Sentences with phrase «shared public good»

Not exact matches

According to Holly deGraaf, Interim General Manager and Director, Retail Operations and Public Relations at Ten Thousand Villages Canada, «The highest [impact is made] when what [bloggers] share and write doesn't look like --[or better yet, isn't]-- a paid endorsement.

They are Social Currency (e.g., sharing things that make people look good), Triggers (acknowledging that we talk about things that are top - of - mind), Emotion, Public (imitating what we see others do), Practical Value (news people can use) and Stories (information passed along under the guise of idle chitchat).

The company went public in 2013, and its IPO was one of that year's best: BRP stock, which happens to sport the ticker's coolest symbol (TSX: DOO), launched in May 2013 at $ 21.50 per share and rose 40 % in the next 12 months to $ 29.97.

Square now has the ability to tap the public markets for further financing, if necessary, and is better able to use its shares as currency in acquisitions.

Plunging sales two years ago sent Fitbit's shares into a tailspin — they're down more than 70 % from their 2015 initial public offering price — although it has unveiled a well - reviewed watch of its own called Versa.

Users in these groups would share «best practices» from bombarding borrowers with frequent phone calls to posting public notices around their homes or even swarming them with «beggars,» practices that a Chinese lawyer told The Paper could veer into illegal territory.

The movement pushed the stock to $ 7.25 a share, well above the value set in its $ 140 - million initial public offering.

But despite its best efforts, VMware itself is not a big player in the brave new world of public cloud computing, the shared data center infrastructure pioneered by Amazon Web Services (amzn), which is now facing heated competition from Microsoft (msft) and Google (googl).

Fox first announced its 10.75 pound per share offer in December 2016 but the deal has been held up concerns about the influence Murdoch could wield over public opinion through owning all of the broadcaster as well a clutch of UK newspapers.

Valerie Jarrett, who is President Obama's longest serving senior adviser and runs his Office for Public Engagement, told me later, «I was impressed with the number of executives who highlighted their recognition that diversity is a strength and who shared their best practices with us.»

Second, private companies «go public» via IPOs, spreading total profits in the economy, as well as earnings in individual sectors, over a larger and larger base of shares.

But as the company nears profitability, going public may be the best way to let employees share in the wealth, Karp says now.

He was hired from Credit Suisse, where he was head of global internet investment banking and was perhaps best known for his leading role on the initial public offering of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group in 2014, the largest share sale ever.

To measure how well GoPro's customer engagement goals are met, we can look to the comments, shares, and reviews that their audience provides through public feedback and GoPro can measure how their content increases time on site and influences user - generated content.

Tencent sold shares to the public in Hong Kong in 2004 and is now China's largest internet community, offering services including chat, group messaging, news portals, and entertainment as well as e-commerce.

Conference Board of Canada The Conference Board builds leadership capacity for a better Canada by creating and sharing insights on economic trends, public policy and organizational performance.

Uber could see Softbank lead a cash injection of up to $ 1.5 billion, as well as the purchase of 17 % of its outstanding shares, as CEO Khosrowshahi plots public listing for world's most valuable startup.

Canada's cities will be the next frontier for risk - sharing public - private partnerships, bringing new players and new complications into the now well - tested infrastructure model.

If the managing underwriters of any such public offering determine in good faith that the purchase by Passport of such number of shares in the public offering would be detrimental to the public offering, then the managing underwriters may, in their sole discretion, reduce the number of shares that Passport may purchase.

While the EEA is a collaboration among its member base as well as with Ethereum's chief scientist and inventor, Vitalik Buterin, it is open to any members of the Ethereum community who wish to participate in the EEA's shared goals, such as providing insight to the future of scalability, privacy, and confidentiality of the public Ethereum permissionless network.

But Square priced its initial public offering Wednesday night at $ 9 a share — well below its expected range of $ 11 to $ 13.

This shared public ledger enables people to make transactions with each other over the network, opening up new global marketplaces for small businesses as well as a number of transactions all together.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oupublic trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic ouPublic Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oupublic offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

To the extent the ownership and profit sharing is a public good, a nudge in policy to consider the idea makes sense.

Reuters News PE Hub — IPO (Canada) Ping An's Good Doctor online healthcare platform has raised US$ 1.12 billion in its initial public offering, pricing its shares at the top of its range in Hong Kong's largest new listing this -LSB-...]

