Sentences with phrase «[national executive»

As an introvert, at the time I was more focused on building my writing portfolio, and less interested in coaching executives on their communication strategies.

Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein became the first major Wall Street leader to speak out against President Donald Trump's order to halt arrivals from several Muslim - majority countries.

Franklin and two other executives resigned from the Newell board last month, amid challenges integrating Jarden and disputes about the way the new company is managed.

Along with Google executive chairman Schmidt, the panel included Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao.

Whenever possible, if a Lessonly executive's travel lined up with a candidate's location, we arranged in - person visits.

This pronouncement, along with Johnson's (and executive chairman Howard Schultz's) apology, meetings with community leaders, and enlisting the guidance of civil rights leaders such as former Attorney General Eric Holder and the NAACP's Sherrilyn Ifill, ensures that this incident and the specter of racial bias will remain in the public's mind beyond a few days.

According to John Crabill, an executive with Mohu, the company's sales doubled during the January and February period when Dish (DISH) announced Sling, which lets consumers buy a bundle of cable channels over the internet.

Executives spend too much time dealing with investors and analysts, trying to meet or exceed earnings expectations every quarter, and end up seeking short - term gains at the expense of the company.

Sam is a Marketing Executive at Easy Offices.

Former SAC executive Gabe Plotkin's Melvin Capital took a new position in streaming video service Netflix (nflx), buying 950,000 shares and a call option for 1.45 million shares, according to regulatory filings on Monday.

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

Here are quotes from more than two dozen executives who name their favorite book and explain why it's worth your attention.

After decades as an operations executive in the corporate world, including 15 years at Clorox, Tasner moved to Method in his late 50s and became immersed in the sustainability ethos.

And it wouldn't be an Apple event without on - stage demos by Apple executives bragging about the new products and what they can do.

Nearly two - thirds of payer executives cited cost as the biggest barrier in the way of a product overhaul.

AT&T was confident it would win regulatory approval for its $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner before year's end as the Justice Department continues its review, but was still awaiting details about any final requirements for the deal, a senior executive said.

«Against modest economic growth of 2 percent, we had one of the strongest quarters in our history,» said Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan said.

The 15 - minute presentation opened with an executive firing a fake gun in the air, and things just got crazier from there.

Ford Motor Co on Monday said it was replacing Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields with James Hackett, the head of the unit developing self - driving cars, in response to investors» growing unease over the U.S. carmaker's stock performance and prospects.

Apex Minerals executive chairman Eduard Eshuys has stated confidence in the company's ability to turn its flagship Wiluna project around and raise necessary funding to keep it running.

MGM executive on Snap: «We thought we were going to teach them how to make TV, and instead, they are teaching us.

SNC has replaced executives and offered amnesty to employees willing to come forward with corruption information.

Executives are more likely to have admins (often referred to as gatekeepers) that invariably will ask a question that sends shivers down many sellers» spines: Who is this, and what is it regarding?

LONDON - Bank of England Executive Director for Banking, Payments and Financial Resilience Andrew Hauser will participate in a panel discussion at the SWIFT Business Forum 0820 GMT.

Successful listening is a matter of balancing executive purview with populist input, which adds a layer of complexity to any decision - making process.

The motivating force behind this model, Times executives say, is that breaking news has more or less become a commodity because anyone with a website — or even just a smartphone and a Twitter account — can publish news as fast or faster than a newspaper.

And it can be invigorating for the executives, too.

WL Ross & Co. executive Rohina Bhandari killed by shark while scuba diving in Costa Rica.

April 27 - General Motors Cos top executive, Mary Barra, was paid just under $ 22 million in 2017, slightly less than she received the previous year, according to the automakers proxy statement released on Friday.

«I expect this to substantially increase the sales,» Regeneron Chief Executive Leonard Schleifer said of the deal.

I've seen how an executive vastly increased her company's valuation by throwing away a $ 2 - billion line of business she knew was undermining her company's brand.

At a briefing with journalists last week in Toronto, BlackBerry executives said that capability is coming at some point, either through DTek or Android itself, or possibly a combination of the two.

«We need to keep a close eye on the January deals,» says Nelson Griggs, executive vice president of listing services for Nasdaq, where roughly 75 percent of the 2015 IPOs listed.

But even with Facebook's increased spending, executives said that its core ad business remains intact.

Lots of companies are top - heavy but once you deeper you see the teams are doing everything; the executive or manager is just taking the credit.

Also on Friday, Trump himself offered a White House job to a top Goldman Sachs executive, Gary Cohn, following appointments of two other former Goldman employees to the new administration.

Held once a year, a company's analyst day gives investors and analysts an opportunity to interact with corporate executives.

BERLIN, April 13 - Berlin - based digital bank N26 expects to offer its services in Britain and the United States by the end of the year, its founder and chief executive told Reuters.

One former private lending executive, who would only comment on condition of anonymity, argues the recent growth in the private lending space represents a market response to excessive constraints on mainstream financial institutions.

«We have the ambition to keep at least 50 percent of the ownership of all the coming drugs on our own hands and maybe we can take it to the finish line,» said chief executive officer Jan van de Winkel, speaking to reporters before the group's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday.

We are «concerned that these major findings are presented ambiguously within the Executive Summary and are inconsistent with the observations, data, and levels of uncertainty presented and discussed in the body of the draft Assessment Report,» states the review.

Forbes Insights and Turn reported more than 30 percent of marketing executives use analytics to alter, extend or repeat a marketing campaign, and 61 percent have noticed an increase in ROI from data - driven campaigns.

«If we let that narrative be simply about victims or heroes, I think we've missed an opportunity,» said Mike Haynie, executive director of the Syracuse's institute.

We are disappointed with the company's decision to appoint Philippe Dauman as Executive Chairman.

Woodside Petroleum has deferred a final decision on expansion of its Pluto gas project, but the company's chief executive Don Voelte has still talked up its development record, saying it was five years ahead of industry rival Chevron.

The company has set up a lounge on the executive floor where employees can check out what merchandise is in the pipeline and swap ideas in a relaxed environment.

Another would require GE to exclude share buybacks when calculating whether the company met financial targets to qualify for executive bonuses.

We will continue working to ensure the well - being of our employees by promoting the values of respect and inclusion in the workplace,» Executive Chairman Bill Ford and President & CEO Mark Fields told Fortune in a statement.

The Borrowell team got to sit down with Strange, who happens to be both an entrepreneur and a Valley VC — she was part of the executive team that built Ruba, a startup acquired by Google in 2010, and in November last year she became a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

A global oil company executive recently predicted that petroleum's dominance of world energy would last only another 20 years; other ways of providing energy, particularly for transport, were about to emerge.