would have failed to capitalize on the expertise the firm was developing in the process.

Update: On January 22, Research In Motion announced that Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie would step down as co-CEOs and co-chairmen of the board of directors.

For a number of years, I had been on the board of Project Hope, which operates a shelter and provides services for homeless women and children in Boston.

«Peter is one of the two people... who has taught me the most about how to invest in startups,» Altman wrote, when Thiel came on board in 2015.

Investors sit on many boards and have many other job tasks so often if you get a deck the day before and you're in back - to - back meetings and a dinner you're only likely to have a cursory look at the materials prior to meeting.

Pelosi's commitment to stay on board provides a big relief for Republican operatives who were privately fretting that she would bow out of leadership to make way for a new generation, as Business Insider reported in March.

Women's under - representation on boards and in top management positions has long been the subject of academic study and, more recently, public policy.

«I wouldn't say he's the only person in the world who heard something similar last year, but it was fairly unusual,» said Lars Daalgard, the Andreessen Horowitz partner who brokered the Imgur investment and now sits on Imgur's board.

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.

Facebook, where Thiel sits on the board, has been at the center of calls for greater regulation in recent months.

Merrill and Beck had some experience with the video game business — in college they had helped raise money for another startup game studio, persuading their fathers and others to invest, and earned observer seats on the board.

Valeant's largest shareholder, billionaire and hedge funder John Paulson, has gained a seat on the drug maker's board, sending the beleaguered company's stock spiking more than 6 % in Monday trading (although it's still hovering at around the $ 13 mark).

All of these things take time to learn, and this knowledge base is part of the unique culture and shared language of the company; when employees leave, or when new hires get brought on board, the company needs to have a plan in place to preserve the continuity of the company's institutional knowledge.

A noted philanthropist, his name adorns the University of Toronto's Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building, the faculty from which he graduated in 1954, and he has served on the board of directors of Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital and the Royal Conservatory of Music.

The burger names on the boards — the family - themed Mama, Papa, Uncle, Grandpa and Teen — stayed the same, but what was in them had changed; the patties were now being made with beef raised without the use or hormones or steroids.

(In Germany, things are different: Workers also have a seat on corporate boards.)

If brought on board, the battery can be left in, but passengers must have the option of removing it should the airline need to downsize to a smaller aircraft that lacks overhead bin space.

The board has authorized an incremental $ 5 billion in share buybacks based on cash flow it expects to generate with the combined business.

I suggest the meal either be purely social or at least a follow - up discussion on board topics you've already debated in the meeting.

A related Conference Board study on 9,000 Canadian companies that export to Europe suggests that many have found it difficult to adapt to EU norms that are different from those in North America.

The numbers have nudged up from 15.9 % in 2013, when Catalyst Canada surveyed the number of women on Financial Post 500 boards, and new comply - or - explain regulations initiated by the Ontario Securities Commission will likely push the statistics higher now that companies are required to disclose female representation on boards and in senior management.

It checks for warning signs that a pupil is falling behind — if he or she hasn't logged in or posted on the class discussion board recently, for example — and sends a friendly, cautionary note.

Both Humber River and Mackenzie Health have adopted Ambiant as their figurative brains and central nervous systems; new customers in British Columbia and Alberta are also about to come on board, according to ThoughtWire co-founder and chief executive Mike Monteith.

DeepMind states on its website that the board will meet four times a year but the nine individuals on the board had not met when Business Insider made enquiries in April.

The popularity of the «Xoogler» network has popped in recent years, marking an interesting symbiosis between Alphabet, which has increasingly tried to keep its entrepreneurial talent on board, and ex-employees who feel pulled to venture out on their own while still relying on its extensive network.

Tucker Mays, who came on board in May 1998, is now chief operating officer and has taken over sales, marketing, and operations from Connolly, freeing Spinergy's founder to concentrate on what he likes best: R&D.

You don't have to put your dreams in any particular order, since you'll be randomly placing pictures that represent them on your board.

With four additions to the Board of Directors in the past two years, we have the right Board in place aligned with management to execute successfully on our five year plan.»

On Wednesday, the board announced it had purchased a 15 per cent stake in ORPEA S.A., a long - term care provider in Europe, for approximately $ 468.2 million.

Spain's Banco Popular announced on Wednesday after the European close that its board had unanimously proposed Emilio Saracho as chairman and agreed to hold an extraordinary meeting in February in order for its shareholders to vote on the proposal.

The first phase of exit negotiations should have concluded in October, but only ended last week after a last - minute push to bring May's junior coalition partner — Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)-- on board with the deal.

The buy - in season, when retailers were open to new titles, had passed before Vetras had come on board.

It claims to have found a treasure trove of evidence that Casares and his co-defendants had kept developing Lemon's bitcoin technology «in secret» long after the board had ordered it to stop — in the Lemon offices, on Lemon computers, «during Lemon - paid business hours.»

On - boarding programs have been shown to increase retention by 50 percent, a key factor in improving employee performance.

A similar case to EuropaCorp's «Kursk,» the true story of a Russian submarine that sank in the Barents Sea in 2000 and killed everyone on board; though Putin had a significant role in the events, appears in the source material of Robert Moore's best - seller «A Time to Die,» and even featured in early versions of the screenplay, he's nowhere to be found in the finished film.

In a statement Tuesday, Qantas Head of Fuel and Environment Alan Milne said the airline ranked poorly because «we use larger aircraft, fly very long distances and have premium cabins that naturally have fewer people on board.»

«I don't know what the board was thinking putting a half - time CEO in, but if your company can not grow in a time of political upheaval, you have a reality TV president using it and is going completely rogue on the platform, then you will never grow,,» he said.

Airbus has a new senior management team coming on board in early 2019 and Myerson said that while it will be expected to address the future of the A380, investors will be focused more on the success of the A320 and A350 programs.