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The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced yesterday that it was presenting its prestigious 2017 Lasker - DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award to a pair of National Cancer Institute researchers, Douglas Lowy and John Schiller, who created a vaccine to prevent human papilloma virus, or HPV, from taking hold in the body.

After racking up a rash of nominations and minor wins at the Academy Awards, a Participant film finally took the big prize when Spotlight won Best Picture in February.

Leader - Chivée is one of the individuals I was fortunate enough to interview for a series on the year ahead, Big Ideas for 2018, where I asked a number of my favorite award - winning marketing experts, authors, and other thought leaders — as well as some of Firebrand Group's own digital strategy and branding experts — to recommend one «Big Idea» that companies can take advantage of to get ahead in 2018.

While there are still just a small number of brewers, that's changing — and they're winning major awards, like NoDa's Hop Drop «N Roll, which took home a gold medal from the 2014 World Beer Cup.

Including last night's nomination for The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated for four acting Academy Awards (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator, Blood Diamond, WoWS) without taking home a single statue.

The judging panel has decided on the shortlist of finalists for the Solent Deals Awards, which takes place at Hilton at Ageas Bowl, Southampton on June 7.

After racking up a rash of nominations and minor wins at the Academy Awards, a Participant film finally took the big prize when Spotlight won Best Picture in 2016.

But those attending TechCrunch's annual gala for Silicon Valley's top tech companies took notice of how the workplace messaging startup accepted its Fastest Rising Startup award.

Slack took home two of four awards for which it was nominated at the 2016 Crunchies awards Monday, a surprise to no one who has followed the company as it has grown to nearly 2 million users since it launched two years ago.

He also took home $ 3.06 million in salary and a previously disclosed equity award of $ 89.2 million, bringing his total payout for the year to about $ 102 million.

Notably, The Big Short won best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards and also took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which has predicted the Academy's Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 years.

Jimmy Fallon took the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night to present the award for Video of the Year, but no one probably expected him to arrive quite like this.

B8ta recently took top honors by winning the Store of the Year award at the 47th annual Shop!

Rose is best known for his award - winning blog, GoodFinancialCents.com, and book, Soldier of Finance: Take Charge of Your Money and Invest in Your Future.

A local psychological consultancy business has taken top honours at the 2016 Telstra Business Awards after being named Western Australian Business of the Year.

Former West Coast Eagles coach John Worsfold has been named the new senior coach of the Essendon Bombers, while West Coast coach Adam Simpson is likely to be awarded a contract extension after taking the Eagles to this year's grand final.

On this episode of Business & Burgers, Alan Taylor and Scott Duffy take us back to the award - winning Muldoon's Dublin Pub in Newport Beach, Calif., and share a mouthwatering burger with uber entrepreneur, billion - dollar business builder and Ironman triathlete Mark Moses.

By analyzing games between professional Italian soccer teams, he found that matches played between intra-city rivals resulted in a substantially higher number of red and yellow cards, a fairly good indicator of unethical behavior in sports because cards are typically awarded for dangerous tackles or attempts to deceive a referee by taking a dive.

Although the Gators fell in the College Softball World Series to Oklahoma, Barnhill still took home the award for 2017 USA Softball Player of the Year.

Add another one to the list: for one year, it smashed all records for the highest executive compensation in Canada, awarding its former CEO Michael Pearson $ 179 million in company stock, for a total take - home of $ 182 million, more than double paid to the previous year's highest paid CEO, BlackBerry's John Chen.

Even now as an MVP with a slew of awards and championship titles, she still makes a fraction what her male counterparts take home.

The U.S. investigation into bribery and corruption at the governing body of world soccer took another twist Tuesday, as FIFA denied claims that its number two official, Secretary - General Jérôme Valcke, was involved in a suspect payment linked to the award of the 2010 World Cup to South Africa.

Fifty Shades of Grey dominated this year's Razzies, taking home five top prizes at the annual award ceremony that recognizes the worst in film.

Her book, The Big Payoff: 8 Steps Couples Can Take to Make the Most of Their Money - and Live Richly Ever After, was a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Awards, honoring works that have «changed the lives of millions.»

Mean Girls and SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical took the highest number of 2018 Tony award nominations with 12 each including best musical, best original score, best book, best direction, best scenic design, and best choreography.

But by the time he applied, the visas, which are awarded on a lottery basis, were all taken, so he was out of luck.

