Sentences with phrase «decades in his business as»

Reflecting on my three decades in this business as both practitioner and client, I recognize the challenge as well as the tremendous opportunity for our profession.

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Rescinding the program could mean the loss of as much as $ 460 billion in economic output over the next decade, according to a recently released report from the House Committee on Small Business, which was released by ranking member Nydia Velázquez (D. - N.Y.)

Adam Belsher, who left his job in September as vice-president of the Verizon business unit at RIM after seven years with the company, says the lack of accountability is partly a result of the company's rapid growth over the past decade.

Schwartz has been in the TV business for three decades, most recently as president of FremantleMedia Kids & Family Entertainment.

«If your approach is to just buy a bunch of reports to see what's going on in the marketplace, that's not as likely to get you a return on your market research dollars as a specific need,» says Robert Rubenstein, who spent three decades in the market research business at Canadian corporate heavyweights Molson Breweries and TD Canada Trust before recently founding his own startup, Horizn.

TORONTO — Premier Kathleen Wynne is promising $ 2.5 billion in grants to businesses over the next decade aimed at attracting and keeping companies in Ontario, a move the Progressive Conservatives denounced as corporate welfare.

As Exxon's CEO for a decade he built a reputation in the business world as a blunt talker who sticks to his gunAs Exxon's CEO for a decade he built a reputation in the business world as a blunt talker who sticks to his gunas a blunt talker who sticks to his guns.

The book argues that most of us are not as creative as we have the potential to be and, thankfully for the time starved business owner, living up to our full creative potential doesn't necessarily mean locking yourself in a practice room for around a decade.

Fast - forward a few decades, and the likes of Microsoft's Xbox 360, the Sony PS3 and Nintendo's Wii have put consoles in one of every two homes in the U.S. and helped make video games a bigger business than the entire music industry — and almost as big as the movie industry.

Mills compared the need to invest in infrastructure such as highways, roads, and bridges to investment in high - speed broadband in the past two decades, which has enabled a lively app economy, which in turn has spawned nearly a million jobs, as well as an entirely new cloud computing industry worth $ 45 billion that touches some 6 million small businesses.

Railways, who added crude by rail capacity earlier this decade only to have the market vanish as pipeline space opened up, have been slow to move back in the oil transport business, asking producers to sign longer - term deals.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

In my eight years as a financing consultant and two decades as a business borrower, no lender has ever required one — at least not the kind you learn to write in business schooIn my eight years as a financing consultant and two decades as a business borrower, no lender has ever required one — at least not the kind you learn to write in business schooin business school.

I've served as a leader in business and studied leadership for decades, and I've never seen someone make such an outlandish, impractical, and downright persecutory comment before.

Over the last two decades, such loans as a percentage of total bank commercial loans, have dropped to 30 percent of bank portfolios from 50 percent in 1995, according to recent research compiled by former Small Business Administration head Karen Mills and Harvard University.

Almost without exception, exemplars are scrappy young businesses whose brands were born on the same clean sheets of paper as their products were, whose history is measured in months or years rather than decades, and whose founders still show up for work in the morning.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

As a leading property insurer and reinsurer, Lloyd's has responded to countless business disruption events over decades and is in possession of rich historical data to support their assumptions.

As a long - term «manager,» your franchisee will continue to learn about the business and is more likely to gain institutional knowledge of your business that will make him a better operator as he spends years, maybe decades, of his life in the businesAs a long - term «manager,» your franchisee will continue to learn about the business and is more likely to gain institutional knowledge of your business that will make him a better operator as he spends years, maybe decades, of his life in the businesas he spends years, maybe decades, of his life in the business.

But he can sell as much as 100 % in a single transaction — or, most commonly, a series of deals spread out over a decade or so, during which time the owner gradually transfers ownership and day - to - day management of the business.

Founder Tom Bunchman started out as a franchisee himself, having managed and maintained a business for over a decade before launching the JumpBunch concept in 1997.

More than 40 programs have popped up in the last half decade offering services such as mentorship, networks of partners, access to investors and business skills development, according to a recent report by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and Village Capital, which surveyed 52 programs.

Over the past few decades, the Internet has been touted as «the great equalizer,» and small businesses have found some great successes in virtual spaces.

