Sentences with phrase «management changes at the company»

This comes amid Stamford, Conn. - based Land & Buildings Investment Management pressuring Taubman to make significant management changes at the company.

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A Snap employee told the Times that the company was looking at ways to educate employees on financial management before the IPO, such as bringing in professors from Stanford to talk about how employees» lives can change after working for a company that goes public.

While some companies Far Eastern is looking at have to deal with the excess capacity, others need management changes to adapt to a global market, he said, adding that companies broadly need to evolve as technology advances, he said.

In early February, the firm received a response from Vanguard, which Tim Smith, senior vice president at Walden Asset Management, told me included a discussion of Vanguard's efforts to talk with companies about social and environmental issues, but stopped short of saying that Vanguard would actually change its proxy voting practices.

Although Trian is an activist investor that demands change at companies, it is also known for working behind the scenes with management to improve performance.

For example, the expected timing and likelihood of completion of the proposed merger, including the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any required governmental and regulatory approvals of the proposed merger that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to abandon the transaction, the ability to successfully integrate the businesses, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement, the possibility that Kraft shareholders may not approve the merger agreement, the risk that the parties may not be able to satisfy the conditions to the proposed transaction in a timely manner or at all, risks related to disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to the proposed transaction, the risk that any announcements relating to the proposed transaction could have adverse effects on the market price of Kraft's common stock, and the risk that the proposed transaction and its announcement could have an adverse effect on the ability of Kraft and Heinz to retain customers and retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with their suppliers and customers and on their operating results and businesses generally, problems may arise in successfully integrating the businesses of the companies, which may result in the combined company not operating as effectively and efficiently as expected, the combined company may be unable to achieve cost - cutting synergies or it may take longer than expected to achieve those synergies, and other factors.

Bill Ackman said his Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund has taken a position in sportswear maker Nike and has no plans to push for change at the company, Reuters reported on Jan. 25.

The recommendations to change Uber's culture consisted of 10 main categories aimed at creating accountability for Uber's senior management, enhancing the board's oversight and revamping the company's internal controls.

«For more than a decade, TPG's technology team has worked to identify management teams and companies that are disrupting markets and changing industries,» said Nehal Raj, Partner at TPG.

Given changes in the business at home — namely CEO Travis Kalanick resigning amid a host of scandals involving sexual harassment and other bad management practices — the company appears to be having a wider thinking of its overall strategy.

And at that company, senior management would try anything as long as they did not have to change themselves.

Internal control at Municipality Finance comprises financial administration that handles financial reporting, a risk management function which reports on the company's risk position and any changes to it and is independent of the business of the company, and internal audit performed by business units which produce reports that are processed by supervisors, the President and CEO assisted by the Executive Management Team, as well as the company's Board of management function which reports on the company's risk position and any changes to it and is independent of the business of the company, and internal audit performed by business units which produce reports that are processed by supervisors, the President and CEO assisted by the Executive Management Team, as well as the company's Board of Management Team, as well as the company's Board of Directors.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Clarke initially looked at changing the company's financial year to get around that problem but was asked by his senior management team to change the launch dates instead.

Why are any of us surprised what was said at the AGM no one really grills anyone and it's the same questions asked about a lousy 3 million that went to one of Stans company for management fees or something who cares about pocket change, and every year the management are always saying that they have confidence in the team to do well and yes they do up to a level

