Sentences with phrase «independent board leadership»

We believe that independent Board leadership would be particularly useful at Amazon in providing more robust oversight regarding sustainability issues.

The Company has a Lead Director, appointed by the Company's other independent directors, who provides independent Board leadership.

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He said repeatedly that the Board will be responsible for making decisions about governance, leadership and succession, and he hand - selected a group of trusted advisors and independent directors to fulfill this role.»

Disney CEO Bob Iger will remain with his company through 2021 to «provide the vision and proven leadership required to successfully complete and integrate such a massive, complex undertaking,» Orin Smith, the lead independent director of Disney's board, said in the release.

«When considering this strategic acquisition, it was important to the Board that Bob remain as Chairman and CEO through 2021 to provide the vision and proven leadership required to successfully complete and integrate such a massive, complex undertaking,» said Orin C. Smith, Lead Independent Director of the Disney Board.

The Board believes that an important component of the Board's leadership structure is having an effective Lead Independent Director in place with broad authority to direct the actions of the independent directors and regularly communicate with the Chief ExecutiIndependent Director in place with broad authority to direct the actions of the independent directors and regularly communicate with the Chief Executiindependent directors and regularly communicate with the Chief Executive Officer.

The Board believes that its current leadership structure, in which the positions of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer are held by Mr. Musk, together with a Lead Independent Director with broad authority, is appropriate at this time and provides the most effective leadership for Tesla in a highly competitive and rapidly changing technology industry.

The Board believes that the Lead Director structure provides the same independent leadership, oversight, and benefits for the Company and the Board that would be provided by an independent Chairman.

This section should evaluate the effectiveness of board leadership, including the lead independent director (or independent chair) and committee chairs.

We believe the corporate governance measures noted above demonstrate that our Board has embraced independence, and our shareholders have recognized the effectiveness of our current Board leadership structure by re-electing our Chairman, the Lead Independent Director, and other Board members each year.

Dalton et al. (1998)(reviewing 31 studies of board leadership structure and finding «little evidence of systematic governance structure / financial performance relationships») and Rhoades et al. (2001)(meta - analysis of 22 independent samples across 5,271 companies indicates that independent leadership structure has a significant impact on performance, but this impact varies with context).

One study provides evidence consistent with one explanation of the overall lack of strong findings: optimal board structures may vary by firm size, with smaller firms benefiting from a unified chair / CEO position, with the clarity of leadership that structure provides, and larger firms benefiting from the extra monitoring that an independent chair may provide given the greater risk of «agency costs» at large companies.

The Board believes that this leadership structure improves the Board's ability to focus on key policy and operational issues and helps the Company operate in the long - term interests of shareholders, while maintaining a strong, independent perspective.

The leadership structure of our Board of Directors includes (i) a combined Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, (ii) independent, active and effective directors of equal importance and rights, who all have the same opportunities and responsibilities in providing vigorous oversight of the effectiveness of management policies and (iii) a Lead Independenindependent, active and effective directors of equal importance and rights, who all have the same opportunities and responsibilities in providing vigorous oversight of the effectiveness of management policies and (iii) a Lead IndependentIndependent Director.

The Board believes that the most effective Board leadership structure for the Company at the present time is for the CEO to serve as Chairman of the Board in conjunction with the appointment of a Lead Independent Director as described below.

We believe that independent and effective oversight of Oracle's business and affairs is maintained through the composition of our Board, the leadership of our independent directors and Board committees and our governance structures and processes already in place.

She has served in several board leadership positions, and through navigating the private, independent, and charter school experiences of her own five children, has gained valuable insights into the diversity of school policy and practice.

Prof. Yakubu, Chair of Nigeria's Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), has led ECONEC delegations on Needs Assessment and Solidarity Missions to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Cote d'Ivoire, since he assumed the ECONEC board leadership in March 2017.

Several independent advisory boards guide decisions by NCI leadership, including funding support for proposed or ongoing research projects and programs.

The State Board of Education has rubber stamped Paul Vallas» and Stephan Pryor's claim, that the three credit independent study course is a school leadership program.

As the deadline for action approached and well into Vallas» three - credit independent study course work, the State Board of Education, following a directive from Stefan Pryor, voted to define Vallas» three credit independent study course as a school leadership program.

Reporting to the board of trustees, she will provide leadership across the independent and voluntary body and will aim to develop its profile with teachers and other stakeholders in education.

Then, on April 15th, six weeks after Vallas has begun his three - credit independent study class, the state Board of Education meets and upon the recommendation of Stefan Pryor, Vallas friend and Malloy's Commissioner of Education, votes that Vallas» three — credit independent study class is a school leadership program

Instead of doing that, Vallas took a three — credit independent study course, which Pryor and the State Board of Education later called a «school leadership program.

Of course, considering the wholly inappropriate way in which Stefan Pryor, Malloy's Commissioner of Education and Alan Taylor, Malloy's appointed Chairman of the State Board, handled Vallas» three credit independent study — calling it a school leadership program — the chance of a fair hearing before the State Board of Education was non-existent.

As a result of her independent voting record, her leadership in school reform efforts, and her pragmatic approach to fiscal problems, Tamar was overwhelmingly re-elected to a second term on the Board of Education in 2011.

With his leadership, the board implemented the first early childhood education policy in the history of Dallas Independent School District (ISD), bringing new opportunities to 30,000 - 40,000 children over the course of the next 10 - 15 years.

To help quell investor rumblings in mid-2011, the company announced that it was appointing an independent committee to review its leadership structure; one of the points of contention was the dual role of the co-CEOs as co-chairmen of the board, and a report today from Canada's Financial Post suggests that the committee might be gearing up to take action.

The Trust believes that its Chairman, the independent chair of the Audit Committee, and, as an entity, the full Board of Trustees, provide effective leadership that is in the best interests of the Trust, its funds and each shareholder.

Lamassu's two independent director nominees will bring substantial business leadership and corporate governance expertise to the Company's Board.

Michele is a certified member of the Women's Business Enterprise (WBENC), is a previous board member and current member of the Association of Professional Art Advisors (APAA), an international organization of leading independent art advisors and corporate art curators and has been a member of ArtTable, the leadership organization for Professional Women in the Arts for more than 15 years.

Keith Meister, head of hedge fund Corvex Management — which is an investor in ARCP — sent a letter to the REIT's management in February urging it to replace its board with «truly independent directors» and to «purge any remaining ties with past affiliated entities and leadership.»