Sentences with phrase «recent change of management»

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But a recent round of management changes within the industry portends more concern for shareholder value.

Greencrest's 2014 Twitter IPO projections are based on a variety of metrics, including recent management changes, partnerships with major brands, user growth, and, most importantly, revenue growth.

Net written premiums of $ 574 million increased 6 %, reflecting an increase in domestic surety premiums, continued strong retention and an increase in new business in domestic management liability, while renewal premium change remained consistent with recent quarters.

Other factors that have changed the nature of HRM in recent years include new management and operational theories like Total Quality Management (TQM), rapidly changing demographics, and changes in health insurance and federal and state employment lemanagement and operational theories like Total Quality Management (TQM), rapidly changing demographics, and changes in health insurance and federal and state employment leManagement (TQM), rapidly changing demographics, and changes in health insurance and federal and state employment legislation.

Recent shifts in regulations are one of the major forces driving changes in the the asset management industry in China.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

In talking about monetary policy's contribution to the management of the economic challenges, the speech notes the recent increases in mortgage rates of the commercial banks, outside of the cycle of changes in the cash rate.

BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry, and the company's previously disclosed review of strategic alternatives.

«We believe that adjusted EBITDA is an important measure of our operating performance because it allows management, investors and analysts to evaluate and assess our core operating results after removing the impact of changes in our capital structure, income - tax status and method of vehicle financing, and other items of a nonoperational nature that affect comparability,» Zipcar said in its most recent filing.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

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Tilson's firmed disclosed a 164,000 share position citing the company's low valuation (5.6 x trailing EPS), huge short interest (43 percent of the gloat), recent management changes, and a large market opportunity as reasons to hold a positive bias on the company.

Peter's leadership, in combination with other recent management changes, including a new CFO and head of Americas (both also from Kuehne and Nagel), have significantly improved Panalpina's senior management team.

PERNOD RICARD USA ® CREATES NEW POSITION OF CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER, SPIRITS — Appointment follows recent global senior management changes — Following organizational -LSB-...]

A recent policy change permits the use of limited hunting to achieve specific ecological management goals.

This study, published in a recent issue of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, is the first to use financial investors» actions, rather than self - reported opinions, to investigate the trans - Atlantic difference in public opinion on climate change and the environment.

Other recent changes in agriculture include hydroponics, plant breeding, hybridization, gene manipulation, better management of soil nutrients, and improved weed control.

Their results, published in the journal Climatic Change, point to the need for new or modified wildfire management and evacuation programs in the nation's high - risk regions, said Jia Coco Liu, a recent Ph.D. graduate at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) and lead author of the study.

Prior studies that examined the impact of cancer treatment decisions on employment showed that patients who received chemotherapy were most likely to experience longer disruptions in or loss of employment, but changes in breast cancer management in recent years have shifted recommendations away from chemotherapy for early stage breast cancer.

Recent changes in land use have been well documented in South Dakota, according to Chipps, an adjunct faculty member in South Dakota State University's Department of Natural Resource Management.

In a recent article published in the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Filho writes that while conditions tend to be dry in the southeast during the months of June and July, there will be much rainfall in the northeast of the country.

The researchers found that, «despite large environmental change and management efforts over recent decades, water quality of lakes in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. has not overwhelmingly degraded or improved.»

It's no accident that the governments of both the Netherlands and Singapore, which already had educational systems that produce very high achievement, have both made substantial changes to their management of schools in recent years.

With the significant policy changes over recent years, passing the management of the school to the senior management team in schools, it is interesting to see whether schools leave procurement decisions to the head teacher.

As my colleague, Jason Stricker, discussed in a recent blog, The 5 Shifts Healthy PLCs Make, this can only happen through a process of «bottom - up» change management — and the top - down conditions that support it.

Interview (8:49)- Stephen Windwalker, author of The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Kindle 2 and creator of the weekly e-newsletter, Kindle Nation, serves me delicious pancakes at his home and talks about creating Kindle Nation, Digital Rights Management, how his use of the Kindle has changed, and the surprising results from his recent Kindle survey.

The traditional system of book metadata management has changed a lot in the recent years.

The recent change to their employment contracts, however, providing management with more security in the event of a transaction, might indicate, or at least leave that door open for, the possibility of a sale.

And since the board / management are the obvious problem / road - block here in terms of capital allocation, I do think the recent board changes actually offer asymmetric risk / reward — at worst, we end up with some new management / board members & just more of the same... but at best, we end up with a team who can actually deliver on acquisition (s) and / or a meaningful return of capital to shareholders (ideally, via a tender offer).

In a recent column in Forbes magazine, Stocks Be Nimble Stocks Be Cheap, Jim Oberweis, President of Oberweis Asset Management, wrote that companies ``... succeed by anticipating the needs of a changing world.

Mutual funds of many Asset Management Companies are being changed after a recent circular by Securities and Exchange Board of India.

London Stansted has announced a number of changes to strengthen its senior management team and support the continued growth of the airport following the recent appointment of new chief executive, Andrew Cowan.

The recent ease with which the airline announced changes that makes it uncompetitive with its fellow legacy US airlines shows that American isn't scared of being an outlier, and a management team that thinks like that is more than capable of yet another award chart devaluation.

Recent proposals for wildfire budgeting would do little to change the underlying incentives of wildfire management, and it is unlikely that they will improve the efficiency with which wildfires are managed.

Recent research has shown that coral reefs are significantly suffering from the impacts of climate change, the acidification of oceans, poor fisheries management and pollution from urban and agricultural runoff which encourages over-running of the reefs by algae and the bleaching of the reefs themselves.

