Female representation in boardrooms and in government is still paltry.
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A third reason for optimism in bank boardrooms is returns.
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BEIJING — The investigators descend on government agencies and corporate boardrooms.
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The big decisions these days are made in corporate boardrooms
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The impact of the CCPA is being felt beyond boardrooms.
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AmerisourceBergen. Who, beyond each firm's array of boardrooms and back
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Brexit uncertainty has since prompted consternation in some boardrooms in Tokyo.
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Reducing bottlenecks would cheer boardrooms from Samsung to Toyota to Unilever.
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Corporate shareholders have started to make their voices heard in boardrooms.
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Confusion pervades boardrooms, as well, according to a survey released Tuesday.
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He has one in America's boardrooms and on its trading floors.
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But in corporate boardrooms and country clubs, that's not the point.
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Have you ever noticed how cold it is in most boardrooms?
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Corporate boardrooms with directors of varied backgrounds are still relatively unusual.
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"As long as feminists are lauding the ascension of women to boardrooms for equality's sake and not questioning what happens in those boardrooms, true liberation is a long way off," Sarah Jaffe wrote in Dissent in 2013.
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Extracting bureaucrats from India's boardrooms is likely to prove a slow process.
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Outside Western boardrooms, the most common sect is the fifth, corporate socialists.
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It benefits every facet of our local communities from classrooms to boardrooms.
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Near the entrance, LinkedIn has large boardrooms they use during client meetings.
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What are the key points for boardrooms, chief executives, investors and governments?
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It has 3 boardrooms that can accommodate up to 20 people each.
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This may work in Brazilian boardrooms, but is bad for Kansas families.
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Previous generations of women demanded entry to parliaments, churches, boardrooms and courts.
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Goals would include making boardrooms more diverse or accountable for poor performance.
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In boardrooms, executives strategize about using infringement laws to fell foreign rivals.
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Cathay's predicament shows why global boardrooms are growing more anxious about Chinese anger.
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A surprising number of boardrooms support a muscular stance on trade with China.
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These technological advancements are becoming game changers in both classrooms and boardrooms nationwide.
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It views diversification of corporate boardrooms as a way to improve stock prices.
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We get to go to places -- bedrooms, boardrooms -- that cameras normally aren't allowed.
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It would also put experienced managers in boardrooms and spur more professional practices.
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Having women in boardrooms also boosted returns for shareholders, according to the report.
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Women are nowhere near parity in the boardrooms of big American companies, either.
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They also noted that gender diverse boardrooms led to monetary benefits for investors.
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When Sukhinder Singh Cassidy would look around boardrooms, all she'd see were men.
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African-American men increased their presence in Fortune 500 boardrooms by 2 percent.
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So, we're trying to be flexible, recognizing that investors and our markets thirst for the kind of information that--that I hope is going on in the boardrooms, and that I expect is going on the boardrooms of most good companies.
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The data for 2016 — from the Alliance for Board Diversity, an association of groups promoting inclusion of women and minorities in boardrooms, and Deloitte, a professional services firm — underscores that companies have made only incremental progress in promoting diversity in boardrooms.
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We absolutely need more women in boardrooms, on judge's benches, at Silicon Valley startups.
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But this announcement, at least, went over a little better in boardrooms and newsrooms.
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Workplaces, and especially corporate boardrooms, should reflect the full diversity of society, he said.
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Mr. Clayton, known as Jay, has spent nearly his entire career in corporate boardrooms.
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"And this boys' club or locker room mentality extends to the boardrooms," she added.
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PELTZ: BECAUSE I'VE DONE THIS SO MANY TIMES BEFORE I HAVE NOT WALKED INTO THESE BOARDROOMS WHERE THERE WAS A POPPING OF CHAMPAGNE CORKS BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY SOME OF MY NEWEST AND CLOSEST FRIENDS WERE MADE IN THESE BOARDROOMS.
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As labour minister she tried but failed to bring in quotas for women in boardrooms.
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Costs have risen, laws are onerous, and the Communist Party is inserting itself into boardrooms.
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Yes, but: Actual change comes with action in boardrooms and governments — not meetings and statements.
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Complaints about the president and his policies from America's boardrooms are growing ever more frequent.
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That's why it's time — from our classrooms to our boardrooms — to replace STEM with STEEM.
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For years to come, OBOR looks likely to be the toast of Western boardrooms, too.
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That's not the kind of talk that wins you friends in Washington and corporate boardrooms.
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Boardrooms are also more likely to establish partnerships with governments or non-government organizations (NGOs).
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That stems from the lack of equality in boardrooms and the hiring process by clubs.
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Decisions on the purchase of telecoms equipment could then return from politicians to pragmatic boardrooms.
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Overall, Europe was the region with the most diverse corporate boardrooms, followed by North America.
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Instead they focus on adding key competencies to fill out the expertise in their boardrooms.
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Below is a brief, edited transcript of their conversation about how tech company boardrooms may change.
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In most boardrooms, plans would quickly be put in place to protect their companies from liability.
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You walk into boardrooms with these executives — they don't really know anything more than anybody else.
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There is no longer debate about the rationale for diversity in boardrooms, leadership or team composition.
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Should conservatism care what private citizens do in their bedrooms or boardrooms or places of worship?
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One of the biggest concerns shouted across boardrooms is Facebook incessantly copying what Snapchat has done.
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He's shuttling between phone calls with reporters and TV interviews in the boardrooms of his firm.
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I am just here to nudge you again as you move on from classrooms to boardrooms.
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Moguls like Vincent Bolloré have long thrown their weight around public boardrooms at home and abroad.
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Nothing wrong with that; as long as we have boardrooms, we definitely want women in them.
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He forced a discussion in boardrooms about what ethical obligation a company has to its nation.
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My career has alternated between the private and public sectors, and from boardrooms to campaigns trails.
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It was the kind of makeup you would be likely to see in real life boardrooms.
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Disability is seldom discussed in boardrooms and executives rarely or never discuss it in their workplace.
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In American boardrooms, meanwhile, a widely held view is that a dangerous short-termism has taken hold.
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It is tempting to argue that Mr Trump has unleashed animal spirits in boardrooms across the country.
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I remember sitting in boardrooms, explaining to all the people why they should give me a chance.
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"Corporate social responsibility" (shorthanded as "CSR" within companies) is now one of the hottest topics in boardrooms.
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"My whole goal, really, is to get one 12-hour day of the boardrooms shoot," Arnold said.
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What's news is that the boardrooms now think of her as someone who has to be stopped.
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That stunning conclusion, from a new study, could shake up discussions in boardrooms and C-suites everywhere.
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It did not demand that security be an agenda item in its boardrooms or its requirements documents.
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The FTC orders will provide clarity on why boardrooms are shelling out billions for our personal data.
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That which declares itself single and integral, defending the eld, paneling boardrooms and catafalques, tendrils here through anchorage.
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Inside boardrooms across the country executives are debating when and how to speak out against the White House.
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INSIDE the boardrooms and bars of Houston, the spiritual capital of America's energy industry, the swagger is back.
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Those decisions are made in the boardrooms that all too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.
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But that misunderstands the depth of unease now felt in factories, boardrooms and trading floors around the world.
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That has made investment in the United Kingdom a hard sell in boardrooms from Tokyo to New York.
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For example, our factories and warehouses are basic — no marble or mahogany is needed in our simple boardrooms.
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Unequal pay for men and women is currently a hot topic in Britain's boardrooms and corridors of power.
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Emilio Odebrecht has created stricter compliance structures and vowed to keep family members out of the group's boardrooms.
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As bedrooms continue to replace boardrooms in the financial district, another prewar bank building is becoming a residence.
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Meanwhile, the stock market is still freaking out and financial angst is spreading from boardrooms to kitchen tables.
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Despite the pressure on companies to diversify their boardrooms, women hold just 12 percent of board seats worldwide.
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Stymied in Washington, gun control activists have taken their fight to state capitals, city halls and corporate boardrooms.
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In terms of sectors globally, communications, consumer discretionary and consumer staples sectors had the most gender diverse boardrooms.
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Current business controversies suggest that Enron-style oversight failures could be occurring in some of today's corporate boardrooms.
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More scientists, engineers, doctors and bosses need to be celebrated on the big screen as well as in boardrooms.
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People developing innovations must demand from the C-suite — and boardrooms — of global technology companies commitment to ethical technology.
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While it's primarily intended for businesses, I wouldn't mind HP running with the idea for users outside of boardrooms.
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President Donald Trump's call to slash business tax rates will no doubt win wide support in American corporate boardrooms.
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Of the 445 publicly traded companies in California, a quarter of them lack a single woman in their boardrooms.
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Groups representing listed companies claim the current SEC rules have allowed special interests to hijack boardrooms with costly demands.
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That crackdown has sent chills down the spines of many potential deal-makers and heightened caution in corporate boardrooms.
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Intersex campaigners called for better awareness about the community, from schools and hospitals to government offices and company boardrooms.
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After the Brexit vote, the U-word is muttered everywhere in boardrooms—from carmaking to airlines, energy to telecoms.
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Chief executives have laid down a new marker that substantially increases the emphasis on promoting diversity in corporate boardrooms.
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That puts Congress one point ahead of S&P 500 boardrooms, where 24% of all corporate directors are women.
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When I was young, businesses integrated their boardrooms before they had to, and they actually were fairly pro-environmental.
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But at the very least, they show that there's a bigger world outside boardrooms offering varied thoughts and experiences.
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They have boiled over into the churn of social media and the muted boardrooms of big-city Pride organizations.
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The new rules codify procedures that would essentially turn college boardrooms into courtrooms when adjudicating sex assault disciplinary proceedings.
