Sentences with phrase «up to board as»

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There is another oddity at Barça too: The president and board members are required to put up 15 % of the club's yearly revenues as collateral when they're voted in, as a guarantee against possible losses.

Growing up in the 1990s, he watched as Chip rode the wave of beach and ski bum culture, flogging jackets, sweatshirts and board shorts from here to Japan.

In addition to giving up potential claims against the company, Hortons former leader waived his right to submit a written statement to the board concerning his departure as a company director.

«I explained how for the past couple of years I've kept Wednesdays clear on my calendar, usually worked from home, and used it as design / writing / solo - thinking time because the other four days get consumed with collaboration,» Schweikardt explained to the board, but lately «the collaboration days had gotten so busy, that Wednesdays had turned to email and administrivia catch - up days.»

Masciovecchio, who was born in the nearby village of Paganica, says he has lost all hope of ever returning to his former home and speaks bitterly as he walks around the boarded up houses and debris in the narrow streets where he used to live.

The buzz - word right now is «on - boarding» for making sure a new employee is up - to - speed and productive as quickly as possible.

He points to activist investors as a particular thorn in the side of management, forcing it to focus on quarter - to - quarter earnings and giving up board seats instead of investing in research and development.

Langone was forced to leave GE's board during Immelt's time as CEO because of a dust - up with then - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

Since then, the company's had to weather such self - inflicted wounds as a pretexting scandal in which a board member, an executive and HP - paid investigators faced criminal charges for spying on journalists; the $ 1 billion acquisition of Palm Computing in 2010 to beef up HP's mobile capabilities; then the sale of Palm's intellectual property.

So here is the question I want to explore: In our ecosystem, whether as a leader in a start - up, or as an investor or board member, is experience more often enabling or constraining?

In exchange for what is generally the lowest fares on board, passengers give up perks that used to be free, such as seat selection, flight - changes and in United and American's case, use of overhead bins.

As stores are boarded up one by one, shopper traffic slows and crime in the area tends to spike, Davidowitz says.

«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.

The firm, which has vied for months to consummate its proposed deal, is leading an effort to replace six members of Qualcomm's 11 - person board of directors — a move that, if successful, may as well seal the tie - up.

He also sits on the Board of Directors, and in May 2015 he made a donation of $ 133,000 to the foundation to make up for funding it had lost as a part of the austerity measures put in place by Governor Bruce Rauner to address the state's $ 1.5 billion budget deficit.

Although the intention is to avoid the traditional «sin» stocks, such as tobacco, Mobius said he wouldn't rule out investing in a listing of oil giant Saudi Aramco, depending on how the board was set up: «Yes, if the conditions are right.»

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver chalked it up to a «summer lull,» but the numbers suggest a trend that can't be dismissed as simply seasonal.

«As soon as they complete that process, they get access to the job board and can begin receiving invitations to start picking up jobs.&raquAs soon as they complete that process, they get access to the job board and can begin receiving invitations to start picking up jobs.&raquas they complete that process, they get access to the job board and can begin receiving invitations to start picking up jobs.»

«If I look at what they've done since (Wilson) announced he was stepping off the board, they've ramped up their product quality team, they've attempted to reinvigorate the design process as they were the clear leader three years ago in the space,» Burns said.

My opposition to Mr. Hagenbuch's re-election serves as a referendum on ALL of the longstanding legacy directors, including those who are not up for re-election because the incumbent directors refuse to declassify the board.

Across the board, the franchises that grew the most were the ones that serve a budget - minded consumer, didn't cost as much to set up, or both.

As Elliott ramped up its pressure on Arconic, friends and colleagues of Kleinfeld, along with board members of Arconic, reported more suspicious run - ins: Others who live near the CEO were followed to a local restaurant by strangers who then approached the couple; they claimed to be considering investing with Kleinfeld, but first had a few questions.

«If hand hygiene compliance rates increased by 8.7 percentage points across the board during a typical work shift, this could potentially eliminate as many as 1.2 million infections per year, save up to $ 25 billion, and prevent up to 70,000 unnecessary deaths in the United States,» reports Knowledge@Wharton.

As the minimum salary ratchets up $ 60,000 in 2016 and $ 70,000 in 2017, there will be increased pressure to raise salaries across the board.

Last month, the company said Pearson would be departing as CEO and that billionaire investor William Ackman would join the board as it tries to clean up its accounting problems, which the company says were caused by «improper conduct» by certain top executives.

