Sentences with phrase «company executives took»

Company executives took aim at a target market — customers who value utility and reliability over all else — and pulled the trigger.

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

IF you measure the value of a chief executive by the salary he or she takes and compare it to what heads of similar size companies receive, Andrew Forrest would come out on top in Western Australia year in, year out.

Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and chief executive officer at Social Capital LP, offered a bullish take on cloud management company Box Inc, predicting the stock could grow 10-fold over the next 10 years.

Her mission: Take a highly dysfunctional set of executives and turn them into a highly functioning leadership team before the company implodes or she gets fired.

In December, Costello shuffled up top management — he promoted Mike Grupta, a former finance executive at Zynga (who helped take the company public in Decemeber 2011) to be the company's chief financial officer, while moving Ali Rowghani from CFO to COO.

And in a true sign of the times, the company lured Microsoft's Xbox boss and Vancouver native Don Mattrick — the most powerful man in video games — to take over as chief executive in July.

Reuters reports that while ZTE dismissed the four executives, it took no action against the other employees, and Ross says the company continued to lie to government investigators even after the settlement.

Supporters of the move say that having CBS chief executive Les Moonves take over management of the combined company would also help its chances of success.

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.

Since taking Coach's reins in 2014, the 50 - year - old executive has done what few retail CEOs have been able to do: tapped into his company's successful past to help it compete in a difficult present.

«We have people on our executive team who took major pay cuts to come here, because they feel they're really participating in the future of the company,» he says.

«Most of our companies are atoms leveraging bits» — lab science aided by computing power — «and they generally take more capital and a longer time horizon to hit those key milestones,» says Lindy Fishburne, executive director at Breakout Labs and managing director at Breakout Ventures.

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.

Public companies often have boards composed of serial entrepreneurs or prominent industry figures who offer their insights, and it was probably this step that prompted Facebook executives to take the direct, head - on approach.

TORONTO — BlackBerry shares rose in pre-market trading amid reports that its chief executive officer and board of directors are warming to the idea of taking the company private.

VDM Group shares surged on news the company's chief executive has stepped aside, with former BGC Contracting manager Sam Diep to take the helm.

Former Wallaby player and experienced minerals executive John Welborn will take the helm of Perth - based gold company Resolute Mining when outgoing CEO Peter Sullivan steps down in late June.

The handover will take place on April 3, and he will remain at the company as executive chairman.

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.

«In many ways, it is GM's post-bankruptcy masterpiece, a real feather in the cap of CEO Mary Barra and her executive team, who took what the company had achieved with its ill - fated EV - 1 back in the 1990s and turned it up to 11.»

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.

All MBA students take part in two annual «integrative case weeks,» during which classes are put on hold to allow for real — world experience and networking with senior executives from major Canadian companies.

Add another one to the list: for one year, it smashed all records for the highest executive compensation in Canada, awarding its former CEO Michael Pearson $ 179 million in company stock, for a total take - home of $ 182 million, more than double paid to the previous year's highest paid CEO, BlackBerry's John Chen.

(Companies take varying amounts of time to disclose executive compensation, which is why this ranking covers the year 2015.)

«As part of the preparation of the new strategy, executives of Vnesheconombank met with representatives of leading financial institutes in Europe, Asia, and America multiple times during 2016,» the bank said, adding that the meetings took place «with a number of representatives of the largest banks and business establishments of the United States, including Jared Kushner, the head of Kushner Companies.

More from the CFO Council: Trump's tariff proposal, trade war will be bad for both US and China: CNBC Survey Companies are taking action on gun control because politicians won't: CNBC Survey There's been an «overreaction» in Thai stocks to trade - war risks, says exchange executive

Total Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanné said the company had the flexibility to take advantage of the low - cost environment in the sector to launch profitable projects and acquire resources under attractive conditions.

Vice Chairman Carlie Munger, in a separate note, hinted that either Ajit Jain, an insurance executive at the company, or Greg Abel, head of Berkshire's energy unit, would take over as CEO.

It's going to take more than a massive hack against Sony Pictures, Anthem, and the Internal Revenue Service to persuade business executives to protect their companies from data breaches.

Jason Zander will take on a bigger role as executive vice president of Microsoft's Azure, putting him in the top ranks of the company.

When the general public thinks of executive MBAs, they often picture thirty - and forty - something executives taking weekend classes (on the company dime) to prep them for the next promotion.

«Last fall, [Google co-founder] Larry Page and I announced Calico, a new company designed to take the long - term view on aging and illness,» wrote Calico chief executive Arthur Levinson in a Google + post announcing the collaboration yesterday.

April 19 - Toymaker Mattel Inc Chief Executive Officer Margaret Georgiadis, who took the helm in February last year, will step down and be replaced by company director Ynon Kreiz, effective April 26, the company said on Thursday.

Uber Technologies Inc's embattled Chief Executive Travis Kalanick told employees in an email on Tuesday that he will take time away from the company he helped to found, citing the need to grieve for his recently deceased mother, according to a copy of the memo seen by Reuters.

That same year it filed that patent suit, EMC also sued a former sales executive who joined Pure, charging he had taken confidential company information with him.

As companies expand into new markets, executives are opting to acquire skills to take their businesses to the next level.

Other executives including Discovery Communciations CEO David Zaslav have taken a different point of view, arguing that there will be even more cable consolidation and that content companies will follow suit.

«This encouraging start to the year shows that we are firmly on the path laid out in February that will take us above an eight per cent return on equity in the medium term,» said chief executive of the company Bill Winters.

Companies want executives who can take charge and light up a room.

The purchase is Yahoo's 19th since chief executive Marissa Mayer took control of the struggling company a year ago.

Kraft Foods Group announced Chairman John Cahill will also take on the chief executive role, leading a food - and - beverage giant at a time when many of the largest packaged foods companies are facing a challenge to find growth.

He joined the company in 1996 and worked his way up through the executive ranks before taking over as CEO in 2012.

Similarly, while Hastings set the vision for the company's global expansion, lower - ranking executives take the lead on deciding which markets to enter when.

In theory, nothing is stopping big companies from taking the same strategy approach as startups do, as I teach in my seminar «Three Ways to Get Back Your Company's Start - upness» at Babson College's Executive Education Center.

But Ma remains Alibaba's executive chairman and still shapes the company's strategy and entertains customers and employees with songs and jokes when he takes the stage at the company's annual «Alifest.»

«What these innovations in technology are allowing companies to do is to take data and then put context around it,» said Jason Mendenhall, Switch's executive vice president.

Rob Markey, the head of Bain & Company's global customer strategy and marketing practice, writes in the Harvard Business Review about how senior executives need to take the reins and help reenergize their staff.

The helm of the company has been taken up by Glen Colgan, who becomes managing director after previously serving as executive director, desk manager.