Sentences with phrase «business community say»

Many members of the state's business community say the governor's efforts to rebuild New York's economy — particularly upstate — will be undercut by a higher minimum wage, which small business owners insist will hurt them disproportionately.

Flanagan and several sources in the business community said a proposal to raise $ 79 million by requiring large online marketplaces like Amazon to collect sales tax had fallen off the table ahead of a pending Supreme Court decision.

Not exact matches

While the business education community has yet to pin down any magic solution to the gender gap, Sauder graduate school assistant dean Liz Starbuck Greer says there is a major positive: they're trying.

His business followed industry best practices, he said, and served an important public service to the medical community.

«In the future,» he says, «I want the small - business community to think, I get my payroll from ADP, I get my insurance from Hartford, and I get my billing and accounts - receivable analysis from CDS.»

«For people in the business community, there are still questions,» says Kip Daechsel, the National Co-Managing Partner of Heenan Blaikie and a Trudeau backer.

On the other side (social impact), the argument says that the community the business serves is also a shareholder and so deserves consideration as well.

I was at a conference for technology CEOs a couple of years ago, and a former head of Canada's civil service said the government has done all of the policies right, and now it's time for the business community to step up.

«Our franchisees provide jobs and help their communities, and the last thing they want is for us to tinker in their businesses,» Dolifka said.

«Recently we've gotten feedback from our community that public content — posts from businesses, brands and media — is crowding out the personal moments that lead us to connect more with each other,» Zuckerberg said in a post announcing the changes.

«The reality is that the challenges facing the small business community are not single - issue,» she says.

Retailer Ray Della - Polina says there are lessons for the business community in the failure of his Malz business.

Bhattacharyya said that from a business perspective, winning the medical community's trust is the most important thing, but it's not the only thing.

«We wanted to make sure that the damage that is done through these policies is mitigated and that the communities that are affected are still able to run their businesses,» says co-founder Michael Tippett.

Generally, community banks have been key players in small business lending, Mills said, citing data that shows community banks approved 48 percent of small business loans, while larger institutions approved only 13 percent.

Jamison Nesbitt, founder of Cyber Senate, a community of global cybersecurity business leaders, echoed experts» beliefs who said that the IoT is «the main cybersecurity risk for 2015.»

Aside from uploading new photos of inventory, the experts say business owners should seek to become active in the online community.

«Balancing the needs of the local business community and keeping the president - elect and his family safe will be an ongoing challenge,» the spokesman said in an email.

Bennett said small fish processors will be squeezed out of business with more local job losses to follow in outport communities.

He said: «There is a wider concern... in the business community about the tax system in the digital age.»

Those of us in academia might say the same things, but I think it's when the community at large, when the business community is saying, «Hold on.

«(The) WCC LNG project will leverage the extensive expertise of both Exxon Mobil and Imperial to develop the project resource in a safe and environmentally responsible manner that integrates community engagement into every aspect of the business,» the report said.

«Small banks are definitely the driver of small business,» says Joshua Siegel, founder and managing principal at StoneCastle Partners, a financial firm that invests in community banks and is based in New York City.

«Rick's impact on the oil sands industry, the Canadian business community, and the broader community has been immeasurable,» Steve Williams, Suncor's current CEO, said in a statement.

Though many community banks in this program have, controversially, used this money to pay off TARP rather than lend to small business, Hall says the money will help Team Capital make $ 200 million in loans to local small businesses, and it has enabled it to loan out $ 40 million in the past year.

«Those contracts that we would pursue,» said Hobbs, «they're not coming from the small - business community but from the big - business community.»

In San Francisco, the bank's community - development partners will include Working Solutions, ICA Fund Good Jobs and Pacific Community Ventures — groups that specialize in helping very small, mid-sized and larger businesses, respectively, says Peter Scher, JPMorgan Chase's global head of corporate responcommunity - development partners will include Working Solutions, ICA Fund Good Jobs and Pacific Community Ventures — groups that specialize in helping very small, mid-sized and larger businesses, respectively, says Peter Scher, JPMorgan Chase's global head of corporate responCommunity Ventures — groups that specialize in helping very small, mid-sized and larger businesses, respectively, says Peter Scher, JPMorgan Chase's global head of corporate responsibility.

«The need to repay TARP capital is what depresses [community banks»] lending ability,» says Rob Klingler, an attorney for Bryan Cave, a global business litigation firm, in Atlanta.

Even before a business's first bill is due, minority founders are disproportionately ill - prepared for entrepreneurship, thanks to a lack of intellectual and social capital in underserved communities, Kauffman researchers say.

«Running a successful community takes about $ 10,000 - $ 25,000 a month in resources if you want to do it right,» says Calacanis, which he acknowledges isn't within the budgets of many small businesses.

The Swiss bank, she says, is fostering connections and goodwill among women, racial - minority and LGBTQ founders to strengthen their overall business community.

Today, Jumpstart not only helps Cleveland - based entrepreneurs get their businesses funded and supported, it also advises other communities around the country, says Jumpstart chief executive officer, Ray Leach, working with 18 different cities on how they too can create their own thriving entrepreneurial economies.

«The overall atmosphere in the small - business community is uncertain regarding SBA lending,» says Solomon, and that results in business owners putting the brakes on expansion plans and holding off on making the next hire.

[Jumpstart] was created by the business and philanthropic community with the sense that there wasn't an organization that had the responsibility and competency to help idea - stage tech companies get the things they need to advance,» says Leach.

Business should fundamentally be about creating value for others — be they customers, suppliers, local communities — and not just investors, he said.

Tyler Macmillan, interim organizational director for the San Francisco Community Land Trust, says that while a new startup such as Zeus probably does not have a perceptible impact on the local rental markets, its business model has the potential to cause problems.

«My son and I always wanted to run our own business together, and we wanted our business to reflect something we were passionate about that that benefits the community,» Jerry says.

It's the same disconnect that says every community organization should find its sustenance in for - profit business.»

In past cases when magnates have been prosecuted, some in the Russia business community have said the tycoons were victims of a plot by the Kremlin or by politically connected business rivals - though the authorities deny that.

«We're seeing the astounding effects of the continued shift to online holiday shopping — especially from mobile devices — to the small business community,» said Kristy Campbell, director of marketing at Manta, in the statement.

Eighty - five percent of small - business owners say that the holiday shopping period is just as — or more important than — last year, according to a survey by Manta, an online small - business community.

«I think there'll always be barriers... (but) we're not just going to sit back and shake our head and say, «OK, well, I guess that's it,»» said Mary Clauss, a small business owner from suburban Chicago who recently marched in Washington and now is organizing other women in her community.

«The whole marketplace, our entire business, is built on the trust that consumers have in our platform,» he said «With a platform that does annually $ 370 billion GMV a year, you're going to see some issues with it because it's a large reflection of what's going on in the offline community, but we are taking a very draconian approach to cracking down on counterfeits.

«If you really want to create wealth and opportunity in the black community, you need to have jobs and you need to have strong minority businesses,» says Rogers.

«I think many people try to build communities with a business plan mentality,» Gerber said, but «communities don't work that way.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

But after she found a business partner and perfected her pitch — adding community - building events to her strategy for promoting the line — she says she received incredible support from the company.

«We're being very deliberate in how we allow those businesses and brands to interact with the BBM community,» he said.

«We can't just be a southwestern Ontario school doing business in our own backyard, as we need to develop skills and knowledge to successfully participate in a global community,» he said.

«Home Hardware is tighter to the community, and very customer - centric,» says Alan Middleton, an assistant professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business.