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...Vanguard has elected Tara Bunch, Airbnb head of global operations, to its board of directors and its board of trustees of each of the Vanguard funds....
...Shareholders engaged in a proxy battle that resulted in the unseating of two directors from the board....
...It was the second interview to join the board of trustees at the Royal Armouries that really surprised Catherine Fletcher....
...ensure large companies pay the same tax as small local companies....
...We have an example of this practice in the UK in the pensions industry, where employee trustees are elected to boards....
...He once imposed a year-long boycott of local charities, claiming the trustees of Case Western Reserve University were mismanaging construction of a Frank Gehry building he had helped fund....
...At a cost of $165,000 an apprentice, Siemens is training six local high-school leavers in “mechatronics”, a hybrid of mechanical engineering and computer science. These are robot supervisors....
...“Imagine a world without the Pyramids, the Forbidden City, Angkor Wat or the Roman Forum,” says Christopher Ohrstrom, chairman of the board of trustees of the World Monuments Fund, the private organisation...
...board of Everywoman, the UK network that helps women in business....
...Of course, in 20 years, there’s a lot of hard work. For me, it’s about meeting people – local people and also people from around the world....
...trips to local companies to give them more exposure to the actual workings of local industry....
...The only problem is how to fund his life as an activist. “Sadly it all comes down to money in the end.”...
...Sheltering from the cold at a central Budapest railway station, Mihaly Bayer, 76, a softly-spoken retired pipe fitter cannot begrudge the wait for his train....
...Svanberg, like the rest of the board, was briefed on the accident on the first day....
...And that’s then considered by the board of the SEC....
...Would you not agree that there is at least the perception of a conflict of interest in Roger Maynard being both chairman of the BA pension fund trustees and director of alliances? WW: No....
...So the desired outcome of local control does not always work. You can look at a range of services. Swaths of it would be already in private hands....
...In our book we argue that it is essential to shift the focus of boards, fund managers, pension fund trustees and analysts away from a narrowly financial, short-term interpretation of corporate performance...
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