Sentences with phrase «ceo at a large company»

This figure is believed to be a record for any amount sent to secure a CEO at a large company.

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Someone can work at a large company for years and never meet the CEO.

He saw the PC mogul wading into crowds of shareholders and signing autographs at the company's annual meeting, noting how a larger - than - life CEO could inspire loyalty and garner loads of free publicity.

I sat in a meeting with a CEO recently who told me that at his last company, he forced a customer to pay a large contract up front because he «knew our software rollout wasn't going to be successful, so I wanted to be sure I got paid my commission.»

At nearly 300 large public companies, median compensation for CEOs fell 3.8 percent last year, from $ 11.2 million to $ 10.8 million.

The CEOs of the largest companies in the U.S. earn three times more than they did 20 years ago and at least 10 times more than 30 years ago, according to a new report.

«Peer groups» is a basket of similar or larger companies compared to one company, and «benchmarking» is a decision to pay a CEO at the 50th, 75th or 90th percentile of other CEOs.

But in the past generation, average pay for CEOs at American's largest companies has leaped nearly sixfold, from $ 2.8 million a year in 1989 to $ 16.3 million today, according the Economic Policy Institute.

That deal followed a coup for Under Armour (which is big supporter of CEO Kevin Plank's alma mater, the University of Maryland) when the company last year reached an apparel agreement with the University of Notre Dame — a deal that school said was the largest ever in college sports at the time.

Today's Globe and Mail reported that CEO's at Canada's 100 largest companies «saw their compensation jump 13 per cent last year, led higher by a 20 - per - cent increase in annual cash bonuses».

Christina Mercando d'Avignon of Ringly and Milena Berry of PowerToFly are the only CEOs with technical / engineering backgrounds... The eleven remaining CEOs have fine arts, architecture, design or journalism backgrounds, or have worked in consulting or in business roles at large internet companies.»

In May, CEO Steve Easterbrook, who took the reins in March with a clear mandate to stop years of sales bleeding at the world's largest restaurant company, announced a series of steps to shake up the company.

Making the case that greater openness is good for both company culture and society at large was Ijeoma Oluo, a Seattle - based writer, and Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments.

-- Steve Elliott, founder and CEO of AgileCraft, a software company focused on helping large enterprises simplify software at scale

«We look very different today than five years ago — for example, clinical and technology professionals are the first and third largest job categories across UnitedHealth Group — and we will look different again five years from now as we continue to evolve at an accelerated pace,» UnitedHealth CEO David Wichmann said on the company's first - quarter conference call.

An analysis by New York HR consultant Nat Stoddard pegs the price of a CEO mis - hire at a large - cap company at more than US$ 50 million, based not only on salary and severance outlay but also factors like lost productivity and opportunities.

Not surprisingly, hundreds of CEOs at some of the largest companies in the world report that technology, regardless of industry, is a critical differentiator.

The CEOs at Ignition - backed companies are, by and large, cut from the same cloth and, as a result, encourage us to meet with their teams.

The speech, given by Smith to students and faculty at the university's Terry College of Business, covered a lot of ground, but it frequently returned to security issues that kept the former CEO awake at night — foremost among them was the company's large database.

But CEOs and board members at the largest companies are seldom in touch with other kinds of people in anything resembling a friendly setting.

A month ago, I sat on a panel at Inc.'s Grow Your Company conference in Orlando, along with T3 founder Gay Gaddis, who puts together digital - marketing campaigns for large companies, and Dr. Christos Cotsakos, founder of Pennington Ventures and the former CEO of E-Trade.

Ralf Reichert, CEO at ESL says over the past year they've talked to many potential suitors, including large media companies, but they opted to go with MTG because of the company's understanding of eSports, production background, and distribution network.

One explanation is that CEOs in larger firms have less of a direct impact on the company's performance — perhaps because they delegate more than CEOs at smaller firms.

Because China now has the world's largest population of Internet users (estimated at 640 million in 2014), no responsible CEO of an American technology company can afford to write off this huge market simply because of Beijing - imposed restrictions.

Real - time landing page click data, peer reviews, product ratings and other metrics are helping companies at large become better decision - makers than any individual CEO could ever be.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigated two large backdated option grants: one for 4.8 million shares to the company's executive team and another for 7.5 million shares to Jobs, who was CEO at the time.

