Sentences with phrase «said at a board»

Highway Superintendent James A. Dussing said at the board's meeting Wednesday that the town has 21 vehicles it tries to replace on a revolving three - year cycle.

school board member Monica Ratliff said at a board meeting this spring after she heard about the issue.

By what was said at the Board of Education meeting at the end of August, there was no indication this Achievement First school would be located anywhere except in the city's south end.

Enrollment as of Wednesday was 320 students, school officials said at a board of trustees meeting that night.

Not exact matches

At the same meeting, Ami Daniel, Windward's Co-Founder and CEO, said: «We're delighted to welcome Lord Browne to our Board of Directors.

«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.

«If you bring in more external people in the firm and board, it'll be positive for the company,» said Einar Lier Madsen, the study's author and a researcher at the Nordland Research Institute in Norway.

«The board has an obligation to prevent this violence from happening again and you can't say that you value women's rights at the same time that you say that these types of cases have to go into confidential arbitration,» Christensen said.

The Financial Post recently cited unnamed sources saying the board is considering appointing Barbara Stymiest, former COO at Royal Bank of Canada, as an independent chair to replace the duo.

ROZZANO, Italy, April 24 - Board fights at Telecom Italia and the battle of words between its top two shareholders have worsened the climate at Italy's biggest phone group and caused serious reputational damage, Deputy Chairman Franco Bernabe said.

Code for America co-founder Catherine Bracy fired off a series of tweets saying Silicon Valley should disown Thiel, urging men and women of all races not accept jobs at Facebook until he's off the board, and saying anyone who defends him is sending a powerful message about their values.

NEW YORK / TOKYO, May 2 - Xerox Corp said its CEO and most of its board will step down to settle a suit brought by shareholders Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason, with new management planning to look at restructuring or terminating a contentious deal with Fujifilm Holdings.

«Probably for the foreseeable future, bitcoin is just a pure digital gold,» said the CEO, who is also a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital firm.

«This is an option that reflects our commitment to public health,» she said at the public board meeting.

Although poaching does happen, Alan Middleton, professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business at York University and former board chair of ABC Life Literacy Canada, says employees feel a greater commitment to workplaces that have invested in them.

«We want salespeople putting points on the board as soon as possible,» says Elay Cohen, a former senior vice president of sales productivity at Salesforce who helped design the current boot - camp curriculum.

«On behalf of everyone at MTS, I want to thank Alon for his service and substantial contributions to the Company since he joined us in 2007 and wish him great success in his new professional path,» said Mr. Haim Mer, the Company's Chairman of the Board.

«Short - term behaviour destroys value,» says Poul Winslow, head of thematic investment and external portfolio management at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB).

But the board at CIBC (TSX: CM) said in a statement that it engaged in a «robust succession planning process» and chose Dodig to lead the bank into the future.

Pitch your company to several firms and try to simultaneously line up more than one offer, says Noam Wasserman, an entrepreneurship professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business (and a member of Inc.'s advisory board).

Total damages are estimated at between $ 4 billion and $ 9 billion, and the Conference Board of Canada says the rebuild could add $ 1.3 billion to Alberta's economy next year.

«It was highly successful,» says Mart Laar, 57, who became the first post-Soviet Prime Minister, at age 32, and is now chairman of the board of supervisors for the Bank of Estonia.

«We see many international retailers reluctant to come to the U.S. [after] you've seen big retailers take longer to resonate here than elsewhere,» said David Zoba, chairman of the global retail leasing board at commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle.

«The FSB's initial assessment is that crypto - assets do not pose risks to global financial stability at this time,» board Chairman Mark Carney said in a letter on March 18.

While it may seem counterintuitive that board members at publicly traded companies can remain so secretive, experts say that isn't so unusual.

Every senior executive and board member must, essentially, sign off on these requirements, says Richard Borden, a cybersecurity attorney at Robinson & Cole.

The board really polices itself but shareholders should have a greater say, through at a minimum majority voting and not having staggered boards.

«Management and the board believe the current market multiple does not reflect the true value of the standalone, pure - play businesses,» said Michael Bellisario, an analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co..

On making a good impression when you're new to an organization «If you're new in a writer's room, and you don't know what to do or say: One, be the person who holds the marker and stands at the board.

Boards need to be completely independent to function properly, and an executive's presence can exert «undue influence,» says Richard Leblanc, a professor at York University.

Tack on waning consumer sentiment — the latest Conference Board consumer confidence survey puts consumer optimism at 90, down nine points from its Ocotber reading — and it's hardly surprising owners aren't feeling super positive right now, Vitner says.

Welch said it would have a negative effect on labor in the US, would be damaging to the supply chains among the US, Canada, and Mexico, and would cause prices to rise across the board, particularly at giants such as Walmart.

«The good news, which is the mantra of my office and community board No. 4, is there will be, yes, by law, 35 years of income - restricted affordable housing,» Gale Brewer, the former City Councilwoman for the area and current Borough President of Manhattan, said at the time.

«We do believe the current governance structure, with Jamie Dimon serving as both chairman and CEO, and an independent minded board, has served the shareholders well and is right for the company at this time,» said Lee Raymond, JPMorgan Chase's presiding director and the former CEO of Exxon Mobil.

«There's been a tremendous emergence of IT as a governance concern,» says Matt Fullbrook, manager of the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness (CCBE) at the University of Toronto.

«It's baked into their DNA to be focused on the long term, as their focus is to maintain the family business and wealth,» says Matt Fullbrook, manager of the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness (CCBE) at the University of Toronto, which has been studying the underlying reasons for the curious strength of family firms.

Activist investor Carl Icahn says he will nominate four people to join the board of Xerox at the annual shareholder meeting next year.

Over the next week, the board will encourage the apparently large number of shareholders that had not cast votes to support the deal, said mergers expert Brian Quinn, an associate professor at Boston College Law School.

«If the Fed gets its paradigm wrong and sees inflation that ultimately doesn't materialize, and they take rates too far, then markets would feel aggrieved,» said Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist at Northern Trust in Chicago, and a former senior risk official at the Fed Board.

At the time, Maple Leaf's board said it would pursue a new shareholder plan with a poison - pill clause that would come into effect if 20 % of shares were sold to another investor.

Delta says it is partnering with CLEAR to power the back end of its biometric boarding system, which at the moment is a pilot program.

Speaking at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, he said: «It was disgusting, and it seems as if the board knew and something should have been done about it a lot earlier.»

«We are not pursuing A.I. to beat humans at games,» said Nadella, taking a subtle hit at competitors like Google and IBM, whose A.I. technologies got some attention for beating humans at the ancient Chinese board game Go and on the game show Jeopardy.

She says her role at the pipeline company is more senior than the one she had at MacMillan Bloedel: «I advise executives and the board.»

«The decline in confidence was fueled by a somewhat less optimistic outlook for business and job prospects in the coming months,» Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board, said in a statement.

Edward Snyder at Charter Equity Research says the decision will come down to the Qualcomm board elections on March 6.

Buffett, who celebrates his 50th year at the helm of his company, said that that Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK) board has identified his successor but didn't reveal his or her identity.

«When the same people are controlling pay at a number of companies, that can cause a direct ratcheting up of pay,» says Eleanor Bloxham, who heads The Value Alliance and Corporate Governance Alliance, a board education and advisory firm, and is a regular contributor to Fortune.com.

New York, NY — «In a shocking rebrand, Alley, New York City's most beloved entrepreneurial ecosystem, will no longer be accepting human applications,» a company representative said this morning at a board meeting in their Chelsea headquarters.

When asked about the culture at Rent the Runway, board member Friend says, «You're not the first person to voice that question.