[Box 9] OIS - China - Chinese Science and Technology Policy Delegation Visit, 1978 Zhongshan University Delegation Visit, 1979 AAAS Popularization of Science Delegation to China, 1980 CAST Science Writers Delegation to US, 1981 AAAS Environmental Planning Delegation to China, 1981 US - China Conference on Energy Resources and Environment, 1982 Interferon Study (Proposed), 1982 CAST Delegation to US, 1982 CAST Quality Control Delegation to US, 1982 Rumenant Productivity Symposium - US Papers, 1983 Rumenant Productivity Symposium - Chinese Papers, 1983 Photo Album of Address by Song Jian, 1985 AAAS Board of Directors Delegation to China, 1985 Chinese Delegation Visit (IIE), 1986 US Fish and Wildlife Service Delegation to China, 1986 FASAS International Climate Change Symposium (Proposal), 1986 CAST Delegation to US, 1986 Background Political Information, 1987 Law / Science Short Course (Proposal), 1987 Collected Information and Papers on Chinese Water Management, 1987 CAST Water Management Delegation to US, 1987 AAAS Water Management Delegation to China, 1987 AAAS Water Management Delegation to China - Follow - up, 1988 CAST Petrochemical Engineer Delegation to US (Proposal), 1987 Pacific Rim Symposium (Proposal), 1987 Science and Technology Advising Seminar (Proposal), 1988 - 1989 AAAS / ABA Lawyers and Scientists Delegation to China, 1988 China Symposium at 1989 AAAS Annual Meeting, 1988 - 1989 Medical Instrument Maintenance and Repair, 1989 Fang Li Zhi, 1988 - 1989 Amnesty International Reports on Chinese Arrests, 1989 Correspondence re: June 1989 Events in China, 1989 Consortium of Affiliates for International Programs, 1989 China - FASAS Symposium on Environmental Protection in Developing Countries, 1989 FASAS Symposium Chinese Papers, 1989 PRC Joint Commission Visit, 1989 Tibet, 1987 Liz Levey Misc Correspondence, 1982 - 1990 Chinese Code of Ethics, 1986 China Tech Company Information, (undated) AAAS / CAST Exchange Programs, 1978 - 1987 Correspondence with CAST International Director Wang Zheng, 1981 - 1982 Correspondence with CAST, 1981 - 1989 James Hartnett Complaint to CAST, 1988 - 1989 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1987 Hong Kong Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology, 1987 - 1988 Correspondence with Chinese Embassy, 1982 - 1987 NAS China Committee, 1982 - 1986 Financial Aid for Chinese Students, 1987 Misc Articles and General Background Information, 1978 - 1989 Misc., 1982 - 1989 Presentation Transparencies, 1988 Elzinga, Aant.

The last - minute changes to the legislation come at a time when one prominent Wilmington - based charter school operator, Baker A. Mitchell, Jr., has been fighting media requests for months that have asked him to fully disclose the salaries of all employees associated with his charter schools — teachers as well as employees of his for - profit education management company, Roger Bacon Academy.

Dr Brown is also a Scholar - Practitioner Fellow at the Asia Centre for Leadership and Change (AOLC) Hong Kong University of Education, Board Director at Stuartholme School Brisbane, National and State Fellow of ACEL, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (FAIM) and in 2014 graduated from the Australian Institute of Company Directors program (GAICD).

After a long - running employment dispute with management at Morgan Motor Company, Charles Morgan has been invited to join the firm's new Family Council with no change to his shareholdings.

The change is that companies offering debt relief services over the phone can not collect advance fees from you before settling or reducing your debt, before having an agreement for debt management or other services in place, or until you've made at least one payment to a creditor as a result of a plan negotiated by the debt relief provider.

In his blog, The Icahn Report, Carl Icahn argues in a new post, It's Up to the Shareholders, Not the Government, to Demand Change at a Company, that «shareholders have been complicit in allowing management excesses and incompetence by not taking a stand.»

They for example recently changed management bonus compensation so that the NAV high water mark resets yearly, something that is imo beyond ridicoulous (same happend at an related company).

Solis studies the impact of emerging technologies on business, marketing and culture and, in his role as Principal Analyst at Altimeter Group, advises companies on marketing strategy and change management.

The second piece is that we've actually built in, to our technology, the ability — it's almost like an automated fraud detector, and my partner, Mark, had to deal with this issue back at Rent.com, in terms of the property management stuff, so he's got experience in building this piece — but the basic idea is that we have a baseline from where our company is starting from, based on those published attributes, and if that changes dramatically, or if things start to disappear because they're getting negative attributes, say because it's made in China, and then they pull that off, that'll actually get a worse score if they don't publish the source of where it's made vs. if they publish that it's made in China or made internationally.

Germany has the highest number of companies actually providing incentives to the board for management relating to climate change issues — although the proportion is still a fairly low 29 percent, closely followed by France at 25 percent.

By bringing together its members nationally at its annual meeting and through its state and regional chapters, ACC (as it's now known) has built an in - house «bar» that shares insights, pushes for changes necessary to or desired by those members and develops a professional approach to the management of legal service required by its members» companies.

We discussed her new role at Integreon, the highs and lows of starting a legal tech company, how the hierarchy of people, process, and technology has changed, projected advancements in litigation management, and guidance on the changing nature of the legal tech community, among other topics.

