Sentences with phrase «executives at big companies»

As it happens, executives at big companies are forever on the lookout for new suppliers that can help their businesses run more smoothly, faster, and more efficiently.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Caesars Entertainment Corp., the world's biggest casino company and Atlantic City's biggest owner with four resorts, lost about $ 6 million to $ 8 million in cash flow from $ 25 million in revenue it would have expected at its New Jersey shore and Philadelphia properties, Chief Executive Officer Gary Loveman told CNBC today.

SAN FRANCISCO — Marc Benioff, the founder and chief executive of Salesforce.com, showed up onstage on Wednesday afternoon at his biggest customer event of the year to talk up his business technology company's products and strategy.

Chief executive Martin Mercer told The Australian Financial Review the company had grown so much in the last few years it was «bursting at the seams» and had made the decision this year to invest in the rebranding efforts and move into bigger offices in Melbourne and Sydney to help fuel future growth.

Kateeva's chief executive, Alain Harrus, said that while investors in Silicon Valley had begun looking more at hardware companies, raising big rounds for capital - intensive technology can be tough.

At many big companies, those interests are deemed to be best aligned by linking executive performance to earnings per share, along with measures derived from the company's stock price.

A former Google executive credited with creating the search company's simple, colorful aesthetic, Ms. Mayer turned her attention at Yahoo to beating Google at search, creating new mobile apps, and turning Yahoo into a video powerhouse with television - style broadcasts featuring big - name talent like Katie Couric.

«This isn't a case of going from 4 to 3 wireless companies — there are now at least 7 or 8 big competitors in this converging market,» T - Mobile chief executive John Legere said in a statement.

Senior executives at China's Big Four state - owned banks say regulators are also exploring ways for banks to exchange bad loans for equity in certain too - big - to - fail companies — a potentially controversial step that they say could saddle banks with near - worthless stock and squeeze their liquidiBig Four state - owned banks say regulators are also exploring ways for banks to exchange bad loans for equity in certain too - big - to - fail companies — a potentially controversial step that they say could saddle banks with near - worthless stock and squeeze their liquidibig - to - fail companies — a potentially controversial step that they say could saddle banks with near - worthless stock and squeeze their liquidity.

«We understand Hong Kong may not want to change its tradition for one company, but we firmly believe that Hong Kong must consider what is needed in order to adapt to future trends and changes,» wrote Joe Tsai, an executive vice chairman at Alibaba, the biggest name in Chinese e-commerce.

Woolworths supermarkets have reinvigorated their growth rates after a turnaround plan by Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci, and are expected to produce double - digit earnings growth for 2017 - 18, although that renewed confidence is being tempered by the big losses at the company's discount department store chain Bigbig losses at the company's discount department store chain BigBig W.

«We are succeeding by behaving like a small company within a big company,» explains Thomas Koestler, executive vice president at Schering - Plough and president of the Schering - Plough Research Institute.

Patient safety will remain at risk until big pharma's top executives are brought to book for their companies» actions, says Paul Thacker

April 3, 2018 • «The government is pushing the need for this technology from the top, so companies don't have big obstacles in making it happen,» says an executive at a major Chinese artificial intelligence company.

Auto company executives show off new models with all - wheel drive.Even so, as Washington lawmakers visited the Motor City recently, the Big Three heard about more safety regulations instead of less.With stiffer requirements for both emissions and corporate average fuel economy already in the offing, Washington's requirements for installing air bags and passive restraint systems couldn't come at a costlier time for Detroit.

«We're not seeing the investment pay off yet,» an analyst at Evercore Partners told Reuters, adding «I think investors are impatient as to how long will it take...» Though he didn't directly mention the Kindle, it's clearly been one of Amazon's biggest investments in 2011 — and another executive at a sales software company specifically pointed to its impact on Amazon's profit margins.

The Fire was introduced by none other than the company's chief executive officer Jeff Bezos, and the biggest surprise is the price, since the tablet is priced not at $ 250 to $ 300 as everybody thought, but at $ 199 (about 146 Euros).

Big Coal is firing back at James Hansen, NASA's top climate expert, who on Monday told a House committee on energy and climate that he thought top executives of coal and oil companies should be tried for «crimes against humanity and nature.»

«This is the biggest challenge as we have at the moment as a company,» Ben van Beurden, chief executive of oil giant Shell, said recently.

Jock Finlayson, executive vice president for policy at the Business Council of B.C. (representing many of B.C.'s biggest companies), says some of his members in aluminum and concrete production see advantages in cap and trade versus carbon taxes, but too many questions remain unanswered.

Today's new evidence shows senior executives at the world's fifth biggest company knowingly entered into a corrupt deal that deprived the Nigerian people of $ 1.1 billion.

CEOs of Nestle USA, Kellogg, General Mills, and top executives at Walt Disney, Time Warner, and Viacom, owner of the Nickelodeon children's channel — companies with some of the biggest financial stakes in marketing to children.

In - house lawyers believe general counsel at leading companies remain underpaid compared to other senior executives despite recent publicity over the high levels of pay received by some GCs in the banking sector, according to Legal Week's latest Big Question survey

Apple executives revealed the new mobile operating system at the company's big event on September 7 alongside with updated lineups of other products, such as the iPhone 7, iWatch 2 and MacBooks.

But an executive regarded internally as FF's «acting CEO» has reportedly left the company, just days before its big production car debut at the Consumer Electronics Show.

«We can use «big data» to understand exactly what messages each specific group within a target audience need to hear,» Alexander Nix, the company's chief executive, said at a marketing conference last year, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Today, Apple executives unveiled the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus at the company's annual keynote, and just as the rumors had suggested, one of the biggest changes made to the new smartphones was the addition of Force Touch — or rather, 3D Touch.

Asked about the company's decision to have Sprint as the exclusive carrier, the executive explained that Essential is looking ahead, at the bigger picture.

More people than ever are from banking and research backgrounds, more than ever are placed into the IR Director role at some of the world's biggest companies because it is viewed as an essential stepping stone on the path to senior executive roles, where they can be given the «final polish» as one of my fellow panellists so nicely put it.

Investing in a top - tier executive writer can give you the biggest return: an interview at the most coveted companies for the most coveted roles, entry into a Board of Director position, leverage as a top business consultant, or even your next C - level role.

With 15 years of executive recruiting (in the medical sales and marketing arena) and over 5 years of coaching folks around the world (Thailand, England, France, Russia, Singapore, UAE, Mexico, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea), I've worked with executives at all levels, in all kinds of industries — from CEOs of big banks to CTOs of companies that have hundreds of thousands of SKUs to the VP level, Director level, folks who are in every area of the company (finance, operations, sales, marketing, customer support, IT, etc.).

Although title policies still represent the bulk of revenues (see chart on page 48), executives at the nation's four biggest title companies — Irvine, Calif. - based Fidelity National Financial Inc., LandAmerica Financial Group, The First American Corp. and Houston - based Stewart Information Services Corp. — say new product lines provide the greatest opportunity for revenue growth.

So declared Nelson Zide, the jovial partner and senior executive vice president of ERA Key Realty, the mid-sized but mighty west - of - Boston company that in 2014 racked up the biggest year in the company's 20 - year history — bigger, even, than in 2005, when real estate prices were at their peak.

I partnered with a contractor on this deal who was referred to me by someone I really respect (an executive at a big RE company).