Sentences with phrase «over board by»

As a consequence, my initial blog concept has pretty much been thrown over board by now.

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ROZZANO, Italy, April 24 - Telecom Italia Chief Executive Amos Genish was backed by nearly all shareholders present at a general meeting on Tuesday, days before a showdown over board seats between the Italian phone group's top two investors.
As Quebec has risen to become by far the world's leading producer of maple syrup, the federation has evolved into a powerful marketing board with almost absolute control over the provincial industry.
«Exploration expenditures in the N.W.T. have languished over the past few years and could therefore limit the territory's options for growing its mining industry in the long term,» noted a recent report by the Conference Board of Canada.
Hunter Hall Investment Management says Ian Trahar's bid to take over Kresta Holdings significantly undervalues the business and has rejected suggestions it was seeking to take control of the business by ousting key board members.
Plus, he said, the intelligence it has is specialized — so much so that a system trained to play a board game like chess can't translate those skills over to checkers without being programmed by a human to do so.
At the White House's first United States of Women Summit in 2016, Buffett confessed that he only thought to put a woman on the Berkshire Hathaway board in 2003 — nearly 40 years after taking over the company — by the suggestion of his wife Susie.
A recent forecast by the Conference Board of Canada suggests that indebted households will restrain spending over the next few years, contributing to slow economic growth.
Representation of white women in leadership roles improved by 17 % over the nine year period, but for black, latino, and Asian men and women, percentages declined across the board, according to research by the nonprofit Ascend Foundation, an organization that advocates for Asians in business.
In what was possibly a preemptive move by the company, the Wells board of directors decided to take back $ 41 million in stock - based compensation from Stumpf along with just over $ 16 million in stock options from former community - banking head Carrie Tolstedt.
IT governance: Is IT risk and opportunity management adequately overseen by the board (or a committee), including over IT investment, cloud computing, social media, security of information, privacy, business interruption and crisis planning?
That was well over two months ago, and while Uber's excellent executive leadership team is making commendable progress on these changes, many of the most important issues agreed to by the board remain unaddressed.
Stocks fell across the board Wednesday as the year's final fiscal quarter opened to a market sell - off spurred by concerns over mounting global crises, including the first domestic case of Ebola, as well as the looming possibility of an interest rate hike.
At the moment, control over National Amusements is scheduled to pass to a trust whenever Sumner Redstone dies — a trust whose board consists of Shari Redstone, her son, Viacom CEO Dauman and a number of legal advisors appointed by Redstone.
ROZZANO, Italy, April 24 (Reuters)- Telecom Italia (TIM) shareholders will vote on Tuesday to confirm Amos Genish as CEO, while a widely - anticipated showdown between the top two investors in Italy's biggest phone group over board seats is delayed by 10 days.
Formerly athletic director at the University of Michigan (he resigned amid disapproval from the Board of Regents and student anger over his profit - driven approach to the job), he'd had a successful stint at Domino's Pizza and was recruited by Bain in 2015.
Only 23 % of Canadians expect their family's finances to improve over the next six months, while 18.4 % think their family's position will actually worsen, according to an April report by the Conference Board of Canada.
«One of the largest increases in cocaine seizures in the past five years has been observed in Ecuador, where the amount of cocaine seized rose by over 242 per cent, amounting to 50 metric tons in 2014,» the UN's International Narcotics Control Board wrote in its 2015 report.
She had acquired the capital to build the company by selling equity to a group of angel investors, who owned just over 50 percent of the stock and thus controlled the board.
After a visit to Communitech, he was persuaded to take over by local heavyweights, including Tom Jenkins, now chair of the board at OpenText.
Look for efforts by good boards to have risk expertise on the board; internal oversight functions and third party reviews reporting to the board; and assurance over the entire risk appetite framework.
We have created hundreds of billions of dollars of shareholder value over the last 30 years by convincing boards and CEOs to take the steps necessary to greatly increase the value of their companies.
As CtW commented this time around, «While Ms. Friedman herself brings a modicum of gender diversity to the board, her failure to address the board's broader composition over her 21 year tenure suggests that the board will be better served by replacing her with a fresh and diverse nominee.»
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), Neiman Marcus, Inc.'s internal control over financial reporting as of July 28, 2012, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated September 18, 2012 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
The survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder among 88 executives ages 18 and over (CEO, Chairman / Board Member, Partner / Principal, Owner, or Company President with company revenue of at least $ 50 million) from April 14 to 21, 2015.
If no instructions are indicated on a properly executed proxy card or over the telephone or Internet, the shares will be voted as recommended by our board of directors.
The organization is supported by over 300 business leaders and currently led by board co-chairs, Globalive founder Anthony Lacavera and McKinsey and Company partner John Kelleher.
Mr. Redstone, who controls about 80 percent of the company, said in a statement in May that decisions over succession would be made by the board, not an individual, and that such decisions had not yet been made.
