Just as Americans and Britons are divided by a common language, so their firms are divided by a common board structure.
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New York officials will test the new board structure with three pilot regions in Staten Island, the northwest and South Bronx, and Rockland County.
Deutsche Bank had devised a way round the requirement: in 2002 it set up a group executive committee that was independent of its two-board structure.
Under Germany's dual board structure, a merger would require the approval of the supervisory board, which is chaired by Manfred Schneider, the former CEO who staked his career on keeping Bayer intact.
The report provides analysis by industry and geographic region as well as data on premium pay, stock ownership guidelines, perquisites and benefits, and board composition and structure.
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An essential is to structure the board so that it can scrutinise the chief executive.
Although Bayer's board approved the new structure today, it won't go into effect until Jan. 1, 2003.
Although SLM s move helped calm investor jitters about board oversight and management structure, Terracciano and his team will face daunting challenges in order to turn the company around.
Mr Clegg joined in 2009, and the business now has a new board, management team and structure.
Under their original structure, a board could have approved a salary and housing allowance for the pastor.
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We prefer to keep the structure of the board deck as consistent as possible from meeting to meeting.
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Other suggested changes to the structure of the ICC board and to the criteria for membership could be just as far-reaching.
"At the start of the season, the bonus structure was agreed between the board and the players and both parties were delighted that it fell to be implemented following the drama of the last day of the season, " Dalgleish told the club's website.
Several previous transactions have successfully implemented this type of structure and it merits study by the Board of Directors.
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The most important learning has been the need to build a rigid financial structure and business model where the dash board is always 100 percent updated and accurate and that the out come can never be better than the quality of our MFI partners.
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The Shariah advisory board works closely with the parties to a proposed transaction to structure instruments so that they meet both Shariah and commercial requirements.
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Again, the corporate structure of the company makes the chairman of the board the relevant entity in approving what BP -- the obligations that BP has to live up to.
Yet altering the structure is the only way in which regulators can influence board behaviour.
With a divine board of directors and an autocratic CEO, the Church's corporate structure may seem very old-fashioned, and it is.
We insisted on very substantial change in their cost structure, in their operating footprint and in their management and board of directors.
Corporations also have a tremendous amount of flexibility on how to structure voting blocks, shareholder agreements, cumulative voting, staggered board elections, and minority shareholder protections.
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The illusion is only broken when you see behind the wood panelling the iron support structure, embossed with the initials of the London Passenger Transport Board, from whom parts of Tube tunnel were borrowed to build the complex.
A-grade, would keep the present structure more or less unchanged but establish a Social Security Reserve Board (modelled on the Federal Reserve) empowered to diversify the Trust Funds' investments into private stocks and bonds, and with its operations removed from congressional and presidential budget presentations.
The new structure sounds radical, but the report is just calling for every board member to have a vote that counts.
It stated the recommendation for the future structure of the forensic service had not yet been made by the SPSA Board to Mr MacAskill and that he would listen to the views of parliament before making a final decision.
"We have everybody on board going forward, apart from the ECB, who have some reservations in terms of structure and ownership, " he told Radio 5 Live.
Doncaster will speak to the Scottish Football League board of directors on Thursday to give a briefing on where they are with the Strategic Review to develop a structure for the whole of Scottish football.
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Harris, who trades for himself and has had stints as a fund manager and as a board member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, was part of the group that pushed the Merc to relinquish its mutual structure and become the first exchange to go public, in December 2002.
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