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would always tell me, “You will learn more from your losses.” The joy of winning a game and the agony of blundering one away are constant themes in my chess career. And, as I discovered, my dad was right about the losses. I am a big fan of strategic board games - I played Go when I was younger and now, chess is my current pastime. The complexity and beauty of both games intrigue me, since the best moves and ideas often unfold like hidden gems, just waiting to be discovered. As I pondered…

School boards should be removed. Because the county already does most of the work. 1st if the school boards would be removed then the county would have to decide the school's finances, school unions, school closings and learning materials. 2nd schools would have more options because the countries should have the same budget for each school so they could not give a school more or less money. The third and final the county will have to organize all the school information. First the county’s…

of the College Entrance Examination Board by twelve prestigious universities who were concerned with the lack of a standard curriculum among New England boarding schools. Followed by that, they explain what Binet and Brigham thought about standardized testing. They assumed that intelligence was a unitary, inherited attribute, and that it was not subject to change over a lifetime and could be measured in a single number. Unlike the curriculum based College Boards, the Scholastic Aptitude Test…

Contemporary Art, illustrates a classic power conflict between two men, Peter Smith and Keith Schmidt. Peter is the chairman of the board and former municipal judge who, along with his wife, loves contemporary art. He and his wife became involved with the Midwestern Contemporary Art (MCA) museum when they began collecting art pieces, and he was eventually named chairman of the board. Keith is the executive director of the museum, and has a long successful background as a director for…

proved that the focus on the impact of management monitoring. In particularly, factors which are turnover of CEO, Equity-based board of directors (BoDs) compensation, board independence and innovative knowledge assets could have correlation…

Description Agency Theory Agency theory is a form of corporate governance where the role of the board of directors is to act as an independent intermediary between two entities. The board of directors is basically the governing body that facilitates the interaction between the principles and the agents. The principles or shareholders, are the entities which bring the resources to the firm from investments. The agents on the other hand are the people who utilize the resources of the principles…

Falender also hired a new auditor and brought in skilled board treasurer as the Chair of the Finance Committee, and focused on shaping the staff and members' perceptions of their Club's wellbeing. He also added new board members who demonstrated knowledge in finance, fundraising, conservation and natural resource backgrounds, and showed an allegiance to organization as a whole, not just…

following this were recognitions including: employee of the month, Martin Luther King (MLK) achievement award recipient, and the black excellence award. All the board members approved the minutes of the previous meetings and the trustee B-1 comments—which is the “reports and comments from the Board president and Board members regarding…

SCS system is governed by nine (9) elected representatives from all districts within Shelby County. Those elected representative serve as Board members on the Shelby County Board of Education. The Mission, according the board members, is to prepare all students for success in learning, leadership, and life. Although elected and committed to serving, the board members must adhere to the Tennessee State legislature and its bills pertaining to education. Political The Tennessee State legislature…

portfolio, the transaction did not take place. As it went to the Delaware Court for litigation, the court upheld the board of director’s stance that the organization was not obligated to make this transaction in order to maximize shareholder value in the short term realm (Stout, 2012). Even though a firm is supposed to exist for the maximization of shareholder wealth, in this case the board of directors argued that in the long run, the organization would be better served to stay the course and…