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The people in power, in Washington and in boardrooms across the country, will pay lip service to the tragedy.
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It is only a matter of time before the same conversation crosses the Atlantic and into our policy boardrooms.
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Heinz is pulling its latest ad campaign straight from the smoke-filled boardrooms of Mad Men's Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
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Too often these leaders toil in corporate boardrooms, or whisper privately to each other, far away from the public's view.
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Beyond boardrooms and shareholders though, engineering cultures need to build resiliency to ship and approve products when they are ready.
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But the sector's liberal tendencies—it has few of the instinctive Republicans who populate most boardrooms—also play a part.
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Her board position also falls in line with the longstanding trend of HHS secretaries getting seats in corporate America's boardrooms.
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The immediate result: confusion at major medical conferences, inside hospital boardrooms and, most troubling, in just about every doctor's office.
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New York (CNN Business)An increasingly ugly fight for control of Campbell Soup is playing out in courtrooms and boardrooms.
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"Yet another glass ceiling is shattered, and women will finally have a seat at the table in corporate boardrooms," said Sen.
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Women have 44% of seats on listed-company boards in Iceland; strong representation in Scandinavian boardrooms is common thanks to quotas.
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In March a government-sponsored review into gender diversity in British boardrooms called for bonuses to be linked to diversity targets.
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Chowdhury, however, said that rather than in the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, the responsibility for protecting against disinformation lies with Westminster.
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It felt like I was always walking into these boardrooms with these heteronormative older gentlemen looking at me like a novelty.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - California has come up with one possible solution to the male, pale and stale problem afflicting boardrooms.
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They call it "crony capitalism," and they warn it will inject new and damaging uncertainty into America's back offices and boardrooms.
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Hotel libraries stake out territory between boardrooms and meditation rooms, exclusively giving guests a shared residential-style room to relax in.
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It rattled boardrooms around the country and raised the question about whether Deutsche Bank's top managers would face a similar insurrection.
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She doesn&apost shy away from regulation, the r-word that has other Silicon Valley VCs apprehensive in boardrooms across California.
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Through unions and works councils, workers have an important role in shaping policies at the shop floor and in management boardrooms.
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"Longer spectrum licenses and harmonization send a pro-investment signal to boardrooms and investors across Europe," a telecoms industry source said.
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Since that agreement was signed on May 31, Temer and the Batistas have traded barbs - taking their rift to corporate boardrooms.
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"At the end of the day, oil price is really what dictates the strategy and the planning in the boardrooms," he said.
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So we have this big disconnect of what the American public thinks and what corporate boardrooms, the C-suite, are actually doing.
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The lack of accountability for the criminal enterprise in our nation's boardrooms goes well beyond Harris and continues to this very day.
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He's a retro rascal, a throwback to an era and ethic of big suits, paneled boardrooms, thick billfolds and buxom arm candy.
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But a key component of the swamp isn't housed in the granite jungle of D.C. but in corporate boardrooms across the country.
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Indeed, diversification is a core tenant of wise corporate strategy and that tenant should extend to firms' c-suites and boardrooms alike.
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It also avoids a potentially costly fight with Elliott, the $20153 billion hedge fund that has successfully shaken up many corporate boardrooms.
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Even in the headquarters of capitalism, Mr Lemann reveals, attitudes to business have oscillated wildly, both in boardrooms and on Wall Street.
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The uppity investors who are making their presence felt in French and German boardrooms should constrain CEOs tempted to stretch financial logic.
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That idea has proved popular in corporate boardrooms; rival shipping lines and banks are testing blockchain technology to collaborate and share data.
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Despite those limitations, Google and Samsung are looking for ways to get Chromebooks to escape the classroom and start appearing in boardrooms.
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In politics, "Unlike at Fortune 500 companies, boardrooms filled with old white men don't decide elections," De Luca, from Emily's List, said.
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BUSINESS leaders often have a poor opinion of politicians, preferring to find their heroes elsewhere—in other boardrooms or on the coaching field.
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It all fitted a cliché of Japan's boardrooms as an all-Japanese, all-male club where wizened bosses ruthlessly enforce wa, or harmony.
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The trend suggested that boardrooms feel that their own share price was undervalued and that there was little else better to invest in.
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DISRUPTION may be the buzzword in boardrooms, but the most striking feature of business today is not the overturning of the established order.
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Howls of outrage were heard from America's boardrooms and from Allergan investors, who lost $280 billion in 22012 hours as its shares sank.
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EIA assumes policies will stay fixed for the next three decades, not just nationally but in cities and states and corporate boardrooms too.
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There are many reasons that men still overwhelmingly populate trading floors and boardrooms, but this is one that has gotten too little attention.
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And how much more thorough and considered might a board's decisions be if important constituencies of the company were better represented in boardrooms?
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It's possible, therefore, that Trump's instincts and his Twitter feed may counter the short-termism that's prevalent in U.S. corner offices and boardrooms.
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We all know talented, arrogant asses like Achilles, who indulge their rages no matter what the cost, in boardrooms just as on battlefields.
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But while corporate boardrooms the world over strive to reverse-engineer an aura of feminist independence for their brands, Ms. Arrobio's is genuine.
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A who's who of executives from boardrooms here and overseas have made the pilgrimage to Trump Tower and sought the president-elect's blessing.
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The wardrobe of a city that once was, filling skyscraper boardrooms and ballrooms, typist pools and art collectives, and may never be again.
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As galleries increasingly display work representing a breadth of backgrounds, boardrooms are the last parts of the museum in need of urgent reconsideration.
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Flagging demand from consumers is replacing U.S. trade policy as the chief concern in boardrooms around the world, according to a CNBC survey.
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In the future, educational work spaces such as Engage lecture halls will double as business boardrooms or co-working spaces for creative problem-solving.
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"Boardrooms of multinationals, including possibly Chinese companies, might decide they need to have more manufacturing capability outside China to reduce this risk," Biswas said .
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In bars or in blockbusters, there's tell of coke lines in bathrooms, frat parties that graduated into boardrooms, the finance industry's theology of avarice.
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His allies and leaders in Ohio's business community stress that Brown is respected not just in the union halls, but also in the boardrooms.
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In the 1980s raiders such as James Goldsmith terrorised boardrooms while private-equity tycoons launched buy-outs, most famously of RJR Nabisco in 1988.
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I like to argue if we want to rule boardrooms like men, shouldn't we be able to wrestle and tussle and still be feminine?
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It is America's central role in the global economy that gives it the exorbitant privilege of imposing its way in boardrooms across the world.
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Pressure from activists to shake up boardrooms cost the scalps of two BHP directors last week, both with long careers in oil and gas.
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Entire forests have been cleared in support of surveys, reports, analyses and position papers criticizing the lack of ethnic and general diversity in boardrooms.
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The watchdog found that women hold just 16 percent of the seats in corporate boardrooms, despite making up roughly half of the work force.
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The number of women in boardrooms was also analyzed, with researchers finding that less than one in three FTSE 100 board members were women.
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"Overall, the reading of the literature reveals that the concentration of psychopaths tends to be particularly high in prisons and boardrooms," the authors write.
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Directors sitting in corporate boardrooms got a pay raise twice that of the average American worker, and it's not even a full-time job.
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" The state of play: "Venture capitalists had long called the shots in startup boardrooms and continue to be the primary backers of private companies.
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For the last three years, I have been doing made-to-order clothes, mostly for women who get on planes to go to boardrooms.
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He went inside the boardrooms and executive suites in winning a Pulitzer for The Wall Street Journal, then traced the industry's fortunes in books.
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And Sherald doesn't make the kind of portraits you see hanging in boardrooms or above the fireplace mantle in the homes of the 1%.
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In boardrooms across America, business people are scrambling to assess the impact of the latest escalation in the commercial confrontation between the two superpowers.
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But most of us don't live in the halls of the United Nations or the boardrooms in which the Paris climate agreement was negotiated.
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They were people who danced in boardrooms, battles, and interestingly didn't come from the higher or even lower classes, they were often from the suburbs.
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But equally powerful is the belief on Wall Street and in boardrooms that the sole responsibility of a corporation is to maximize profits for shareholders.
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While Switzerland has Europe's second-highest proportion of women in the workforce, it trails global standards on gender diversity in boardrooms and in management positions.
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A majority of financial executives in boardrooms around the world don't believe U.K. lawmakers will approve a formal Brexit deal, according to a CNBC survey.
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The BoE's Haldane said last week he detected no sense of "slash and burn" around company boardrooms, but a strong sense of "trim and singe".
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The advisory body argues that focusing on getting women into boardrooms and executive roles disregards the huge numbers of women in shitty low-paid jobs.
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And to those sitting in corner offices well above the newsrooms, anchor chairs and editorial boardrooms, money and profit trumps integrity and objectivity every time.
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Much of the negotiations around Qatar policy will be happening outside of K Street boardrooms, said Ali Shihabi, the executive director of the Arabia Foundation.
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Jay-Z's unconventional ascent from Brooklyn's street corners to corporate boardrooms has caught the attention of billionaire business leaders like Warren Buffet and Oprah Winfrey.
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Scattered throughout the cars, she said, are the "performatively important," ostentatiously high-powered riders who treat the Acela's two-by-two seats as personal boardrooms.
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Designs are created in studios, selected in boardrooms, and stitched in factories, and the process leaves us at times with garments that miss the mark.
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Industry groups say the rules allow special interests and proxy advisory firms that recommend how investors should vote to hijack corporate boardrooms with costly demands.
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As a preproduction exercise, touring boardrooms wasn't the sort of extravagantly crafty immersion program that prompts other actors to frequent bootmakers' ateliers and mental hospitals.