Making a rare public appearance in New York, Wu shared the stage with Michael Bloomberg and gushed about his «good friend» Jonathan Gray, then Blackstone's real estate head.

The Business Council works closely with a number of organizations that share our commitment to shaping public policy in the interests of a stronger Canada and a better world.

Internet bandwith as a public good should be auctioned to for - profit businesses to ensure that its benefits are shared with society, rather than privatized by a few ultra-wealthy owners

In cases where the likelihood of an acquisition or Initial Public Offering aren't likely, we will not make equity investments and will instead explore debt financing as well as quasi-equity structures like royalty financing, revenue - share agreements, and when appropriate, factoring.

That comparison, the SFMTA told TechCrunch in January, will entail opting for the place the city should promote stationless bike - share, the impact stationless bike - share has on the general public correct - of - approach, «including maintaining accessible pedestrian paths of shuttle, as well as the enforcement / renovation burden on metropolis staff.»

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

Shares were sold to both public retail investors as well as traditional accredited and institutional investors.

This is probably in part because investors assume that an IPO transaction in and of itself is an indication that a company is doing well, although a unicorn company could be doing well but still go public at a price per share less than the price paid by the unicorn investor.

I have had people knocking on my door and have been accosted at public events by people who want to share the «good news» of Jesus with me.

The key to the strength of Victorian virtues was that those virtues were not, in fact, just middle class but were shared by nearly everyone: from the Queen down to the poorest Cockney, nearly everyone believed in the public good that came from observance of the national ethic.

She suggested taking what has been shared on this thread, along with information that can't in good conscience be shared in public, for private professional review, making use of structures developed by denominations over many years of dealing with situations like these.

In a passage written to be quoted, even by those who do not share the mature Oz's leftist convictions, he reports his father's tearful response (the only time he ever displayed emotion to his son) to the public broadcast of the U.N. vote partitioning Palestine between Jews and Arabs: «Bullies may well bother you in the street or in school someday.

No to Privatization «red in tooth and claw»; yes to Public Sector without political corruption; no to Liberalization, with market exploitation; yes to Liberation from exploitative coercion; no to globalization as domination of world market with deprivation of the developmental directive of «Small is Beautiful»; yes to Universalism in sharing and caring for the suffering humanity and Good Samaritan ethic - these should be evolved and situated in Third World conditions and perspectives.

But the participants share one important conviction: they believe that the resolution of religiously rooted political tensions will be attained not by avoiding religion in public, but by initiating more and better religious conversations in public.

They attend their Sunday serivces at their assigned ward, they share alot of Christian values, BUT they also have many ceremonial activities which are not widely known to the public as well as many spiritual beliefs.

Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said: «We're delighted that David and Stephen will not face charges for sharing the good news of Jesus with the public.

This belief, Bloom claims, is a consequence of the failure of colleges and universities to cultivate among their students a sense of shared goals and a common vision of the public good.

Singular psyches are better conceived, in the view I have been sketching, as fleeting nodes in a multi-layered semiotic network whose connectivities are both ensured and characterized by shared modes of symbolization, or signification, such as language supplies.24 Here the «We» often claims the last word, but so long as some vestige of radical imagination remains, singular psyches are not subservient to public customs, institutional definitions, entrained instincts, ingrained habits, and soon.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

We can work to change them and to prevent them from being changed in the wrong ways, even with policy makers and judges who do not share our religious commitments but do share our concern for the public good.

The best part is, they freely share their recipe with the public!

«When a public restroom makes you stop to take a video or capture a quick selfie to share with friends, it deserves to be nominated for the chance to be called America's Best Restroom,» said John Engel, Senior Marketing Manager, Cintas.

But now the KKR approach is in full public glare and Treasury — the owner of prized brands such as Penfolds, Wolf Blass, Rosemount and Wynns — is, in effect, on the sale block, a public auction has been set in train provided the price is right and well above the opening salvo of $ 4.70 a share from KKR.

Shares in Treasury Wine have rallied nearly 25 per cent since KKR's bid was made public, signalling investors are expecting a better bid from the US fund or for another player to soon join the auction with a price set at least above $ 5 per share.

In an opinion piece published in The Hill, American Beverage Association President and CEO Susan Neely points to new research providing further proof that beverage taxes harm communities and explains how America's beverage companies are taking comprehensive actions to achieve our shared goal of better public health.