Sentences with phrase «percent of advisory boards»

One user commented that likely only 50 to 60 percent of advisory boards are legitimate anymore, and put the NextBlock situation in a different light, implying that it's become common practice to dress up a proposal with photos of known experts.

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Whole Foods hired the advisory firm Evercore Partners earlier this year to defend itself from pressure by activist shareholder Jana Partners, which announced in April it had amassed an 8.3 percent stake and pushed for changes to the Whole Foods board of directors.

While those charter school failures hung over the heads of the advisory board members during the last application cycle, when they voted to approve just 15 percent of applications last year, that percentage climbed much higher for the latest application cycle.

Nearly 50 percent — 18 out of 40 applications — were moved forward by the advisory board earlier this spring for a 2016 opening.