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The more we embrace inclusion, the more we see the economic and cultural benefits of having diversity in our boardrooms, our schools and our communities.
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His movies frequently reflect the way small instances of organization — boardrooms, conference rooms, classrooms, stores — are ideal microcosms of the problems and possibilities of democracy.
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But discrimination is real, and women aren't paid equally and they are underrepresented in corporate boardrooms and in Silicon Valley and in various other sectors.
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I love this country and I feel so strongly about the dysfunction that is going on both in Washington and the boardrooms of corporate America.
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And as for the original Surface Hub, Microsoft says total sales topped over 5,000 customers (with many going to the secret boardrooms of Fortune 100 companies).
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Martin Stuchtey of SystemIQ, a consultancy, says that nine out of ten boardrooms he visits are debating "how to sell freshness, not fridges; kilometres, not tyres".
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From cabinets to boardrooms to book-lined studies, voices which once argued that a growing middle class would drive China towards Western values have fallen silent.
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On Thursday, National Assembly head Julio Borges tore up the Supreme Court order on the steps of the legislature, an image likely to unsettle corporate boardrooms.
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"There is growing frustration in global boardrooms at the slow pace of negotiations," Mike Hawes, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
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"The attention of boardrooms and cabinets should be fixed on the dramatic energy transition that is unfolding," said Remi Eriksen, the group's president and chief executive.
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"We'll be in the Congress, in the courts, in the boardrooms, in the streets, organizing the broad public that supports action on climate change," Karpinski said.
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Phipps' view is in the majority, with 12 of 22 respondents predicting boardrooms will not switch their bias to business investments from buybacks any time soon.
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He was the most powerful U.S. figure to have been brought down in the #MeToo scandal that has roiled Hollywood, politics and boardrooms since October 2017.
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The meeting rooms themselves come in all shapes and sizes, from ones where staff can sit on beanbag chairs, to sleek boardrooms which pop with color.
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American culture seems involved in an endless struggle over diversity and inclusion, from corporate boardrooms to Hollywood and the devices we all carry in our hands.
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While Switzerland has one of Europe's highest proportions of women in the workforce, it trails global standards on gender diversity in boardrooms and in management positions.
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"Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the boardrooms of Wall Street," wrote Ida Tarbell, a muckraking journalist of the day.
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An electorate in the throes of an existential crisis should cheer candidates willing to hold criminals accountable in any context, whether in boardrooms, Congress or fazendas.
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"The kind of meaningful conversation that was taking place in boardrooms and in local governments unfortunately had not really taken place in Congress," Deutch told me.
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As boardrooms become more diverse, boards have seen the benefits of giving people with different viewpoints a seat at the table, PwC writes in their analysis.
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Let's all take a second to appreciate the joyous cacophony we're oh-so-sure is, at this moment, emanating from the boardrooms of upscale supermarkets everywhere.
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Those who knew Mr. Singer described him in interviews as a man constantly on the move, in and out of airports, hotels, boardrooms and living rooms.
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Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.
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The conflict between these two sides, red and yellow, is quite literally being playing out on soccer pitches, in boardrooms, and among fan-bases across the country.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer is wielding more clout as he presses more than 150 U.S. companies to detail plans to diversify their boardrooms.
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Boardrooms were flooded with so much confidence that executives were willing to stretch beyond the textbook-style acquisition — Company A buys Company B — to get deals done.
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Members have access to the Servcorp online web portal, where they can communicate with reception, book boardrooms, and control how they want their calls to be answered.
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Google's been testing the hardware with a number of high profile partners, including Netflix and Spotify, who have been trying it out in their own corporate boardrooms.
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Giving and receiving feedback, collaborating widely, and leveraging more decentralized decision-making will all be core attributes for successful leaders as C-suites expand and boardrooms diversify.
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"There is growing frustration in global boardrooms at the slow pace of (Brexit) negotiations," said Mike Hawes, head of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
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That's all great, but if you haven't gathered, most people outside carrier boardrooms haven't exactly been waiting with bated breath for a next-generation multimedia SMS protocol.
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After all, women can now apply to schools whose classrooms were once off-limits and find themselves at the head of boardrooms that were once inaccessible, right?
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Pressure from shareholders hasn't resolved issues over excessive pay, the lack of women in boardrooms, or the hardship and uncertainty faced by workers on zero-hours contracts.
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Neither Trump's policies nor Britain's planned departure from the European Union was hurting the German economy or the mood in corporate boardrooms, Ifo economist Klaus Wohlrabe said.
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"His knowledge of British boardrooms is unparalleled and he is held in the deepest respect across the City," said Michael McLintock, chief executive of M&G Investments.
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Why the rush to condemn policy that hasn't been thoroughly debated beyond the pages of editorial boards and boardrooms of those hoping for an unlikely coal renaissance?
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Arguing that minorities and women are significantly underrepresented in corporate boardrooms, the lawmakers want the SEC to force corporations to document the racial mix of the panels.
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And yet, for all the pan-ideological dismay in America's editorial boardrooms, a huge portion of the country just doesn't see it the same way at all.
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It was interesting to see a young man driven by raw ambition, breaking into boardrooms and rubbing shoulders with CEO while maintaining his grassroots connections with musicians.
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Aligning private investment with state priorities could grease the bureaucratic skids for some companies, but more official meddling in boardrooms is unlikely to produce good business decisions.
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A series of strategic shifts in the boardrooms and back rooms of the world's biggest luxury groups — LVMH, Kering and Richemont — has been underway in recent months.
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The bankers and lawyers who defend boardrooms against activists have also praised him over the years, telling Michael that they respected his more constructive, less shouty approach.
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The rules of digital democracy should not be set by unaccountable bosses in the boardrooms of a handful of American firms—let alone, in future, Chinese ones.
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Mr. Trump's immigration ban, his calls for border tariffs and his aggressive, off-the-cuff approach to international diplomacy also risk undermining the ebullience in corporate boardrooms.
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A lifelong Republican, Mr. Coleman was as comfortable in the boardrooms of powerful corporations — PepsiCo, IBM, Chase Manhattan Bank — as he was in the halls of government.
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She's talking about show business — on-screen, behind the camera, in boardrooms where decisions are made — but may as well be talking about society as a whole.
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But our nearly all-white governments and boardrooms reflect a historical reality of white domination that was more complete than what was achieved in the United States.
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Early startup investing by wealthy executives abounds in Silicon Valley, leaving boardrooms packed with possible conflicts and boosting the likelihood of disputes like the one threatening Oracle's acquisition.
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If social media firms are the gatekeepers of 21st century content, then boardrooms who sign off on the digital marketing budget must be ready to ask harder questions.
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"We want to achieve greater equality in football, from board games to boardrooms," the FA's head of marketing for women's football, Marzena Bogdanowicz, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"We will continue to express concern that these megadeals are being made to benefit the corporate boardrooms at the expense of family farmers, ranchers, consumers and rural economies."
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Beyond the political posturing and partisan rancor, the policy decisions made in the corridors of the Capitol are informed by, and greatly affect, the boardrooms of corporate America.
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It's not entirely clear how radical AMLO would prove to be in office – debating the point is a favorite pastime in Mexican cafés and corporate boardrooms these days.
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Gender diversity Institutional investors have made no bones about it: They will vote against nominating and corporate governance committee chairs and members that fail to diversify their boardrooms.
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What is prized most in boardrooms is an array of business-friendly laws, regulations and culture — the sort of warm welcome that Paris once defiantly refused to offer.
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You might finish the book without remembering that essential debates about power, speech and civil liberties are being hashed out not in public but in Silicon Valley boardrooms.
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A majority of financial executives in boardrooms around the world say Amazon Founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos should be considered as the top businessperson of the decade.
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Skou said he hoped the first segment of the trade deal would help to remove uncertainty within boardrooms around the world and, in turn, drive forward investment decisions.
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Meyer: The heavy lifting in this effort will continue to take place at the national and subnational level, and in corporate boardrooms, not at the annual climate summits.
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Few deals sent more tremors, both immediate and far-reaching, through the markets and corporate boardrooms than Amazon's $13.7 billion acquisition of upscale organic grocery chain Whole Foods.
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Almost half a century later, women are still having to defend their right to share a stage with men, from boardrooms, to political parties, to tennis courts, and beyond.
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As I told Anonymous a few weeks ago when I interviewed on their podcast: The entire election shitshow is controlled by corporate people in boardrooms and the uber-wealthy.
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While there is no immediate threat to Airbus and Boeing, delegates say the feeling is taking hold in boardrooms and governments that their duopoly cannot be taken for granted.
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Amid gridlock in boardrooms and Congress on proposals to improve worker pay and employment conditions, state governments have taken the lead, forcing companies to raise minimums and add benefits.
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Still, in another sign of scant optimism in boardrooms, a business expectations sub-index fell to a near five-year low of 57.3 from 61.2 in the previous month.
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But in another sign of scant optimism in boardrooms, a business expectations sub-index fell to a near five-year low of 57.3 from 61.2 in the previous month.
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" He continued, "I will so miss his presence at @ChurchillDowns and the streets and boardrooms of Louisville where his total humanity shone like a brilliant first Saturday in May.
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"We need to be not just on the page, on the stage; we need to be in the boardrooms, we need to be in the writing rooms," she said.
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"The roots of the opioid crisis run through American medicine cabinets into the boardrooms and marketing offices of pharmaceutical companies," Herring wrote in an email to The Health 202.
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There is deep concern in boardrooms about the prospect of Britain leaving the bloc without a deal, or with a deal that would silt up the arteries of trade.
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While we are roughly 51 percent of our nation's population, we still have abysmal representation in company boardrooms [and] legislative chambers, and only make up 20 percent of Congress.
