Sentences with phrase «at the best companies say»

Workers at the best companies say that respect, which can take many forms, begets loyalty.

Not exact matches

«The CEO wanted to have a certain culture at the company, but he had a lot of other priorities to focus on as well,» Duffin says.

«The problem most e-commerce companies have at a young age is that they have growing revenue but big losses as well,» Backus says.

«What I really like about Acadian is they are not afraid,» says Derrick Dempster, a partner at Deloitte who works with Acadian in the Best Managed Companies program.

«This was a company and a stock that could do no wrong for so long and it's a good reminder for investors that even the most pristine of stories in the stock markets can lose a bit of lustre over time,» said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis.

«But if for some reason that's not in the company's best interest,» he said at the time, «I'll find something I can do that will add value.»

S&P said in March a rupiah exchange rate of 15,000 a dollar is «the psychological level» at which companies with weak balance - sheets could struggle with repayments and those with good cashflow might start to proactively restructure their debt.

Now, says Tatarko, this is finally changing at her company as well as at others.

Thanks to the new law, the largest tech companies repatriated more than $ 470 billion in cash from their overseas holdings at the beginning of the year, Materne said, adding that the mass movement «should result in a bottomless well of capital to fuel a significant wave of software M&A.»

It's not unusual to see companies trading well above 20 times earnings these days, especially more bond - like businesses, such as dividend - paying consumer staples, utilities and other defensive equities, says Arthur Heinmaa, chief investment officer at Cidel Asset Management.

«But also we've found the hiring process is much better if you've got recruiters embedded within the company and they're much more proficient in telling potential employees about some of the benefits and the way the company works and really playing up the positive aspects rather than just saying, «OK, here's a list of five companies that are hiring at the moment; we're happy to make intros to you.»»

Still, executives at the new company said the combination should help customers better perform if prices stay lower.

«We're doing very well, and that's primarily because the Irish VCs are particularly good at syndicating deals for Irish companies,» Breheny says.

At that point, if I think there's a better fit, I might recommend another company,» Elster says.

At the time, Bell CEO George Cope said TV and video was a $ 1.7 billion business for Bell, as well as the company's fastest growing cost.

Dataminr's Bailey says his company is getting better at separating wheat from chaff.

«In start - up companies, it's all about «who do I trust» and sometimes nepotism will come in,» Fraedrich says, and family - run businesses have to be especially vigilant against an ethical lapse that could lead at best to employee dissatisfaction and at worst to a discrimination suit.

It's a big part of Berkshire that stands to get only bigger, Buffett said in May at the company's annual shareholder meeting, adding that it's «hard to imagine a better - run operation.»

«Here is a company that has the best movies about how we've got to help one another and how racism is wrong and how we've got to take care of our toys,» said Glynndana Shevlin, a 58 - year - old who's worked for almost 30 years at Disney.

«For better or for worse, I think many companies take a very legalistic view of termination to protect themselves liability-wise,» says Adam M. Kleinbaum, an assistant professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business.

«My mom is totally insane in the best possible way,» Wojcicki (pronounced Wo - JIT - skee) says, dressed in running shorts and hoodie at her company's Mountain View offices.

But that said, we can look at FCA's most recent quarterly results and get a pretty good idea as to how important Jeep is to the company's overall bottom line.

«I think at the end of the day that virtually all of the «trade war» effects will be negotiated away and the true economic impact on industries as well as specific companies will be very small, so I haven't factored the impact of any trade war considerations into my portfolio,» she said.

«Small business owners are seeing the number of alternative sources for financing their companies grow at an unprecedented rate, and while this is a good thing in terms of increasing access to capital, borrower protections have not caught up,» Mills said last month while introducing the borrowers rights bill in Washington.

After tweeting Friday that «trade wars are good, and easy to win» — a statement that flies in the face of both economics and history — he took a shot at European critics Saturday, saying: «If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S.»

The investment in telemedicine will save the company from building many new hospital beds, and make better use of the ones it has, said Guy Glorioso, director of virtual care at the organization.

