Sentences with phrase «companies like»

Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies are hiring and empowering chief design officers, and companies like IBM are training managers to think more like designers.

Flavored whiskeys, for example, helped companies like Beam Suntory and Brown - Forman (bf - b) lure more women to brown spirits.

What happens, according to a paper Martin Schmalz, assistant professor of finance at University of Michigan wrote with Jose Azar and Isabel Tecu of Charles River Associates, is that stock ownership becomes too concentrated when companies like Blackrock or Vanguard, two large managers of index funds, vote the shares of passive funds.

Carmakers like differentiation, while technology companies like standards.

The U.S. market is faltering as scandals hit companies like Facebook.

She now works with big - name companies like Zappos and TripAdvisor.

Companies like Bloomberg have focused operations around this simple premise because businesses need data to make educated decisions and understand industry trends.

Enterprises are increasingly using shared, rented computer servers, software, and storage accessed over the internet from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

The company now supplies indoor digital menu boards and signs for companies like Tim Hortons, Walmart, Target and Royal Bank.

New Leaf Paper, which must cope with huge economies - of - scale issues in order to compete with the paper manufacturers that use virgin fiber, has formed alliances with various large stable companies like Old Navy Clothing, Nike, and Hewlett - Packard to ensure that its orders are of decent volume.

Instead of getting caught up in a losing battle of trying to lure employees into participating with rewards and penalties, follow the lead of companies like Dow Chemical to avoid incentives altogether.

Combining payment cards and wireless technology, financial technology companies like Paypal, Stripe and Wirecard are connecting the world of international payment networks.

Companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and IBM (whose open source Watson tools Arruda's company ROSS uses) are competing with each other for reputations as leaders in artificial intelligence.

Tech giants like Intel, Dell and AMD all have strong track records with their proprietary funds, and more companies like Microsoft and Salesforce are now entering the venture - fund game.

Here's what it takes to get ahead of the curve, courtesy of the programs offered by high - profile companies like Deloitte, Etsy, Facebook, GoDaddy, Netflix, and Nike:

That's how star companies like Amazon, Apple, and Lego consistently leap ahead of competitors, say strategy experts Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi in their new book, Strategy That Works.

Finally, companies like Burger King might seem antithetical to data centers, but for Equinix CEO Steve Smith, the fast - food chain represents just one of the many clients his business serves.

But smaller companies like InsightSquared, competitor Microstrategy, and others are planning an end - run around the big players.

Also in this group are existing set - top companies like Hauppauge, who would like to hold onto their market share.

But some people in the tech industry argue that jobs like this should go to open - source software, which is freely available to test and deploy, rather than proprietary commercial software from companies like Microsoft that could include back doors and potentially be used to influence results.

Cargill claims to be the largest private company in the U.S. in terms of revenue and, although private companies like Nilsson Brothers and Cargill are not required to have independent directors, forward - thinking ones do such as McCain Foods.

Brand - licensing models are not new in the industry; European companies like Philips and Alcatel have made money from consumer electronics by licensing out their brand after capitulating to Asian competitors more than a decade ago.

As media companies like BuzzFeed and Vice Media continue to try and become as large as possible, some media executives are warning that the race for scale may be a mirage (Digiday gets a relatively paltry 2 million unique visitors a month, but says it is happy with that number).

«Many people think that you only need insurance if you are going abroad, but travel insurance can be applied [to] any type of trip and can easily be purchased either through your travel agent if you are working with one — or you can do it yourself with companies like AIG Travel Guard or Travelex.»

Companies like TOMS Shoes and Soapbox Soaps, responded to the call by implementing a «one - for - one» giving model, tying a easily - identified benefit (like providing shoes to children in need) to a purchase.

As customers shop for shoes directly from Amazon, analysts say companies like Foot Locker and Finish Line are in danger.

In industries like tech, they are offered lower starting salaries than their male counterparts for the same job at the same company 63 percent of the time, and, according to some employees, still experience discrimination even at companies like Google.

Modern consumers are more sophisticated than ever, and companies like Glossier that produce quality products and create authentic connections with their audience will succeed.

Henderson says companies like his have failed in the past, and that he's «one of the few people on the planet doing it.»

Companies like United Services Automobile Association, on the other hand, hire managers based on their ability to lead a team.

Last month, a committee of House lawmakers advanced a bill that would help companies like GM and Google seek more exemptions to federal safety rules, perhaps allowing them the ability to test as many as 100,000 experimental self - driving cars in the United States.

As Bloomberg notes, rival apparel companies like Under Armour (UA) and Adidas (ADS) are likely to enter the bidding for the lucrative Texas contract — which could be worth more than $ 15 million per year — once it comes up for grabs, which means Nike will face some fierce competition if it wants to keep doing business with the school.

O'Dowd, whose office is located in the neighborhood, notes that the Docks have changed dramatically over the past five years, as companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter have set up shop.

It's tricky to determine how much funding is flowing to companies like Dataminr, but the amount appears to be rising.

Today, even companies like Telebrands test upward of 100 products a year to get maybe five hits.

And companies like Tesla have helped drive down the per - kilowatt - hour cost of batteries.

Many companies like 352 Inc. create ad hoc teams based on a signed project, but this new dedicated, permanent team model allowed teams to continue to work together, project to project.

Even Spotify is getting in on the action by allowing users to watch video and listen to podcasts from companies like Comedy Central, the BBC, and ESPN.

Roberts appeared concerned that companies like Microsoft could enable customers to evade the reach of U.S. prosecutors by deliberately storing data overseas.

«Companies like ours are making much more active attempts to reach current customers by E-mail,» Leveen says.

«Are any other companies like us using this product?»

In this context, «hard» business applications are such things as manufacturing and financial management software from companies like SAP and Oracle, and the databases that underly those applications as well as transactional systems that — should they fail — cost companies big money.

Watching the enormous success of companies like Facebook and Google — started by founders who were barely out of college — has dramatically altered the under - 25's sense of when it's «right» or «appropriate» to pursue a good idea.

I've discussed the topic of scaling corporate culture with many CEOs, there are countless books and I have my own experiences running similar service - based companies like 352 Inc..

How can companies like yours and mine create something memorable, within our means?

«Many companies like ours have gone under,» she says.

Technology companies like NextVR are experimenting, while sports leagues decide how they want to enter this new medium.

Most companies like to think that they encourage risk - taking and innovation, and that they recognize mistakes as inevitable when people are working creatively.

What about companies like GE and Mitsubishi that have to not just handle multiples brand in the same field, but also brands in other areas, from light bulbs and entertainment companies to cars and stereos?

Outsiders caught a glimpse of that world last month when a secret donor list from the Republican Governors» Association (RGA) was published in the New York Times, which included some Canadian companies like TransCanada, Barrick Gold, and Encana.