Sentences with phrase «about big business»

Chandan Mitra talked about the big business of re-insurance and bringing it to India.

Hundreds, and even thousands, of people tell the same story about big business, injustice and the need for accountability.

More to the point, voters rank both of those below all of their concerns about big business.

Above all, take this as a reminder that GM crops are far far more about big business and big profits for their developers than they are about increasing crop yields, feeding more people either in rich or poor nations, or developing climate - resistant agriculture.

Learn about the big business that we all buy into with every dog we bring home.

Ferguson, editor of the Weekly Standard, takes no prisoners as he writes about the big business that our higher education system has become.

Don't think that the new levy is all about big business, warns John Deaville.

This site says adoption is less about helping children and more about big business.

This red - tape is not about empowering people like Abdullah to help themselves, it's about big business cashing in.

And it's not just about big business.

«Pimps, gangbangers, drug dealers, and prostitutes,» says Bill Higginson, CEO of $ 15 - million IMC Property Management, when asked about his biggest business headaches.

Furthermore, it's clear people's fears about the effects of Brexit on the economy (and this includes leave voters) mean they're very worried about big businesses leaving the country.

And this toxic culture is not only about the big businesses who must make a profit to sustain their systems; it's not about readers being trained to expect free books; it's not about a handful of authors scamming the system — the root of the problem is authors not valuing their own work enough to treat it like a business and expect to be paid for their labor.

With Election Day less than a week away, we're happy to see people worried about big businesses influence over these elections.

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Keane also declined to talk about future data center locations, only to say that they would be built in places where Microsoft likely sees big business opportunities.

It's very easy to get stuck in the minutiae of a rapidly growing business, and it is imperative to take time to clear the head and think about the bigger picture.»

Quickly, please have a look at this troubling essay by historian Jay M. Smith about a giant business — big - time college sports — that hasn't reinvented itself in years.

Here are answers to the 3 biggest questions about credit scores that matter to your business.

STEVE Carre has walked both sides of the business street - in big and small firms - and believes there's a touch of arrogance about the former's failure to recognise the value of the latter.

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

To make the most of big data, small businesses must be laser - focused on their intentions and goals, being selective about what they consider, and disregarding the rest.

If you dream of owning a business but aren't sure about what kind, here are some valuable ways you can find your next big business idea.

While some business owners do not worry about the small expenses, which add up, others waste money in big ways.

«At Wazoku we are all about innovation and as a start - up we know that one of the biggest challenges faced by new businesses is getting seen and found by the right people.

Assistants often excel at taking tasks such as writing your blog posts, handling scheduling, and reminding you about following up with clients but they sometimes fall down when it comes to your business» big picture.

The Facebook founder's big sister opens up about her siblings» childhood business, what she learned from working with Sheryl Sandberg, the worst advice she ever got, and more.

Sometimes the focus is too much on raising capital and announcing some big round, but ultimately, it's about building a durable business.

Almost any question that I ask about my business; should I rent a bigger office, should I hire another advisor, what should I spend to create a new lead, all of those questions can be answered in Excel.

Since last year, Peninsula Shops has signed up about 80 businesses, many of which, facing competition from big - box retailers and feeling the effects of the recession, desperately needed a new tactic to get customers in the door.

Though there's generally less competition for jobs in small towns, business owners need to be more careful about finding applicants who are truly qualified and most likely to stay in the position for longer than their counterparts in bigger locales.

The second, which you can read about in Fortune's latest cover story on blockchains and big business, involved tracing Mexican mangoes.

While some business owners do not worry about the small expenses, which add up, others waste money in big -LSB-...]

What about small businesses, the biggest companies have the financial clout to make their calculated good dead, but is it too much of a gamble for small business owners.

What business books have had the biggest impact on how you think about running a company?

After showing footage of «Alita: Battle Angel» at CinemaCon on Thursday, Rodriguez and producer Jon Landau («Avatar» movies) sat down with Business Insider to talk about the evolution of the project and why this manga won't end up like the big - screen version of «Ghost in the Shell.»

«The human - computer speech interface is the next big thing,» says Nigel Fenwick, a digital business and technology analyst with Forrester, who says Alexa and similar systems were integrated with just about everything on the floor: refrigerators, light fixtures, house - keeping robots, security cameras, door locks, cars, speakers and headphones, shower heads, air conditioners, and the list goes on and on.

It was also then that some of the biggest marketers succeeded with a business model that may still hold about an 80 percent share of the DRTV market: Find products created by a would - be Edison somewhere in America, market them on DRTV, give a small royalty cut to the inventor, and share the risk of a capricious DRTV audience across your product portfolio.

They suggested weighting companies in an index by metrics that tell you more about how good the business is rather than just how big it is.

For Google, mobile wallet initiatives are about gaining an even bigger window into consumer behavior and becoming more essential to businesses trying to reach consumers.

She said her biggest concern about Brexit is that new business owners won't be able to take advantage of these programs like she did.

You often hear stories about a business owner that remortgaged his or her house and was on the verge of bankruptcy when they hit it big.

«They said 2010 was the big acquisition year, and 2011 would be about putting everything in its right place and investing in personnel to scale those smaller businesses.

There's something very prideful about wanting to build our own world - beating businesses and not wanting to be a simple branch - plant economy, but in a globalized era there are many roadblocks — such as access to the big bucks needed for expansion — to doing so.

As a Boston Consulting Group publication reported, «Grocery retailer Tesco has worked with its Dunnhumby business unit to build a big - data business that analyzes millions of customer transactions and sells the resulting insights about shopping behavior (but not customer - level data) to major manufacturers, including Unilever, Nestlé, and Heinz.»

«A bigger move, say outside of a 20 percent band, might destroy confidence and make it harder for small business to raise money, or even to sell to larger companies who might be more worried about their viability, or ability to deliver on orders placed.»

«The big one we like to see is people coming in inquisitive about the business,» he says.

As a result, Finnegan is a big advocate of the concept of working backwards, «especially when thinking about building businesses based on emerging technologies and ideas that are truly radical and transformational.»

People love to talk about staying focused on the big picture, but in a small business — and especially a startup — short - term results matter most.

We caught up with Hawk at Activision Studios in Santa Monica, Calif., and in between Shred test runs, he told us about what's next, and how social media has made his business bigger, better and, somehow, even cooler.

It used to be that business intelligence software tools — that, say, enable a deep dive into sales data and just about everything else in your business — were the exclusive domain of big business.