With the impacts of rising temperatures already being felt, and recent IPCC reports drawing into sharper focus the range of impacts expected in the coming decades, solar radiation management (SRM) is attracting increasing attention as a potentially cheap, fast - acting, albeit temporary response to some of the dangers of climate change.

«We update information for cattle and swine by region, based on reported recent changes in animal body mass, feed quality and quantity, milk productivity, and management of animals and manure,» the researchers wrote in their study.

The United States» federal coal leasing program has come under increased scrutiny in recent years, as communities impacted by coal mining and export proposals, taxpayer advocates, and environmental groups have questioned the ability of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to ensure a fair return to US taxpayers and adjust to newer challenges such as climate change and coal export proposals.

In addition to local weather patterns, shaped by climate change, a review of Chile's wildfires published in the Global and Planetary Change journal warned that the «pattern, frequency and intensity» of wildfires in the country «has grown at an alarming rate» in recent years, partly because of intensive forest management practices that have led to a large amount of flammable fuel in the country's fochange, a review of Chile's wildfires published in the Global and Planetary Change journal warned that the «pattern, frequency and intensity» of wildfires in the country «has grown at an alarming rate» in recent years, partly because of intensive forest management practices that have led to a large amount of flammable fuel in the country's foChange journal warned that the «pattern, frequency and intensity» of wildfires in the country «has grown at an alarming rate» in recent years, partly because of intensive forest management practices that have led to a large amount of flammable fuel in the country's forests.

The need for a broader definition of risk management becomes apparent when we examine the range of responses that law firms are taking to the recent changes.

As the result of the recent changing economic environment and increasingly competitive markets in which most law firms practice, Managing Partners and members of Management and Compensation Committees in the more successful law firms have identified and re-defined those objective and subjective criteria that have been especially designed to motivate partners to attract new clients, proliferate work from existing clients, perform those fee producing and non-fee producing activities that are necessary to retain existing clients and recognize those partners who have been given responsibility for managing the performance of clients and client work that other members of the firm have originated.

Mr. Torrijos has spoken extensively on class action topics, including: Class Actions in the Age of Big Data (November 15, 2014, 2014 Consumer Attorneys of California Annual Convention); Structuring Class Settlements That Will Get Approved (October 2, 2014, Bridgeport Continuing Education 2014 Wage & Hour Litigation & Management); Class Action Settlements: Rule 68 Offers of Judgment and Other Strategic Tools (April 11, 2014, Bridgeport Continuing Education 2014 Class Action Conference); Getting Your Settlement Approved (September 2014, JAMS Class Action Seminar); The Changing Standards of Class Certification (January 10, 2014, Bridgeport Continuing Education Consumer Class Action Conference); Class Actions: Recent Developments (January 2014, myLawCLE); CAFA Removal and Remand: Latest Developments (March 29, 2011, Stafford Publications); and Is it better to file a nationwide class action or state - only class action?

But it is our recent recruitment of senior lawyer Kerry Quinn that has been the biggest single change for us, as she is heading up an altogether new team, focused on operational management and specialist roles including project, process management and risk.

If the recent reorganization of Thomson Reuters is any indication of who will be calling the shots on what the future of legal research and content management is going to look like (and by extension, the practice of law), the next decade is going to be a period of amazing (read: possibly depressing) change.

- Improved support for Motorola Moto G Dual SIM: — QS: adjusted network mode tile (allows changing SIM slot on long - press)-- QS: adjusted handling and reordering of cellular tiles — QS: proper adjustment of signal tile size for tiles per row option — Signal cluster adjustments, including icon coloring (NOTE: cell signal doesn't support data activity indicators)-- fixed Smart radio — all other misc Multi SIM related adjustments - Quick settings: — revived Ringer Mode Tile (silent == priority)(thanks to romracer)-- revived USB Tethering Tile — fixed other misc issues in tile management (thanks to romracer)- BatteryBar: improved behavior in lock screen status bar (now allows bottom position)- ProgressBar: improved behavior in lock screen status bar (now allows bottom position)- Phone: — added workaround for missed calls notification LED — added 5s ramp - up duration for ascending ringtone - Ultimate notification control: — fixed issues causing unexpected heads up and notification icon «jumping» — show package names in app descriptions for better identification of packages having the same app name - Power: improved option for low battery warning policy - Navigation bar: improved handling of cursor control keys - Recents: added option for using alternate icon for clear all button - Fixed unexpected disappearing of centered clock and centered traffic monitor - Other misc Motorola specific fixes (thanks to romracer)- Updated Japanese translations (thanks to WedyDQ10)- Updated French translations (thanks to ch - vox)- Updated Hungarian translations (thanks to benjoe1)- Updated Chinese (Simplified) translations (thanks to liveasx)- Updated Portuguese (BR) translations (thanks to wyghor, KingKaminari)- Updated Russian translations (thanks to gaich)- Updated Chinese (Traditional) translations (thanks to PeterDaveHello)- Updated Malay translations (thanks to zamzameir)

Something that's surprisingly changed is the Recents menu and multi-window management... at least part of it.

These professionals are responsbile for designing compliance plans, updating their knowledge on recent regulation changes, guiding management and staff on compliance matters, and responding in case of government investigations.

Whatever the reason for your desire to change positions — a bad boss, a recent acquisition or you simply hate your job — when driven by these feelings, you may lose sight of best practices for career management.

Yet a recent survey conducted by Right Management, a career management consulting firm, shows that 31 percent of employees are not able to adapt to changeManagement, a career management consulting firm, shows that 31 percent of employees are not able to adapt to changemanagement consulting firm, shows that 31 percent of employees are not able to adapt to changes at work.

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