Sentences with phrase «when company directors»

She remains calm and professional even when company directors or office bearers become upset or defensive — a valuable skill acquired in her 18 years with MinLaw, where she started as a companies liquidation officer.

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When companies build relationships with their clients and suppliers, «it's a huge competitive edge,» said Kathy Homeyer, the director of supplier diversity for UPS.

This is why, when the Twitter board of directors assemble on Thursday, they will discuss the possibility of selling the San Francisco company, according to a report this week by Recode.

In this hangout, editorial director Ray Hennessey talks with branding and customer experience experts Karen Leland of Sterling Marketing Group and Brad Smith of Sage North America about how to come back when your company's reputation takes a hit.

When Lyft first launched, recalls the company's director of marketing strategy & operations Gina Ma, «it felt like really asking people to participate in this really big sort of social experiment almost — the idea of doing these things that your mom always told you not to do.»

When they are requesting money from the company or board of directors, they want to know it's being managed the best way possible.

«We wanted to reward employees for those times when the company really beats the pants off the plan,» says Bob Andrews, director of human resources.

Khosrowshahi was meeting with regulators in London who had revoked Uber's license when he had to work with the board of directors over a deal for SoftBank Group Corp. to invest in the company.

After phasing out her work last year as creative director for a packaging company to give Tweedle Press her full attention, she found that running the company with only one employee — her husband — made for an easier work - life balance than when she used part - timers in the past.

Don Thompson's days as CEO were numbered, it appears, when criticism for the chain's sluggish performance began to be aimed at the company's directors.

That's what director Brad Bird did a few years ago when Pixar brought him in to re-energize the company.

This vacation deficit is not that surprising, «when you consider that consumer confidence still hovers at relatively low levels coupled with uncertainty about the economy and specifically consumers» own job security,» said Laura Mandala, managing director of Mandala Research, a tourism and travel company.

When I told this story to Alan Tecktiel, Global HR Director at the law firm Baker & McKenzie, he noted that Jill was able to go to the lengths she did because companies like FedEx (FDX) their employees to do these kinds of things.

There will come a time when your company will need a new leader — whether that be a C - suite position or a new department director — and you have to decide who will take on that role.

«Because Mylan's Board has determined that risk oversight is the responsibility of the full board, all incumbent directors should be considered accountable for material failures of risk oversight over a number of years, when warning signs were available to the company but no actions appear to have been taken to mitigate or head off the significant potential risks that have since materialized.

The dispute between the groups deepened when Noble rejected Goldilocks» attempt to nominate five non-executive directors — including Joshi — for the company.

From the year 2020 when the outside director's term will end, the company will receive recommendations for the position from shareholders at home and abroad.

That investment decision, importantly, also seems to get the backing of Unilever's board of directors: «At the board level, at the senior management level, they are apparently 100 % behind this,» Polman tells me — a proposition tested as recently as February, when Kraft Heinz made an unsolicited offer for the company.

There have been numerous times when Musk's endeavors would have benefited by having more capital, yet he has resisted the urge to take SpaceX public because the board of directors of a publicly - held firm would undoubtedly force him to make changes in the company that would improve its profitability at the expense of its chances for reaching Mars.

«It's pretty good when a production manager at a sales - driven company can win,» notes sales director Bill Litsinger.

Mark Seetin, director of regulatory and industry affairs for the U.S. Apple Association said that while school lunches were a «significant contributor» to increased consumption, «When a company as big as McDonald's helps promote something, it not only boosts sales, but also really raises public awareness.»

Under the new system, statements which UK companies file when they are set up and on each anniversary of that date showing changes in shareholders or directors are supposed to include details of «Persons with significant control (PSC).»

And herein lies the ethical question, posed to me by a director today: «When does hanging on or digging in breach a fiduciary duty by the director to act in the company's best interest, rather than the director's?»

The Laborers International Union had only had preliminary discussions with Exxon over the union's political spending disclosure proposal when the company proceeded to try to knock the item off the proxy, according to Jennifer O'Dell, LIU's assistant director of corporate affairs.

Derek Nettles, IT director of Dickie Brennan & Company, believed that in addition to facilitating the payment dance between diner and waiter, such a system would allow the company to accept EMV (chip - enabled) cards ahead of the fall 2015 deadline established by the credit card industry, when restaurants without that capability may be held financially liable forCompany, believed that in addition to facilitating the payment dance between diner and waiter, such a system would allow the company to accept EMV (chip - enabled) cards ahead of the fall 2015 deadline established by the credit card industry, when restaurants without that capability may be held financially liable forcompany to accept EMV (chip - enabled) cards ahead of the fall 2015 deadline established by the credit card industry, when restaurants without that capability may be held financially liable for fraud.

