Sentences with phrase «company managers about»

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«Many of today's greatest companies were started by a group of friends with a good idea, which is what Miller Time is all about: great times with good friends,» said Steve Canal, MillerCoors manager of community commerce and partnerships.

Ramona Persaud, manager of Fidelity's Global Equity Income Fund, likes the company's «shrewd» instincts and its knack for delivering a return on capital «far superior to the market,» an average of about 27 % over the past five years.

Of nearly a dozen fund managers contacted by Reuters, three - quarters expressed concern about the way companies are allocating capital during a period of relatively healthy cashflow.

The best companies to work for tend to have managers who see the reality of the situation, and who are free to talk about their own mistakes as well as the mistakes of others.

Since the Great Recession, fund managers have been talking about rising fixed - income yields and their impact on equities and, more specifically, dividend - paying companies.

The brand design manager for Edmonton footwear retailer Poppy Barley led that company's founders through extensive conversations about goals, strengths, weaknesses and personality early in its re-imagining.

Company leaders and managers should think of IT people as experts beyond IT and include them in conversations about the organization's overall direction.

Cedar Woods Victorian state manager Nathan Blackburne said the company was excited about introducing a Cedar Woods master - planned development to Melbourne's fast growing northern corridor.»

Related, it's a major red flag to any recruiter or hiring manager if you show that you have no real knowledge about the company.

• Engineering for the Petroleum & Process Industries, Egypt's state - owned oil company, has picked a consortium led by CI Capital as lead managers and bookrunners for an IPO that could raise about $ 150 million, Bloomberg reports.

Assign a person to take notes about who said what so managers can reflect on what happened and telling remarks about whether the company is solving a problem in a better way.

Beverly Kelly, human - resources manager at Robert Charles Lesser & Co., a real - estate consulting firm in Los Angeles, asks candidates about other companies they're interviewing with, and what makes a particular company attractive.

Some companies kick the tires of their adherence to the code of ethics by checking in with both managers and employees about it during performance reviews.

Investors in highly valued start - ups have been concerned about the willingness of public market investors buy into those companies at or above those high valuations, said Smith, also an IPO exchange - traded fund manager.

The SEC alleged that, although Yahoo senior managers and attorneys were told about the breach, the company failed to fully investigate.

Many managers think that setting their company's goals amounts to making baseless declarations about the company's future, but the wrong goals can derail progress for months or even years.

Your manager can provide you bigger picture perspectives about the company and career development in general.

Plurimi Investment Managers CIO Patrick Armstrong speaks about the U.S. attitude to foreign technology companies.

During the economy's nadir in 2009, French workers of Sony, Caterpillar and other companies held managers hostage to send a message about layoffs and severance pay.

The company's next focus is on helping customers glean even more insights about where processes may be improved, highlighting potential bottlenecks to approvals or alerting managers when spending for certain items have reached budget thresholds.

Sheila Montgomery Mills, who is a senior project manager of design and construction for the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex in Alabama and has also run her own company, says now is the time to think about any skills gaps you might have, both in your business and in the local labor pool.

The hedge fund manager's investor call came on the heels of Valeant's announcement earlier Friday morning that it was «severing all ties» with Philidor Rx Services, the mail - order pharmacy whose relationship with the drug company had sparked the whole hullabaloo about potential wrongdoing.

But it's not just about savings — it's about reminding managers they don't work for an oil company or investment bank.

The company consults with a range of clients, from private firms to government offices, advising facility managers about how to make their workplaces safer, or, at the very least, how to «harden the structure» to make it more difficult for a dangerous individual to gain entry.

Not only do employees and managers think differently about work - life balance, but so do companies in general.

It remains to be seen how Zappos will pull off this transition, but if the company does it well, something tells me we're about to see a lot more startups with a lot fewer managers.

Managers should regularly solicit and welcome recommendations, suggestions and input about company processes.

