Sentences with phrase «executives of companies trying»

Since the formation of the Global Cyber Alliance, I have taken time to talk with cyber security experts and executives of companies trying to find the sweet spot of protecting Internet users at the global scale while not competing with for - profit organizations.

Not exact matches

Executives spend too much time dealing with investors and analysts, trying to meet or exceed earnings expectations every quarter, and end up seeking short - term gains at the expense of the company.

That was chief executive Thorsten Heins's message at the annual shareholders meeting in Ontario today, as he tried to defend the company's trajectory after sales of the new BlackBerry 10 line of smartphones fell well below analyst expectations.

«You see these little companies building out service brands because they want to have account executives who work with customers,» Atkinson adds, «so they try to spin their products into serving three different groups in the first couple of years, and that's a very adverse situation to get into.

Some executives try to keep at arms - length to maintain a facade of power, but Kelleher demonstrated that a culture of connectedness and personal interest — from the top ranks to the bottom — could become a corporate asset, even as his company grew to massive proportions.

So far he has tried shaking up his own executive team, replacing two presidents of the U.S. business in two years, eliminating the chief operating officer role, and reorganizing the U.S. business to make it «a flatter, more nimble organization,» says the company.

So now, as HP chief executive and chairman Meg Whitman is trying to drive a bifurcation of the company into two independent, publicly traded companies, she has to deal with the anchor that Enterprise Services has become, hence the layoffs (another 30,000 or so coming!)

Asked about the potential threat of Amazon and other tech giants entering the health - care market, Larry Renfro, the chief executive of the insurer's Optum unit, said the company is trying to catch up when it comes to early - stage companies.

Yousef Al - Benyan, the vice chairman and CEO of SABIC, said one of the biggest mistakes executives can make when acquiring a new company is to try to change the culture and make it fit with their own.

To try and overcome many of these issues we held all company meetings twice / year where we paid for EVERY employee (executive assistants, customer support staff, interns) in the company to come to a central location for a day - and - a-half of team building & fun.

Very bad blood had developed between Mike Volpi, a partner at Index Ventures, and the Skype founders after it emerged that he'd tried to go behind their backs to arrange the deal without including them (not great diplomacy, because he was working for the co-founders at the time, as chief executive of video company Joost).

It is one of Canada's most stalwart businesses with a nearly century - old tried and tested business model, but Loblaw executive chair Galen Weston and the company's chief executive, Vicente Trius, are willing to go all in on a hunch that... Continue reading →

WASHINGTON — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, tried to get ahead of a week of intense scrutiny for him and his company by visiting several top lawmakers in Washington on Monday and reiterating how sorry he was for the social network's failings.

Edward Daniel, chief executive of Metropolitan Health Services, says he's raised pay and sweetened benefits to try to fill his 740 - person company's roughly 80 open jobs.

It also tries to ensure that all of the issues are kept quiet and far away from the meddling of the media which could blow the whole thing up and force company executives to testify in front of Congressional hearings.

Imagine you are a slimeball executive trying to swindle thousands of hardworking, honest, decent shareholders out of their money by siphoning off funds from the company or overstating profits.

Paul Bulcke, the chief executive officer of Vevey, Switzerland - based Nestle, the world's largest food company, said May 19 that food - price increases should be gradual and that companies would try to absorb commodity expenses by reducing costs in other areas.

Apple Inc. shareholders could make history next year by deciding whether the company should be forced to increase the number of non-white executives and directors, with a vote on a proposal the iPhone maker has tried to squelch.

Meanwhile, the board has tried to address Fiesta's recent struggles by undertaking a host of initiatives that include hiring a new CEO, appointing two former restaurant executives as independent directors, conducting a sale process of the entire company, and outlining and communicating a strategic renewal plan.

The crash, which occurred Sunday night, was a major setback for Uber, which has been trying to improve its image since Mr. Khosrowshahi replaced Travis Kalanick as the company's chief executive in a messy transfer of power last August.

And when asked where the ideas came from, the company's executives always said something like «we see behaviors from our community and we try to build on top of them» or «I don't spend too much time looking at what other people are doing or not doing.»

Treasury's new chief executive Mike Clarke is trying to overhaul the company to act more like the custodian of fine wine brands and less like a grocery business stuffing its product onto shelves in a rush towards the end of each financial year to make sure it meets its profit targets.

With instructional seminars exploring practical ways to address the current market, executives from some of the country's leading companies presented their tried and true blue - prints to successfully maneuvering in the US industry.

In court documents submitted earlier this week, attorneys for three former executives of Buffalo development company LPCiminelli, called for charges against their client, at minimum, be tried in Western New York.

The administration floated a vague plan for Exelon to help resupply the plant, but Entergy executives accused the company of trying to curry favor with the state by agreeing to a plan that made little business sense.

