Sentences with phrase «at an advantage for»

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When Hostess filed for bankruptcy last November, Stuffed: An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat author Hank Cardello argued in a piece for Forbes that Hostess could have avoided its financial troubles if it had taken advantage of health - conscious consumers, a group that contributes to a third of grocery market sales in the U.S..

And 100 felt like a lot for Howard Hoffman, who began snapping up domains like HealthWater.com and SportsWater.com to help redirect web surfers to his bottled water company's site, taking advantage of what's called «type - in traffic,» when users just enter words or a guessed - at domain into the browser address bar.

And the prospect of an Amazon - Whole Foods marriage could, at least in investors» minds, hasten that reality — or at least make it easier for Amazon to break into the pharmacy space with the advantage of brick - and - mortar locations which may be more palatable for patients picking up their prescriptions.

For me, I loved biking around during the hot desert days looking at all of the beautiful art installations constructed in the middle of nowhere and taking advantage of strangers» generosity by way of wine tastings, zip lines, and fried chicken.

According to Industry Canada, Big Pharma spends more than $ 1.3 billion a year on R&D — and many global drug makers are increasingly looking at Canada for top talent and a cost - competitive advantage over the United States.

So that not only speeds things up and reduces risk and takes out cost, but because they're the smartest at this, it is also a source of competitive advantage for them.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

For the customer, the advantages are obvious: the problem is solved, or at least alleviated.

Arguably Adam Sandler's best dramatic performance (though «Punch - Drunk Love» may have the advantage), this look at a well - off family's life through the eyes of the daughter of the Mexican housekeeper who works for them is one of the unrecognized great movies of the 2000s.

One advantage for Canadian tech firms is they can generate revenue in the United States while incurring expenses here at home.

Indeed, produce apps or wireless solutions, or do other quick - turnaround projects for other firms are now at a significant advantage when bidding on contracts.

CNBC recently rounded up a few ways co-working spaces help new businesses succeed, including low overhead and networking, but to get a fuller picture of the advantages these spaces offer entrepreneurs we went straight to the horse's mouth, emailing a handful of space owners and start - up founders who built their businesses at coworking spaces for their perspective on the coworking experience for entrepreneurs.

And at Ford Motor Company, for example, they've found that learning from and taking advantage of an array of perspectives among their global workforce, creates openings to actually increase their customers» satisfaction — showing how speaking with everyone and being more open and connected is good for the customer, too.

FedEx is part of the NRA Business Alliance and offers discounts through its FedEx Advantage program for shipping by FedEx Ground and FedEx Express and some services at FedEx Office, according to company and NRA websites.

Bonus fact: When he was young, Carnegie took advantage of a library for working boys, which had been opened by Colonel James Anderson and was super rare at the time.

«So we are aiming for omnichannel communication that is on at all hours, that can take advantage of AI to resolve customers» issues as quickly as possible, and that will work with all of the important messenger apps.»

Early birds are poised to take full advantage of the power of compounding, said Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, a research economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

Kevin Lynch, vice-chair at BMO Financial Group, says that this change has been a huge advantage for Canadian financial institutions expanding abroad, but he believes that putting the focus on Canada's stability could help any business gain traction.

«I think what you see is that when you choose the giver approach, yes, you are at risk for being taken advantage of but you also have people cheering for you and rooting for you,» says Wharton professor and author of bestseller Give and Take Adam Grant.

Anthony W. Pereira, a professor and the Director of the Brazil Institute at King's College London, described a disturbing scenario in a piece for Fortune where former President Lula takes advantage of the political chaos to run for president in 2018 (provided he is not prosecuted or otherwise barred from running).

6 am: After arrival at the gate 15 minutes ahead of schedule, the queue for border control erodes any advantages.

At the same time, Infobank has appointed Online Advantage as the exclusive distributor for its InTrade suite of products in the Australasia region for a five year period.

Instead, in interview after interview, Poloz praised Canadians for taking advantage of the high dollar to build their businesses abroad, and downplayed the idea that a strong dollar would gut manufacturing at home.

The company must have long - term potential; it needs some sort of sustainable competitive advantage that will keep it in business for years to come; he wants double - digit returns — «Why bother buying a business if you're not getting at least that for taking on the risk of owning a company?»

