Sentences with phrase «as the firms get»

A recent study published in Strategic Management Journal shows that as firms get involved in more socially responsible practices, they also get better at developing credibility with their stakeholders.

So as firms get bigger, formalized processes start appearing.

Retreats became more specific in their purpose, especially as firms got bigger.

Not exact matches

GREG Evans has got off to a flying start in his new role as KPMG's global leader of mining M&A, with one of the firm's major clients announcing its first takeover bid last week.

As power is consolidating in the VC industry, with fewer firms getting a greater share of LP funding, VC firms are beginning to realize the power that branding and marketing can have on dealflow and their ability to raise capital.

Not so at RFRK, which has increased both its employee retention (in the high - turnover food - service industry, no less) and its rep as an employer of choice (the firm recently got 350 applications for an admin position) by making its people feel something very powerful: that their work matters.

Finally, Matuson recommends stressing to prospective hires that as employees of a small firm, they'll have direct access to leadership, encounter limited bureaucracy and get opportunities to wear more than one hat.

Whereas the bad firms will get the leftovers, as they do now, and yet pay a higher price for them.»

The radio broadcasting business is undergoing a similar process as the brick - and - mortar meltdown, where PE firms piled into big retailers during the LBO boom before the Financial Crisis and left the sector strewn with over-indebted retailers that then got slammed by a structural shift to online that they no longer had the resources to follow.

Eventually, after getting some positive local press, the brewery started getting courted by advertising and PR firms as well as venture capitalists hoping to get involved.

Brent Taylor, Beyond Meat's VP of Corporate Development believes the firm's ability to focus on its core competencies has enabled it to grow rapidly without getting bogged down in such necessary time sucks as payroll, benefits and vacation time.

Temp workers are attractive to firms because they earn lower wages (although the agency has to get paid as well) and provide the ability to scale up or down quickly without the complication of severance pay or pink slips.

After earning a reputation as a gifted debater in parliament, Fernandez and CUP's radical rhetoric have struck a note with pro-independence Catalans who are angry about the languishing economy and firm in their belief that Catalonia does not get back what it pays in taxes to Madrid.

Hamilton and her staff — she now has a full team that includes Kimberlin as a venture partner — don't expect to see any returns on their investments within the next five years, so in the meantime, it's important that they, like many other top VC firms, help these founders get to the next stage.

As we've written before, the competition is forcing PE firms to get creative in their dealmaking, with more add - on deals, carve - outs, and an increased interest in new sectors like technology.

Vibrant economies experience churn: unproductive firms get left behind as a new, fast - growing companies enter.

He said the pitch is having more success with traditional venture firms who've missed out on crypto to date — particularly bitcoin, ethereum and companies such as Coinbase — and are feeling the pressure to get in on the craze.

Either way, as Tom Watson's recent CB profile of Elop makes clear, the once mighty Finnish firm needs all the hype it can get to regain its place atop the mobile phone food chain.

If you've got a product that has a considerable audience, is scalable and has potential for big profits, put together a presentation and try to pitch your business model to a VC firm, as you'll likely need their money to compete in a hot market.

The lobbyist added that several major firms were more interested in making deals with the Trump administration that could affect their bottom lines, such as tax repatriation, than getting caught in politically charged fights over government surveillance.

Both got jobs, LaMontagne at the venture firm Highland Capital and Kallinis ultimately as an event planner for Gucci in Toronto.

As companies continue to seek the winning formula for attracting millennial talent, new research from global public relations firm Weber and Shandwick and KRC Research finds that CEO activism may be the key to getting the attention of today's younger workforce.

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

It leads to high turnover, decreased innovation — with the bully focused on bullying and the one being bullied afraid to be vocal in the organization — and a harder time hiring highly - qualified professionals, as word gets out about your firm's toxic culture.

This year will be different: as the founder and principal of the design firm MSTQ, I've decided I'm going to use the cognitive frameworks that I apply in my UX practice to help me get to the gym.

Even as Apple got people used to the idea of having a supercomputer in their pocket, it significantly changed how businesses interact with consumers around the world, says Brian Blau, research director for consumer technology and markets at research firm Gartner.

