Sentences with phrase «few companies do»

But a few companies do have pandemic exclusions that would keep you from collecting if you get the flu before you leave or during your trip, says Chris Harvey of Squaremouth.com, another travel insurance comparison site.»

Crispin Rapinet, global head of investigations at Hogan Lovells, said: «Too few companies do enough to counter bribery and corruption in M&A and private equity investments.

It will always be a mix of both buys and sells — few companies don't have moves of 20 % + down amid growth.

Ideally, I would like to make all these positions equally divided so that, slide in their prices does not impact the overall portfolio and drop in earnings in few companies do not negatively impact overall passive income over a medium or long term.

Now, none of these sound groundbreaking until you realize how few companies do any of them with real transparency, accountability or commitment, and how much of an impact these changes can have.

I have to admit that I see very few companies do that.»

Not exact matches

While social media and marketing can definitely help boost a brand's online presence, there are a few other things companies should do before investing resources to these areas.

A simple site, with a few pages that tell who you are, what your company does and how to reach you, is the fastest, easiest and most polished - looking approach for the absolute beginner.

Thus, convincing investors to put money into ventures with low profitability in the short - run but with strong potential in the future is something that only few companies are able to do

In most cases, companies in this situation experience fewer cases of abuse of sick days off because when employees do not show up for work, then they do not get paid.

In a March 26 report, Plessis said that the purchase does have the potential to add a «few cents» to the company's annual cash flow per share.

Michael Dell doesn't talk specifically about the companies he's interested in, but according to an April 2012 Forbes interview, Dell said he, personally, looks at over 250 companies every year that might fit into the company's acquisition strategy, even if the company only acts on a few.

It was just a few weeks ago that Whitman was gunning to be the CEO of the embattled ride - sharing company Uber — despite saying several times that she didn't want the role.

«For companies with 50 or fewer employees, that's going to give us tremendous leverage that we do not have now.

When a company grows very fast, like BlackBerry did, a few heroes of the company make most of the decisions, but they may not be documented or logical decisions.

There are a hundred different things one can do to market their brand and making a few wrong decisions along the way could have severely slowed progress for my company.

And while we don't yet have a lot of specifics on what the Amazon venture with JPM and Berkshire will entail — the companies smartly left the details vague — «we can make up a few things,» says Wolf.

Since taking Coach's reins in 2014, the 50 - year - old executive has done what few retail CEOs have been able to do: tapped into his company's successful past to help it compete in a difficult present.

Just a few months ago, this column's critique of one company's marketing professionalism was met with a vigorous defence on Twitter, even as the company was posting a recruitment ad for a marketing manager requiring just two to five years» experience (which didn't even have to be in marketing).

It's not like the show was created in a secret Netflix laboratory — it was actually developed over a few years by Bob - Waksberg and animator Lisa Hanawalt — but Reed Hasting's company knew what it was doing when it bought the show in 2013.

I have overcome it by being lucky enough to find a few good people who believe in me to the point where they will do anything to ensure the company's success.

Every few months, it offers users new tools to mute racial slurs or report threats, but even though the company says it has stepped up its rules enforcement by an order of magnitude, users who report abuse typically hear there's nothing to be done about it.

He says, «Companies almost always overpay for their targets, hurting their shareholders and enriching few except the CEOs who do deals and the investment bankers who goad them into the next must - have merger.»

That suggests that, for people who do own Sony, don't dump it yet — the few dollar gains S&P Capital IQ is predicting could give your portfolio a little boost in this still volatile market environment — but new buyers may want to seek out a better performing tech company.

The good news is that lenders have opened the spigot in the past few years, and more capital is flowing to companies than it did during the Great Recession.

With that, she's built a company that will do about a billion dollars of revenue this year, and it will be profitable in a few years.

There have been signs of traction already: General Electric, an AWS customer, has been a presence at this conference for a few years now, and companies don't get much bigger than that.

Today, that messaging is gone, replaced by a few caveats: «We need to do more research to determine the connection between improved assessment scores and everyday tasks in participants» lives,» the company's website reads.

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

A few of the well - known companies are Target, Google and Dell, and the common thread found in all of the companies was that they had a specific group, or person, dedicated to solely doing social media.

There's a lot you don't know about intrapreneurship, but through my research, I've uncovered a few interesting findings that reveal more about how supportive companies are and how it can lead to entrepreneurial ventures later.

Be sure your package includes most or all of the benefits that Company A is currently getting from Company B — with a few new elements thrown in to show that you've done your homework.

Appleby, who founded YogaForce, a company that designs and sells yoga clothing and mats, started doing doga a few years ago after she adopted a Pomeranian puppy named Madison.

But, said Terrill, «If you look at the top task - based companies, we'll do more service requests in a few hours than they'll do in an entire month.»

I've written before about how Netflix is one of the few still doing that, but the mounting pressures the streaming company is facing from all corners don't bode well for this continued focus.

When tech entrepreneur Kieran Snyder analyzed performance reviews done by a diverse group of managers at a variety of companies a few years ago, she found that constructive feedback given to women included strong elements of «negative personality criticism» that were all but absent from the suggestions for men.

When it came time to raise their most recent round of financing, 78 percent of companies managed to do it by pitching 20 or fewer investors.

Few stateside companies «have their pulse on global blockchain innovation in the way that the leaders of Circle do,» Breyer says.

The earliest stages of your company's growth are the most vulnerable to insufficient capital, but that doesn't mean you're out of the woods once you've been around a few years.

Few companies can make plausible promises on that scale, but it does raise intriguing questions about what could be done.

As one of the few women in a top job at a major U.S. tech company, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty did not have an easy time getting there.

That's what director Brad Bird did a few years ago when Pixar brought him in to re-energize the company.

For all of Musk's talk of master plans and Mars trips, it doesn't hide the fact that his companies hit quite a few rough spots this year.

Holmes did confirm that the company, only «as of a few weeks ago,» is using only one «finger prick» blood test commercially, but says that was her own decision, based on her desire to get FDA approval for its process.»

A newly launched engineering design, manufacturing and distribution company had fewer than 30 employees and had never done more than $ 825,000 in sales in any of its first three years.

There are concerns that in some cases companies have little incentive to do so when they can access inexpensive labour through the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program, which has expanded dramatically over the past few years.

If Walmart can clear a few more hurdles to get the deal done, the company could soon be a prominent player in India's exploding retail market.

I don't want us 15 years from now to turn around and be like, «Wait, how come there's so few women V.P.s at all these companies?

GC: We'd been talking to a few different companies, and we had to decide do we want to continue on and raise more money, or join another company?

Take some advice from a few companies which have done it.