Sentences with phrase «less than a board»

A number of shares which is less than a board lot.

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She is constantly dealing with children on board the aircraft — children who undoubtedly are a lot less well - behaved than yours.

Less than 7 percent of private tech company board seats are held by women.

But the role of the company's board of directors has thus far escaped criticism, and a closer look reveals the board's structure was less than ideal, and may have contributed to Valeant's current woes.

I boarded a plane to Germany, and less than 12 hours later, my fiancee and I were planning our new life together — in New York.

Struggling iron ore miner Pluton Resources has fallen back into the hands of receivers and managers, less than six months after the board regained control of the company, as part of a new structuring proposal.

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.»

«There shouldn't be less than 40 % of either gender on any board.

While short - term stock price movements should normally not be a concern for boards, nearly halving the value of the stock in less than nine months warrants some attention — and a look at the board's practices.

Less than a year and a half after embracing Johnson's vision, the board had renounced it.

And it shows Harris and two other directors — Louis Lataif and Donald Resnick — were named to the board with the approval of less than 40 % of the eligible voting shareholders.

It seems as if a considerable portion of the committee is less on board with «below normal» rates than perhaps they had been.

Pay consultants and recruiters say banks need such flexibility because heightened regulatory burdens make positions on bank boards less attractive than in other sectors.

That's not a popular idea with Netflix's board because two of its directors, Leslie Kilgore and Richard Barton, have been re-elected in the past with less than 50 % of the vote.

«While women still make up less than 20 percent of U.S. boards on average, movement toward greater gender parity is evident with the proportion of new nominees that are women nearly doubling over the past seven years at larger firms,» Kamonjoh said in a statement.

Less than 24 hours later, the board responded by filing the Company's proxy statement for the 2018 annual meeting, effectively precluding a reopening of the advance notice window and contemplating the election of just three of the 11 members of the board.

Less than a week later, Arconic's board gave Kleinfeld no choice but to resign.

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.

TORONTO — Housing sales in the Greater Toronto Area were down by less than one per cent in June compared with the same month a year ago, while the average selling price was up by 4.7 per cent at $ 531,374, according to a report by Toronto Real Estate Board.

White represented Morgan Stanley's (ms) board in an engagement that lasted less than one week, according to her deposition testimony, in which she was hired to do «due diligence on [John Mack's] possible involvement in an insider trading matter involving Peqout.»

Did you know that out of the current crop of «Unicorn» companies, less than 10 have a woman on the founding team, and only a small percentage include any women in their advisory boards?

Deripaska agreed last week to cut his shareholdings in En + to less than 50 percent and resign from the board.

Then, less than a week after HP's 2011 annual meeting, when Whitman was elected to the board, it was announced that Whitman would be joining Kleiner Perkins, Lane's firm.

The Conference Board noted that less than half actually keep track of who's taking time off and why.

If anything, millennials are getting less ambitious, not more: Conference Board data shows they are less likely than more - seasoned colleagues to list «senior management» as their desired career goal.

The Federal Reserve Board again held off raising its benchmark federal funds rate on Thursday, citing less than desirable economic circumstances.

With less than 100 days until the May 9 B.C. Election, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade has released its 2017 Provincial Election Platform, which outlines key issues and priorities of the regional business community and makes a series of recommendations to the parties running to form the next Provincial Government.

Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

Ray Ferrara, the former chairman of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards who's chairman and CEO of dually registered ProVise Management Group in Clearwater, Florida, noted on a panel discussion at the event that he expects his firm to shell out «less than $ 10,000 in our hard costs» to comply with the fiduciary rule, but didn't anticipate «any significant ongoing [compliance] costs.»

However, this increased oversight and transparency does not necessarily translate into less spending, as companies with board oversight of political expenditures spent about 30 % more in 2010 than those without such explicit policies.

Directors in our study expressed fairly significant dissatisfaction with boardroom dynamics at their companies: Only around two - thirds (64 %) strongly believe their board is open to new points of view, only half strongly believe their board leverages the skills of all board members, and less than half (46 %) strongly believe their board tolerates dissent.

Deripaska is reported to have offered to trim the EN + stake to something less than 50 per cent and to resign from the board.

The purchase price of each Share will be (i) not less than the net asset value per Share (the «NAV Per Share») of the Company's common stock (as determined in good faith by the board of directors of the Company or a committee thereof, in its sole discretion) immediately prior to the Expiration Date (as defined in the Offer to Purchase)(the date of repurchase) and (ii) not more than 2.5 % greater than the NAV Per Share as of such date, plus any unpaid dividends accrued through the expiration date of the Tender Offer.

I can't think of a single work group whose performance gets assessed less rigorously than corporate boards.

The more courageous CEOs we spoke with said they now seek more input from their board rather than less.

Mr. Peña, prior to his election as a Company director, served as a member of one of our bank's advisory boards, which boards consist of members of the bank's local community, and in each of 2011, 2010, and 2009 he received fees for attending advisory board meetings of less than $ 2,000;

Although every category is cheaper across the board, the biggest drop is in utilities, which cost 13.3 percent less than in the rest of the country.

Less than $ 15,000 room, board, tuition, fees and books for a bachelors degree and my CPA certification for the entire 4 years.

The board also turned against Patrick Soon - Shiong — who even as he closes on the L.A. Times sale still remains Tronc's second - largest shareholder, with something less than a quarter of the company.

Women make up just 5 percent of CEOs at Fortune 500 companies, less than 15 percent of executive officers, and less than 17 percent of board members.

However, the Fed board's institutional inertia means the more powerful board governors often speak less frequently and less loudly than the less influential but more vocal presidents of regional Fed banks.

Women hold less than 17 percent of board seats on Fortune 500 companies, a level that has stayed flat for seven years.

It's true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time.

Less than two months after The Wall Street Journal broke the story of alleged sexual misconduct against Steve Wynn, he's quit his jobs as CEO and chairman of the board of directors and sold all 12.1 million shares he held in the company he founded.

Snap Inc., owner of social chatting system Snapchat, was under fire in February for paying its sole female board director far less than her male counterparts.

According to the Federal Reserve Board's G. 19 Consumer Credit report, the total amount of consumer credit outstanding rose by 5.2 percent (SAAR) over the 1st quarter of 2017, 2.4 percentage points less than the 6.6 percent rate of growth in the 4th quarter of 2016.

Aside from the unacceptable optics, evidence shows that boards composed of people with diverse skills, cultural backgrounds, gender and experience — just like the real world — are more effective than less diverse boards, Leblanc says.

Legal & General Investment Management said on April 17 that it will vote against the reappointment of chairs at large UK - listed companies if less than a quarter of the board are women.

«Back in 2010, while I was VP of Sales at uberVu (acquired by HootSuite in 2011), Mike joined our Advisory Board and within a month he had a full grasp of our business and had opened no less than 50 doors for potential clients directly with the CEO of each company.

In less than a year, we have repurchased $ 186 million of common stock under our share repurchase program, virtually exhausting the Board's original repurchase authorization.