Former Uber engineer Susan Fowler opened up earlier this year in a blog post about the toxic culture of workplace harassment at the company, alleging that she was sexually harassed by a male manager at Uber whose actions were knowingly brought to the attention of HR.

When deciding whether to bring e-mail archiving in house or go with an outside vendor, companies need to think about how many employees they need to cover, average e-mail volumes, if their company is growing and how much work they want to take on themselves, says Sean Hegarty, messaging senior product manager at Iron Mountain, the information storage company.

«The best way to think about them is as a private - equity shop operating in the software industry,» says Jeff Mo, a portfolio manager with Calgary's Mawer Investment Management, which has a 12 % stake in the company.

I caught up with Cameron Conaway, content marketing manager at Klipfolio, a business dashboard company that knows a thing or two about SaaS metrics.

Within Fortune senior editor Roger Parloff's canonical feature about hedge fund manager Bill Ackman's audacious, indefatigable attack on Herbalife — an at times seemingly pyramid - scheming nutrition company — the following quote rings out: «Who the hell does he think he is?»

The hedge fund manager, whose Yelp stake was worth about $ 10 million at the end of 2015, has made at least several million dollars in the stock just this week, after telling investors that he believes the company's revenue could double in the next three years.

On Sunday, engineer Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing what she diplomatically dubbed her «strange» year working at Uber — a tenure that she says included, among other things, a) her manager propositioning her on her first day at work; and b) her repeated complaints about the incident ignored and dismissed by the company's human resources department, under the aegis of not sullying the guy's career for an «innocent mistake.»

Two weeks earlier, he had gotten a call from the company's largest shareholder, Texas - based fund manager US Global Investors Inc., warning that a broker at another firm had received an anonymous call, saying Muddy Waters was about to publish a report on Silvercorp and US Global should dump its stock.

They sat down with managers and researchers at a number manufacturing companies in the U.S. and China that produce lithium - ion cells for consumer electronics, asking about cost structures.

Good managers are transparent and forthcoming about company goals, expectations and plans.

«I wouldn't be very bullish or too concerned about the company,» says Sartori Bernbeck, manager of insights and analytics at EEDAR.

He's known for his obsessive micromanaging, making sure he gets daily updates from hundreds of managers about every detail of the company.

For Chipotle, an investment in the education of the company's more than 60,000 employees can make sense strategically: about 90 % of Chipotle restaurant managers came from lower - paid crew positions.

The inquiry began after a series of BuzzFeed reports that revealed that Uber's New York manager, Josh Mohrer, had accessed information about reporters» use of the service without their permission, including through the company's «God View» tool.

Over the past few months, behind the scenes, tens of thousands of people have been writing to mutual fund company Vanguard telling the investment manager that it's time it supported transparency by corporations about their political donations.

I know many companies that grow, are successful, and make a lot of money, but the managers don't like their staff, and they don't care about it or the culture.

Is it because so many people care about how white - collar middle managers are treated at an online retailing company?

And Valeant's round - about method of funding research, if that's what it's actually doing, seems a lot less cost effective, with all of the bankers and lawyers and hedge fund managers taking chunks of deals than if drug companies directly devoted a portion of their sales toward finding new drugs.

We've found that male managers, despite being well - intentioned, often aren't equipped to handle women in conversations about stress, flextime, remote working, what the company is willing to do, and other issues that they need to approach differently than they would for their male employees.

If you're an executive concerned about low morale, employee satisfaction or engagement, or — at worst — a revolving door at your company, start by looking at who your current managers are.

Chairman Lachlan Murdoch and CEO James Murdoch described the media company as a «company that is driven by creativity and innovation» and advised staff members with questions about their family's future to contact their HR manager.

«If I believe the market is wrong about the quality of a company, I'll get very interested,» says the Fidelity portfolio manager.

David Cordani, Cigna CEO, talks about the company's bid to acquire Express Scripts, the nation's largest pharmacy benefits manager.