Sentences with phrase «of board performance»

Boards that assess themselves get higher grades across all areas of board performance.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

A find many board meetings highly unproductive in that they are often just a date in the calendar where management is set to update its investors and other board members of its performance over the past time period.

Inside GE's 125,000 - square foot showroom for 3D printing machinery, shareholders called for ouster of directors who served on the board as GE's performance declined.

PAR and Altimeter also believe the board's decision to give Munoz a signing bonus of $ 12 million should have been tied to performance goals, the person familiar with the situation said.

The Conference Board notes that the federal government has placed great emphasis in improving Canada's innovation performance for years, most directly in the 2012 budget's revamping of how $ 3.5 billion is doled out to firms under the Scientific Research and Experimental Development program.

The company's board put a special provision in Papa's employment agreement that turbocharges his pay the way a videogame might when a player levels up into bonus points mode: If Valeant's stock price reaches a new high of at least $ 270 a share in the next three years, Papa gets double the allotment of performance - based stock.

• Cinven agreed to sell CeramTec GmbH, a Germany - based manufacturer of high performance ceramics, to a BC Partners - led consortium including the Public Sector Pension Investment Board and Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan.

So the HP board used its own «pay for performance philosophy» to justify annual compensation of over $ 15 million for Whitman for 2012.

He was incredibly successful in raising money for this Better Place thing, like $ 400 million or $ 500 million, but the board of directors weren't happy with the performance of the company, which has only sold 500 cars.

The company's management and board of directors utilize these non-GAAP financial measures to evaluate the company's performance.

He'd studied the growing pile of research highlighting how female board directors boost corporate performance.

Most of us in smaller companies don't have an effective board or someone to motivate you to increase your performance.

«The company's performance over the three - and five - year time periods has languished behind peers, and the board's response for this underwhelming performance was to give Ms. Rometty 1.5 million options on top of her regular pay,» wrote Mastagni.

There have been a variety of studies showing that women in leadership roles equates to better company performance, including a report from Credit Suisse that says that companies with more than one woman on their boards have outperformed those with no women on their boards in the stock market.

In the study «Dominant CEO, Deviant Strategy and Extreme Performance: The Moderating Role of a Powerful Board,» to be published next year in the Journal of Management Studies, Tang and co-authors Mary Crossan and Glenn Rowe of the Ivey School of Business examined the experience from 1997 to 2003 of 51 publicly traded computer firms.

Together with Mary Crossan and Glenn Rowe of the Ivey School of Business, Tang recently published a paper entitled «Dominant CEO, Deviant Strategy, and Extreme Performance: The Moderating Role of a Powerful Board» in the Journal of Management Studies.

Marcato, which owns 6.4 percent of Buffalo Wild Wings, won three seats on the company's board in June after a sustained campaign criticizing its performance under Chief Executive Sally Smith.

The weakest aspect of Canada's economy this year was the feeble performance of private investment, projected by the Conference Board of Canada to contract by nearly 8 per cent compared to 2014 levels.

It becomes your single central point of management for all HR needs, streamlining tedious workflows like employee on - boarding and off - boarding, document management, time off tracking, performance management, compliance and benefits administration to name a few.

Last November, in an intranet - based program called «Stop, Start, Continue,» the company's 125 employees were asked to use an intranet board to assess one another's job performance and comment on the work habits of coworkers.

Mutual fund company Northwest & Ethical Investments LP has argued RIM co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis should not also be co-chairs of the company's board, arguing a «high performance» board needs independent oversight of management.

An interim dividend of 1 pence will be paid which «reflects improved performance and board confidence,» the company said.

Our business performance could affect or limit the ability of our Board of Directors to declare a dividend or our ability to pay a dividend or repurchase our common stock.

Oversight and long - term performance are compromised for busy boards composed of over-boarded directors.

In a note to investors ISS wrote that «The current pay and performance misalignment driven by ongoing problematic pay practices indicates poor stewardship of the board's Compensation Committee.»

How can I, as president, critique the performances of board members to whom I must also report?»

«Diverse backgrounds and experiences on corporate boards, including those tho represent a broad range of society, strengthen board performance and promote the creation of long - term shareholder value,» the report said.

The correlation between CEO dismissal and the performance of a company's stock suggest that there are serious issues with boards» firing practices, and more importantly, their hiring practices.

But Glen Hodgson, senior vice-president and chief economist at the Conference Board of Canada, says EDC's performance during the recession puts the debate over EDC's mandate to rest «for a generation.»

