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Business Definition for: Board Seat

  • a position of membership of a board, especially a board of directors

Additional Resources

Rumblings.(includes Taubman Centers Inc. board seat may be available)
Is Taubman's old board seat still available? Could A. Alfred Taubman's old seat on the board of Taubman Centers Inc. still be available? Taubman resigned from the board Dec. 11, 2001, less than a week after he was found guilty of federal...
Tags: board, K Mart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Taubman Centers Inc.
Research articles 2003-03-31
Five Tactics for Landing a Board Seat
Five Tactics for Landing a Board SeatRE: Five Tactics for Landing a Board SeatVery insightful. What about open letters to the company or shareholder meeting speeches highlighting in-depth analysis of current issues and suggested solutions to them?
Tags: Corporate governance, Board Seat, board
Discussion threads 2008-10-21
Porsche chairman to take seat on Volkswagen's supervisory board
FRANKFURT AFP — Wendelin Wiedeking, head of the German luxury sports car maker Porsche, is to take a seat on Volkswagen's supervisory board with immediate effect, a Porsche spokesman said. The spokesman said Wiedeking would take up his position immediately, while Porsche's finance chief Holger Haerter would take a...
Tags: board, Porsche AG, spokesman, Volkswagen AG, VW
Research articles 2006-01-20
Delta Refuses to Let Pilots Union Have a Seat on Board.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 18--Delta Air Lines won't give its pilot union a voting seat on the board of directors, a decision that could scuttle plans for a joint venture between Delta and United Airlines. The union had demanded the seat as a prerequisite to...
Tags: alliance, board, Delta Air Lines Inc., Strategy, United Airlines
Research articles 1998-08-17
GM in talks with Kerkorian on board seat
DETROIT, United States AFP — Struggling General Motors Corp said it was in talks with US billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's firm about opening up a seat on its board in a move that could push the auto-maker into a tougher restructuring plan. Trade publication Automotive News reported earlier Wednesday that...
Tags: board, Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Tracinda Corp.
Research articles 2005-12-07
Voting Suspended for Third ICANN Board Seat
Voting for the third seat on the board of ICANN was suspended on Friday due to voting irregularities, apparently caused by a technical problem. Voting took place all last week within ICANN's domain name supporting organization DNSO, which gets to nominate three board members to the new swollen 18-member ICANN...
Tags: board, ICANN
Research articles 1999-10-18
Third Seat Filled On ICANN Board Amid Controversy and Hush >By Nick Patience
The third and final seat up for grabs in the current round of elections for places on the board of ICANN went to a Canadian intellectual property lawyer, Jonathan Cohen, who was busy horse- trading votes last week with other candidates last week, it now turns out successfully. Cohen...
Tags: board, ICANN, INTERNET
Research articles 1999-10-20
Chicago lawyer seeks Amtrak Board seat
The Journal staff Chicago attorney James E. Coston came to Milwaukee on Monday to muster support for a seat on the Amtrak Board and left town a few hours later with Mayor John O. Norquist and others on his side. "The Midwest hasn't had...
Tags: Amtrak, board
Research articles 1995-02-28
13 candidates contest park board seat
Thirteen hopefuls have applied for the East Bay Regional Park District board seat left vacant by Jean Siri's death in January. On March 14 the board will choose one person to represent the ward, which runs from Pinole to North Oakland and includes Berkeley, Albany and El...
Tags: board, Sierra Club
Research articles 2006-03-05
Prospects Improve for Seat Prices on NYSE.(Brief Article)
The cost of a Big Board seat appears to be rebounding. Yet, the rate to lease a seat is still depressed after three years of decline. Observers say there is an explanation for this divergence. "People expect the New York Stock Exchange to demutu The cost...
Tags: New York Stock Exchange
Research articles 2005-03-01
Prospects Improve for Seat Prices on NYSE
The cost of a Big Board seat appears to be rebounding. Yet, the rate to lease a seat is still depressed after three years of decline. Observers say there is an explanation for this divergence. "People expect the New York Stock Exchange to demutualize," s The cost of a Big...
Tags: New York Stock Exchange
Research articles 2005-03-01
Fed Fight - United States. Federal Reserve Board - Brief Article
Who would have thought that filling two vacancies on the Federal Reserve's Board of governors would take so long and involve so much political intrigue? The seven-member board has had only five members since July 1999, when Alice Rivlin resigned. But President Clinton's attempts to fill the Rivlin seat and...
Tags: Federal Reserve Board
Research articles 2001-05-01
Yuichi Iwaki Appointed to New Seat on Atlantic Board of Directors
HALF MOON BAY, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 21, 1996--Atlantic Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq Small Cap: ATLC) today announced the appointment of Yuichi Iwaki, M.D., Ph.D., to a new seat on its Board of Directors. This appointment brings the total membership on Atlantic's Board of Directors to five."We are delighted and honored to have...
Tags: Atlantic, Dr., M.D., University of Southern California
Research articles 1996-08-21
Republican takes seat on fourth try.(News)
Byline: Tom O'Konowitz Daily Herald Staff Writer The fourth time's a charm for Republican Margaret Scalfaro of Carpentersville, who was elected by a slim margin of 27 votes to the Kane County Board Tuesday - ending a losing streak of three failed bids for...
Tags: board, Democratic Party, Republican, streak
Research articles 2002-11-06
Reuters Faircliff to take seat on AOP Board.
M2 PRESSWIRE-27 September 2005-REUTERS: Reuters Faircliff to take seat on AOP BoardC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:27092005 Tim Faircliff, the newly-appointed general manager of news and business products for Reuters Consumer Media in the UK, is to become Reuters representative on the...
Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp.
Research articles 2005-09-27
Clearwire gains seat on WCA board.(News)
Craig McCaw's latest business venture, Clearwire Corp., now has a seat on the Wireless Communications Association's board of directors. Clearwire's Executive Vice President and Director ... Craig McCaw's latest business venture, Clearwire Corp., now has a seat on...
Tags: board, Clearwire Corp.
Research articles 2004-06-28
Expo Holdings, Inc. Extends Board of Directors Seat to Karl Malone
Expo Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: EXPH), a holding Company which wholly owns D&D Displays, Inc., is pleased to announce it has extended an invitation to Karl "The Mailman" Malone to join the board of directors of Expo Holdings, Inc. James D. Brown, Expo Holdings CEO, stated, "The board of directors...
Tags: board, FINANCE, NBA, shareholder
Research articles 2008-06-30
Ann Fritz Hackett Joins Capital One Board of Directors; Experienced Business Leader Fills New Seat as Independent Director on Capital One's Board
MCLEAN, Va. -- Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE:COF) today announced that Ann Fritz Hackett, President of the Horizon Consulting Group, has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Hackett, who will serve on the Board's Audit and Risk Committee and its Governance and Nominating Committee, will fill a newly created...
Tags: board, board of directors, Capital One Financial Corp., leader
Research articles 2004-10-28
Urbana Announces Purchase of Chicago Board Options Exchange Seat
Urbana Corporation ("Urbana") (TSX VENTURE: URB) is pleased to announce the purchase of its first Chicago Board Options Exchange ("CBOE") Seat for US$1,300,000.
Tags: Chicago Board Options Exchange
Research articles 2006-09-19
John Phelan takes seat on Merrill Lynch board. (John J. Phelan, Jr.)
John Phelan takes seat on Merrill Lynch board NEW YORK UPI -- Retiring New York Stock Exchange chairman John J. Phelan Jr. will take a seat on the board of directors of Merrill Lynch & Co. as of Jan. 1. NYSE had...
Tags: board, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., New York Stock Exchange
Research articles 1990-12-10
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