This is a five -
year grant with an end date of September 30, 2011.
The awards are part of a one -
year grant with the goal of providing religion journalists opportunities for exposure to forefront science, enriching science communication with their audiences.
Not exact matches
Option
grants end up being worth more and more every
year — simply because an option on a share
with a high nominal value is more potentially lucrative than an option on a share
with a low nominal value.
In 2010 and 2011, the cluster received a total of $ 1.2 million in
grants from the SBA, and is one of seven to be selected for additional funding beyond the two -
year pilot, receiving another $ 385,000 in 2012,
with an option to renew that
grant for another four
years.
Over the past
year, the Beedie Schoolhas added the abilityto
grant CMA andCGA accreditationsjointly
with its MBA, making it cheaperand faster for studentsto add eithercredential to their CVs.
With their efforts ranging from hosting employee - appreciation banquets to
granting years - of - service awards, company leaders do try to boost morale.
In the aftermath, I was left
with years of memories and a smartphone that couldn't provide enjoyable company across a dinner table, share in the joys of experiencing a concert or kiss me goodnight before bed — all these things I had previously taken for
granted simply because I was too preoccupied looking for fulfillment from a screen.
Scott Spector, a Silicon Valley compensation expert
with law firm Fenwick & West, says the typical small technology company he advises may well
grant options equal to 24 % or more of total shares outstanding, up from 15 % just three
years ago.
An employee's options
grant tends to be broken up into percentage blocks,
with each block vesting annually over a set number of
years.
I quickly learned that Turkey is the envy of many
with several programs to help new businesses including tax credits to angel investors and
grants to technology - based entrepreneurs to support their first
year of operation.
If that sounds like a familiar point, it's the exact conclusion of the 75 -
year Harvard
Grant Study, which found that the number - one thing people need in order to be fulfilled and happy is to develop relationships
with other people.
It would seem to be offsetting safety gains from other technologies, including not just new automatic collision avoidance systems, but even now taken - for -
granted features like anti-lock brakes, which are equipped on a greater percentage of the U.S. fleet
with each passing
year.
Last
year, MIT awarded the group a $ 10,000 Lemelson - MIT InvenTeam
Grant to put towards solving a real - world problem
with engineering.
Our Digital Inclusion Program teaches foster youth basic digital literacy skills and provides them
with a laptop and mobile Internet access for five
years, two things that most of us take for
granted but can be life changing for students who are accustomed to writing essays on their cellphones.
Walt Disney Co shareholders rejected an executive compensation plan that could reward Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger
with up to $ 48.5 million a
year over four
years plus an equity
grant worth about $ 100 million, in a non-binding vote on Thursday.
Executive compensation figures are also disclosed in the filing, including CEO Dick Costolo, who had a base salary of $ 200,000 last
year,
with $ 8.4 million in restricted stock and options
with a
grant - date value of $ 2.9 million.
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).
After a
year here, I can say,
with confidence that it is totally worth applying to the Arch
Grants Global Startup Competition and considering relocating your company to St Louis, Missouri.
One economist's investigation into the St. Louis MetroLink in 2004 found that it would have been cheaper to provide every new mass transit rider on the MetroLink
with a leased Toyota Prius, plus a US$ 6,000 per
year grant for operating expenses, than to subsidize the LRT.
With a 5.81 % DGR, this company offers investors consistency and I don't think that can be taken for
granted in a higher volatility environment that we've seen so far this
year.
The federal government will funnel $ 300 million a
year into the
grants, while still providing provinces
with $ 200 million a
year that they can spend directly on services like job counseling.
Publicly traded companies
with male - only executive directors missed out on # 430bn of investment returns last
year, the accountancy firm
Grant Thornton found in its report, Women in business: the value of diversity.
In its 25
years of existence, Fidelity Charitable has
granted more than $ 23 billion to public charities and has worked
with over 100,000 donors like you to support more than 220,000 charities.
As part of this
grant, SBP will also share its approach, the systems and processes it has honed over the past twelve
years, overall access to SBP's model and free technical support
with qualifying local and national non-profit organizations.
It has recently been reported that the University of Alberta wants to «reopen two -
year collective agreements»
with faculty and staff «to help the university balance its budget...» This appears to be in direct response to Alberta's provincial government announcing in its March budget that there would be a «7 % cut to operating
grants to universities, -LSB-...]
Each automatic triennial stock option
grant and each stock option
grant for service as lead independent director, member of a Board committee or chair of a Board committee, in each case as described above, will vest 1/36 per month for three
years starting on the one month anniversary of the vesting commencement date, subject to continued service in the capacity for which such
grant was made (except that if a director who was
granted such an option ceases to be a director on the day before an annual meeting that is held earlier than the anniversary date of the vesting commencement date for that calendar
year, vesting will accelerate
with respect to the shares that would have vested if such director continued service through such anniversary date).
Last
year, publicly - traded companies
with all - male boards lost out on a total of $ 655 billion in potential profits across India, the UK and the US, research by Chicago, Illinois - based accountancy firm
Grant Thornton found.
Each initial
grant, annual
grant, and lead independent director
grant will be
granted under our 2015 Plan and vest upon the earlier of the next annual meeting of our stockholders following the
grant date or the one -
year anniversary of the
grant date, subject to the non-employee director's continued service
with us through such date.
This same mix of performance - based and time - based awards has been
granted by the Committee for the past several
years and reflects HP's primary emphasis on performance driven compensation,
with the time - based awards providing a measure of retention value, which is also an important component of the overall executive compensation arrangement.
The term of an incentive stock option may not exceed ten
years, except that
with respect to any participant who owns more than 10 % of the voting power of all classes of our outstanding stock, the term must not exceed five
years and the exercise price must equal at least 110 % of the fair market value on the
grant date subject to the provisions of our 2015 Plan.
