Sentences with phrase «ceos than firms»

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

Not exact matches

-- Art Saxby, CEO of Chief Outsiders, a strategic marketing consulting firm that has worked on the management teams of more than 600 companies across more than 60 industries

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein last week highlighted the client - coverage push in his annual investor letter, noting that it had resulted in more than 75 new mandates across a variety of industry groups and that the firm was 30 % of the way toward reaching its goal of covering 1,000 new clients.

For many entrepreneurs and CEOs running fast - growing tech firms, there is perhaps no greater enemy to business than the United States patent system.

Shares of the Portuguese energy firm EDP also fell more than 2 percent on Monday after its CEO was named a suspect in a corruption investigation.

Peter Warman, CEO of research firm Newzoo, says the number of hours gamers spent watching EA's FIFA 16 on Twitch in January increased by more than 80 % since last November, while the number of hours gamers watched NBA 2K16 videos on Twitch more than doubled in the same period.

Venture firms with a woman partner are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with women CEOs.

According to an annual CEO turnover report by global management consulting firm Booz & Co., the average CEO tenure was 6.6 years in 2010, 18 months shorter than in 2000.

«The short answer is the cloud is often more secure than other storage,» says Rich Mogull, CEO of security research and advisory firm Securosis.

Less than two weeks after debuting on the ASX, tech firm BrainChip's chief executive has tendered his resignation while an interim CEO has been appointed.

Private companies are viewed more favourably than state - owned firms, and the CEOs were lukewarm about the idea of using ownership policy to promote democracy, such as limiting the ability of companies based in undemocratic countries to buy Canadian assets.

At my client's computer firm, for example, with its layoffs and other struggles, you can bet your salary that there will be more than one cynic in the audience at the CEO's speech.

After acquiring more than 65 tech firms in the past five years, the mercurial CEO announced in September that he would be «buying chip companies,» suggesting that Oracle is positioning itself for what Bill Tatham, head of Toronto - based enterprise software firm NexJ Systems, describes as «another level of world domination.»

This year, the annual trust and credibility survey conducted by global PR firm Edelman showed that people place more trust in their peers and company employees than CEOs and government officials.

(I've written about Larry before; he was a founder and CEO of Foresee, a firm sold to Answers Corp. for more than $ 200 million.)

He wasn't surprised that startup CEOs spoke up while the major players did not: «There are a lot more ways for the Trump administration to hurt Big Pharma firms with products on the market than there are ways for the Trump administration to hurt biotech firms.»

Bonnie Gwin, Global CEO and Board of Directors Practice at the executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, agreed with the advice, adding that at this moment of rising activist pressure, mounting cyber security concerns, and a more constant media spotlight, being on a board is harder, higher - stakes and more demanding than ever.

-- Art Saxby, CEO of Chief Outsiders, a strategic marketing consulting firm which has worked on the management teams of more than 600 companies across more than 60 industries

While July was the fifth straight month in which small firms added jobs, «the magnitude of growth is less than desired,» according to SurePayroll CEO Michael Alter.

That partnership with the CEO more than anything else is the key to the firm's success.

The combative JPMorgan Chase CEO was still dodging calls for his own head when Canadian Business went to press, more than a month after he admitted that a trader in the firm's London office lost at least US$ 2 billion, and possibly as much as US$ 9 billion, in a deal gone wrong.

The study of more than 200 CEOs, board directors and senior executives of North American public and private companies was conducted by Stanford University and executive coaching firm The Miles Group.

Sanofi CEO Olivier Brandicourt said that his company would rely on the U.S. national health expenditures (NHE) growth projection to cap price increases other than for a «sound reason» (in which case the firm would disclose the reasoning behind the bigger hike).

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.

And according to Vaynerchuk, CEO of the brand consulting firm VaynerMedia, there's no better place to tell customers your story than on social media

The recent Edelman Trust Barometer reported that 41 % of people believe company employees rank higher in public trust than a firm's PR department or CEO.

Ray Ferrara, the former chairman of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards who's chairman and CEO of dually registered ProVise Management Group in Clearwater, Florida, noted on a panel discussion at the event that he expects his firm to shell out «less than $ 10,000 in our hard costs» to comply with the fiduciary rule, but didn't anticipate «any significant ongoing [compliance] costs.»

