Sentences with phrase «big company executives»

Many big company executives rely on their staff to do the real work.

This is what separates entrepreneurs from big company executives, consultants and investors.

Not exact matches

Some big brains believe Barnes is right: Farmers Edge recently raised nearly $ 60 million in equity investments to help support aggressive international expansion, and the company has recruited former Monsanto, DuPont and Canadian Wheat Board executives into its fold.

Bates, a Brit with a deep technical background and big - company chops, was perhaps one of the few executives — «a needle in a haystack,» Durban calls him — who could wrangle strong - willed engineers spread across half the globe.

McDonald's executives apparently read Entrepreneur — or just looked at the company's sales figures — and realized it was time to make some big changes.

During recent years, Werklund has been focusing on philanthropy — in March he donated $ 16 million to Olds College, the biggest single donation in Alberta colleges» history — after stepping down from executive control of his company Canadian Crude Separators in 2010.

With rare exception, they all worked their tails off and rose through the ranks to become executives at bigger companies before starting their own ventures, being chosen to lead others or becoming VCs.

Today's must - read story is by Fortune's Katie Fehrenbacher on the five ways to make big companies more innovative according to some of the business world's most savvy executives.

The executive of one of the world's biggest technology companies told an audience of software developers on Tuesday that both Facebook and developers «have real challenges to address, but we have to keep that sense of optimism too.»

In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

Then 1994 happened, and the public turned against big tobacco amid revelations that the companies» executives were exposed to research that suggested nicotine was addictive and cigarettes could cause lung cancer.

The chief executives of Fortune 500 companies are optimistic about the global economy, bullish on employment, big on prospects for the U.S., and braced for a torrent of technological change.

Wellard chief executive Mauro Balzarini has sold a big chunk of his stake in the local agribusiness to a Chinese firm and repaid the company $ 16.3 million through his private investment vehicle.

Instead, the co-founders recently decided to open the company's big decisions up to an 11 - person leadership team, including senior executives hired away from companies like Google and Kate Spade.

He may have to focus on the short term for now, as the company has three big executive spots unfilled: Chesky himself is still running the homes business.

In a survey of executives from 91 companies with revenue greater than $ 1 billion across more than 20 industries, Innosight asked: «What is your organization's biggest obstacle to transform in response to market change and disruption?»

On a recent conference call with analysts, company executives made a big deal about requiring full ownership of Canwest's TV operations to make this strategy work.

The company, started in 2010 by former Microsoft executive Hardeep Walia, has attracted $ 126 million from some big - name investors, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Chinese social networking company Renren.

David Winters is gunning for big changes at the beverage giant, particularly to the company's approach to executive pay.

Prior to July, the last time the currency hit $ 300 was on March 10, the same day on which bitcoin companies 21 Inc, ShapeShift, and Digital Asset Holdings all announced either fundraising rounds or big executive appointments.

But Brito, CEO of the world's biggest beer company, isn't like most executives.

Chief executive officers for some of the biggest companies in the U.S. received yet another raise in 2016.

Jason Zander will take on a bigger role as executive vice president of Microsoft's Azure, putting him in the top ranks of the company.

Even top big - company executives are considered high - risk in a startup environment.

Now, unsurprisingly, EMC's (EMC) Information Infrastructure group (EMC II for short) will focus on helping Virtustream sell into big companies running mission - critical applications, according to an internal memo from EMC II Chief Executive David Goulden viewed by Fortune.

General Motors, Toyota, Nissan, Volkswagen, Fiat - Chrysler, BMW, and just about every other auto company are wading — some cautiously and some with big, headline - grabbing moves — into territory that executives in Detroit and elsewhere not long ago considered a science - fiction fantasy.

Bloys also addressed a fellow HBO executive's comment on stage at a conference in Israel that negotiations for season two of Big Little Lies had «raped» the company from a budgetary standpoint.

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman Google parent company Alphabet, has lots of experience building and selling technology to big companies.

When it comes to the big screen, Wall Streeters fall in a category with pharmaceutical manufacturers and oil company executives — untouchably unsympathetic.

Company executives said they have big plans to eventually beat the likes of DHL and FedEx.

In the past, we've been the biggest company that nobody knows about, so recruiting executive - level talent or top - tier talent was a challenge.

PARIS, Oct 28 - Executives from nearly 100 of France's biggest companies called on the Socialist government on Sunday to cut payroll taxes by 30 billion euros over two years to regain waning competitiveness.

Although he's no longer privy to management discussions, as one of Twitter's first, biggest and most involved investors, Sacca probably knows more about the company than anyone who's not a current executive or board member.

And while I spent the next decade as a senior executive in a number of successful companies, big and small, my only stint as a startup CEO ended in bankruptcy when the dot - com bubble burst.

In theory, nothing is stopping big companies from taking the same strategy approach as startups do, as I teach in my seminar «Three Ways to Get Back Your Company's Start - upness» at Babson College's Executive Education Center.

For 16 years he'd worked as an HR and operations executive for the likes of Prudential, Cigna, and GE Capital before he tired of big - company life.

Andy Crestodina, Orbit's co-founder and strategic director, uses blog posts and tweets to be more publicly visible and accessible than a big - company executive could easily be.

Cain notes Brigham Young professor of management Bradley Agle, who studied CEOs of 128 major companies and found that those considered charismatic by their top executives had bigger salaries but not better corporate performance.

The intense, full - day strategy sessions invariably ended with Cornelius getting a headache, he says — particularly when he sparred with executives in the company who clung to vestiges of big, fat pharma.

One of the more candid executives when it comes to addressing Big Food's woes, Morrison tells Fortune that she knew she had to «shift the center of gravity at Campbell» when she took over the company in 2011.

Miller, who until recently was a senior adviser at the Business Council of Canada, which represents the chief executives of the country's biggest companies, says Canadians simply don't know enough about how China works to avoid getting screwed in the fine print of any deal.

The executives are individuals who work for big companies.

Yousef Al - Benyan, the vice chairman and CEO of SABIC, said one of the biggest mistakes executives can make when acquiring a new company is to try to change the culture and make it fit with their own.

Michalska was paired with Kasha Cacy, CEO of Universal McCann U.S., who connected her to executives at some of the biggest tech companies in the world.

«This is a big undertaking,» said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, in a company - wide email about the reorganization.

These may seem like arcane governance issues but they can make a big difference in how a board is run — and how well it acts as an effective control of a company's executives: in this case, both the executive chair and the CEO.

Last week, former Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said he has taken a 4 percent stake in Twitter, making him the third - biggest individual shareholder in the social media company.

Competing companies like 1 -800-Contacts in the U.S. are hiring new executives to grow their online presence, which is a threat, but Broughton says Coastal's biggest competition (despite long waits and high fees) is still the mall.

Barbara Grogan, chief executive of $ 10 - million Western Industrial Contractors Inc., an industrial construction company in Denver, is a big fan of banking improvements that allow her to manage interstate payrolls and multiple bank accounts by fax — «making financial decisions in 20 minutes that once might have taken two months.»

Maybe you'll be an awesome executive at some big company and then one day come help us in another way.