When an employee takes a government job that requires divesting of assets in order to prevent conflicts of interest — as the role of Treasury Secretary certainly would, and did for the current holder of that office, Steven Mnuchin — J.P. Morgan's policy fast - tracks the vesting of the employee's stock awards.

Hit international children's entertainers the Wiggles have upstaged Western Australia's mining and meat sectors to take off the Australian Exporter of the Year Award.

Netflix did win big at this year's Golden Globe Awards with Kevin Spacey taking home an award for best performance in a TV drama for his role on House of Cards.

From classrooms to corporate initiatives, the awards recognize a variety of projects and celebrate those who demonstrate commitment to the environment and take the initiative to make quantifiable sustainable changes.

And after Kiefer Sutherland took to the stage to accept the Best Action Game award for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (which the actor starred in), host Geoff Keighley explained Kojima's absence to the people who had filled the Microsoft Theater in downtown LA and the tens of thousands watching online.

Take, for example, CDnow Inc., a Web - based music retailer that spent more than $ 1 million to air three spots during the February 1998 telecast of the Grammy Awards on CBS.

According to Liftopia «s latest Best in Snow Awards, which incorporates feedback from thousands of skiers and snowboarders to determine the most popular ski resorts in North America, Magic Mountain is the number one ski resort in the country, taking home the title of «Overall Best in Snow.»

The cast and creative team for «La La Land» had already taken to the stage to begin delivering acceptance speeches when one of the producers interrupted the proceedings to say that the award had been given to the wrong movie, and that «Moonlight» was the real victor.

Rogers knows that better than anyone, so, despite the Oscar snub, he's taking in the fun of being on a movie with awards love.

A driverless flying taxi developed by aerospace giant Airbus has taken one step closer to reality with the awarding of a testing contract.

The Rock, a household name and one of the highest - grossing actors in Hollywood, is singing his 16 - year - old daughter's praises as she takes on an exciting new role during this year's award season.

In it, we asked a number of our favorite award - winning marketing experts, authors, and other thought leaders — in addition to some of our own team of digital strategy and branding experts — to recommend one «Big Idea» that companies can take advantage of to get ahead in 2016.

The award for best film was taken by Richard Linklater's «Boyhood», produced by the relatively low - profile IFC films, an offshoot of New York - based AMC Networks Inc..

The CPPIB took the lead with seven other institutional investors and successfully fought the board of Barrick Gold Corp. over its decision to award an $ 11.9 - million signing bonus to co-chairman John Thornton.

In no case, except due to an adjustment to reflect a stock split or other event referred to under «Adjustments» below, and except for any repricing that may be approved by shareholders, will the plan administrator (1) amend an outstanding stock option or stock appreciation right to reduce the exercise price or base price of the award, (2) cancel, exchange, or surrender an outstanding stock option or stock appreciation right in exchange for cash or other awards for the purpose of repricing the award, (3) cancel, exchange, or surrender an outstanding stock option or stock appreciation right in exchange for an option or stock appreciation right with an exercise or base price that is less than the exercise or base price of the original award, or (4) take any other action that is treated as a repricing under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Chairman Richard Meddings said Pester had agreed not to take the portion of his bonus related to a successful migration of customers to the computer system, but declined to say if the CEO would be awarded any other incentive pay this year.

After the game, Bill Belichick and the Patriots took to the center of the field to accept the Lamar Hunt Trophy, awarded to the AFC Champion every year.

Any such shares subject to awards other than stock options and stock appreciation rights granted under either such Plan will become available taking into account the 2:1 premium share counting rule applicable at the time of granting these types of awards.

Taking into consideration the actual salary, annual incentive payout and long - term incentive award for the period 2013 - 2015, Mrs. Rometty earned 55 % of her annual total target compensation in 2015.

Taking into consideration the actual salary, actual annual incentive payout and actual long - term incentive award for the period 2013 - 2015, Mrs. Rometty earned 55 % of her annual total target compensation in 2015.

Edison Awards takes every opportunity to publicly acknowledge and promote nominees and finalists to a wide variety of business press and media outlets.

Our award - winning work takes full advantage of our platform and experience.

It does not take into account the shares issuable upon vesting of outstanding restricted stock unit awards, which have no exercise price.

After spending at least 34 months on one or more Amazon.com bestseller lists (Environment, Green Business, Business), the award - winning book Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green was taken out of print by the publisher.