Each team has about 25 games remaining, and at the top of each conference, these games will decide crucial battles for playoff seeding and homecourt advantage through the postseason.

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So what we've done is we've looked at how we can take advantage of the uniquenesses of that mobile platform, and design a Mario game that's perfect for that sort of simple interface and broader user base.

At Kellogg, Jain had the advantage of being an insider and he knew what he was in for — he had joined Kellogg as a marketing professor in 1986, and became associate dean in 1996, five years before he was picked for the top job.

A high - level justification for viability (including a quick look at your competition and your competitive advantage)

But without the pressure from investors to make quarterly numbers, Valve co-founder and boss Gabe Newell has always had the advantage of working at his own pace and in his own way (frustratingly so for some fans of the company's generally critically acclaimed games).

With the advantages of youth on your side — a fresh perspective on business ideas, possibly low overhead (if you're living at home rent - free), and the ability to make mistakes early in the game and have plenty of time to correct them — starting a business is a very attractive option for young people who would rather answer to themselves than earn minimum wage.

Malcolm Hamilton, a partner at consulting firm Mercer, thinks there is room for the PRPP as long as the fees are low and the plans offer enough advantages over group RRSPs for employers to adopt them (e.g. much of the administrative burden transferred to the government).

When looking at the competition, try to see what trends have been established in the industry and whether there's an opportunity or advantage for your business.

Prime Minister David Cameron says openness to foreign investment is competitive advantage for Britain (and Ratan Tata is always welcome at Downing Street).

Indeed, he said other jurisdictions, notably Hong Kong and Utah, also offer more streamlined entry points for investors than Canada does — without relying at all on the typical cost advantages of a developing economy.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

For Lee Bird, the CEO of big - box home decor retailer At Home, his business» advantages hinge on its «very efficient supply chain,» he told Cramer on Friday.

Samantha Wallace, who leads the technology practice for Korn Ferry's division that focuses on mid-level search, said the Facebook hiring drive reflects the difficulty companies are having in figuring out how to best take advantage of A.I. and how to not become overly confident in it at the same time.

Marzak has historically been a stronghold for the insurgency over the past decade until the Afghan and U.S forces took advantage of the winter months to establish a local police force at the request of the elders and secure the village from foreign fighters who transit the area during the fighting season.

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(See» You Don't Know Me...») And when the IPO aftermarket started to crumble at midyear, many blamed the malaise on a host of still - green companies that had been rushed to the market at any price to take advantage of its insatiable appetite for equities.

Wage and benefit increases of 15 to 20 percent per year at the average Chinese factory will slash China's labor - cost advantage over low - cost states in the U.S., from 55 percent today to 39 percent in 2015, when adjusted for the higher productivity of U.S. workers.

Now, documents filed in BNY's case in the past few weeks 2014 the court proceedings begin Monday 2014 provide unprecedented detail about how STARS was crafted at a time when banks and accounting firms were offering deals for multinational corporations to take advantage of loopholes in rules governing foreign tax credits.

Employers are adopting resilience training for their employees at a rate faster than any other intervention in the United States.1 Resilience — the ability to use positive mental skills to remain psychologically steady and focused when faced with challenges or adversity — contributes substantially to how workers deal with stress and perform at work.2, 3 Employers are developing resilience to achieve a competitive advantage, similar to how the military trains active duty soldiers and their family members to withstand challenges.4, 5

Despite its advantages, active learning isn't likely to completely kill the lecture, says Noah Finkelstein, a physics professor who directs the Center for STEM Learning at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and was not involved in the study.

The Rockefeller Institute of Government, which released a new state revenue report on Monday, said that «The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), enacted in late December 2017, created strong incentives for some high - income taxpayers to act fast and prepay their state and local income and property taxes to take advantage of the expiring tax breaks, namely the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, which is capped at $ 10,000 per year as of January 1, 2018.»

Until the advantage for some commercial banks over others is remediated, regional and community banking will continue to shrink at an accelerated pace.

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But in a court filing Friday, attorneys for Trulia said Zillow chose not to renew the agreement with ListHub «when it became apparent that ListHub was demanding anticompetitive and onerous terms aimed at securing an unfair advantage for Move at Zillow's expense.»

Currently at record high levels, BCHP funding will increase debt for many home buyers who take advantage of this program, as it will serve as a second mortgage owed to the British Columbia Housing Management Corporation.