Because boards tend to grow conservative over time, every year, the Amazon board gave a report of an organization that was diminished by the «institutional no» — doing more analysis and take fewer risks.
The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, which has given over $ 1 billion in grants so far, has been strongly shaped by Susan, who has served as board chair.
Over time, it complimented that board by adding operators, such as former Genentech CEO Art Levinson.
NEW YORK / TOKYO (Reuters)- Xerox Corp (XRX.N) said its CEO and most of its board will step down to settle a suit by activist shareholders Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason, handing over to new management which will reconsider a contentious deal with Fujifilm Holdings (4901.
(c) Banks are apprehensive about boarding bitcoin entities over concerns related to money laundering activities which could be carried out by their newly boarded digital currency clients.
In it, he very matter - of - factly states exactly how the Yahoo shareholders, led by him, intend to take over the company by way of a proxy battle to replace Yahoo's board of directors.
The Hewlett - Packard Company Board of Directors (the «Board») has made these materials available to you over the Internet or delivered paper copies of these materials to you by mail in connection with HP's annual meeting of stockholders, which will take place on Wednesday, March 23, 2011.
NEW YORK / TOKYO Xerox Corp said its CEO and most of its board will step down to settle a suit by activist shareholders Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason, handing over to new management which will reconsider a contentious deal with Fujifilm Holdings.
The «Authorities» include the Main and Supplementary Estimates tabled by the President of the Treasury Board, plus authorities carried over from previous years and adjustments, warrants, transfers and other.
The Advisory Board's EAB business, which provides data, advisory and benchmarking services to educational institutions, was acquired by Vista Equity for $ 1.55 B (6X Revenue, 20X EBITDA) and Thoma Bravo acquired Frontline, which provides HR software for K - 12 for well over $ 1B (details not disclosed).
Hanging over everything has been the uncertainty about the company's plan to spin off its $ 26 billion stake in Alibaba, which was announced a year ago but was abandoned last month by the company's board of directors because of tax concerns.
The new Board has authority over the Wirlu - murra Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation and are ultimately accountable for all decisions made by the organisation.
This is because the deal — which was ultimately approved by the board — transferred control of Xerox to Fujifilm without any payment to shareholders, named Jacobson as CEO of the combined entity, and gave Jacobson / Xerox say over the makeup of the combined entity's board.
For over 20 years, Chris has raised capital, held board positions and managed several of the portfolio companies through successful IPO's or acquisitions, including DexCom (DXCM), DivX Networks (DivX), Khimetrics (Acquired by SAP) and Overture (Acquired by Yahoo).
Over his investing career at GC, he was the lead investor and board member for a number of companies including Vitrue (acquired by Oracle), Highwinds (StackPath), Boxee (Samsung), Elemental Technologies (Amazon / AWS), HotPotato (Facebook), ThisTech (Comcast), The Honest Company, Bustle, Cozy, DECA / KinCommunity, NatureBox, RealtyShares, Singular and many others.
A total of 17 teams competed and presented proposals for new PropTech hacks at the Real Estate Board of New York's (REBNY) first #REBNYTech Hackathon — hosted by its REBNYTech Committee and sponsored by Real Capital Analytics, RealConnex, and Samsung Internet — over three days during #NYCRETechWeek.
The vote - counting methodology used by the Company does not inherently favor proposals submitted by the Board over proposals submitted by shareholders, as the vote - counting standard for approving any proposal other than for the election of directors is identical.
Ms. Bloxham is also the author of the Governance chapter in The Investor Relations Guide (published by Kennedy publications) and the Board chapter in Business Valuation Resource's Guide to Healthcare Valuation and the author / co-author of over 100 articles published by, among others Corporate Board Member, Directors Monthly, Directorship Magazine, International Finance and Treasury, Bank Accounting and Finance, American Banker, National Underwriter, Valuation Issues, Shareholder Value Magazine, CFO Magazine, Corporate Finance Review, the Wharton Leadership Digest, the Journal of Strategic Performance Measurement, Executive Talent, and the Journal of Cost Management.
Peter Currie, as our current Lead Independent Director, is empowered to, among other things, preside over meetings of our independent directors, approve information to be sent to our board of directors if requested to do so by our board of directors, approve proposed meeting agendas and schedules and call meetings of our board of directors or independent directors.
Energy security analyst Rick Munroe pored over 14,000 pages of documents unearthed by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board's probe into the massive Michigan pipeline rupture.
A DBSP Award will be granted over such number of shares as have at the grant date a market value, as determined by our board of directors, equal to the deferred bonus (the amount of bonus which is to be delivered in the form of a conditional award or a nil - cost option).
terminate either (a) each outstanding option or (b) each outstanding option that is fully exercisable as of the date of such transaction, in exchange for a cash payment equal in amount to the excess, if any, of the fair market value, as determined by our board of directors, of a share of our common stock over the per - share exercise price of each such option, multiplied by the number of shares subject to each such option.
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