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It is a view that has swept through traditional firms' boardrooms, too, where enthusing about virtual reality and singing the praises of Jeff Bezos, Amazon's boss, is almost obligatory.
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Saudi Aramco's expected listing is widely predicted to be the world's largest, and the global competition for the prestigious event is breaking out from boardrooms and into the public.
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Wang is an unusually colourful figure in China's staid boardrooms - an entrepreneur who also rows, climbs mountains and hit gossip headlines when he began dating a much younger actress.
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This month's "March For Our Lives" in Washington and across the country could further catalyze significant changes on gun control in corporate boardrooms and in the halls of Congress.
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In boardrooms, academia and on Wall Street, there is a lot of debate over short-term versus long-term stock prices and what constitutes "fiduciary responsibility" for board members.
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But in Hollywood boardrooms there are executives in suits who have been delivering "a one-two punch" in the industry, and they want you to know all about it.
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Like any other hedge fund, Ides seeks to generate returns from its investments and sees diversifying small and midsize corporate boardrooms as a way to help improve stock prices.
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Since then, Iceland, an island of 330,000, has established shared parental leave, banned strip clubs, instituted gender quotas in boardrooms and passed same-sex marriage with a unanimous vote.
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In Washington, on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms, Beijing has used the country's size and promise for decades to quell opposition and reward those who helped its rise.
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None of the data, as of yet, yield anywhere close to a full picture of how the tax cuts are flowing through corporate boardrooms and into the American economy.
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We fight in newsrooms, boardrooms, studio meetings, book proposals, and other spaces where white editors hungry for all of our pain and none of our nuance serve as gatekeepers.
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To hear him tell it, Trump was always more comfortable with the blue collar workers out on his various projects rather than in boardrooms with a bunch of executives.
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Executives in newsrooms and Hollywood boardrooms increasingly came to believe that their competitors weren't just down the street or across the country, but across platforms and around the world.
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People whose voices are quite literally heard less than those of white men, since white men still tend to dominate conversations in media, classrooms, boardrooms, politics, and everyday life.
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And even the mothers who remain in the boardrooms of our modern day Fortune 500s are demonstrating to all that traditional ideas of motherhood as a weakness are flatly wrong.
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Aside from the government's role in perpetuating the gender imbalance, US corporations seem resistant to the idea of including more women in boardrooms, or in promoting them to executive positions.
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But action to address worsening climate threats has gathered pace globally, from business boardrooms to city mayors' offices to kitchen dining tables, renewing hopes in the fight against climate change.
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He said women only make up about a quarter of the website's users, suggesting while conditions may be improving for those in boardrooms, others still struggle to reach senior posts.
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It was in concert halls and boardrooms and along red carpets that sinister ideologues like Goebbels most fully revealed their plans to remake European civilization and overturn the global order.
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Here's how businesses can tackle climate change head-on: Make it a part of the business Some boardrooms have begun to build climate risks into their assumptions and business plans.
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Courtrooms, boardrooms, nicely decorated drawing rooms, and newsrooms furnished with little more than telephones and smoke: they all feel cocked and combat-ready, and every deadline looms like an ambush.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's minority center-left coalition will introduce legislation in February to make listed companies increase the number of women in their boardrooms, news agency TT said on Tuesday.
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The world's working poor have no seats in the boardrooms or on the stock markets, and no influence over Amazon's carbon emissions schemes or the success of Tesla electric trucks.
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AT&T-Time Warner deal Now that a judge has OK'd AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner, a serious case of media merger madness is expected to sweep corporate boardrooms.
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As a detail-driven prosecutor who also is an Asian-African-American woman, she checks the boxes for both head and heart, both Silicon Valley and the big studio boardrooms.
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The financial planner from Chesterton, Indiana, had "prestigious" visions of board life swimming in her head, perhaps involving hanging out in mahogany boardrooms and hobnobbing with the rich and powerful.
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But a letter he wrote to his firm's portfolio companies in January — in which he urged corporate America to contribute positively to society, or else — hit boardrooms like a bombshell.
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We have investigated churches and boardrooms for this kind of behavior, and yet we are just barely starting to pull back the curtain of sexual harassment and coercion in Hollywood.
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Since 2015, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made some headway on diversifying boardrooms while tasking companies to be more transparent and responsive to shareholders, but much remains to be done.
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The story swings from the Nevada desert to the Indonesian rain forest to Wall Street boardrooms, and the screen bristles with signifiers of capitalist activity: meetings, phone calls, stock tickers.
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Carolyn Maloney of New York is working on legislation to address the near-absence of women from corporate boardrooms and hopes to introduce it in the U.S. Congress next month.
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A Dodd-Frank rule requiring the SEC to adopt rules that force disclosure of CEO pay ratio brought the issue to the forefront in boardrooms, corporate advisors have told CNBC.
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Asset manager State Street and advertising agency McCann New York installed the bronze statue in New York's financial district to call attention to the lack of gender diversity in boardrooms.
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Said Watts: "We've pivoted to statehouses and boardrooms to change state laws and corporate policies, and that momentum will eventually get us the right president and Congress who will act."
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A historically high number of top movies had black directors last year, according to a sweeping study, released on Friday, that examined diversity behind the scenes and in studio boardrooms.
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Other related issues in business include persistent pay gaps between men and women, and a lack of diversity in corporate boardrooms, where women occupy just one in five board seats.
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Beginning with three funds – supporting gender diversity in boardrooms, flexible working and the brands that millennials trust – the investments marketplace will be available to customers in the smartphone app this summer.
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Men, on the other hand, can be credibly accused of serial sexual assault and yet still find a place in our boardrooms, on the Supreme Court, and in the Oval Office.
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It's complete with a sleek reception, boardrooms, original artwork, a business lounge, co-working areas, fake fireplaces, telephone booths, storage facilities, as well as a kitchen area with a breakfast bar.
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This is a whole-of-society problem, and meaningfully addressing it will require an across the board increase in public understanding of cybersecurity issues—in classrooms, boardrooms, and congressional hearing rooms.
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Although the Collins-Reed bill would not require a significant shift in corporate boardrooms, it would create pressure on them, said Amjed Saffarini, CEO of CyberVisa, which offers companies cybersecurity training.
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In the latest sign of how eager boardrooms are sparking a record number of "megadeals", Japan's top drugmaker Takeda revealed it was weighing a $40 billion takeover of Irish rival Shire.
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Ted Cruz harshly criticized the banks on Friday, saying Texas citizens "appear to have a stronger commitment to protecting our constitutional liberties than do your boardrooms," the Dallas Morning News reported.
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But what they will get will be a pale imitation, a simulacrum, designed by executives in boardrooms, decided by power brokers in private, staged for the benefit of the television cameras.
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That includes activities in broadcast control rooms, offices, bedrooms, boardrooms and even a restaurant where a pair of adulterous lovers conduct a cool quickie in full view of their fellow diners.
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Worst of all, an onslaught of lawsuits challenging the rule could set back the meaningful progress that has been made — and hopefully will be made — in bringing more diversity to boardrooms.
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A huge state bureaucracy, of course, can be just as alienating and undemocratic as corporate boardrooms, so we need to think hard about the new forms that social ownership could take.
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Watched closely in newsrooms, boardrooms and the offices of state, Sky News is a politically neutral outlet that has forced the taxpayer-funded BBC to up its game in rolling news.
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And whether they like it or not, current and former business leaders said Mr. Trump's Twitter messages and other statements will filter through corner offices and boardrooms and influence decision making.
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It also reflects, they said, the conviction that bringing a broader slice of America into the Fed's boardrooms will result in a keener grasp of economic conditions and better policy decisions.
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It also reflects, they said, the conviction that bringing a broader slice of America into the Fed's boardrooms will result in a keener grasp of economic conditions and better policy decisions.
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In their way, they're just following the example of big-fish veteran entrepreneurs: the retired generals and admirals who hang around defense-contractor boardrooms and the greenrooms of broadcast news studios.
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BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - In America's corporate boardrooms, diversity is making uneven progress: Women increasingly are pulling up a chair while racial and ethnic minorities still rarely get seats at the table.
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Though some sectors of American business, including retailers and commodity exporters, enjoyed a bumper 2017 in China, the days when boardrooms would nod through anything resembling a bold China strategy are over.
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But Fidelity is also known as a potential breaker: its write-downs of some of the bigger valuations have been well documented and have caused ripple effects well beyond their portfolios' boardrooms.
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Billy Beane, the analytics-driven general manager of the budget-strapped Oakland A's, shook up sports and corporate boardrooms by melding overlooked, under-valued players into oddball yet cheap and winning teams.
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A resounding chorus of voices — from the battlefields to the halls of Capitol Hill, from houses of worship to the boardrooms of our country's CEOs — is singing off the same song sheet.
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The forum, which lobbies for black rights, criticised the mobile phone operator's decision saying it was retrogressive to plans for the inclusion of blacks in corporate boardrooms in Africa's most industrialised country.
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They worry that expressing any opinion about staying in the bloc or leaving could lead to backlash from customers or shareholders who hold the opposing view, or even split their own boardrooms.
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Most of the largest overall contributors in the country are men, many of them in fields like energy and finance, where women are still exceedingly rare in corporate boardrooms and executive suites.
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Earlier this month, theBoardlist — which connects highly qualified women leaders with opportunities to serve on private and public company boards — announced the top 30 tech companies whose boardrooms represent diversity and inclusion.
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Intel, Rambus, Paramount TV, Texas Instruments and Papa John's have all recently fired CEOs or chairmen over "code of conduct" violations, a sign that boardrooms are indeed taking these issues more seriously.
