Sentences with phrase «on than the board»

I think it'll be pretty fun, and I like that there's more even going on than the board game.

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British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather than invested in the underlying securities) that track a Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.

Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

«In Catalonia, to be on the board of FC Barcelona is more than an honor,» says board vice president Manel Arroyo, also a business executive.

Diamonte serves on the board for the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets, representing more than 100 of the country's largest private - sector retirement funds on fiduciary and investment issues in Washington.

The company, which sometimes conducts trades larger than $ 50 million, recently brought on three finance veterans to its advisory board, including Citigroup's global head of regulatory, market, and innovation strategy.

But one start might be installing a paid board with deep knowledge of the football industry, which would set the strategic direction for team CEO Oscar Grau, rather than relying on unpaid directors to oversee operations, as Barça does now.

Nowhere is this more true than on a board of directors.

Valeant's largest shareholder, billionaire and hedge funder John Paulson, has gained a seat on the drug maker's board, sending the beleaguered company's stock spiking more than 6 % in Monday trading (although it's still hovering at around the $ 13 mark).

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

ANALYSIS: Worldwide demand for lithium is rising and more than 20 companies in WA are on board for the ride.

Nothing drives me more bonkers than board members who want to hold dissertations on 409a valuations, product feature minutiae or spend 30 minutes on how many people they know that they can introduce you to.

More women than men are being appointed to the boards of Australia's top 200 companies for the first time on record.

Even when comparing the sexes with the same job title at the same company and using similar education and experience, the gender pay gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women on average, down slightly from last year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.

«The California Air Resources Board reaffirmed its own set of regulatory standards for the automotive industry, setting it and 12 other mostly East and West Coast states that follow its lead on a different path than the rest of the nation.»

A number of years back, I started a success board, which is nothing more than a whiteboard in the corner of my office on which I capture my achievements throughout the year.

An appointment of Woods to the top Exxon job could signal the company's board wants to continue to focus on cash generation in order to keep boosting shareholder payouts, rather than focus on pricey development projects, analysts have said.

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.

At 17, Rosemary was even younger than her niece when she took a seat on the board of the holding company that in turn owned Cara Operations.

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 fact, prior to Pershing Square's efforts, CP had no one with rail experience on its board other than the CEO.

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.»

Rather than lightening my load, on - boarding an assistant doubled my work.

Together with VW's home state of Lower Saxony, labour representatives hold more than half of the 20 seats on the group's supervisory board that ratifies key decisions on investment, plant closures and executive appointments.

The complaint added fuel to the fire of some on Capitol Hill, who have grown increasingly uneasy about the confusing ownership structure of the Chinese conglomerate since a July announcement revealed that a charitable foundation owned more than half of the firm and company executives and board members owned most of the rest.

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

Canada's seventh - largest — and largest foreign - owned — bank, with more than $ 90 billion in assets and $ 2 billion in annual revenue, the company under her watch has become an exemplar of gender diversity, with equal numbers of men and women on the board and in senior management.

CBS Corp's board is set to discuss a merger with Viacom Inc on Thursday, sources have told Reuters, possibly starting the process of reuniting the two media companies split by mogul Sumner Redstone more than a decade ago.

Samsung is opening up the sensor to other app developers so that it can be used for more than just unlocking the phone (PayPal is on board for payments, for example), but I got so frustrated with it that I ended up turning it off.

When a new leader comes on board from another company, or you've unexpectedly needed to promote someone in - house earlier than planned, the urgency to coach the new coach can be tremendous.

The National Restaurant Association said on Thursday the Board of Health unfairly burdened restaurant owners and usurped the power of the popularly elected City Council by forcing restaurants with more than 15 locations nationwide to warn diners about salty foods.

Bonnie Gwin, Global CEO and Board of Directors Practice at the executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, agreed with the advice, adding that at this moment of rising activist pressure, mounting cyber security concerns, and a more constant media spotlight, being on a board is harder, higher - stakes and more demanding than Board of Directors Practice at the executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, agreed with the advice, adding that at this moment of rising activist pressure, mounting cyber security concerns, and a more constant media spotlight, being on a board is harder, higher - stakes and more demanding than board is harder, higher - stakes and more demanding than ever.

«To date, the candidates have focused more on issues that will hurt small business than on those that will grow small business,» says USHCC Board Chair David C Lizà ¡ rga in a press release received at inc.com HQ.

So keen was McDermott to get back to work that he joined the executive board's extraordinary meeting little more than two months after the accident, on September 10, 2015.

However, some customers didn't even notice the price cuts or said they weren't lower enough to make a difference, as they seemed to be focused on specific items rather than being implemented across the board.

His holding company, Icahn Enterprises, placed representatives on the boards of seven different corporations over the course of the year, more than any other year in its history.

Rather than resist Ackman, a brash, aggressively charming billionaire who likes to make huge bets on big companies and doesn't hesitate to wage proxy battles against those that rebuff him, Penney invited Ackman and Roth to join the board.

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

Shares in Nintendo jumped 10 percent to their highest level in more than two months with the stock the most heavily traded by value on Tokyo's main board and giving the firm a market value of about $ 23 billion.

More than anything, make sure your company proactively creates a culture of good cyber hygiene, and that cybersecurity is always on the forefront of everyone's mind — from the mailroom to the board room.

Circular Board is intimate in nature — no more than 10 women participate in one 12 - week cohort — and highly collaborative: Participants join a peer group and meet weekly (or more) via videoconference to share ideas, offer feedback and give progress reports on their business development.

Rather than posting an actual wheel in the office, McLaughlin had chief operating officer Tom Gavin post the tasks — and the names of the employees who were responsible for them — on the company intranet and on a board in the kitchen.

On Hacker News, Y Combinator's message board, the post has more than 690 comments, many of them supportive of Altman's argument.

He has served on more than 20 public company boards, including Xstrata Canada and Norbord Inc..

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

During the legal wrangling, the FTC revealed that over a period of years — and under a screen - name alias — Mackey had been promoting his company (and taking the occasional potshot at Wild Oats) in more than 1,000 comments on Yahoo Finance message boards.

Dating back more than 3,000 years, Go is a two - player board game that appears to be relatively simple on the surface — each player takes it in turns to lay a stone, with the objective being to surround the other player's pieces.

As board member Fred Wilson notes in a blog post supportively commenting on the new policy: «Etsy is a global company with significant operations in countries with parental leave regulations that are more generous than what exists in the US.

Independent software review organization AV-Test.org awarded the program perfect scores across the board on factors including protection, performance and usability, and those scores alone suggest the user could do far worst than choosing the Bitdefender option.

«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.