Sentences with phrase «against business growth»

Now that we've examined the case for and against business growth, answer this question: why do you want to grow?

«It creates a permanent disincentive against business growth,» according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

This lesson will also develop students» key analysis and judgement skills (vital for success in exams) by evaluating whether different stakeholder groups will be for or against business growth and by encouraging students to justify and support their decisions.

Not exact matches

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

The Halifax Index, produced annually for Nova Scotia's capital, benchmarks the city against five peer cities on a number of important measurements: population growth, education levels, the confidence of the business sector, and more.

His deep - value philosophy can be boiled down to four points: he's looking for high - quality stocks that protect against the downside; he wants businesses where short - term issues have caused investors to abandon the company; he wants to wait until valuations are «out - of - this - world» cheap, and he tries not to pay attention to macro issues like eurozone debt or Chinese growth.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former eBusiness Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former ebusiness); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

This payout considered her outstanding personal leadership through a landmark transformation and the significant growth in new business areas, balanced against select financial metrics that fell short of target.

Evaluation measures include progress against business model and growth strategies, client relationship management, staff retention, and the evolution of asset allocation and product strategy in line with investor needs.

There has been no change in our capital allocation policy and over the next few years our first priority is to continue to invest in our business, as we have a compelling opportunity to drive sustainable growth and value creation, and we're putting our capital against this opportunity.

The strength of our brand, an unparalleled connection with our consumers and the continuation of investments in our fastest growing businesses — footwear, international and direct - to - consumer — give us great confidence in our ability to navigate the current retail environment, execute against our long - term growth strategy and create value to our shareholders.

Paradoxically, other clients were hedging against an inflationary scenario, which drove the growth of Deutsche Bank's inflation derivatives business.

The company outlined growth opportunities around high performance computing, graphics virtualization and gaming, against the backdrop of concerns surrounding its PC OEM business.

The Tatts wagering business UBet managed to turn around its performance in 2016, recording turnover growth of 4.1 per cent against a 0.5 per cent decline in 2015.

Nestlé has registered a slight year - on - year growth in profits across its businesses, with sales figures of CHF 89.8 billion ($ 78bn) for 2017 against CHF 89.5 ($ 77.7 bn) the previous year.

Dan Jones, partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, said: «European football continues to flourish financially, with almost half a billion Euro of revenue growth for the top 20 Money League clubs... United's ability to retain first position is all the more impressive against the backdrop of the weakened Pound against the Euro, and with both Real Madrid and FC Barcelona forecasting further revenue growth in 2017/18, the battle at the top will likely come down to on - pitch performance again next year.

In a clear rebuttal of Astorino's view that the business community should be more forceful in pushing back against policies from Albany detrimental to job growth, Cuomo said he's never seen them «more engaged» than ever with state politics.

Osborne reeled off the numbers — the highest upward growth revision since the millennium, a fall in the trade deficit, action on business rates to counter Labour's focus on SMEs, extending tax relief to regional theatre as an act of punishment against the provinces.

We maintained good progress against our strategic priorities to improve the performance of our businesses, strengthen the balance sheet and deliver our approved growth projects.

A dose of sensible business economics and populism, against the background of disappointing growth projections.

Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino on Thursday night called on the state's business community to be more forceful in its pushback against Albany policies that have hampered job growth and made for one of the highest taxed states in the country.

Murphy initially voted against the health care bill in the House last November, because he said «it did not adequately address the fundamentally flawed system,» but he supported the final health care bill in March, saying «it will stop the out of control growth of health care costs, protect our local industries and jobs from unfair taxes, and help small businesses create jobs.»

«This is too logical a transition for anyone to have an ideological argument against clean energy, because it stands against economic growth and good business sense,» says Daniel Kammen, professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley, and science envoy for the U.S. State Department, who is attending the talks, «That's what people are saying here — they're incredulous that anyone would want to back off on this.»

Through the «We're All Business, Mostly» campaign, we are articulating and reaffirming that brand promise to our guests, while executing against a broader program designed to build guest love, drive performance and deliver high quality growth to our Owners.»

Against a murky economic outlook, investors gravitated toward growth - oriented names, defensive areas, and larger businesses.

(Investor's Business Daily: May 2, 2016) Investor's Business Daily Aparna Narayan says value stocks may be making a comeback, but cautions against going all in growth or value, suggesting dividend growth stocks as a middle ground.

And yes, owner - operator / family businesses are often more prudent in their capital structure & growth strategies, but plenty of studies attest to their long - term out - performance (& survivability)-- bet on them, not against them!

Those against will be Daniel M. Kammen, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, focused on renewable and «appropriate» energy technology and a senior energy adviser to the Obama campaign; Oliver Tickell, an environmental writer / campaigner in search of what he calls Kyoto2, a framework for controlling greenhouse gases that is effective, efficient and equitable; and Adam Werbach, who gained fame as the youngest president of the Sierra Club (elected at 23), but now is focused on «blue» marketing for business growth framed around sustainability, as the head of Saatchi & Saatchi S. I'll have to ask him about how that works.

Source: Transcript, Patrick Michaels» testimony before House Small Business Committee 7/29/98 6 October, 1999 Testified before House Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory affairs, arguing against the classification of carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

And with the most relevant local and state politicians comfortably in cahoots with the powerful plaintiffs» bar, prospects for positive reforms remain remote, even as these jurisdictions» hyper - litigiousness works against economic growth and job creation, and makes it harder for both government and businesses to nd a ordable insurance.

And with the most relevant local and state politicians comfortably in cahoots with the powerful plaintiffs» bar, prospects for positive reforms remain remote, even as these jurisdictions» hyper - litigiousness works against economic growth and job creation, and makes it harder for both government and businesses to find affordable insurance.

Which is why it would be possible to have several cash value life insurance policies building concurrently, providing your business with death benefit protection against the loss of key employees, all while building a private financing source with tax advantageous growth.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former eBusiness Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former ebusiness); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

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