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For over a decade, corporate America has complained that voting rules have allowed special interests and proxy advisory firms that recommend how investors should vote to hijack corporate boardrooms with costly demands.
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"This case is getting a tremendous amount of attention in hospital boardrooms across the United States," said David A. Balto, a former federal regulator who is now an antitrust lawyer in Washington.
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"The irony here is that, while this assertiveness is jolting boardrooms around the world, it is a dog bites man story, because the policy enjoys broad bipartisan support in Congress," Mancuso said.
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In March, an inquiry into gender diversity in Britain's boardrooms found nearly two-thirds of Britain's 350 biggest listed companies had failed to reach a target of having 25 percent female board members.
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In Hollywood, in Silicon Valley boardrooms, in the nation's highest courts, across thousands of lamenting Facebook posts, and even on the sidelines of your kid's soccer game -- there's one name on everybody's lips.
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But sentiment is souring in the country's boardrooms after a much-anticipated budget in July failed to provide any stimulus, and instead hiked taxes on the ultra-rich and on foreign portfolio investors.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top companies are making too little progress in hiring people of color to top jobs and end "all-white domains" in many boardrooms, a government-backed report said on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A boom in European deal-making activity — a sign better growth prospects are boosting confidence in European corporate boardrooms — is helping support stock market valuations which, on some measures, appear stretched.
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Major companies like Coty, Kia and Nintendo have been singled out for their lack of gender diversity in a new report detailing the boardrooms of some of the world's most high-profile corporations.
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LONDON, (Reuters) - The prospect of Britain voting to leave the European Union sent shivers through the boardrooms of the country's dominant services sector last month, driving growth to a near three-year low.
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While the new law is causing angst in foreign boardrooms, the personal data privacy provisions are in line with worldwide practice, said Scott Thiel, partner at law firm DLA Piper in Hong Kong.
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The only boardrooms that shareholder value has not reached are those of China's state-run firms, whose party-appointed bosses look baffled if asked about return on capital and buzz for more tea.
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The U.N.-led drive comes amid efforts to increase women's representation in corporate boardrooms and government legislatures, said Julie Suk, a professor at Yeshiva University in New York with expertise in antidiscrimination law.
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State Street Global Advisors, one of the world's largest asset managers, had strategically installed it on the eve of International Women's Day to kick-start a campaign for gender diversity in America's boardrooms.
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A Dodd-Frank rule requiring the SEC to adopt rules that force disclosure of the CEO-to-worker pay ratio brought the issue to the forefront in boardrooms, corporate advisors have told CNBC.
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Yes, but: Most big companies subject to the law — like Google, Wells Fargo and Disney — have had women on their boards for years, prodded, in some cases, by backlash against all-male boardrooms.
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At the same time, artists, from the unsigned to burgeoning superstars, get not only exposure, but branding and business tips, plus a potential entree to corporate boardrooms, where lucrative brand deals may await.
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Meanwhile, setting quantified human resources targets might start to shift the gender ratio at tech companies, but that won't address the underlying problems that make tech culture and executive boardrooms so unwelcoming to women.
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Whether or not Trump's early actions will withstand a growing backlash that began on the streets and has spread to corporate boardrooms and into the offices of some elected leaders is an open question.
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Brexit won't be solved by the end of October and the European Union will need to grant yet another deadline, according to a CNBC survey of senior financial executives in boardrooms around the world.
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For the Bulgari hotel in London, Heywood Hill supplied about 5153,000 books: volumes on business, travel, history, politics and the like for the boardrooms; fashion, art, design and fiction classics in the guest rooms.
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And shame on those who dodge chances to raise awareness about intimate violence, and the people who try to tell the messy, complex truths about rape culture in dorm rooms, bedrooms, and boardrooms today.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The chairman of Britain's biggest retailer Tesco has said he was joking after telling an audience of aspiring non-executive directors (NED) that white men were "an endangered species" in UK boardrooms.
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First, the price tag of resolving the ZTE matter should underscore to boardrooms worldwide the continued importance of a well-functioning compliance program and the pitfalls of an insufficient response to indications of wrongdoing.
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"In most boardrooms, there is urgency around the topic these days, but the conversation is around how to sustain the enterprise, with a focus on how to manage a multi-generational workforce," Alonso said.
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President Trump's announcement on Thursday that he will withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement is the culmination of a furious lobbying fight that raged from the West Wing to corporate boardrooms.
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But, if you look inside these companies, on their engineering teams, in their boardrooms, and in the neighborhoods and communities in which their employees work and live, you will see an increasingly segregated picture.
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WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. BECAUSE THE WAY CAPITALISM IS PRACTICED TODAY IS THAT I'D SAY 80% TO 85% OF WHAT THE CORPORATE BOARDROOMS DO IS MANAGING FOR THE PROFITABILITY OF A PARTICULAR COMPANY.
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That's a good thing, he argues, because it levels the playing field and allows underrepresented groups to see the same data and insights usually passed around in closed-door boardrooms full of Stanford alumni.
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Why it matters: Nooyi is one of Corporate America's most visible, outspoken female CEOs — and her departure is sure to highlight the lack of women occupying the top spot in boardrooms around the country.
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Which is why some of the world's most powerful activists might not be out riding a dinghy for Greenpeace – but sitting in corporate boardrooms, deciding where to allot the trillions of dollars they manage.
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"I think very expensive champagne will be popping in drug company boardrooms across the country tonight," said Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, who has been investigating drug prices for the last year.
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I had more than a few awkward moments in boardrooms with Chinese executives or dealing with PR representatives where I forcefully pushed for a yes-or-no answer that made us both look bad.
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Connie Morello, a Maryland Republican, called Kaptur's record a "landmark achievement" and spoke of the importance of the #MeToo movement and the push to put more women in top positions in boardrooms and organizations.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist hedge funds were choosier in throwing their weight around corporate boardrooms during the first half of the year as they managed a smaller cash pile and struggled to beat benchmark returns.
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Since then, the 49-year-old — who has rapped about his unconventional rise from Brooklyn street corners to corporate boardrooms — has continued to expand his portfolio to include smart investments inside and outside of music.
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Campaigner Jolene Tan said the promotion appeared to overlook the struggle of women in the city-state, who are pushing for better representation in company boardrooms and battling laws which critics say allow marital rape.
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The prospect of Britain voting to leave the European Union at a referendum in June sent shivers through the boardrooms of the country's dominant services sector last month, sending growth to a three-year low.
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They will surely find some supporters, but outside of cable news greenrooms, Wall Street boardrooms and Silicon Valley ball pit rooms, there's no obvious constituency that's been calling for either man to enter the race.
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One of the first speeches by the new British prime minister, Theresa May of the Conservative Party, laid out an aggressive agenda for reforming corporate boardrooms that could have been written by the AFL-CIO.
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The new Congress's number of female members will have grown by just about 5% and boardrooms have grown their proportion of women directors by an average of 1.2% per year over the past five years.
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Employee stakeholders should not be relied upon as the conscience for society at large, though it would not be a surprise to find employee representatives leading discussions in a more progressive direction within corporate boardrooms.
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At first glance, it may seem strange that the home of some of the world's most valuable companies — including Apple, Alphabet and Facebook — would start to police the gender composition of its corporate residents' boardrooms.
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It's particularly interesting that the Pacific Legal Foundation considers the law discriminatory and "condescending" when it was intended to counteract the pervasive gender bias that has long kept women out of corner offices and boardrooms.
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So ControlTek, the electronics manufacturer that Mr. LaFrazia runs near Portland, is taking steps to protect itself, a strategic shift that has been repeated in boardrooms and executive suites around the world in recent weeks.
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Asked shortly after the premiere of "Blue Planet II" if looming regulations preoccupy plastics companies, a senior European lobbyist for the industry confessed to Schumpeter that they were not really a topic of conversation in boardrooms.
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However, lunchtime drinking is also at the heart of industries like insurance, hedge funds, private equity, while investment banks that find it easier to grow relationships over an informal pint in a pub than in boardrooms.
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We were chatting in one of boardrooms at the University of Waterloo's Velocity Garage, the largest free startup incubator in North America, where the company has been working to take the cap off drone flight-times.
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But in our culture women learn early to shut up: on the playground, in classrooms, on dates, in boardrooms, and of course on the athletic field, where we are meant to be cheerleaders for the men.
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The power Trump fondly imagines that he wields in boardrooms and high-powered Oval Office confabs may appear, superficially in his telling, to take lavishly ornate forms, but is it at bottom just one quality: impressiveness.
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Adams is the latest of dozens of men to be accused of inappropriate behavior in the past 18 months as the #MeToo movement has spread beyond Hollywood and into the music industry, politics and corporate boardrooms.
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And surveys suggest Democratic primary voters are mostly content with their options and probably do not desperately crave yet another rich savior to satiate the donor class and make things less eerie in Wall Street boardrooms.
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The number of women who labored in basement meetings, in consciousness-raising groups, in boardrooms, in unions, in news organizations and in their own kitchens to expand possibilities for women are far too many to count.
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Lee was on 'GMA' Wednesday morning when he said the problem with the Oscars is deeper than who gets nominated -- it's the fact black movies and black actors aren't getting the opportunities in the Hollywood boardrooms.
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I'm leaving, but we have men who have been credibly accused of intentional acts of sexual violence and remain in boardrooms, on the Supreme Court, in this very body and worst of all, in the Oval Office.
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But the inquiry found that less than half of the 350 biggest companies actually increased the proportion of women in their boardrooms, while 46 percent either kept the same proportion of women board members or reduced it.
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Football Leaks documents the financial corruption practiced by a network of men—agents, team owners, players, and officials—swirling around in beautifully tailored suits, moving through hotel lobbies, company boardrooms and homes that look like corporate compounds.