On Friday, for example, Jim Cramer took the board to task on CNBC, demanding, «When will someone finally be held accountable for this kind of sub-par performance and why do corporate boards tolerate these mistakes, keeping the flailing CEOs of these two companies [McDonald's and UPS] around for still more earnings seasons?»

Unlike a similar study last year that found that women chiefs make more than men, this one had a far larger sample and controlled for «chief executives» tenure, characteristics of the firms (size, performance and risk), and the size and independence of the boards.»

«We firmly believe that a diversity of perspectives leads to better decisions and helps drive corporate performance,» says Steve Williams, CEO of Suncor, whose 12 - member board includes three women and a First Nations executive, and factors in age, gender, ethnicity and aboriginal status in filling vacancies.

RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board Compensation Committee prepare a report assessing the feasibility of integrating sustainability metrics, including metrics regarding diversity among senior executives, into the performance measures of the CEO under the Company's compensation incentive plans.

Crescent Point says its board of directors has added a drilling rate - of - return metric to its pay - for - performance plan to «incorporate feedback and further align compensation with returns and capital allocation.»

Conference Board of Canada The Conference Board builds leadership capacity for a better Canada by creating and sharing insights on economic trends, public policy and organizational performance.

By paying executives for performance that does not generate real cash flows, Valeant's board of directors created the misalignment that precipitated the executive behavior that got the company into so much trouble in the first place.

Unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to the transaction, if substantially all of the assets of the Company are acquired by another corporation or in case of a reorganization of the Company involving the acquisition of the Company by another entity, (i) stock options and stock appreciation rights become exercisable immediately prior to the transaction; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter.

Bill kept his board apprised of Varian's business performance and his relationship - building activities with Garry Rogerson, Varian's CEO.

Also, if a majority of the Board is comprised of persons other than (i) persons for whose election proxies were solicited by the Board; or (ii) persons who were appointed by the Board to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation or to fill newly - created directorships («Board Change»), unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to such Board Change, then participants immediately prior to the Board Change who cease to be employees or non-employee directors within six months after such Board Change for any reason other than death or permanent disability generally have their (i) options and stock appreciation rights become immediately exercisable and to the extent not canceled or cashed out, generally have at least six months to exercise such awards; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and generally shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter before the time the participant ceased to be an employee.

Boards today are also trying to include more perspectives, skill sets and experiences to reflect their audiences, signal the importance of diversity to the company, and ultimately increase the performance of the businesses overall.

In August 2012, to create incentives for continued long - term success from the then - recently launched Model S program as well as from Tesla's then - planned Model X and Model 3 programs, and to further align executive compensation with increases in stockholder value, the Board granted to Mr. Musk a stock option award to purchase 5,274,901 shares of Tesla's common stock (the «2012 CEO Performance Award»), representing 5 % of Tesla's total issued and outstanding shares at the time of grant.

For 2015 performance, the Board approved an annual incentive payment of $ 4.5 million for Mrs. Rometty, which represented 90 % of her target opportunity.

For 2015 performance, the Board approved an annual incentive payment of $ 4.5 million for Mrs. Rometty, which represented 90 % of target.

In addition, as part of our governance review and succession planning, the Board (led by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee) evaluates our leadership structure to ensure that it remains the optimal structure for Tesla, reviews the composition, size and performance of the Board and its committees, evaluates individual Board members, and identifies and evaluates candidates for election or re-election to the Board.

We have included adjusted EBITDA in this prospectus because it is a key measure used by our management and board of directors to understand and evaluate our core operating performance and trends, to prepare and approve our annual budget and to develop short - and long - term operational plans.

The Board considered pursuing, but decided not to pursue, an alternative to include the prior service cost or credit component in the line item (s) reporting current employee compensation because this component is not exclusively related to the current period's employee services and may add complexity to financial statement users» analyses of an entity's core operating performance.

monitoring workforce management programs; establishing compensation policies and practices for service on the Board and its committees, including annually reviewing the appropriate level of director compensation and recommending to the Board any changes to that compensation; developing stock ownership guidelines for directors and executive officers and monitoring compliance with such guidelines; and annually evaluating its performance and its charter.

«The transition of information security to a business discussion at the board level highlights the market need for objective, evidence - based measures of performance.

Directors must have a history of achievements that reflect high standards for themselves and others, enabling them to contribute to the superior performance of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Board.