Sentences with phrase «at other large companies»

Director pay has been rising at banks at a similar pace as at other large companies in recent years.

Not exact matches

At the other end, funds such as OMERS Ventures and Georgian Partners, two of the country's most prominent VCs, are capable of investing large amounts of money in more mature companies.

The bigger the company, the larger the paycheque you can command — and that doesn't count other compensation such as stock or performance bonuses, common at the higher end of the leadership ladder.

«Peer groups» is a basket of similar or larger companies compared to one company, and «benchmarking» is a decision to pay a CEO at the 50th, 75th or 90th percentile of other CEOs.

Other than the large - scale branding and licensing deals, like the shirts and hats at Walmart and Kohl's, I own those companies and I am backing them.

While larger sums of money are thrown around in San Francisco, New York, Boston and a handful of other major U.S. cities, Bott and Tammy Riddle, director of the IT cluster at the Cincinnati USA Partnership for Economic Development, say that what sets Cincinnati apart is its unusually supportive ecosystem for new companies.

Researchers from the Kellogg School of Management and the University of Michigan interviewed 42 executives at large U.S. companies and identified several flattery techniques the executives used successfully on their peers to secure board seats at other firms.

«It is an extremely cash - rich company that could easily gain a large position in other markets through investments or acquisitions,» says James Roy, an associate principal at China Market Research Group in Shanghai.

«There's a whole other area of companies that are investible that a lot of the large money outfits won't look at,» says Clark, who ran a software training company for 26 years.

«There's truly getting to be a few companies at such a scale, like Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Alibaba and Tencent that the world is going to be like a barbell, with a large gap in between with humongous tech and IT service providers on one side and everyone else on the other,» Townsend said.

Patagonia has helped guide dozens of other companies through the process of becoming B Corps over the past few years, including Natura, a publicly traded company and Brazil's largest cosmetics manufacturer (see box «Building a «B Corp» Network» at the end of the article).

When a larger company acquires a startup, the deal can often spell the end (or at least the neglect) of the products, licensing deals, and other assets that made the startup successful in the first place.

But CEOs and board members at the largest companies are seldom in touch with other kinds of people in anything resembling a friendly setting.

But it also shrank Rite Aid so dramatically at a time the pharmacy industry is only getting more competitive, giving large companies more clout to negotiate with drugmakers and other suppliers.

Even BuzzFeed, the other company that often gets mentioned as a new - media success story, is a relative pipsqueak by comparison: It raised $ 50 million in a financing last year, one of the largest rounds in the media industry, but that values the company at just $ 800 million.

Real - time landing page click data, peer reviews, product ratings and other metrics are helping companies at large become better decision - makers than any individual CEO could ever be.

That makes AT&T the largest pay TV provider in the country, which also puts the company the most at risk from cord cutting, cord shaving and other cleverly - labeled phenomenon that all add up to customers dropping a cable or satellite subscription.

Dear Mark, i do believe in entrepreneurs as i am one of them.I curently operate a dental laboratory in California, that needs funding.I am in the procces of attracting business from dentists i work with through direct mail and telemarketing.I'm setting up a small offshore office to do the marketing part since the overhead is to expensive here.But the manufacturing of the finished products will be done in the USA creating jobs through production.A lot of manufacturing work is done offshore but through line production i'd like to keep the most in here.As an immigrant to this country i'd like to suport it to get back in shape financialy for the future of my childrens.I am also copying an idea i have seen at a large company i used to work.I'm in the process of setting up 2 other companies that will compete with my existing one but since they will be providing same products at different prices will atract different type of clients (dentists).

Google is to introduce gender neutral toilets at its UK offices, putting pressure on other large companies in the City to modernise their approach to workforce diversity.

The rate at which employees forfeit their stock awards, typically by leaving the company before fully vesting, is significantly higher at Amazon than at other large tech firms such as Alphabet and Apple, according to an analysis of company filings.

In recent years, other regulatory attempts at strengthening online privacy rules have also had little effect at chipping away at the power of the largest tech companies, ultimately aiding internet giants rather than hurting them.

In other words, for the most part, the big five tech companies exist at their current size and scale only because they serve a larger underlying economy of profitable companies.

At the same time, these founders wind up ceding control of their companies by giving up large chunks of equity in exchange for cash and other resources from their investors.

Think Quarterly includes articles by Google executives, profiles of managers at other companies, bright illustrations, data visualizations and large - font quotations that look like Google search results.

This can be the case at large family offices or other organizations where staff must juggle a wide variety of duties, including researching investments, traveling to company meetings, responding to capital calls, and performing due diligence on prospective new managers.

Smith believes Apple is the first major company that's attempting to utilize differential privacy at scale, although he notes other large commercial entities such as AT&T have previously done research on it (as has, perhaps surprisingly, Google via its Project Rappor).

