Sentences with phrase «major company boards»

Put simply, if the proportion of women in the Cabinet, on major company boards etc is increased, this will entail the appointment of women who are less well - qualified than the best male candidates for such positions.

Not exact matches

Xerox — CEO Jeff Jacobson and most of the company's board will step down as part of a settlement with major Xerox shareholders Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason.

Having counseled boards at major companies including General Motors, General Electric, American Express, Macy's, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Westinghouse, and countless others, he believes most U.S. directors still aren't doing their job well enough.

The board of iron ore miner Pluton Resources has regained control of the company after its major shareholder, General Nice Resources, retired KordaMentha as receivers yesterday.

Women are being appointed to ASX200 boards at a faster rate than ever, but a number of major Western Australian companies remain without any female representation on their boards.

JA: You're partnering with major companies such as Uber, Marriott, and JetBlue and they seem to be getting on board with your effort to value sleep.

It is planning a major overhaul of its board and management, sources close to the company told Reuters last week.

GE said nine of the company's directors will stand for re-election including major shareholder Trian Fund Management's Edward Garden, who was appointed to GE's board in October.

The boards of some major US and Australian companies have responded to shareholder activism by becoming more active in their pursuit of best practice.

«Today the Board came together collaboratively and took a major step forward in Uber's journey to becoming a world class public company.

In a normal company, the board of directors and major investors would have been all over the situation.

When companies decide to announce major shifts in strategy, most boards leave the talking to the CEO and the company's communications team.

You can sit on a major board of directors and not know anything about the company, its industry or even know how to read a financial statement.

Xerox (XRX) CEO Jeff Jacobson and most of the company's board will step down as part of a settlement with major Xerox shareholders Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason.

I've provided educational and ethics consulting services to corporate boards, professional associations, hospitals, startup companies, major charitable foundations, and to the Canadian military.

The Board is responsible for overseeing the major risks facing the Company while management is responsible for assessing and mitigating the Company's risks on a day - to - day basis.

When an individual purchases a common stock of a company, he receives one vote per stock to elect board members or decide on major decisions for the company.

Uber is in the midst of navigating a major upheaval, with Tuesday's resignation of its CEO Travis Kalanick and the shuffling of key board members, but this lawsuit could prove to be the company's biggest threat.

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.

«Today the Board came together collaboratively and took a major step forward in Uber's journey to becoming a world class public company, Kalanick said in a statement.

It is also a major player in real estate, with a stake in the Related Companies, a seat on the board of Blackstone Group's real estate funds and a property portfolio spanning Europe and the U.S. Come May, it will own a new trophy: the Sony Building at 550 Madison Avenue.

In «real» ownership, they argue, the owners control their assets by determining such things as who runs the company, who sits on the Board of Directors, when major corporate decisions are made that might impact the future of the company, and so on.

These days, whenever a well - known public company suffers a major data breach, bulletins and news alerts circulate quickly among most boards and the governance community.

However the firm does have first rate assets, a fairly high debt load, and it's big enough to move the needle for a major company but small enough not to cause too much indecision for a nervous acquirer's board.

YES indeed, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recently appointed a woman as one of the board members of its major company and the world's top oil company «Aramco», the oil fields of...

Shares of Sears Holdings (SHLD) traded lower, after a major shareholder announced plans to leave the company's board of directors.

It has since emerged major institutions had threatened to lodge a protest vote at the annual meeting, where a majority of the company's nine - person board was seeking election or re-election.

Gouw says that «typically public and major private companies give board members an equity stake equal to a VP, but with a shorter vesting period.»

Byron has served CEOs and Boards of major companies in Australia, North America, the UK, Middle East and Asia.

Former CEO and Board Director of the World Gold Council and investment banker with James Capel, Nikko, and Lazard, Haruko has served on the boards of a number of major international companies, including AB Volvo, and is a Non-Executive Director of several public companies.