Yet the total rate of small business ownership, defined as the percentage of the population owning a business in a given month, has been dropping for decades, according to the report.

CNN similarly referred to the pre-Nadella years as a «lost decade» and described his success in growing Microsoft's profitable cloud - services business.

As Figure 1 shows, this pattern contrasts notably with previous decades, when real wage growth slowed substantially in response to business cycle downturns.

February 26, 2016 John Sculley, former CEO of Apple and Pepsi, bets on RxAdvance as the game changer in the PBM marketplace, disrupting decades old business models.

John Sculley, former CEO of Apple and Pepsi, bets on RxAdvance as the game changer in the PBM marketplace, disrupting decades old business models

Prior to that, Dave had an extensive private business background for two decades as a CFO, Controller and General Manager in middle - market companies.

Jordan has been an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago's Graduate Business School for two decades and also participated in their business plan competition as judge and Business School for two decades and also participated in their business plan competition as judge and business plan competition as judge and advisor.

Scientology TV will likely result in very little for the Church of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a church.

I have not seen addressed in Dr. Pettis» writing but given several statistics I have seen, I believe the business share of GDP is high at the expense of household's as a results of decades of policies.

Home flipping has been steadily increasing as a business since hitting bottom in 2010, but today's market shouldn't be confused with the one that overheated and crashed a decade ago, market watchers told Scotsman Guide News.

As we will go through each individual company one by one, you will notice that they all share something in common; each dividend king has a very strong business model and has adapted over the decades.

Over the past two decades, the main competitors were institutions engaged in «banking - type» business, such as building societies, merchant banks and finance companies.

Primarily, like most definitions in business, the term was adopted as well as co-opted to put a new label on practices that have been around for a few decades in marketing and sales.

JCT expects that business investment would likely fall later in the decade, as the repeal of accelerated depreciation in 2016 and the longer amortization of intellectual property expenses begin to outweigh the positive effects of lower tax rates on business income.

He has more than a decade's experience in software design, engineering and business strategy including as chief of Innovation at US biotech firm Orphidia and as an engineer at MPG Technology.

Territories that includes creating new social interaction models, new roles as members of a social ecosystem, and advancing social business models that may very well alter the structure and business operations they have been wedded to for decades — in ways they could not have dreamed of just a few short years ago.

In addition to his extensive international retail background, Mr. Van den Berghe has two decades of experience teaching international business at universities across Europe, Asia and the United States, and more than a decade of experience as an international trade commissioner for the Government of Belgium.

Moreover, for nearly two decades under the leadership of Dr. Norman Kurland, an economist and lawyer, the Center for Economic and Social Justice in Washington, D.C., has advised businesses as well as governments on expanded capital ownership, based on the ideas of Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler (the latter a Thomist philosopher) in their book The Capitalist Manifesto (1958).

Every grand new global initiative that has been launched in the past decades has been described as a radical break from business as usual as it demands more billions for the funding of business as usual.

Reed has been involved in the food industry for decades, starting as an assistant manager at a Kentucky Fried Chicken store; he had Colonel Sanders teach him firsthand how to fry chicken before going to college at Mississippi State to study food science and business.

«Mike's exceptional experience after more than two decades with some of the elite labels in the spirits business will be a great asset to our team,» said Mr. Graff, who has served as counsel to wholesalers in litigation across the United States, challenging state statutes prohibiting the cross border shipment of alcohol beverages.

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I didn't go to my first steak house (not a fan of steak) until I was in my 30s last decade as part of a business dinner.

Their longevity in the business has been a benefit as their well - known names and reputation for quality over the decades have led to more business.

As specialists in the Food and Beverage industry for decades, the Restaurant Industry Group at Anchin has the unique combination of professional accounting experience and food and beverage industry knowledge that can help you develop advanced financial reporting systems and accomplish your business goals.

In less than a decade it had gone from a Tasmanian family run business to the poster child for Australian success in China as it took advantage of surging demand for foreign infant formula which became known as «white gold»In less than a decade it had gone from a Tasmanian family run business to the poster child for Australian success in China as it took advantage of surging demand for foreign infant formula which became known as «white gold»in China as it took advantage of surging demand for foreign infant formula which became known as «white gold».

The business has been a difficult beast for more than a decade — in the past three - and - a-half years as a stand - alone wine group and before that as the wine division of Foster's Group.