Others — who didn't want to talk on the record because they were afraid of damaging their relationship with the all - powerful consumer electronics company — have also said that their results from Apple News have been lackluster at best.

«We do believe the current governance structure, with Jamie Dimon serving as both chairman and CEO, and an independent minded board, has served the shareholders well and is right for the company at this time,» said Lee Raymond, JPMorgan Chase's presiding director and the former CEO of Exxon Mobil.

«It was natural for us at the appropriate time to look to develop our own properties,» says president John Klein, adding that his company also wanted to hook up with a knowledgeable partner, in his case one that had good sites and the expertise to develop them.

Amazon (amzn) has said it plans to invest over $ 5 billion in construction and produce many as 50,000 high - paying jobs at HQ2, with the further promise of «tens of thousands of additional jobs» as well as billions of dollars more in additional investment in the host city — prompting a flurry of (sometimes outlandish) bids from cities and states to woo CEO Jeff Bezos and company.

For example, if you're working at a company and a colleague who is also looking to advance within that organization tells you to be patient about a promotion, then you'll need to understand «who the advice is best serving,» says Scott.

«Mark would speak about «connecting the world through games» and «making users happy,» but the stated values and our desire to create a good user experience was at complete odds with how the company was actually run, which was extremely short - term - focused,» the source says.

PARIS, May 3 (Reuters)- French media company Lagardere is set to publish «good figures» for the first quarter thanks partly to growth at its travel retail unit, said company managing partner and family shareholding member Arnaud Lagardere.

Zimmer: When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's mother said, «How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?»

«You have to run a company so that everybody has a dream, so not just my dream but their dream and the better you become at that, the more fun it is to come to work and the easier it becomes to run a lot of people,» said Jeff.

Gotlieb clarified that nobody at GroupM believes the company should be giving away personally identifiable information, but said that the practice of grouping and labeling a swath of individual consumers, known as audience profiling, «should be used as a good» to show consumers ads they are more likely to find useful.

Chinese companies like Alibaba are better at delivering added value for consumers than Amazon, Nick Hayek said.

«It's not the people who are [just] going to be the best at their jobs, but the people who really care about everyone else, aren't competitive with other people inside the company — are really altruistic people,» he says «I'm half Jewish, so mensches.

Julie Yap, a Sacramento - based partner at Seyfarth Shaw, which represents employers, said she advises companies to emphasize their policies against harassment by non-employees as well as employees, to encourage reporting of incidents, and to require robust training.

At the same time, says Spector, «companies are out there looking for the same few good people.

She says that the best performers at work find a way to align their personal career goals with the company's.

Now, Oculus wants to give people a chance to experience the VR headset in person at 48 Best Buy locations across the United States starting May 7, the company said in a blog post.

If employers are looking for ways to reduce costs for things like absenteeism, prescription drug benefits or long - term disabilities, Lowe says they must take a clear - eyed look at the company's role in, well, making people sick in the first place.

There are good companies across all industries, he says, but many of the operations he'd love to own are currently trading at between 20 and 30 times earnings.

«Well, I've always been fascinated with people who say companies can't have long - term plans because of the demand on quarterly earnings,» he said at the CECP's CEO Investor Forum in February.

In stark contrast to the popular image of the constantly job - hunting Millennial, 85 % of Millennial front - line employees and 89 % of Millennial managers at the Best Workplaces said they intend to stay with their companies for a long time.

«We view pay and promotion parity as signals of the overall health of our company as well as a means of ensuring equity for all employees,» the companies chief diversity and inclusion officer at the time, Danielle Brown, said in the report.

Toronto - based Satish Kanwar, director of product at Shopify, an Ottawa company that offers software for creating an online store, speaks of the opportunities found by those who choose to work in a startup before taking the plunge themselves: «One of the best things someone can do is date a company first to see if you like startups and the entrepreneurial space before you commit to it,» he says.

One of the ETF companies that filed for a bitcoin ETF has looked at the ETN route and says others have been talking about it as well.

«We are getting better at marketing in general,» Chief Financial Officer Adam DeWitt told Reuters in an interview, and said the company «feels good» about spending money on the marketing side.