Singapore Exchange (SGX) has begun quoting ADRs of 19 major Asian companies on its new GlobalQuote board.

Without a newsroom fully on board — as we see at the paper's major role models, The New York Times and The Washington Post — it's hard to see how the L.A. Times and Tronc turn around a company whose financials are deeply challenged.

Elmar also serves on the board on a number of major asset management companies in Switzerland.

To additionally safeguard their investments, VC firms take an active role in the businesses they invest in, typically supplying a board member and involving themselves in all important management decisions, including exercising veto rights over issues such as the sale of the company, additional financing, major business expenditures, etc..

In the wake of Tribune Publishing's blockbuster announcements that it has rejected a sweetened buyout offer from rival Gannett Co. and brought L.A. billionaire Patrick Soon - Shiong on board as an investor, one of the company's major shareholders is...

Viewing these companies as allies rather than merely as customers from whom to make as large a profit as quickly as possible, German bank officials sat on their boards, and helped expand their business by extending loans to foreign governments on condition that their clients be named the chief suppliers in major public investments.

The showdown also marks the first time in recent memory shareholders of a major oil and gas company have been given a choice of directors between what the company wants and what the dissident group wants (it is pushing for four of its nominees to be voted to the board).

Kalanick said in a separate statement: «Today the Board came together collaboratively and took a major step forward in Uber's journey to becoming a world class public company.

While he declined to disclose companies that he says are on board for the new seal, Allen say that «major names that people will recognize will be among the first to go forward with this.»

Treasury chairman Paul Rayner told shareholders he believed the board had done the right thing in terminating talks with private equity bidders earlier this year, with «clear feedback» from almost every major shareholder that a price of $ 5.20 per share undervalued the company.

Paper Packaging Canada, an association representing the major packaging mill companies in Canada and the major converters of that paper and board into packaging grade products, announced on January 18, 2011 its new Board of Direcboard into packaging grade products, announced on January 18, 2011 its new Board of DirecBoard of Directors.

Rob Woolley has stepped down as chairman of TasFoods, days after quitting the board of Bellamy's Australia, following threats by major shareholder Jan Cameron of another requisition, as their bitter months» long fight over control of organic baby formula maker spills over to the agricultural company.

Schaafsma, who has steered the company through major restructuring since he joined the company in 2012, announced to the board that he would not remain in the role at the conclusion of Champ's ownership of the company, but agreed to stay on during its IPO listing in order to ensure succession planning was put in place.

TasFoods chairman Rob Woolley resigns days after quitting the Bellamy's Australia board after months» long fights with major shareholder in both companies, Jan Cameron.

Unfortunately the only people that can remove him is the ones that put him in charge of arsenal and the only way the board will move against wenger is when he does not meet their expectations, have you heard any one of the board members come out and say fourth is not acceptable, for several years he has guarantee the board money from the champions league, they also have several agreements or contract signed with major companies, all that points to money coming back to the board.

One such beneficiaries of the scheme is White Stone Foods Company Limited; a major importer of frozen foods in the country, owned by a known financier of the ruling NPP, a council of State member, who has also been placed on the Ghana Ports and Habour Authority (GPHA) board, Eunice Jacqueline Buah.

So why do men tend to dominate the political scene, the boards of major companies etc?

State Republican Chairman Ed Cox spoke last night, speaking with the knowledge of a board member with a major company in the field and with millions of dollars in investments in fracking companies.

The PAC, which counts the Related Companies, Brookfield Office Properties and Fisher Brothers among its major donors, raised $ 6.8 million in contributions this year and spent $ 3.4 million as of Sept. 1, the city's Campaign Finance Board reported.

With funding from the Alberta Cancer Board, the National Science and Engineering Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and the Alberta Innovation and Science Research Investment Program, the University of Alberta (UA) in Edmonton has become a major center of nanotechnology research and has fostered the spin - off and growth of a host of companies.