These aren't just mom - and - pop shops either: In one - third of S&P 500 companies, 40 % of the 250 largest firms in France and Germany, and more than 60 % of large corporations in East Asia and Latin America, family members own a significant share of the equity and can influence key decisions, particularly election of the chairman and the CEO.

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has said many a time that the firm is a technology company, and has gone on to state that Goldman Sachs employs more engineers than companies like Facebook and Twitter.

Last year, base salary accounted for just 8 percent of CEO pay for S&P 500 companies, while cash and stock incentives made up more than 45 percent, according to proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services.

When the stock price plummets because your company underperforms, and you subsequently feel you have to grant a lot more to remain competitive, and then your stock price recovers, your CEO will end up with a lot more award value than the CEO of a competitor whose firm's stock price dropped much less, before also recovering.

Qudian's founder CEO Min Luo will forgo his salary until the $ 5 bln firm tops a $ 100 bln valuation, bigger than backer Ant Financial.

Unfortunately for Devon shareholders, the group included Chesapeake Energy (the board of which would grant then - CEO Aubrey McClendon a $ 75 million bonus in 2008) and Chevron and ConocoPhillips, two firms much larger than Devon.

The study found that only 23 of the 542 partner - level VCs identified in these firms were female, or 4.2 percent, which is even lower than the 4.6 percent of female CEOs among the Fortune 500.

U.S. retail giant Wall Mart Stores Inc has 432 stores in China, while coffee chain Starbucks Corp has 2,500 stores there and outgoing CEO Howard Schultz told investors China will one day be a bigger market for the firm than the United States.

Compensation Committee rather than to management, although representatives of the firm may meet with members of management, including our CEO and executives in our Employee Success (human resources) department, for purposes of gathering information on proposals that management may make to the Compensation Committee.

In his first year as LPL Financial's CEO, Dan Arnold earned $ 7.4 million, substantially more than the $ 5.4 million his predecessor earned in his last year in that position, according to the firm's proxy statement filed with the Securities and...

Former State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno has accepted the job of CEO of a national IT firm less than a week after stepping down from his Albany office.

Kathy Lubbers, 45, the daughter of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and the president and CEO of his public relations firm, Gingrich Communications, has had rheumatoid arthritis for more than 20 years.

The League isn't the only player trying to get a piece of the more than $ 2B that the online dating industry is worth in the U.S., estimates Mark Brooks, CEO of Courtland Brooks, a firm that helps dating companies with business development and media relations.

Mark Brooks, CEO of Courtland Brooks, an advisory firm for dating companies, said Tinder will likely make money from subscriptions than from ads.

Mark Brooks, CEO of Courtland Brooks, an advisory firm for dating companies, said Tinder will likely make more money from subscriptions than from advertising.

The League isn't the only player trying to get a piece of the more than $ 2 billion that the online dating industry is worth in the U.S., estimates Mark Brooks, CEO of Courtland Brooks, a firm that helps dating companies with business development and media relations.

The late Ronald Thorpe, former president and CEO of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and a firm believer in clinical residency training for teachers, once wrote, «The best university - based programs in the country can not prepare a 22 - year - old for the challenges of effective autonomous teaching practice any more than a degree from Harvard Medical School prepares an M.D. to care for patients.»

Diamonds, Danger, and A Deadly Secret... A Katerina Carter Legal ThrillerOut of work and running out of money, Private Investigator and Fraud Expert, Katerina Carter, desperately needs more clients or she'll be forced to go crawling back to a cubicle at her previous firm, a fate worse than debt.So when Liberty Diamond Mines CEO Susan Sullivan hires Kat to find Liberty's missing CFO and a large sum of embezzled money, she's eager to accept the job.

In a conference call with reporters and Wall Street analysts earlier Monday, neither of the two executives representing the firms — William Lynch, CEO of Barnes & Noble, and Andy Lees, president at Microsoft — went further than that statement when talking about the Nook app and Windows.

«The investment world moves so much faster than it used to,» said Harvey Rowen, CEO of investment advisory firm Starmont Asset Management.

Rondure's founder, CEO and lead portfolio manager is Laura Geritz, who describes this partnership as «one of our key competitive advantages» since it will give her the opportunity, rare for a manager launching a new firm, to focus on investment rather than management.

He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.

«Pet retailers have the best advantage in that nothing is cuter or more appealing than pets,» says Shama Hyder, founder and CEO of Zen Media, a web marketing and digital PR firm.