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"These changes will drive improvements in how boardrooms engage with employees, customers and suppliers as well as shareholders, delivering better business performance and public confidence in the way businesses are run," said Greg Clark, Britain's business minister.
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Some will say that's a bad thing, another victory for noise over signal, but it also means that power will shift, if only just, away from the usual boardrooms and donor confabs, and toward the grassroots. 6.
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Paul Ingrassia, an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who placed readers in the boardrooms and executive suites of the nation's automotive industry and put many of its leaders under scrutiny, died on Monday in Naples, Fla.
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But what are really raising hackles in editorial boardrooms are policy changes that would result in the deportation of people who are here illegally and who would not have been subject to deportation under the Obama administration.
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Her next book, "The Support Economy" — co-written with her late husband James Maxmin — predicted that out-of-touch corporations run from isolated boardrooms would give way to rivals responsive to the feedback of technology-empowered consumers.
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A new generation of leaders has entered boardrooms since then, and it is fair to question what they know, or remember, about the fiduciary failures that not only doomed Enron but also permanently recast the board's role.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economy appears to be losing steam, with major business surveys showing a marked slowdown in the services sector and boardrooms beset by doubt about the future following the country's vote to leave the European Union.
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In a week when business surveys pointed to a contraction in overall output in the second quarter, the latest signals from Britain's boardrooms and high streets underscored the extent of the slowdown following a strong start to 2019.
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She sat in boardrooms across from long-standing giants in the advertising and editorial industries to convince them that the strong, independent, smart readers of Ms. Magazine deserved content that challenged them and deserved ads that served them.
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JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indonesian campaigner Firliana Purwanti is on a mission to tell women in her largely conservative nation that insisting on equality in the bedroom can help them achieve equal footing in boardrooms and in politics.
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It's a familiar moment for most women who've sat in boardrooms or meetings — being interrupted, having someone else repeat your ideas — and though Graham is in charge, and people have to respect her, the sexism still comes through.
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How many S&P 500 companies could do better if the go-along-to-get-along thinking that undergirds so many boardrooms is replaced by energetic skepticism and diverse viewpoints drawn from very different life and professional experiences?
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Speaking of corporate boardrooms, an excellent read is "Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism," by Jeff Gramm, owner and manager of the Bandera Partners hedge fund and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School.
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And if Rose, who prefers to spend weekends at a cottage in Suffolk, eastern England than at a showy second home on the continent, needs further backup, he can call on his friends from boardrooms across the country.
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ROME (Reuters) - The Bank of Italy plans to adopt investment criteria which reward companies that take action on climate change, joining other central banks, commercial banks and fund managers in ratcheting up pressure on boardrooms to go green.
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The plans for alternate transit options—or in L train shutdown parlance, survival—during that year and a half of darkness are still being hashed out, by MTA officials in boardrooms and in community meetings across the city.
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He went on to bring up the specter of the 1930s, when "they brought rich people in front of Congress and just kinda trashed em," and spoke of a "she's gotta be stopped" attitude in boardrooms across America.
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While many major tech companies, including Facebook, started releasing annual workforce diversity stats several years ago, those efforts alone have not yet led to substantial gains for underrepresented groups — particularly among upper leadership levels and within corporate boardrooms.
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But even some skeptics of his overall approach concede that Mr. Trump's promises of tax reform and higher infrastructure spending, as well as pressure to increase domestic manufacturing, are resonating in boardrooms in the United States and abroad.
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Streep, 68, who is expected to be Oscar-nominated for a record 21st time next month, had no doubt about the film's relevance for women who are still fighting for equality in corporate boardrooms and in Hollywood itself.
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Let that education include a history lesson of sorts, a conversation about the Enron board's critical — and self-admitted — failures, together with some hypotheticals on how those failures might arise again, in different circumstances and in different boardrooms.
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ICIJ has promised a full data dump next month that will identify all of the companies that worked with Mossack Fonseca - something that is undoubtedly causing a lot of indigestion in boardrooms across the US and the world.
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But one thing is clear, the real regulatory battles that will decide the next phase of America's relationship with emerging technology will occur in unsexy boardrooms — the public spectacle of techies disrupting D.C. will mostly fall on deaf ears.
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As part of his push for more ethics in boardrooms, Jones touted the Goldman Sachs JUST US Large Cap ETF, which focuses on companies that comply with environmental, social and governance standards, or the so-called ESG investing philosophy.
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Last March, as residents returned for the first time to survey the damage and rebuild their lives, Temir photographed the interior spaces they had deserted—bedrooms coated in dust, boardrooms missing a wall, kitchens strewn with rubble and debris.
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These young people are a significant demographic in our nation, and as they continue to find their voice and wield their influence, we'll only see more Latinos in elected office, in boardrooms, and in other positions of power. Rep.
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Republicans and Democrats both pressed for more details on how far the Fed plans to loosen rules on capital buffers and leverage ratios for large banks, clarify a controversial ban on risky investments and police bank boardrooms for misdeeds.
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Several major tech companies—including Apple, Google parent Alphabet, and Facebook—will likely have to add women to their boards of directors by mid-2021 under a pioneering new California law aimed at bringing more women into corporate boardrooms.
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Separate and apart from his liberal record, he has a history of working in the corporate sector, specifically in the "executive suites and boardrooms of controversial corporate behemoths Texaco, Coca-Cola, and Ameriquest Mortgage Co.," according to the Globe.
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" Mr. Berman said the case was the first of its kind and vowed his office would "do everything in its power to combat this epidemic, from street-level dealers to the executives who illegally distribute drugs from their boardrooms.
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Puffing his way through smoke-filled boardrooms, luxury hotel rooms and government offices, Luna's Gallardo sees himself as the visionary who can unite the rival drug fiefs and bring the police and government to heel through bribery and intimidation.
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But, despite the embattled presence of Prime Minister Theresa May, a quick head count in the Houses of Parliament or the boardrooms of major corporations shows the problems we still have with the reality of women with actual power.
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We expect and may be getting reform – of both laws and behavior – as resistance to sexual bullying spreads from the highly publicized revelations in boardrooms, legislatures and Hollywood executive suites to lowly-paid women in service and retail jobs.
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For Rupert Murdoch, the owner of The Journal since 2007, the partnership is a way for him to realize his long-held dream of turning the paper into something of interest to readers beyond Wall Street and corporate boardrooms.
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He wants to take down the masters of the universe, who rule from their closed-off boardrooms, not just because they've built a cruel, exploitative world, but because he believes his sister and friends and imaginary father figure deserve something better.
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BERLIN, April 25 (Reuters) - German companies remain positive about the economy but concerns about weakening exports linked to a slowdown in the United States and China are dampening the mood in German boardrooms, Ifo economist Klaus Wohlrabe told Reuters on Monday.
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Moreover, instead of choosing subjects from the boardrooms of powerful corporations or among the latest crop of young entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Francisco Campos and his fellow researchers chose to monitor 1,500 people running small businesses in Togo in West Africa.
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Rail firms' resistance to this corporate crack cocaine is hard to explain, but may reflect the lingering presence in their boardrooms of gnarled railmen with a love of horn blocks and glad-hand connectors, rather than earnings-per-share enhancement.
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MUNICH (Reuters) - The troubles in Italy's banking sector are not having any impact on the mood in corporate boardrooms around Germany and neither is the election of U.S. Republican Donald Trump, an economist at the Ifo institute said on Monday.
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However, for the president to make the most of the goodwill in boardrooms, he must work harder to undo the damage caused by poor decisions such as the scrapping of the airport, said Gustavo de Hoyos, head of employers' lobby COPARMEX.
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And yet, as we're crisscrossing the country to visit computer science classrooms or the boardrooms of our nation's biggest tech companies, we see the same problem: a jarring lack of women and girls in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
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According to the latest CNBC Global CFO Council quarterly survey, published Thursday, the fear is being felt in boardrooms worldwide with almost 77 percent of global respondents having some sort of concern that Italy will turn its back on Europe.
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As befits a slick drama set in sleek boardrooms — or, more likely, as befits a play addressing the hot-button topics of income inequality and the collapse of American manufacturing — the production has attracted a first-class cast and creative team.
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As a revanchist attack against environmental regulation unfolds in Washington cloaked in pro-business rhetoric, a pragmatic forward-looking revolution is taking place in financial centers and corporate boardrooms around the country, supported by leadership from state and local governments.
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Those efforts were repeated Tuesday in cities across the country, from New York to Washington to Denver to Los Angeles, now greatly amplified by social media and institutions — corporate boardrooms, colleges and religious organizations — that touch virtually all corners of society.
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From Radcliffe to her career as a champion of access to higher education for the disadvantaged, from the halls of Congress to corporate boardrooms, Lois would so excel, blowing away all (white) competitors, that no one could deny her worthiness.
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"There is growing evidence that some of America's financial elite want to create a world in which America's public policy decisions emanate from corporate boardrooms in Manhattan rather than from citizens and their elected officials," an article on the website said.
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"Corporate boardrooms have become obsessed with maximizing only shareholder earnings to the detriment of workers and the long-term strength of their companies," Senators Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer wrote in a New York Times Op-Ed earlier this month.
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But over the past several decades, corporate boardrooms have become obsessed with maximizing only shareholder earnings to the detriment of workers and the long-term strength of their companies, helping to create the worst level of income inequality in decades.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Companies with female directors outperform those with only men at the top, according to a study of more than 1,000 Asian firms released on Thursday, as calls grow for more diversity in the region's boardrooms.
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Consider, for example, one beloved refrain of the last decade in boardrooms and backrooms alike: that Milan was the least creative of the four fashion capitals, run by old names, dominated by big money and lacking any support from a crumbling establishment.