Opened the year after he sold Westbeach and just up the hill from its flagship outlet in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood, the first Lululemon store, alongside a yoga studio, was a calming refuge for Wilson after his wild ride as a globe - trotting stylemaker to the board culture.

Aside from shaking up the boardroom, the pension board is also developing a reputation as a global player that has the cash to swing large deals, and the wherewithal and sophistication to get them done fast.

David is often portrayed as somewhat aloof, showing up to board meetings in sneakers, munching sandwiches with small - time investors at AGMs instead of major stakeholders, and calling up the Reuters photo desk to chat photography, according to the Wall Street Journal.

«Growing up in Silicon Valley, during my time at Morgan Stanley and as a member of Stanford's Board, I've had the opportunity to experience first hand how tech companies can help people in their daily lives.

Camber Capital Management, a hedge fund with an activist history, has purchased 5.7 million shares of Tenet Healthcare Corp., or a 5.7 % stake in the money - losing hospital chain.The emergence of Camber was disclosed Monday, just three days after Tenet's largest shareholder, Glenview Capital Management, resigned two Tenet board seats, citing irreconcilable differences with management and the board.Glenview Capital, which owns an 18 % stake in Tenet, gave notice Friday that it would no longer participate in a stand - still agreement that had prevented it from launching a proxy fight for control of the company.Tenet investors welcomed the Camber disclosure Monday, driving up Tenet's stock price to $ 2.18, or 15 %, to $ 16.63 as of 12:30 p.m. ET.Tenet is the nation's third - largest investor - owned

Dharmesh Shah, a serial entrepreneur and founder of OnStartups.com, says an ideal board member posesses two main qualities: Advisory Value («The person you are inviting has experience and knowledge and can act as an advisor to your start - up») and Brand Value («The person you are inviting has «brand» and credibility.

Accordingly, with the economy expected to pick up and the unemployment rate to come down gradually as the mining investment transition came to an end, the Board judged it appropriate to hold the cash rate at 1.5 per cent.

And while he was fuzzy on many details, giving lots of partial answers and promises to «follow up», one thing he did confirm was that Facebook board member Peter Thiel's secretive big data analytics firm, Palantir, is one of the companies Facebook is investigating as part of a historical audit of app developers» use of its platform.

Case in point: Following the Enron blow - up, the Financial Accounting Standards Board banned an accounting practice that Enron had used to book expected future profits as earnings, immediately, at very the moment it made an investment.

In my first week as minister for finance I was visited by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the Eurogroup (the eurozone finance ministers), who put a stark choice to me: accept the bailout's «logic» and drop any demands for debt restructuring or your loan agreement will «crash» — the unsaid repercussion being that Greece's banks would be boarded up.

The company has also formed a five - member advisory board comprising all the aforementioned investors as it looks to strengthen its management team to ramp up operations and expand presence.

There's nothing to describe the sense of doom as you stare down the barrel of a Category 5 storm knowing you should be tying everything down, boarding everything up and driving far away.

Creativity pick of the day: A Mondelez chocolate brand paired up with Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam to make an old - school board game, as Ad Age's Alexandra Jardine writes.

As we head into fall, we also head into our busiest events season here at The Vancouver Board of Trade, and the next few months are shaping up to be chock - full of compelling content.

By resigning as CEO but retaining his board seat, Kalanick has set up the potential for a «power game» to be played between him, his fellow board members and the new CEO, he said.

By Caroline Humer (Reuters)- Drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International said on Monday its chief executive officer is leaving and billionaire investor William Ackman would join the board as it tries to clean up accounting problems and save its business.

Women continue to be severely underrepresented on the boards of tech companies, both public and private, even as the number of women on corporate boards overall ticks up slightly, new research shows.

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The Federal Reserve System of the United States, also referred to as the Fed, is made up of 12 Federal Reserve Banks throughout the country and is headed by a Board of Governors.

As the cryptocurrency industry continues to grow and expand at a rapid rate, an issue has become clear across the board: there is a severe shortage of skilled engineers to keep up with the pace.

As the conversation progressed, it moved into discussing how and when entrepreneurs should start looking for board members and how to set it up.

«Theresia joined us as our first VC board member and has helped us grow from a 6 - person start - up to over 1000 employees.

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Nonetheless, an entire industry of bankers and lawyers, «mercenaries like Goldman Sachs», as Icahn puts it, has sprung up to protect CEOs and corporate boards from Icahn's stinging jabs.

Grant also says that the flaw is not limited to Delta Airlines, as changing URLs has allowed her to come up with a boarding pass for Southwest Airlines.