Sentences with phrase «at huge companies»

From becoming a solicitor at an international law firm such as Dentons, to working in - house at huge companies including ITV, Coca Cola and Marks & Spencer, there has never been a more exciting time to explore these legal opportunities.

Failing a job hunt, having your creativity suppressed at a huge company, working on one too many sequels and then bam!

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In every case a huge amount of fixed costs up front is overwhelmed by the ongoing ability to make money at scale; to put it another way, tech companies combine fixed costs with marginal revenue opportunities, such that they make more money on additional customers without any corresponding rise in costs.

When a company liquidates merchandise with huge discounts, it often sucks up market share and slows sales at competitors.

The Japanese group said cost overruns at U.S. power projects handled by the CB&I Stone & Webster Inc business it acquired last December from Chicago Bridge & Iron Company NV (CB&I) would be much greater than initially expected, potentially requiring a huge writedown.

«At the time, it was a huge portion of her net worth, so she was really taking a big leap on me,» says Hague, who was eight months out of York University's Schulich School of Business when she started the company.

If all goes well, and the company later goes public at a significant multiple of the option price, the average employee can reap a huge payoff.

At the same time, Systrom envisioned a huge future for the company.

The comments come one week after the company put up a huge» Black Lives Matter» sign at its headquarters.

No matter what, he wants them to feel like their work has an impact, even at such a huge company.

The qualities that made you such a fabulous student and successful big company employee won't necessarily help you thrive at a small, scrappy company, he insists, unless you understand one huge truth about working at a start - up.

Consumers today might experience a gut - level cringe at the idea of an artificial intelligence that can recognize and analyze their Instagram photos, but companies like Google and thought leaders like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are investing heavily in it, making huge bets that people will accept it someday.

Combine this with the inefficiencies of a disjoint health - care delivery system (itself dominated by huge companies), and small businesses are kept at a perpetual disadvantage in keeping their workforce healthy and productive.

At Tamarack Brewing Company, which is known for its huge nacho platters, you can dine in a sports bar downstairs or head upstairs for a more typical brewery vibe.

«A car's a huge challenge,» founder James Dyson told the Financial Times at the company's nearby Malmesbury headquarters.

Near the end of the Footprint Council meeting the group stares at a huge grid of pie - in - the - sky ideas — the company's «planetary goals.»

Then, if the company is operating within a niche that is either huge — greater than $ 1 billion — or is growing at a rate in excess of 20 to 40 percent per year, and the company is perceived to have the best and most competitive product to enter this niche in recent memory, then it might be worth an additional $ 1 to $ 2 million.

There are no hard and fast rules: it can be an electronic diagram, or it can be drawn out on a huge whiteboard (which is what we do at our company.)

«The next thing you know, you have this company built around all of those decisions and you're successful and you have real money, but then it takes a huge revolution to make change,» says Poon Tip, who was at a loss for how to manage the company that had grown beyond his original vision.

At the core of the company's so - called direct listing is an enviable combination of two main factors: (1) huge name - brand recognition and (2) an already - massive private market valuation.

He told of how Jobs convinced him to join the company in 1998, despite its struggles at the time, by inspiring him with the possibility of making a huge impact through technology.

They attribute the sticker shock to two factors: first, there is a proliferation of Web - design freelancers and moonlighters who offer their services at bargain prices on job exchanges like eLance.com; second, some huge companies have run ad campaigns claiming they can build a legit Web presence for a low starting cost.

«The small - business market was underserved until recently, but we've seen a huge increase in demand for our cyber products driven by a critical mass of incidents happening very publicly to large companies,» says Tim Zeilman, vice president at Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company.

Because China now has the world's largest population of Internet users (estimated at 640 million in 2014), no responsible CEO of an American technology company can afford to write off this huge market simply because of Beijing - imposed restrictions.

Customers» biggest complaint, however, was that at about $ 1 a pop the wings were too expensive, which resulted in the company having a huge surplus of them to finish off the year.

At the Cleveland - based company, which projected sales of $ 17 million in 1996, huge boards in both the main office and the lunchroom list all kinds of employee actions that throw off cash flow and on - time delivery.

Redstone and daughter Shari have been trying to get rid of Dauman for months, arguing that he has failed to build value at the company and has presided over a huge drop in the share price (VIAB).

