In an effort to align manager's interests with shareholders, CEO compensation has
shifted over time from cash salary and bonus to a mix with stock and options with vesting schedules where stock and options are now 55.6 % of the compensation1, with Earnings per Share (EPS) as one of the targets for vesting stock or options.
In a recent post Felix Salmon at Reuters talks about how individual investors, on average, were harmed as their savings
shifted over time from defined benefit to defined contribution plans.
Taking this approach allows us to consider how the role of self - portraiture has
shifted over time from producing likenesses as keepsakes for friends or as public statements of creative identity, to more recent conceptual responses to self - portraiture such as Felix Gonzales - Torres» text portrait (Untitled, 1989), the content of which is added to each time it is shown in a new location.
Observers
shifted over time from evening to morning observation.
Not exact matches
One positive result: GE's gas turbine business
shifted its model
from selling upgrades
over time to committing to future changes upfront, a customer - friendly approach.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated
shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results
from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products
over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data
from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified
from time to
time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
Conversely, when the inclinations of investors
shift from risk - aversion to speculation in an undervalued market, extraordinary returns can unfold
over a very short period of
time.
By
shifting from a company that just tracks all the key data into one that immerses the team in the data in real
time, they've been able to increase team activity by 35 % and more importantly are generating
over 16 % more qualified sales opportunities.
He started his career with Gold Fields at the St Helena Gold Mine as a graduate trainee and progressed via various operational roles
from being an underground
shift boss to become Vice President and Head of Operations at Kloof Gold Mine in January 1999 at which
time Kloof produced
over 1,000,000 ounces of gold per annum.
Retreating slowly
from risk is one way to manage today's ecstatic environment, perhaps by lightening up on historically expensive assets and
shifting over time into high - quality corporate bonds or shorter - term fixed income vehicles.
Doing so allows marketers to find ways to
shift operationally
from fragmented shotgun campaigns to being present with buyers as they are experiencing,
over time, efforts to accomplish goals.
I like Visa as a bet on the global
shift from cash to cards and view it as a royalty on increasing economic activity
over time.
It stresses that «all peoples comprise a single community» and that
from ancient
times «there has existed among diverse peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which hovers
over the course of things».21 Reference is made to the contemplation of the divine mystery in Hinduism and to Buddhism's acknowledgment of the «radical insufficiency of this
shifting world».
When rolls are being changed, say, once every 20 minutes, as may be the case with pre-applied zipper film, that
time adds up —
over an hour and a half of production
time lost in a single 8 - hour
shift on a single line,» says Chris Graff, vice-president of sales and marketing at the Massachusetts - based Butler Automatic Inc. «That's an hour and a half's worth of packages not being made, shipped and sold
from that line during each
shift.»
Where some players might get big - headed
from such attention, Doms
shifts focus to her team's accomplishments
over her own, and always takes
time for questions
from the media and fans.
«Understand that every
time you argue with your partner
over parenting, the focus
shifts away
from your child.
It's a series of predictions and musings more than a single argument, since he starts with the idea that digital tools tend,
over time, to
shift power away
from large institutions and toward small groups and individual actors and goes on to think about how it will affect institutions across the board.
Nicco's book is a series of predictions and musings more than a single argument, since he starts with the idea that digital tools tend,
over time, to
shift power away
from large institutions and toward small groups and individual actors and goes on to think about how it will affect institutions across the board.
English does serve as a kind of de facto lingua franca in a number of international settings, but it is not,
from what I have read, taught universally in South America, many African countries, or in parts of Asia, at least not at an early age for effective language acquisition (and I am unaware of any evidence that English is projected to take
over in a reasonable period of
time on its own; I have read that in Southeast Asia, for example, emphasis may even be
shifting to Chinese).
Notes
from a March 11, 2005, interview with Napier — attended by AG prosecutors — showed that his testimony
shifted over time.
«A sharp, permanent increase in taxes on a small group of highly mobile taxpayers, who enjoy a great deal of discretion
over the
timing and nature of their income, will inevitably cause some of them to either
shift income away
from this jurisdiction, or earn less, or collect the income in forms that will not be taxed,» said E.J. McMahon on the fiscally conservative Manhattan Institute.
We need to make sure that we are in control
over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be
shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear
from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming
from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that
time) and I always become confused because what can we expect
from him?nothing.
If he's accused of stealing money every
time he worked day
shifts simultaneously for the city and state
over those three years, the total amount he made
from the state would be $ 32,550, according to the records.
Over time, however, the emphasis
shifted away
from preparing future scientists and strongly toward performing federally funded grant research using the labor of trainees.
«Research shows that people who practice mindfulness do better on the inhibition tests
over time,» Murdock said, suggesting that
shifting one's attention away
from stressful thoughts may affect physiological responses.