The company has reached out both to at least one other larger institutional shareholder urging a sale, and to Tribune board members as well as Gannett.

On the other hand, stock prices are — to a certain extent — a function of earnings growth, and smaller companies are often able to increase their profits at a faster speed than larger businesses.

Citing people familiar with the plans, The Wall Street Journal reported that senior engineer Hari Moorthy was hired to develop cash management tools, account deposit tools and other financial products geared at large companies, much as he did in his former post at JPMorgan.

At present, most of this rent has been relinquished to companies that have been privatized: the large fuel companies (Gazprom, Yukos and other oil companies), mining companies (Norilsk, etc.), and the telephone, electric power and other monopolies.

Concerns over trade imbalances, alleged trade - rule violations, subsidization and state - owned enterprises, metastasizing industrial policies, discriminatory treatment of non-Chinese companies, and other forms of trade and investment protectionism have preoccupied Washington for a decade — ever since the United States limped out of a debilitating recession to find that China had supplanted it as the world's largest manufacturer and had set its sights on leapfrogging the United States, at all costs, to the technological fore.

Among others formerly Stefan was CEO for Latin America at Cdiscount, part of Cnova Group and sixth largest e-commerce company in the world.

At the other end of the spectrum, previously unloved, old, «ex growth» companies like the large banks and miners dragged the All Ords Accumulation Index up to a respectable 4.2 % return.

On the other hand, those companies able to navigate Brazilian manufacturing laws could find a large potential workforce and inexpensive materials to begin setting up factories and create their products to sell around the world at a profit.

While its very large e-commerce has been a strong driver of the rise of alternative payment providers in the country, Citi points at a number of other factors that have facilitated the rise of those third - party payment companies, among which an under - developed banking system viewed by the public as quite unreliable (unsurprising given how tightly controlled banking is in China, which has stifled customer - oriented innovation), and «relaxed regulation.»

Delta CEO Ed Bastian did, however, announce that the company is looking at whether to end discounts with other «politically divisive» organizations after Georgia lawmakers punished the airline by removing the jet fuel tax exemption from a larger bill.

Only a very small number of companies have set long - term (2030 or later) targets which can be considered to be in line with a sectoral 2 °C pathway.282 An analysis of 70 of the world's largest publicly listed corporate emitters, across the aluminium, cement, chemicals and electric utilities sectors, found that 21 had targets up to 2020 which could be considered consistent with a 2 °C sectoral pathway, but only 7 had targets to 2030 or later.283 Twenty others had non-2 °C or «irrelevant» targets, and the rest had none at all.

A large number of computer software companies from the United States are developing software in Bangalore, India, at less than one - fifth of the price in other countries.

The head of listed property at BT Investment Management, Peter Davidson, is investing in Australia's largest listed landowner, the Australian Agricultural Company, and says other industry funds should probably consider the long - term prospects of the cattle station owner.

«The sad thing for Australia is that international companies have production lines massively larger than our own, so our duopolists can easily import just the off - runs of some of the other assembly lines and sell them cheaper but at a higher profit, than our producers can produce,» he told the Financial Review.

For years the company has been successful at maintaining its number one position, thanks to strong footprints in the two largest dairy categories in Indonesia: drinking milk products and other dairy (specifically, condensed milk).

As a professional chef (have been at this for over 20 years) and the culinary «boss» for a large company, your blog, among a few others, helps me stay connected with food and home cooking (which I still love).

On the other hand, the health insurance companies and society - at - large profit from the financial savings of exclusive and long - term breastfeeding.

Jeffrey Mailman has not raised nearly as much money as other candidates in the race for District 4, which covers a large swath of Manhattan's east side, but he has raised the most from real estate workers at companies including Douglas Elliman, and Warburg Realty.

A top executive at an «incubator» office - space firm bundled the largest contribution to de Blasio's re-election bid from her bosses and others — while the company was lobbying the city over a Financial District conversion project.

Duba, Atokaritou and Gwenbe, in the company with others currently at large, attacked and robbed a bullion van conveying the sum of $ 400,000, property of Sterling Bank, Port Harcourt.

In addition to contacting private companies, parents had also considered giving children at the school large plastic bags to store their coats, backpacks and other belongings, according to a letter sent out to families this week from P.S. 87's parent coordinator.

Large companies like John Deere and Rockwell Collins hired about half of those students; most of the others took jobs at smaller companies in the region.

I'm glad I didn't end up at that consulting firm, assembling presentations to advise large companies on whether to buy other large companies.

Harris cited other examples of concern — a review of 100 studies in the field of psychology in which the findings in only about a third of the studies were reproducible; an effort by scientists at Bayer, another large drug company, that managed to reproduce the findings of only one - quarter of the studies under review; a just - published review of 25 historical candidate genes for schizophrenia which found no evidence that the candidate genes are more associated with the disease than other genes.