In 2015, the eight females who served in the top position at the 100 largest companies by revenue earned an average of $ 22.7 million, compared to $ 14.9 million for male CEOs on the list.

It is interesting that much of the growth in income of the top 1 % has come in the form of eageincome which is practically impossible to hide (because employers have reporting and withholding obligations in the tax system and, at least for large public companies, often have public disclosure obligations for their senior CEOs).

This is why Box's losses were so large, and why founder and CEO Aaron Levie was so diluted by the time the company finally IPO'd (Levie owned just over 5 % of Box at the time of IPO).

TRENTON, N.J. — President Donald Trump lashed out at the CEO of the nation's third - largest pharmaceutical company after he resigned from a federal advisory council, citing the president's failure to explicitly rebuke the white nationalists who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia.

One study provides evidence consistent with one explanation of the overall lack of strong findings: optimal board structures may vary by firm size, with smaller firms benefiting from a unified chair / CEO position, with the clarity of leadership that structure provides, and larger firms benefiting from the extra monitoring that an independent chair may provide given the greater risk of «agency costs» at large companies.

EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Kim Iskyan In December, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of Russia's most high - profile political prisoners and the former CEO of Yukos Oil — at one point Russia's largest oil company — was abruptly released.

Say what you will about Immelt's tenure as CEO, but it wasn't his fault that it started just as the large - cap bull market of 2000 was ending, when GE traded at 40 times earnings, a multiple at which almost no large company sells today.

Among others formerly Stefan was CEO for Latin America at Cdiscount, part of Cnova Group and sixth largest e-commerce company in the world.

Eleven days later, Sorrell steps down as CEO, ending a 33 - year career at the world's largest agency company.

The Italian government holds the largest stake in Enel, and it is trading at what we think is an unreasonable discount to the European utility sector.3 The company has a new CEO, nominated by Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who has been given a mandate to clean up the corporate structure, drive down costs and drive up earnings.

Joining the Association's Board as At - Large Board Members representing corporate members: Cindy Lewis, President / CEO, AirBorn, Inc., Georgetown, Texas and Michael Willard, CEO, Salem Distributing Company, Inc., Winston Salem, North Carolina.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian did, however, announce that the company is looking at whether to end discounts with other «politically divisive» organizations after Georgia lawmakers punished the airline by removing the jet fuel tax exemption from a larger bill.

Am I suggesting that women should not aim at being top in the professions, at becoming the CEO of some large company, or going high in political life?

Established in 1997 by CEO Joseph Fisch, USB has grown from a small business representing six brands to a top ten U.S. imported beer and specialty beverage company, and the largest independent importer of beer in the U.S. Formed by two partners at its start, USB today is made up of over 40 employees, and proudly boasts over 500 years of collective industry experience via the company's top - flight management team.

In a statement signed by the Director of Communications at the presidency, Eugene Arhin, it said, «the forum will bring together CEOs of the largest African and international companies, political decision makers from more than 40 African countries and investors on the continent».

Murray, Oscar CEO Mario Schlosser and EmblemHealth CEO Karen Ignagni say New York's calculations do not reflect reality and are, in effect, punishing smaller providers while larger companies, which are better at documenting, reap financial rewards.

Uber, by far the largest company that provides for ride services through an app, has faced a series of high - profile setbacks at its corporate level that culminated this month with the resignation of its founder and CEO.

Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a 24 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan (Oscar Isaac), the reclusive CEO of the company.

The CEO of the company had the foresight to sell most of his shares in the company, knowing that it was in trouble, while some underhanded things were going on to make it look like they were turning a profit to the public at large.

Caleb, a 24 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company.

The film, which marks Garland's directorial debut, is described as an intense psychological thriller in which Caleb (About Time «s Domhnall Gleeson, soon to be seen in Star Wars Episode VII), a 24 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan (Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Isaac).

He served as vice president of Broadband Media Applications at Microsoft and as president and CEO of Continuum Productions (now Corbis), a company founded by Bill Gates to pioneer the creation of large digital libraries.

Clearly the year 2010 has belonged to the Apple iPad so far and the only thing that arch rivals Microsoft could muster is a verbal volley by company CEO Steve Ballmer trying to convince the world at large that the Windows 7 is as good or maybe a tad better to deliver superior tablet PC experience than any other.

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