This doesn't take into account postsecondary institutions, which have seen long - term building maintenance cuts, and whose students, paying some of the highest interest rates on student loans in the country, saw their
grant program replaced
with a loan - reduction program nine
years ago.
It's a slightly technical argument, but the bottom line is that however you account for them, options
grants combined
with repeated «extraordinary» charges have effectively wiped out the entire «growth miracle» of the past several
years.
If we terminate Mr. Drexler's employment without cause or he terminates his employment
with good reason, Mr. Drexler will be entitled to receive (i) a payment of his earned but unpaid annual base salary through the termination date, any accrued vacation pay and any un-reimbursed expenses, and (ii) subject to Mr. Drexler's execution of a valid general release and waiver of claims against us, as well as his compliance
with the non-competition, non-solicitation and confidential information restrictions described below, (a) a payment equal to his annual base salary and target cash incentive award, one - half of such payment to be paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date and the remaining one - half of such payment to be paid in six equal monthly installments commencing on the first business day of the seventh calendar month following the termination date, (b) a payment equal to the product of (x) the last annual cash incentive award Mr. Drexler received prior to the termination date and (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days of service completed by Mr. Drexler in the
year of termination and the denominator of which is 365, such amount to be paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date, and (c) the immediate vesting of such portion of unvested restricted shares and stock options as provided and pursuant to the terms of the relevant
grant agreements under our 2003 Equity Incentive Plan.
If a participant disposes of such shares within one
year after the date of exercise and two
years after the date of
grant (the «ISO Holding Period»)(such disposition, a «Disqualifying Disposition»), any gain on such Disqualifying Disposition, up to the amount of the spread on exercise, will be ordinary income,
with the balance being capital gain.
Stock options and stock appreciation rights
with respect to no more than 8,000,000 shares of our common stock may be
granted to any one individual in any one calendar
year and the maximum «performance - based award» payable to any one individual under the 2014 Plan is 8,000,000 shares of stock or $ 5 million in the case of cash - based awards.
In line
with that mission, Voya Foundation accepts
grant proposals
year - round from organizations whose work aligns
with our strategy of financial resilience: ensuring that youth are equipped
with the STEM expertise necessary to compete in the 21st century workforce and the financial literacy skills necessary to make smart financial decisions that lead to a secure retirement.
This
year, Starbucks has expanded the focus of the
grants program to include youth as well as veterans and military spouses, and refugees,
with a focus on supporting organizations that are working to help connect those facing barriers to jobs and education to a pathway to long - term economic opportunity.
By comparison, in the dying days of the fall election campaign then Conservative Leader Stephen Harper promised to extend an existing auto industry fund by $ 1 billion over 10
years, starting in 2017/18,
with some of the money coming out as
grants.
In recognition of these achievements and to create incentives for future success, the Compensation Committee recommended, and the Board of Directors approved a
grant to Mr. Musk of 10,067,960 options to purchase shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $ 2.21 per share representing 4 % of our fully - diluted share base as of December 4, 2009,
with 1 / 4th of the shares subject to the option vesting immediately, and 1 / 48th of the shares subject to the option scheduled to vest each month thereafter over the next three
years, assuming Mr. Musk's continued service to us through each vesting date.
During the
year ended December 31, 2016, we
granted options
with an aggregate
grant date fair value of $ 37.8 million to certain employees in conjunction
with an acquisition.
The term of an incentive stock option may not exceed 10
years, except that
with respect to any participant who owns more than 10 % of the voting power of all classes of our outstanding stock, the term must not exceed 5
years and the exercise price must equal at least 110 % of the fair market value on the
grant date.
A Non-Employee Director who is newly appointed to the Board other than in connection
with an annual meeting of shareholders will generally also receive a
grant of RSUs upon appointment (an «Initial RSU Award»), except that a Non-Employee Director who joins the Board after February 1 of a particular
year and prior to the annual meeting for that
year will not receive an Initial RSU Award.
For PARSUs awarded in fiscal 2014, amounts shown reflect the
grant date fair value of the PARSUs for the two - and three -
year performance periods beginning
with fiscal 2014 based on the probable outcome of performance conditions related to these PARSUs at the
grant date.
The term of an incentive stock option may not exceed ten
years, except that
with respect to any participant who owns more than 10 % of the voting power of all classes of our outstanding stock, the term must not exceed five
years and the exercise price must equal at least 110 % of the fair market value on the
grant date.
With support from FEMA's Hazard Mitigation
Grant Program, hundreds of communities have spent tens of millions of dollars each
year to purchase flood - prone properties from willing sellers.
Further, the tools and techniques
with which Align gleans a particular client's impact personality and objectives requires
years of experience and broad knowledge of what's realistically implementable in today's
grant and investing environments.
Canada Student
Grants and Loans has expanded eligibility for part time students, as well as full and part time students
with children, and introduced a three -
year pilot project that will provide adults returning to school on a full - time basis after several
years in the workforce
with an additional $ 1,600 in
grant money starting Aug 1, 2018.
«HAWK Homeowners» will be
granted reduced upfront mortgage insurance premium, reduced annual mortgage insurance premiums, and,
with a strong payment history, access to an MIP reduction after two
years have passed since closing.
While they are required to direct 3.5 percent of their assets into
grants each
year (to meet their annual disbursement quota), the rest is generally invested
with the sole aim of maximizing financial returns.
That said, I admit I was surprised when the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada agreed in late 2015 to fund the CMP
with a six -
year, $ 2.5 - million
grant — a decision that was finalized in the final months of Stephen Harper's Conservative government.