Sentences with phrase «company executives made»

At Sony's E3 press conference, company executives made it clear that PS4 would place no restrictions on pre-owned sales and wouldn't require daily online authentication — the announcements received a huge applause.

On a recent conference call with analysts, company executives made a big deal about requiring full ownership of Canwest's TV operations to make this strategy work.

Our resentment of company executives making 200 times as much as their average workers is distorting our view of education.

That could be very useful for company executives making corporate work phone calls, and then again the common person would use it as well conferencing between 3 friends deciding what movie to watch on a Friday night.

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Whether it was taking part in a seminar on artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies with other area executives, hanging out at a barbecue, or attending the opening of a new play, Dase made his presence felt, and he says he and the company were met with «an enormous receptivity.»

Before today's decision was made, several executives of U.S. companies showed their disapproval of the U.S. pulling out of the agreement.

Former Viacom senior executive Tom Dooley was named as Dauman's replacement, but he announced last week that he will be leaving the company soon, which leaves a leadership vacuum at the top of Viacom — a vacuum that makes a merger with CBS even more likely, some believe.

J.P. Morgan also pointed to a handful of other executives making their way up the ranks in the company.

Chief executives at S&P 500 companies make about 127 times what their median employee takes home, according to new data taken from about half of S&P 500 companies.

Brand went on to share that companies should add data to «existing reporting and business intelligence tools that help those retailers make sense of these massive banks of in - store data with a new layer of intel to their decision - making at the executive level.»

Judge slams deception by Hardie board Ten former directors and executives of building materials group James Hardie have been found to have breached their duties by making misleading statements about the firm's ability to pay asbestos compensation, in a decision that has wide - ranging implications for company boards.

Executive coaching is the best way to enable a person to meliorate his interpersonal skills, cross over his self - imposed limitations, coordinate with corporate goals, use feedback as a necessary tool, better the decision - making skills, equalize work and life priorities, create an environment which is useful to the company, etc..

In a recent interview with Fortune, Virtustream chief executive Rodney Rogers said when he co-founded that company in 2009, he realized that AWS had already made its market and was pretty much impregnable.

While on Squawk Alley, Mark Hurd, Oracle's chief executive made it a point to distinguish the company from it's competitors.

On Wednesday, Portland's City Council voted to tax companies whose chief executives make more than 100 times the median employee pay.

Whatever the supposed rationale, in reality it made little sense for Si to have his own employees airing the company's dirty laundry, spoiling its surprises, starting feuds between its executives, pestering them at parties.

The tech executive said policy restrictions will make it more difficult for companies in the U.S. to remain competitive.

To his credit, Jarislowsky offered Trudeau and Morneau a different target: rather than wealth generators like him, the government should go after the chief executives who make millions running companies they had no part in creating.

The second quarter of last year was the company's best ever, making it more difficult to top this year, the executives warned analysts.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook also sent a letter to employees Monday morning, making clear the company's hardline stance refusing to make software to unlock the phone addresses broader issues, not just a single device linked to a grisly attack.

These are experienced senior executives at large companies, and I wanted to make sure I presented myself in the best possible way.

The rise of a Chinese aircraft manufacturer is «a real plus» for Honeywell, which makes everything from jet engines to software systems used in planes, a company executive told CNBC Thursday.

McDonald's executives apparently read Entrepreneur — or just looked at the company's sales figures — and realized it was time to make some big changes.

So far he has tried shaking up his own executive team, replacing two presidents of the U.S. business in two years, eliminating the chief operating officer role, and reorganizing the U.S. business to make it «a flatter, more nimble organization,» says the company.

«While revenue for Q4 and FY18 was below expectations due to lower than anticipated smartphone unit volumes, Cirrus Logic made meaningful progress this past year on numerous strategic initiatives that we expect to position the company for a return to year - over-year growth in FY20,» said Jason Rhode, president and chief executive officer.

Today's must - read story is by Fortune's Katie Fehrenbacher on the five ways to make big companies more innovative according to some of the business world's most savvy executives.

Last year, women made up more than half of newly appointed HR executives, a role that's typically responsible for ensuring a company can acquire and develop the staff it needs to execute the larger business plan.

I have seen companies enlist creative teams and take a scientific and methodical approach to help make important decisions, as well as companies whose C - level executives shoot from the hip and make decisions without considering relevant data.

Leroux overhauled the whole organizational structure at Desjardins so that, for example, females would make up at least 30 % of the talent pool at all levels of the company — from executive to branch.

Barney Harford, the former chief executive officer of online travel site Orbitz, has been named chief operating officer at Uber Technologies Inc., making him the second - highest ranking executive at the ride - hailing company.

But it's going to suck for media companies if they put all of this time and effort into original content and no one sees it,» said one media executive, whose company was paid for making Facebook Live videos, but hasn't signed a larger deal for long - form content.

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday made waves in approving 3 - 2 a rule that will require most public companies to regularly disclose the ratio of chief executive pay to that of the average employee.

What makes the 401 (k) so complicated is something called «discrimination testing,» which consists of federal rules designed to ensure the company isn't giving better retirement benefits to its most highly paid workers, including executives and founders.

In additional research with over five thousand CEOs and executives on how they make and approve decisions, I've discovered a consistent pattern regardless of company size, geography, and culture.

«I've invested in 20 different entrepreneurial and mid-cap companies and I've made more money with the women executives.

First, companies constantly issue new stock to reward executives and make acquisitions, and the new issues far exceed buybacks.

Stumpf will have to walk a fine line between taking responsibility and not blaming the culture of the company, so as to not made senior executives seem complicit.

The forward - thinking executive also encouraged his researchers to make time for their own passions, letting scientists pursue their idiosyncratic interests on the company clock.

Walmsley has been in place for around a year, but has already replaced nearly half of GSK's top executive team and has made sweeping changes in its R&D team, while shutting down many of its clinical drug trials in an effort to narrow the company's portfolio.

The new designation means that the company is hoping to make the required technology feasible for production, although executives acknowledge that it will likely take years before that happens.

Company executives and regulators have to get off their asses and make digital commerce as secure as it needs to be.

Shelby Clark, the new executive director of Peers, a San Francisco - based organization that supports members of the sharing economy, embraces these developments, noting that ultimately there will be dozens of companies working to bridge service gaps and make work more efficient.

Gregory Simon, the chief executive of large - scale crowdfunding site Poliwogg, told the Washington Post: «There's another kind of fraud, and that's when Congress and the president pass and sign a law, and thousands of companies organize according to the principles in that law... but academics and people in consumer groups who disagree with the law make it their mission to prevent the law from going into effect.»

Dominion plans to increase solar generation by nearly 50 percent over last year's forecast, a change made possible in part because of the technology's increasing affordability, company executives said in an Associated Press interview.

The executive team at my company, ÄKTA, notices when stress starts to make me feel lethargic and uninspired.

President Donald Trump may soon sign an executive order revamping the H - 1B visa system which, along with a related program, makes 85,000 temporary work visas available each year and is widely used by U.S. tech companies to fill technical roles.

LONDON, April 12 - GlaxoSmithKline is divesting its rare disease gene therapy drugs to private biotech company Orchard Therapeutics as Chief Executive Emma Walmsley makes good on her promise to prune the drugmaker's pharmaceuticals portfolio.

The company's six - person Board of Management is made up of entirely men, and of the 14 members of Audi USA's executive team, only two are women.

Every executive making the leap from a resource - rich company to a startup den should know these five things.

Bill Coughran, a partner at Sequoia Capital and a former Google engineering executive, says the sheer number of security startups makes it challenging for any one company to stand out.