ALBANY — Former lobbyist and Albany insider Todd Howe was arrested Thursday night, just hours after the government's star witness in the trial of Joseph Percoco and three business executives admitted under cross-examination that he had tried to bilk his credit card company out of the cost of a night's stay at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

Observers around New York state and beyond will be watching prosecutors try to convict a top state official of extorting money — or «ziti» as it was referred to in emails — from company executives with business before the state.

The episode is a reminder of the ongoing political feud between Cuomo and Miner, and of the fact that the administration now finds itself in the uncomfortable position of trying to support development projects overseen by companies whose executives have been charged with defrauding the state.

That year, prosecutors alleged, the first bribe scheme began not long after Percoco, who had been a member of Cuomo's tiny inner circle, had dinner at a Connecticut restaurant with Peter Galbraith Kelly, an executive with an energy company that at the time was trying to build a gas - fueled power plant in Orange County.

Louis P. Ciminelli, the chief executive officer of the Buffalo construction firm, and two of his top aides, Kevin Schuler and Michael Laipple, have stepped down as the company tries to restore public confidence after landing in the center of a high - profile state corruption case.

A Welch Allyn executive said today the company is encouraged by Maffei's legislation, and the work of U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer, D - N.Y., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D - N.Y., who have tried to delay the implementation of the tax.

The wife of Joseph Percoco, the former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is an educator and worked for Competitive Power Ventures, one of the two companies where executives are currently being tried along with Joseph.

The three — including Louis P. Ciminelli, the chief executive officer of the Buffalo construction firm, and two of his top aides, Schuler and Michael Laipple, resigned earlier this month from the company to try to restore public confidence in the firm.

In a tense meeting held in Rupert Murdoch's Wapping headquarters, with News International's chief executive flanked by guards, and the company disabling the Twitter and email accounts of staff, Ms Brooks apologised to 250 employees and tried to defuse the fallout from her address to them 24 hours earlier, in which she had made the shock announcement that their paper was to be closed and they were losing their jobs.

There is also little incentive for companies to try to license and develop new low - level waste sites, because nuclear plants, which generate most of that waste, have managed to dramatically reduce their volume and store more on site, according to Todd Lovinger, executive director of the Low - Level Radioactive Waste Forum, a nonprofit that is helping state compacts comply with the low - level waste law.

«The number one difficulty has been that there are a lot of false prophets at this stage,» said Tom Adeyoola, chief executive of London - based virtual fitting room company Metail, whose augmented reality «try - before - you - buy» solution aims to drive concrete business results.

In Unfinished Business a European business trip goes off the rails for the executives of a small company that are trying to close an important deal after they end up at a massive sex fetish event.

Now, in addition to being the Chair of TFA's Board of Directors, Kopp serves as Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Teach For All, a new TFA spin - off company that is trying to recreate TFA in the global marketplace.

I've been in many meetings with executives of car companies as I tried to attract GT1 competition into the series, and I wish I had a dollar for every time it was explained to me that there is such a dominant organization in GT1 that it's just not feasible to compete.

«The availability of the Kobo eReader Touch Edition in Swindon Book Company marks the first Chinese locations where consumers can see, try and buy our state - of - the - art device,» said Todd Humphrey, Executive Vice President of Business Development, Kobo.

In the first earnings call since the tag team of Balsillie and Lazaridis resigned as the company's bosses, chief executives Thorsten Heins hinted that the company he is trying to save could eventually be sold.

According to an Amazon executive with close ties to Mr. Bezos, who could not be named because of his senior role in the company, Mr. Bezos made a decision after the iPad was introduced to try to lure customers onto the Kindle platform by offering less expensive devices.

It's probably too late for Barnes & Noble to try, but if I had the ear of the company's executives, I would suggest opening up the upcoming second - generation Nook Color, lowering the price and positioning it as a Fire alternative that shows more respect for customer choice.

Kilbride crunches the numbers to determine how much he thinks companies will pay out in five years, but he also tries to get inside the heads of executives to get a sense of their philosophy about dividends.

We and [EA chief operating officer] Peter Moore and a couple of other guys in the executive company got together to try to understand what caused people to say these things.

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.»

Brett VandenHeuvel, Columbia Riverkeeper's executive director, dismissed the company's change of tack as a move to «try to fool the public and piecemeal this project.

We try to focus on the most important issues of the day and distill the complex and convoluted into easy to understand blog posts so company executives can get up to speed and move on to what's really important: running their business.

The need for palliative care is very high in Romania and we continuously try to extend our services in order to reach more patients, thus any help, either from individuals or companies, is of great value to us» declared Mirela Nemțanu, executive director of the nongovernmental organization.

Different companies have tried incentive plans, bonuses, or shorter hours, but there are some businesses that are going even further than that and offering executive bonus plans to keep some of their employees satisfied.