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I think that when we look at the ways women are still struggling to be recognized, in boardrooms or in the Supreme Court, or the White House, or in Congress, there's a slowly evolving story of women struggling to have their capabilities recognized.
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"Over the past several decades, corporate boardrooms have become obsessed with maximizing only shareholder earnings to the detriment of workers and the long-term strength of their companies, helping to create the worst level of income inequality in decades," the senators wrote.
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"Survey responses reveal that firms are worried about signs of faltering demand, but boardrooms have also become unsettled by concerns regarding the increased risk of 'Brexit', financial market volatility and weak economic growth at home and abroad," said Markit's chief economists, Chris Williamson.
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Mr Iglesias has redefined Spanish politics as a struggle against la cásta ("the caste"), by which he means the leaders and hangers-on of the traditional parties who colonised institutions from the courts to the savings banks and the boardrooms of corporate Spain.
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Locking up hundreds of Saudi's business elite, along with a fair few of his own relatives, including other Saudi princes -- albeit in a fancy hotel -- several months ago and accusing them of corruption didn't do him any favors when he hit the boardrooms.
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Times have changed since then, the activists write, and thanks to wealthy Latin American collectors, Latin art is now duly represented in the collections and boardrooms of major institutions like the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
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Artificial intelligence is a much-discussed buzzword in boardrooms around the world, but a lot of companies are still keeping it at arm's length, fearful that it's too complex and won't pay off fast enough, according to McKinsey Global Institute, a think tank.
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But over more than 500 days of relentless campaigning, such moments did not always come easily or naturally for Mr. Murphy, whose setting for much of his professional life has been rarefied corporate boardrooms and ornate European salons rather than rowdy campaign scenes.
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PARIS — From airports and government offices to company boardrooms and stock exchange floors, turmoil and anger spread across Europe on Thursday after President Trump abruptly blocked most visitors from the Continent to the United States to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
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But the recent consolidation of firepower in the British capital, coupled with Condé Nast International's increasingly ambitious investment effort to expand into new regions, has spurred fresh speculation around the internal struggles afoot within the publisher's boardrooms and editorial offices across the globe.
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From corporate boardrooms to foreign capitals, it argued that 53G was too important to cede to a foreign adversary, and despite its protestations of respectability, Huawei had a troubled history of skirting US law and helping some of the world's worst regimes.
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A lack of diversity permeates many parts of the tech industry — the overall work forces of companies like Facebook, Google and others strongly skew male — but boardrooms are a particular focus because they are power centers that can help spur broader changes.
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Of course, that wasn't enough to win her the presidency, but it was a sign that Trump's strongman act, honed in the boardrooms of corporate America and, perhaps, at the military academy where he attended boarding school, might have a weak spot.
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In the end, Succession season two used the character of Shiv to say something devastating about lean-in style feminism, the idea that what we need are more women in boardrooms and not necessarily massive structural changes that would radically alter our patriarchal institutions.
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Founded by Kwindla Kramer and Doug Brunton, Pluot combines a hardware and software system to give small businesses access to the same quality of video-conferencing services that companies could expect to see in the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, according to the founders.
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As regulators forced banks worldwide to cut back on risky businesses in recent years, worried boardrooms unceremoniously replaced the old guard with new leaders who were ordered to exit chancy areas that consumed the cash needed to fund new strategies in areas like wealth management.
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Closed door dealings in corporate boardrooms, largely invisible societal structures, and top-level meetings between despotic government officials rule more of our life than we'd like to admit; the illusion of free will or whatever is irrevocably intertwined with whatever remains of The American Dream.
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LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sank 24.4 percent in the first quarter of 22020, as concerns about an economic slowdown and fears of a no-deal Brexit in Europe spooked chief executives and corporate boardrooms from pursuing big tie-ups.
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With the rollback of the health care law put off and big infrastructure spending plans still up in the air, bulls and bears alike on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms will be focused on the prospects for a tax overhaul in the coming months.
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The activist investor who spends much of his time meeting institutional shareholders in Wall Street boardrooms is now speaking directly to the Main Street investor through video, telephone and television as his proxy fight with ADP intensifies before the company's annual meeting on Nov. 7.
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The study, by the Alliance for Board Diversity, which advocates for broader demographic inclusion in boardrooms, and the professional services firm Deloitte, shows that women and minorities occupied 38.6 percent of board seats at Fortune 100 companies last year, compared with 35.9 percent in 2016.
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The thing that I'm personally focused on is not only raising our consciousness about caring about this and getting it into the boardrooms and into the leadership rooms and the real tools that we have and understanding the costs it has for our society.
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What I mean by trickle-down identity politics is the idea that high-end representation alone — having more women and people of color represented in positions of power, recognized in culture and political office and in corporate boardrooms — will lead to this trickle-down equality.
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These efforts will require a lot of work in labs, but they'll also require just as much work in boardrooms and courtrooms to figure out just how much red tape is necessary to keep those who want to go to the Great Beyond in check.
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And so those companies that can and this is where I get active in boardrooms, that can better address and think more deeply about environmental and social goals and needs, I think that's going to be where the breakout return are over the next 20 years.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A year after Qatar Airways boss' remark that a woman could not do his job drew scathing criticism, airline executives called out the industry for paying only "lip service" to diversity and not pushing to get more women out of cabins and into boardrooms.
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China's increasing investments in artificial intelligence are attracting top scientific talent to the country and bolstering concerns in the United States about brain drain and corporate espionage as the nations face off in a battle — largely taking place in boardrooms and banks — to dominate cutting-edge technology.
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" Obama doubled down on his criticism of corporations and financial firms while also hinting at others' campaign talking points, saying "immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.
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LONDON/NEW YORK, March 23.34 (Reuters) - Global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sank 24.4 percent in the first quarter of 22020, as concerns about an economic slowdown and fears of a no-deal Brexit in Europe spooked chief executives and corporate boardrooms from pursuing big tie-ups.
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The nature of the future relationship with the world's biggest trading bloc remains unclear and there is deep concern in boardrooms about the prospect of Britain crashing out of the bloc without a deal, or with a deal that would silt up the arteries of trade.
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And yet, as we consider all the geek girls we met during our five years of research, women who are banding together to take on this unwieldy, complicated problem in schools, on college campuses, in boardrooms, in investment groups, and in their own companies, we have hope.
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Mr. Domhoff convincingly developed a model based on his study of interlocking directorates that showed how most public policy in the United States is privately determined in the boardrooms of large corporations and then revised and honed by foundation and think tank funding of university research.
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"We'll be in the Congress, in the courts, in the boardrooms and in the streets," said Gene Karpinski, president of the Washington-based League of Conservation Voters, which backed Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and spent over $45 million to support candidates in the 2016 elections.
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"It was incredible to go to DC and sit in boardrooms with the chiefs of staff and legislative aides and quite literally have a seat at the table in creating legislation and learning about the ins and outs of how it becomes a law," he said.
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From the Time's Up website: "We partner with leading advocates for equality and safety to improve laws, employment agreements, and corporate policies; help change the face of corporate boardrooms and the C-suite; and enable more women and men to access our legal system to hold wrongdoers accountable."
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The recent spate of sexual assault victims that have come forward in the last six months as a part of the #MeToo movement to tell their stories, and the negative response, they have faced demonstrate the entrenched misogyny and patriarchal systems that govern our politics and corporate boardrooms.
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That tension ended one puzzle concept but led to another: I might be able to build a puzzle around the very concept of the gender disparity in executive boardrooms—which just happened to lend itself to a 15-letter phrase to stretch across the entirety of the grid.
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Yet the China hawks thronging Washington agencies and corporate boardrooms share no consensus over whether America's goal should be the mercantilist pursuit of a lower bilateral trade deficit, the shareholder-driven search for profits in American-owned subsidiaries in China or a geopolitical campaign to thwart China's expansion.
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The messaging was softer than Esper's, from banking boardrooms to bars and other MSC venues, senior officials from the State Department, the Department of Justice and the White House seemed to dial back earlier language that implied intelligence sharing with key partners like the United Kingdom was at stake.
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And it&aposs going to help you in business, be it by a mixture of accounts on other corporate successes or failures and lessons on lean startups, or a 2,500-year-old military tome that has been known to influence tactics in boardrooms as much as in war.
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And for that reason, as a commissioner at the FCC, who has seen the lack of women and specifically, women of color, in labs, corporate boardrooms and at her own agency, is calling for the FCC to update and release its own data, which it hasn't done since the Obama Administration.
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The 600-plus all-male members of Muirfield Golf Club who failed to reach a two-thirds majority in their vote to admit women would certainly seem to be stuck in a bygone century, one in which men and women didn't harmoniously coexist in boardrooms and legislative chambers, much less clubhouses.
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The findings come almost entirely from controlled laboratory experiments of individual students, but they are reliable enough that software developers, government-backed researchers and various other innovators are racing to bring them to classrooms, boardrooms, academies — every real-world constituency, it seems, except one that could benefit most: people with learning disabilities.
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Some of the mega transactions that had champagne corks popping in boardrooms are running into antitrust problems and, in the case of pharmaceutical firm Pfizer's $160 billion takeover of rival Allergan, political opposition to a deal that envisaged the biggest drug company in the United States moving to Ireland to lower its taxes.
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They aren't the only ones: From corporate boardrooms to breakfast meetings, investor conferences to charity galas, Ms. Warren's rise in the Democratic primary polls is rattling bankers, investors and their affluent clients, who see in the Massachusetts senator a formidable opponent who could damage not only their industry but their way of life.