Not long after Cramer got the Goldman position, an employee from the firm contacted him, got the answering machine message, and told Cramer to call him as soon as possible.

But he wants the firm to take more risks to get its message out, especially as it increasingly takes on deeply political challenges like climate change or health care.

Understandably, in the wake of revelations that a shady firm working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign got backdoor access to as many as 87 million Facebook profiles, much of the questioning focused on Facebook's privacy policies.

I know people who are paying as much $ 10,000 a month to a PR firm and getting very little out of it.

Getting a job at a major tech or finance firm, even as a summer intern, often means surpassing much of the rest of the country financially.

According to a recent report from research firm G.P. Wild, approximately 60 people per year are injured on cruise ships due to «operational mishaps,» which can range from small fires on the ship to actual explosions, as well as collisions, or ships sinking or getting stranded.

An even bigger question about the financial services industry's adoption of distributed ledger technologies might not be about how this gets implemented and what specific block chains they choose, but rather what happens to the float that savvy bankers and financial firms have taken advantage of as they wait for deposits to clear.

As for Google Maps, it already gets high - quality satellite imagery from a company called DigitalGlobe, and as the Atlantic's Robinson Meyer points out, the two firms just signed a new multi-year agreemenAs for Google Maps, it already gets high - quality satellite imagery from a company called DigitalGlobe, and as the Atlantic's Robinson Meyer points out, the two firms just signed a new multi-year agreemenas the Atlantic's Robinson Meyer points out, the two firms just signed a new multi-year agreement.

But smaller firms, say, startup gaming and video streaming companies, would likely get cut out of the new mix, as they are less likely to have the money to pay for expanded access.

As Bill Bain puts it, the firm has» quite naturally» begun to experiment with» more uniquely appropriate» methods of getting compensation from its clients.

When your firm gets the second one, he says, «treat it as if it's your first contract ever.»

Only about half of public - sector employees get top - ups, as do roughly one in five parents who work for corporations — usually big firms in competitive fields.

Over the course of six seasons, viewers have watched the firm's partners battle for business, come to blows, grow big, get acquired, fall apart, relaunch as a start - up, lose key clients, gain even better clients — and most recently, merge with a rival.

When negotiating with a top - tier VC firm, for instance, Ravikant recommends trying to get a term sheet from a lesser firm to use as leverage.

As a result, in Sport mode while letting the eight - speed auto shift gears, I got to feel some firm downshifts — that might bother some drivers, but I considered it to be in the spirit of what Sport mode should be all about.

As Liz Ryan, founder and CEO of consulting firm The Human Workplace, writes in a post on LinkedIn, «How are you ever going to increase your earnings if every time you change jobs, you get a tiny raise over what they paid you at the last place?»

In 2009, Fitness World got a celebrity - branded makeover, after it was acquired by Steve Nash Sports Club as well as two American private - equity firms.

Brokers can still sell proprietary products to clients — products for which they get paid a commission and / or that will benefit their own firm's bottom line — as long as they provide dense legalistic disclosures.

It was especially refreshing to be able to steer away from the clichés and get into some very practical tips about what he and his team look for in considering a deal and how that differs from many other venture firms, which are constrained by the requirements of their limited partnership agreements and other considerations like IRR (as opposed to ultimate return on capital) as well.

A veteran of 20 years in high - tech firms, including a stint as director of personnel at Intel, Bowers cites the example of cataloging job resumes that come in unsolicited to Apple: «We get over 1,500 resumes a month from all over.

But as soon as I got to college, I realized I had very important dreams and ambitions and I turned down a marriage proposal to a man who has his own successful law firm and is running for political office.

But firms who change their prices twice as frequently should only get half the weight; because they can adjust to aggregate demand shocks twice as easily, and have only half the need for the central bank to adjust aggregate demand so they don't have to change prices.

«As Bitcoin grows, its incentive for you to adopt it gets even greater,» said Steven McKie, founding partner at the crypto firm Amentum.

Ian Katz, an analyst at the Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners, told me it's possible the Crapo bill could introduce some risk, as certain banks will now get less supervision, but the scenario won't be dire.