There are almost as many methods of training as there are trainers, but
over time the basic strategy has
shifted away
from punishment or avoidance training (negative reinforcement) to positive reinforcement, where the dog is rewarded for doing the correct thing during most phases of training rather than being punished for not doing what the trainer wants.
To tap into cultural indicators of individualism, Grossmann and Varnum looked at trends in baby names
over time (
from Social Security Administration data), changes in word usage in books
over time (using the Google Ngram database), and
shifts in family structure, including family size and prevalence of multigenerational households (using U.S. Census data).
Over time, the axis
shifted 125 miles or 200 kilometers — about half the distance
from Dallas to Houston, or equal the distance
from Washington D.C. to Philadelphia.
Over time, the majority of human fire use has
shifted from indigenous burning to agricultural burning to fossil fuel burning.
The group took data along the fault
from about 100 GPS locations, including stations where data are collected continuously and sites where instruments are episodically set up
over small markers on the ground, the positions of which can be recorded
over time as the Earth slowly
shifts.
David Konisky of IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs analyzed 20 years of survey results
from Gallup public opinion polls in one of the first major studies of how attitudes about the environment by self - identified U.S. Christians have
shifted over time.
First author of the study, William Symes, a graduate student
from the Department of Biological Sciences at the NUS Faculty of Science said, «Protected areas are not static but instead dynamic,
shifting institutions that change
over time, and it is crucial for conservation planners to recognise this.
Simple societal
shifts: «This increase that we are seeing could be arising
from changes in sexual behaviors that have occurred
over time in the United States,» Chaturvedi says.
Initially the dose is minimized by the spacecraft's polar orbit, which ducks under the radiation belt, but the orbit
shifts over time due to the torquing
from Jupiter's gravitational field.
Envisioning a Better Model —
Over time, the emphasis of health care reform in Massachusetts
shifted from expanding access to controlling costs and improving the quality of health care.
Much like
shifting sand, magnetic fields slide slightly
over time, and their strength also increases as one moves away
from the equator, akin to latitude.
While Sabeti's team had struggled to keep their samples
from degrading at the height of the outbreak, during which travel restrictions and
shifting priorities left the samples sitting in wait for weeks or months at a
time, CDC had a collection and processing method that had been honed by their Viral Special Pathogens Branch
over many years responding to Ebola outbreaks in Africa.
By measuring a star's spectrum
over time, we can detect Doppler
shifts caused by a planet or planets moving the star toward and away
from us.
«If we
shift our sleep and wake
times later — for example, sleeping 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., during the week and 1 a.m. to 9 a.m. during the weekends — we push our internal clock later, then come Monday morning it's like we've flown
from California to New York
over the weekend — we have social jet lag.»
Over time her headaches disappeared and so she decided to reverse engineer what had worked for her and made the
shift from a career as an engineer in the pharmaceutical industry to helping other migraineurs solve their migraine issues using a functional medicine approach.
And as the
shift from aesthetics to ability happened
over time I found myself with the by - product of my new found skills that had once been my main goal.
«
From that small exchange about Red Vines,
over the next several weeks they built up an elaborate scaffolding of jokes via text, riffs that unfolded and
shifted so quickly that she sometimes had a hard
time keeping up.»
As with «The Crucible,» Day - Lewis» big explosion — this
time into outright stark - raving, animalistic rage, drooling and towering
over Eli while pushing at him to tease him — wouldn't count for much if not for the slow - burn of the rest of the performance, with the actor's gradual
shift from at least somewhat human to All - Powerful American Businessman as a Monster shown by his body going
from upright to crooked, his face
from quietly hateful to anything but.
The film was originally released in the US in a butchered version cut by
over an hour and torn
from its evocative
time -
shifting structure to a traditional linear narrative.
Over time, discourse in the video clubs
shifted from a focus on the teacher to increased attention to students» actions and ideas, toward increasingly detailed analyses of student thinking.
The goal of employee experience is to
shift Millennials» relationship with work
from considering it a material purchase, where satisfaction decreases
over time, to an experiential purchase, where the anticipation of going to work is exciting and job satisfaction increases
over time.
Over an extremely short period of
time in human history, power in the form of information
shifted from a top - down to a horizontal democratic model.
Promoting successful school completion requires a
shift in focus
from [demographic] predictors of non-completion, such as race and socioeconomic status, to student engagement at school and with learning
over time.
The latest bill, introduced Tuesday by Colorado's Democratic senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, would
shift the measurement of student exam performance, moving
from a model based on the raw number of students who pass math and reading tests to a «growth model» that would measure student growth
over time.
Overview
Over the last decade, there has been a
shift in the way many cities are approaching out of school
time — moving
from independent, isolated programming and funding to coordinated, citywide systems.