Sentences with phrase «public boards of»

He oversees the firm's representation of over 70 public boards of education, two private schools, two private universities, and a private medical school in a variety of legal matters.

School boards and district officials are expected to start outlining their budget proposals during public Board of Education meetings in the coming months.

A growing investment in and commitment to personalized medicine and continued success in securing external support for research activity at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine will be highlights of the Medical Center's public board of directors meeting tomorrow (Sept. 12).

The Parks Conservancy will detail PX programming and the revised site and building plan at the Presidio Trust Public Board of Directors Meeting on Monday, January 27, 2014 at 6:30 PM at the Herbst Pavilion on the Presidio Main Post, 385 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to pass a resolution opposing that bill, claiming it would be a detriment to public safety.

«Major tax increases or policy changes such as big hikes in the minimum wage will probably do more harm than good,» says Dahlby of the sort of programs necessary to satisfy vocal public - health boards.

Women's under - representation on boards and in top management positions has long been the subject of academic study and, more recently, public policy.

This board should contain relevant news from all sources: companies big, small, public, private as well as any other type of news that could inspire or influence the direction of the startup.

«The successful candidate will have prior experience as GC or deputy GC of a multi-billion dollar public company responsible for all legal matters (including corporate & other regulatory matters, board governance, legal aspects of M&A, legal aspects of commercial contracts, litigation & dispute resolution, privacy, employment contracts, global public policy, etc.).»

After hours of public comment, a Northern California water agency is delaying a vote on whether to support Gov.. The Santa Clara Valley Water District board will vote at a special meeting May 8.

The average debt for a graduate of a four - year public university in 2013 - 14, according to the College Board.

Tesla has also been engaged in a public fight this month with the National Transportation Safety Board over its investigation of a fatal Model X crash near San Francisco.

We looked at annual reports, board memberships, media clippings and more to find the leaders of Canada's public companies with real clout

From electric cars that can drive themselves to modernized public transport such as the Hyperloop to human - sized drones and hover boards (real ones, not those silly two - wheeled contraptions that catch on fire), we are entering an era of potentially dramatic change on the transportation front.

Early stage tech startups aren't public companies so you don't need to obsess with «having your books formally closed» or scheduling the board meeting only after the end of the quarter.

«Her broad industry insights, business acumen and experience serving in public company boards will bring invaluable perspective to our investment activities and to the growth of our portfolio companies.

«The senior leadership and Board of the company has been aligned and the company has never had plans to go public in 2018.

Axon, which makes Taser electroshock weapons body cameras, launched an artificial intelligence ethics board for public safety to guide the development of AI - powered services.

About 800 directors attend the NACD annual conference, but there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of directors on public, private and nonprofit boards within the U.S. alone.

Generally, that includes senior leadership from different departments and sometimes past and present clients, government, media, community leaders, the general public, the board of directors and shareholders.

Egon Zehnder studied the board composition of public companies in 44 countries.

The findings of the investigation headed by former Attorney General Eric Holder will be made public, board member Arianna Huffington said in a call with reporters on Thursday afternoon.

Class C directors are elected by the Board of Governors to represent the public, in contrast to Class A and B directors, who are elected by member banks.

• 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.

Yet somehow, in the U.S., large public companies can't seem to seem to make any progress at all in getting more women onto their boards of directors.

«There are quite a few board members of public companies who never speak to the media,» says Eleanor Bloxham, CEO of board education and advisory firm The Value Alliance and Corporate Governance Alliance.

Approximately half of public companies have staggered boards, which may insulate or entrench management.

Ad people like to believe that they create the public's tastes and moods (when they're not «disrupting» them), but it's usually more a matter of paddling around on their intellectual surf boards, searching for a cultural wave they can profitably ride to the beach.

So in 1993, on the advice of the board, he decided to take Seventh Generation public.

Public companies often have boards composed of serial entrepreneurs or prominent industry figures who offer their insights, and it was probably this step that prompted Facebook executives to take the direct, head - on approach.

If and when he does formally accept, Khosrowshahi will be tasked with bringing Uber back from the brink of its public meltdown, attempting to bring peace to its warring board, and keeping its core business running.

While the American public is overwhelmingly supportive of Mueller keeping his job and could be upset if action is taken against the special counsel's investigation, the editorial board fears that the public could see this as just another food fight in Washington, DC and let it go.

Shareholder returns at family - controlled corporations significantly outperform those of widely held public companies, even though family - controlled boards tend to break governance rules, such as having a certain number of independent directors.

As a public company, your board of directors will become much more visible, so it's even more important to have the right team.

«There are a number of requirements that public companies have independent board members,» says Mike Gould, a partner in the Chicago office of PricewaterhouseCoopers» capital markets transaction services practice.

«With the Sodium Mandate, the Board has required the disclosure of just enough inaccurate and controversial information about sodium in certain food items to cause far reaching negative consequences rather than help consumers and reduce public health risks.»

On Thursday, the National Transportation Safety Board said that after a series of public disclosures by Tesla it had taken the unusual step of revoking Tesla's status as a formal party to its investigation of a March 23 crash in California that killed a driver who was using Autopilot.

Public scrutiny of corporate boards has reached an all - time high.

Attached to the letter was a list of practices they called «common sense corporate governance principles» that amounted to a basic outline of a code many U.S. public companies today already either agree with or live by, or both, including issues of who sits on the board, the kinds of topics the board should discuss, and the adoption of proxy access.

She is also an experienced public and private corporate board director and has served on the boards of Darden Restaurants, Publix Supermarkets, Laidlaw International and various non-profit organizations in Miami.

BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.

«When I heard the team [at Tanium] was looking to expand the board, I really went for it in terms of pursuing it as an opportunity,» said Chadwick, who five years ago joined the board of F5 Networks (ffiv), a public cybersecurity firm that provides software to data centers.

As other boards use HP as a case study and learn from its trials, perhaps it's time for HP to also re-examine the board's level of involvement with the company's strategy — before the company presents their ideas to the public.

There have been numerous times when Musk's endeavors would have benefited by having more capital, yet he has resisted the urge to take SpaceX public because the board of directors of a publicly - held firm would undoubtedly force him to make changes in the company that would improve its profitability at the expense of its chances for reaching Mars.

After the two designed their breakthrough invention — a router that connects computer networks — and spent six years building the company, Lerner was fired by its board of directors in 1990, the same year Cisco went public.

Here's three ideas that boards of public companies can consider.

If he takes the post, it would come after the New York Fed's board of directors made several public comments about seeking a diverse pool of candidates for the job.

Yesterday Beyond Meat, one of a growing number of startups trying to convince the public to swap burgers and chicken wings for plant - based alternatives, announced some pretty meaty news: Don Thompson, the former CEO of McDonald's, is joining its board of advisors.

«The NY Fed should go back to the drawing board and draw from the deep, diverse, and highly qualified list of candidates provided to it by the Fed Up coalition (as well as surveying the views of other public interest groups),» the Economic Policy Institute's Josh Bivens said in a recent statement.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.