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The Vox walkout, which for hours deprived Big Tech's customers of the content they enjoy, should be a red flag for Silicon Valley—in much the same way that a four-hour walkout by BuzzFeed workers just over a week later should have caused tech barons to squirm uncomfortably in their boardrooms.
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In the interests of both boardrooms and ordinary workers, the two sides' actions must seek to preserve value chains and avoid non-tariff trade barriers, find solutions for barrier-free and frictionless trade in goods and services and a mechanism to agree a level playing field for workers' rights, the statement said.
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Sure, you can find some legacy ports on modern computing devices—this recent Vaio laptop has a VGA port, which made its first appearance on a computer in 1987 and still has use cases in boardrooms where old projector equipment lives—but for the most part computing equipment doesn't work like that.
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Unlike the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, in which the central question was whether Anita Hill was credible, the response to Harvey Weinstein (and subsequent reports of sexual harassment everywhere from schools to boardrooms to studios to state legislatures) has not centered on questions of whether we should believe women.
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Zurich-based Strategyzer does exactly that for some of the world's biggest firms, like Microsoft, 3M, and GE.Cofounder Alex Osterwalder told Business Insider how he and Alan Smith built the company from its fairly humble roots as an iPad app to become a staple of corporate boardrooms and innovation clusters around the world.
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Dom Whipple—the notorious corporate raider, the scourge of boardrooms near and far, the layoff king—had traded his entire fortune for a one-way ticket to a distant planet, and even guys like Lenny Westerfeld, a man he had once blackmailed into an early retirement, had come to bid Dom farewell.
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"If he spent less time in boardrooms courting CEOs, he would witness the incredible energy generated by Bernie's campaign, which has more than 5 million individual donations — the all-time record for a presidential candidate at this point in the race," Sanders communications director Mike Casca said in a statement to POLITICO.
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From the safety of gleaming mansions in the foothills of the Italian Alps, government-owned munitions factories in Romania and Belgium, and boardrooms in Austria, Spain, Serbia, and the UK, Europe's gun makers are reaping the bloody spoils of a catastrophic war on drugs, their weapons arming Mexican soldiers, cops and cartels alike.
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Both chambers of Congress, town halls, corporate boardrooms, social media feeds, and presidential candidates are realizing that we are long past the time to take action and that any serious approach to fighting climate change must be aimed at achieving net-zero carbon emissions in the U.S. by 2050 at the latest.
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In order to keep profits in communities and empower workers, the legislation also requires that one-third of the corporate board be elected by employees, which a National Bureau of Economic Research report recently found raises investment, increases workers' skills, reduces outsourcing, increases gender diversity in boardrooms, and lowers companies' debt payments.
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Some of the mega transactions that had champagne corks popping in boardrooms are running into antitrust problems and, in the case of pharmaceutical firm Pfizer Inc's $160 billion takeover of rival Allergan PLC, political opposition to a deal that envisaged the biggest drug company in the United States moving to Ireland to lower its taxes.
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Some of the same grass-roots energy coursing through the Democratic Party — House candidates from Kentucky to Montana to New York are reporting record sums of small donations — has spilled into the corporate boardrooms of American finance, even amid increasingly hostile rhetoric from Democrats in Washington and on the campaign trail toward Wall Street.
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In some boardrooms, the message is sinking in; to date 21 firms collectively worth more than $2000trn, ranging from carmakers (like Renault) to confectioners (such as Mars), have committed to "science-based targets" to cut their carbon footprint in line with the internationally agreed goal of limiting global warming to 2ºC or less relative to pre-industrial levels.
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Fresh off a public spat between Uber investor Benchmark Capital and former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, Benchmark general partner Bill Gurley took the stage in front of a large room of bankerfolk at the Goldman Sachs Internet and Technology Conference to talk about how startup boardrooms are now filled with a lot of cheerleaders that aren't holding founders accountable.
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What I've been doing (and I used to watch this stuff for a living, so you know you're listening to a professional here) is being my own vice president for programming -- very much like the kind of folks who used to spend months in network boardrooms planning prime-time schedules for each night of the week.
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LONDON — New pledges made by Prime Minister Theresa May to target the UK's boardrooms with stricter rules on things like corporate pay and mergers have not gone down well with the country's business leaders, with one senior figure accusing the prime minister of "giving little sign of listening to what companies need," according to the Financial Times.
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Startups, investors and journalists convened in San Francisco this week for the 3-day TechCrunch Disrupt conference, a bellwether of the trends dominating Silicon Valley's boardrooms and venture capital firms This year, many investors discussed the disappointing returns from some of the industry's most anticipated tech IPOs, and blamed big banks for overhyping private companies on public markets.
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A number of other prominent changes have rocked the fashion world in recent months, notably the dismissal of Alber Elbaz at Lanvin and, most recently, the departure of Ennio Capasa from Costume National, as slow sales and an increasingly demanding global consumer place new pressures on the relationship between the boardrooms and design studios of the world's biggest brands.
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Even the organization that represents boards of trustees, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, has spun off a new division called AGB Institutional Strategies to help colleges come up with new forms of revenue, and The Guardians Initiative to encourage those trustees — often successful private-sector business executives — to bring new ideas into their university boardrooms.
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The contrast was clear: If Breaking Bad was a more mythic tale of one man's downfall, set against the endless horizons of the New Mexico desert, then Better Call Saul would find its deserts in boardrooms and strip malls, in the many ways that human beings conspire to destroy each other, often via perfectly legal means.
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Corporate social responsibility has recently become a hot topic in boardrooms around the nation after BlackRock chief Larry Fink in January sent a letter to the CEOs of the world's largest public companies, calling for them to help improve society or risk losing support from BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with more than $6 trillion in assets under management.
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Between them these trends and sentiments will help sustain the Republican Party even as it lurches deeper into demagogy and paranoia — by making a vote for the G.O.P. the only way to protest a corporate-backed liberal politics that seems indifferent to the working man and an ascendant cultural liberalism that has boardrooms as well as Hollywood and academia in its corner.
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"We are marching to send a message to our nation's leaders – in Congress, in statehouses and in corporate boardrooms across the country – that women will not stand on the sidelines while our safety and the safety of our families and communities is jeopardized by the gun lobby's dangerous agenda to allow guns for anyone, anywhere, any time – no questions asked," Watts said in a statement.
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These changes are needed for a day-to-day reality in which both boardrooms and nurseries are filled with equal numbers of women and men compensated equally, human value is seen as just that, and the work of caring for children, the elderly, and the sick, now still mostly done by women for free in households and poverty wages in the market, is justly rewarded.
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But Hollywood gives and Hollywood takes away, and primarily Hollywood typecasts, and now it appears that as Mile 22 has worked its way through the back rooms and hotel restaurants and boardrooms of Hollywood, Rousey has had superstar status snatched out from under her and once again been relegated to the role of the action-legitimizer, the ringer brought in to convince audiences the fighting is, pardon me, as real as it gets.
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This will make u feel like all the walls around you are crumbling and perhaps it will lead you to confront the reality that every artist you love is just doing whatever it takes to be successful in that field and that maybe there is no real artistry… Maybe every single personal brand was just developed in boardrooms full of people with dickloads of data gathered and utilised over years and years and years.
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Iridescent was founded in 2006 by Tara Chklovski, an Indian native who was stunned into action shortly after moving to the U.S. "When I arrived, I was struck by the lack of diversity in STEM in the U.S.," Chklovski, who had moved to the States to complete her aerospace engineering PhD, told CNBC Make It. "I expected much more parity in a first-world country," she continued, referring to both STEM careers and boardrooms.
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As much as even Silicon Valley CEOs might want to play nice with Trump at least for the time being—lower taxes, less regulation, and more infrastructure spending is a winning formula in most boardrooms—policies such as the immigration ban that are direct attacks on the diverse workplaces many of these CEOs have carefully nurtured, and the growing resistance to all things Trump among particularly affluent urban customers, are forcing more and more companies to take sides.
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And though Jewish men are seen as disproportionately represented in bank boardrooms, at least as disproportionately as they're represented on bookstore shelves, and in pairings of non-Asian men with Asian women, the truth remains that the vast majority of bank CEOs are goyim, not to mention that the largest bankruptcy to result from the crisis—indeed, the largest in American history—was perhaps Wall Street's most historically Jewish firm, Lehman Brothers, which went to its grave with $613 billion in debt.
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Having attracted all 10 of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies as well as technology firms such as Google, Facebook and Apple, Ireland moved pre-emptively to offset any economic damage inflicted when Britain - its second biggest export market - leaves the EU. IDA Ireland, the state agency charged with winning foreign business, began meeting banks three months before Britons voted to leave the EU. When billboards went up around London after the referendum extolling Paris as a financial center, IDA officials were already in boardrooms making their pitch for Dublin.
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Meanwhile, Japan's Keidanren, the powerful business group whose membership includes Toyota, Hitachi and other large Japanese investors in the UK, is preparing a communiqué taking issue with Mrs May's "no Brexit deal is better than a bad deal" — a comment that has sent a chill through the boardrooms of Japanese companies that collectively employ an estimated 140,000 people in the UK. "The key message is this: please negotiate with deeper consideration for the economy," said a person who has seen a draft of Keidanren's demands and policy proposals, which are expected to be released in early April.
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It will look at the tens of millions of Chinese tourists who are flocking to Western countries every year and sending back images and accounts of their impressions to countless millions back home; the hundreds of thousands of students who head annually to Western universities for their first taste of intellectual freedom; the tens of thousands who head abroad to eke a living in factories, shops and restaurants (and dream of making a fortune); and the hundreds of thousands of wealthy Chinese who shuttle between two rich worlds—the affluent suburbs of Western cities, where they snap up expensive properties, and the boomtowns of China, where they fill boardrooms.
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