«When a company is retrenching, you don't add contract employees,» says one of Rosen's clients, Paul Antony, director of HR administration for electronic retailer QVC.

One boon for shareholders for next year's annual meeting: SEC rules that went into effect earlier this week will allow shareholders to change company's governance procedures when it comes to director nominations, which could give shareholders power to nominate directors.

«When you have workers that already possess much of what you need, it makes a lot more sense to retrain them than to go out and hire new workers — who may be more educated — and then wait a year or more for them to get up to speed with how the company operates,» explains Anthony Carnevale, director and research professor of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce.

Still, buying a health - care company for its own employees» benefit «would be a terrible reason, because you paid for the value of Humana upfront when you purchased them,» said Craig Garthwaite, director of the Health Enterprise Management Program at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

So when circumstances require that kind of information about a private company, its owner must hire someone to perform a study of its value that is logical and defensible,» explains Thomas Giordano, director of valuation services for the accounting firm Goldstein Golub Kessler & Co., in New York City.

The directors were also asked how difficult it would be for their company's major competitor to find a new CEO: Sixty - eight percent said fewer than five people could fill the job, and when it comes to finding a CEO to turn around a troubled company in their industry, 58 % said the choice was also limited to five.

When it comes to selecting companies for the Hearst Financial Venture Fund, Managing Director Shea Wallon considers many factors to estimate their...

When Ms. Cannon did approach, she was usually wearing her PetsMD T - shirt, a lesson she learned from the Capital Factory director and entrepreneur, Josh Baer, who wears a T - shirt for his company, Otherinbox, «everywhere he goes,» said Ms. Cannon.

When a venture firm invests in a high - growth company, the investor expects to either be a member of the company's management team or sit on its board of directors, thereby taking an active role in the operations of the business.

When talent is more expensive, companies need to focus on their retention strategies because the cost of replacement jumps, says Paul McDonald, senior executive director for international staffing firm Robert Half International.

For example, a conflict of interest may arise when a Senior Officer or Director is also an executive officer, a major shareholder or has a material interest in an organization doing business with the Company.

In 2002, Wendy Lane had been a member of the board of directors at Tyco International a little more than a year when the company's CEO, Dennis Kozlowski,...

Even when a company's board of directors is fully informed of and authorizes a self - dealing transaction — which is not the case with the transactions at issue here — the transaction must not be unfair to the company, either as a matter of process or price.

When these demographics align with the company's ideal customer profile, they're scored as much more valuable leads and therefore prioritized, says Ryan Bottorff, director of marketing and sales operations at ReviewTrackers.

Mr. Hsieh joined McKinsey & Company in 1980 and was elected a director from 1990 to 2008, when he retired.

When Brian Reed joined Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) as the director of retirement plan assets in 2012, the company was involved in a major restructuring.

Three non-executive directors and finance experts are also joining the company to help when it comes to prudential oversight.

For everything investors might say about the importance of focusing on the long term, however, the Tim Hortons board of directors has a fiduciary duty to shareholders, and when the company was approached with an offer from Burger King, it was obliged to consider it.

The latest blow to Kinder Morgan investors occurred on Tuesday when the company's Board of Directors slashed its dividend by around 75 percent to an annualized...

In «real» ownership, they argue, the owners control their assets by determining such things as who runs the company, who sits on the Board of Directors, when major corporate decisions are made that might impact the future of the company, and so on.

Researchers have found that in many, though perhaps not all, cases when corporate directors are «overboarded» — and thus presumably unable to devote their full attention to governance at particular companies — companies are less profitable and have a lower market to book ratio.

A Morrow Sodali survey finds that 68 percent of institutional investor respondents cite as highly important «the quality and completeness of [a company's] disclosures on business strategy and issues of material importance» when making voting decisions on director elections and other agenda items.

When the company tried to find a female director three years ago, he was told it would have a tough time competing with Fortune 500 companies that could pay qualified female candidates lucrative salaries.

Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Lovell served as Director of International Development for Culligan International Inc., a water filtration company, when it was owned by Apollo Global Management, and was Assistant to the Chairman for International Development at Astrum International, the holding company for Samsonite and American Tourister Luggage, Botany 500 Menswear, Culligan, Anvil Knitwear and Pet Specialties.

The Ranbaxy debacle crossed a crucial threshold in the fall of 2004, when a senior company executive disclosed to a subcommittee of the Board of Directors that the company had committed a massive and ongoing fraud, and that over 200 drug products in more than 40 countries had been submitted to regulators with elements of fabricated data.