Sentences with phrase «is on board because»

One of the new directors, Waleed Al Muhairi, 35, is not considered independent and serves on no committees but is on the board because of an agreement with investors giving them the right «to designate a representative to our Board of Directors.»

«The players need to be on board because if they start deserting and saying, «we're going to skip the China stops», then the tour plans for the European tour and the PGA tour can't grow,» Dreyer said.

Stakeholders across your organization will be on board because their needs were addressed during the plan development phase.

I have many reasons, I don't expect everyone to be on board because I am, I expect God to do his thing & when the time is «perfect» it'll be right for he or she.

And I'm on these boards because hawaiiguest is on here, and i consider it highly beneficial to align yourself with someone who lives in Hawaii!

And you need the user to be on board because otherwise it's pointless.

Practice group leadership may be on board because they more readily «get it» (or at least some do).

Not exact matches

This is because very little is ever formally voted on so if they have the same amount of floor time they might as well be board members.

Air Canada pilot Dimitrios Kisses told investigators he aborted the landing on July 7, 2017, because «things were not adding up,» the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report.

It is a common trap for entrepreneurs to hire based on pressure from the board or because someone is very credentialed.

And well - defined processes are the key to growth, because they make it easier to get new contributors on board and up to speed.

The pay consultants» business model is predicated on comparables and this exacerbates upwards pressure because data is now provided to justify approval by boards.

Critics complain «say on pay» votes are ineffectual because boards aren't bound to the results, but of the 53 U.S. companies for whom shareholders rejected compensation plans in 2012, 45 made changes and got positive votes the following year, according to Institutional Shareholder Services.

The Apple icon — and notorious crank — was so indignant over the fact that the board of directors listed him second to co-founder Steve Wozniak, on their employee badges system, that he bitched and moaned until they finally made him «0» because it came before «one».

Sunwing couldn't serve its grounded passengers hot meals because regulations prohibit operating a plane's ovens until it's airborne; ditto for the on - board entertainment system.

The reason is because maple farmers» output is capped by the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, a marketing board that enforces quotas on maple syrup production.

In 2008, the Conference Board concluded that, on average, foreign takeovers of Canadian companies were more positive than all - Canadian deals because «product and geographic overlap of businesses is less with foreign owners.»

Not that you're not willing to hire them, but because you discount their abilities once they are on board.

McCullen: I don't know my franchisees as well as I used to because they're coming on board so fast now.

Such flame wars tend to get out of hand on message boards or via e-mail simply because the parties involved are online, where they can see no visual cues (such as a red face) indicating anger or other emotions.

Personally, I'm never without an updated vision board because I know what an impact it has on my life and business.

When I advise U.S. board members on what may be coming next, I suggest they look at what is happening in the U.K. because we have a habit of eventually adopting what they do.

If the paper's editors believe that reporting on classified intelligence is defensible because it reveals important information about government behavior, which presumably they do, then to have the editorial board undermine this crucial question doesn't just hang Snowden out to dry, it leaves the entire Post newsroom twisting in the wind.

Because the Washington Post was one of the primary outlets that worked closely with Snowden, published multiple stories based on his leaks, and in fact won a Pulitzer Prize for a story about the program that the editorial board says should not have been publicized.

«I knew what it was like to be a small merchant and be excluded from commerce because I didn't have a credit card system,» says McKelvey, who now sits on Square's board.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

Hobson, the 44 - year - old president of Chicago - based Ariel Investments, is now DreamWorks» nonexecutive chairman and also on the boards of Starbucks (SBUX), Estée Laude (EL) r, and Groupo (GRPN) n. She's a valuable adviser, the 62 - year - old Katzenberg explains, because she simplifies complex problems, always thinks long term, and asks questions in an unthreatening way.

But Ackman is sticking with the bet because he believes that with Pershing's help in picking a new CEO and activist role on the board, Valeant's stock will «recover very, very quickly.»

I actually spoke to one of the members of the Board of Governors, it was a social occasion and I was kinda tweaking her a little bit and said «you guys are insolvent every now and then depending on the level of interest rates because you have all these 10 - year notes,» and she said «no we're not.»

The fact of the matter is that boards, as self - policing bodies, may be incapable of solving the renewal issue on their own because of entrenchment and self - interest.

I would like to bring them all on board and offer comprehensive health benefits for everybody, but right now it's not feasible because we're a small company.

And just because Netflix offers service in almost every country in the world aside from China does not mean that it knows what content it should be offering there, and there is not enough experience on the board to help it clear that hurdle, either.

So, they put together a Trello board and when the broker put four houses on it they could be like, «we don't need to see this one because we're not interested,» and skip the 50 minute drive to see a house they don't want to see.

My opposition to Mr. Hagenbuch's re-election serves as a referendum on ALL of the longstanding legacy directors, including those who are not up for re-election because the incumbent directors refuse to declassify the board.

Sterne Agee and Leach analyst Shaw Wu, who went on CNBC last August to say the Autonomy deal might be beneficial to HP in the long term, told the Chicago Daily Herald last week that «he isn't even sure Whitman's job as CEO is safe because of her presence on the board when the Autonomy deal was approved.»

If both sides, through their eyes and their people's eyes, have concluded that the plaintiff is absolutely going to win this case, and the plaintiff is going to get a lot of money because they're totally on board with everything that has been presented, then that might be a good reason for the defendant to agree to a settlement with the plaintiff for less money than the potential exposure if the jury comes back and finds willful infringement.

However, by postponing the vote to May, Vivendi is assured at least five seats on the new board because shareholders will vote on its candidates as well and not just replacements proposed by Elliott.

It's not because I really care whether you're a few steps ahead or behind me in tonight's rankings, or that your place on the leader board is far above mine.

Go for this card if you see lots of traveling in your future, whether it's because your child goes to boarding school or that you're planning on taking a vacation, Wallethub advised.

But let me tell you, when you get on the phone to try to convince a women to take a seat on a board, you have to take a vitamin and make sure you're feeling great, because the questions you have to go through!

«At first I was told they were going to try and land in Alaska, but apparently that wouldn't work because all the Chinese citizens on board didn't have entry visas for the U.S..

Discussing the topic on s lightly more political / economic scope, I wonder if the decline you see in America can be linked to the opening of China's economy, where marginal producers in America have been replaced by high performing Chinese producers (because of lower wages) the result has been to see the average wages of «more profitable» producers be eroded to take this production shift to China — thinking of the Chinese labor pool as an addition to the American labor pool bringing down wages across the board.

So on March 7, two months after she found out she was pregnant, she boarded her flight as normal — because «ya girl was not about to waste international flight money,» she wrote.

Even with the bigger stake, a takeover would be difficult because the controlling owners — the Ochs - Sulzberger family — hold voting shares that give them a firm grip on board seats.

Last month, the union filed a complaint with a federal labor board on behalf of scores of workers who it says were laid off because they support the union.

Mr. Bonderman also increasingly clashed with Mr. Kalanick at board meetings because he felt Mr. Kalanick was dragging his feet on hiring key executives, like a chief operating officer and a chief financial officer.

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Wu said he isn't even sure Whitman's job as CEO is safe because of her presence on the board when the Autonomy deal was approved.

Up until now, researchers weren't able to quantify the impact diverse boards had on businesses because there weren't enough women sitting on boards of major companies, according to the firm.

Grant Morse told Huffington Post he and his husband weren't allowed to use their family boarding privileges on a Southwest flight on Saturday (May 20) and that he suspects this was because the two are same - sex partners.