Apple now faces over two dozen lawsuits around the world that either accuse the company of intentionally slowing down older iPhones, or at least of failing to disclose power management changes it made starting in iOS 10.2.1.

Multi-faceted and dynamic manufacturing management professional that has implemented lean tools and principles and changed the culture in a union environment at a Fortune 500 company.

Customer - management software has the potential to change the way companies treat job candidates, keeping them informed and engaged at each step in the process.

She has worked in organizational development, change management, benefits administration, recruiting and virtually every human resources function possible at health care, pharmaceutical and video game companies.

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• Accurately processed payroll as well as monitored vacation / benefit accruals independently • Actively managed wage garnishments and processed termination checks • Accepted accountability for the overall teamwork and stood responsible for meeting the deadlines • Assisted HR department with compensation and benefits for payroll related tasks like processing benefits premiums, wage ceilings, long term disability claims, life insurance, group health insurance, fringe benefits, and overtime pay analysis • Assisted internal and external auditing procedures related to payroll by following company standards and policies • Monitored and reviewed complete payroll accounts for verification of accuracy and in case of any discrepancies made appropriate corrections and updates, at the end of every month • Communicated effectively with all staff responding to their requests and inquiries related to payroll information • Correctly made payroll related general ledger journal entries for each record • Created and dispersed payroll vouchers to the company employees every month on the pay day • Created benefit audits and reports for terminated / retired employees • Maintained perfect reconciliations of balance sheet accounts related to the payroll • Executed special research projects regarding payroll management and for detailed analysis of financial facets of payroll • Gave suggestions to the management for the policy and procedure updates and refreshers related to payroll management and its financial aspects • Organized and maintained outstanding payroll checks and lists in coordination with the HR department • Managed contacts and communicated regularly with all the internal and external stakeholders ensuring effective flow of information • Organized files, accounts, ledgers, records, employee books for payroll documents and other related purposes • Prepared SDLs — Salary Distribution Journals and other distribution journals every month for payroll accounts • Processed and prepared corporate payroll using Pay Expert Application, managing all paperwork for the wire transfers and generated return funds • Processed payroll changes for new hires and terminations ensuring accuracy and timeliness of the process • Proficiently used PRG (Millennium) payroll and TMx labor scheduling software applications for effective payroll management • Resolved all issues related to payroll tax payments and reported after every pay run making sure that all filings were accurately represented by the tax service provider • Reconciled tax payments for federal, state and local payroll as well as returns for multiple authorities on monthly basis.

PA Reps for staff development and growth opportunities * Plan, assign, and direct work, appraise performance, reward and discipline employees, address complaints and resolve problems within the team * Assist in the hiring process * Assist in the preparation of performance reviews * Deliver performance reviews in conjunction with the Prior Auth Manager * Meet monthly with each staff member to go over performance status * Assist with training as needed * Lead weekly Team meetings with staff to keep them informed of changes to policy and procedures and corporate communications * Meet with the Prior Authorization Management team weekly to report on clinical call center performance and personnel issues Required Qualifications: * High School Diploma or equivalent * Current and unrestricted Pharmacy Technician license * 2 years» experience supervising Pharmacy Technicians in a Call Center environment * Prior Authorization experience * Knowledge of the Pharmacy Benefit Management and / or Health Insurance * Knowledge of Call Center industry through work experience and as obtained through related courses * Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel Preferred Qualifications: * Bachelors» Degree * PBM experience * National Pharmacy Technician Certification Required Competencies: * Must have strong leadership and problem solving skills * Strong written and verbal communication skills * Strong interpersonal skills * Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of associates, managers and clients * Ability to comprehend ACD statistical reporting and apply it to the operation of the department * Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form * Ability to maintain a high level of consistency while working with team members * Ability to recognize the needs of the staff, heighten morale, and decrease stress and burnout * Ability to understand what style of conflict resolution is best suited for a particular situation * Ability to determine the needs of each individual team member and assist them in achieving set goals * Demonstrate a clear understanding of company and client confidentiality * Excellent organizational skills * Exemplary coaching / motivational skills at both an individual and team level * Adaptable and able to move with change while maintaining a positive attitude and strong role model for the Team.

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For most property management companies, the corporate planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting process are all affected by factors that are changing at best, unpredictable at worst.