«Dealing with someone like Andrew is invaluable because his depth of knowledge and expertise reaches across such a huge array of people and businesses,» says former colleague Howard Davis, who is now a managing director at the Shemano Group, a San Francisco investment bank that provides services for small and midsize companies.

I would love the fit of the leggings no matter what, but it's a huge bonus knowing that my money is being spent at a company that is helping make the world a more hospitable place for all of us.

«Cyber-risk is becoming a huge business problem,» said Rocco Galletto, leader of managed security services at Deloitte Canada from the company's Toronto Cyber Intelligence Centre, which helps clients thwart and respond to cyber attacks.

«Today, we can see that some of the biggest companies in America — some of the most important companies in the world — are doing that, at huge scale.»

LAS VEGAS — Mobile companies in recent years have shifted away from making huge product announcements at January's International CES, saving announcements for their own events, or for Mobile World Congress in March.

With Quiznos betting a huge chunk of its marketing dollars on digital video during at a crucial time for the company, we wanted to know the reasoning behind the decision.

About 60 percent of these questions never received responses from companies; this is a huge opportunity,» says Magdalena Urbaniak, global communications manager at Brand24.

As a result, there is a growing reservoir, a whopping 200 at last count, of private companies whose valuations exceed $ 1 billion, causing a huge bulge at the entrance to the IPO funnel.

Despite stabilization efforts at the company (including a huge cash infusion from SoftBank), Uber will keep losing ground to its smaller rivals.

Maybe another way to look at this is the following: The markets for products / services, especially in the software space do no warrant a heavy cost structure and logically, a big company or a huge VC investment.

Such is the excitement surrounding Tesla Motors (TSLA) product announcements that the company gains huge amounts of media attention at short notice.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

These companies are demonstrating what science has proven several times: exercising at work, even without sweat, has huge benefits for productivity and employees health, but is also dead simple to implement.

«There's a lot of companies in Ontario, and indeed in other parts of Canada, who are wonderful at technology and can develop the software, the sensors, the security systems that these cars will need and they will be able to compete on a huge multi-billion-dollar global market.»

Some analysts are estimating $ 41 per share in earnings this year, which would be huge since the company currently trades at just 18 times earnings.

«There is a risk that companies that hold virtual currency could turn out to have distorted valuations or that huge losses surface suddenly,» said Chikako Suzuki, partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata.

The deal is a huge one by any standard — bigger than Walmart's $ 3.3 billion deal for Jet.com last year — and especially for a retail company like PetSmart, which was itself valued at only $ 8.7 billion when private equity investors took it over in 2015.

Today, American aerospace companies are at a huge disadvantage because foreign airplane makers like Canada's Bombardier and Europe's Airbus are intentionally skirting international trade laws — which will only end up hurting American workers.

While the #MeToo movement has led to the downfall of individual men, the kind of sweeping overhaul that is occurring at Nike is rare in the corporate world, and illustrates how internal pressure from employees is forcing even huge companies to quickly address workplace problems.

At an extreme, technology - based platform companies such as Google, Apple and Facebook have earned huge revenues from very small employee bases — $ 2.1 million per employee at Apple and $ 1.4 million at Facebook vs. $ 0.7 million per employee at Procter & Gamble and $ 0.3 million at Wells FargAt an extreme, technology - based platform companies such as Google, Apple and Facebook have earned huge revenues from very small employee bases — $ 2.1 million per employee at Apple and $ 1.4 million at Facebook vs. $ 0.7 million per employee at Procter & Gamble and $ 0.3 million at Wells Fargat Apple and $ 1.4 million at Facebook vs. $ 0.7 million per employee at Procter & Gamble and $ 0.3 million at Wells Fargat Facebook vs. $ 0.7 million per employee at Procter & Gamble and $ 0.3 million at Wells Fargat Procter & Gamble and $ 0.3 million at Wells Fargat Wells Fargo.

But not seeking huge profits is in the company's DNA, says Strickler, who took over as sole CEO at the start of 2014 (Chen remains chairman).

With many large companies maintaining huge cash balances, especially in the tech industry, shareholders fume at the idea that they aren't putting their capital to better use.

If someone were to ask you to name a company that has a huge influence on cryptocurrency at large, especially bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum, a safe answer would definitely be Bitmain.