Sentences with phrase «global firms doing»

«We believe there will be around 20 global firms doing the sort of work we do and aspire to do,» Martyr says now.

I am seeking an entry - level position in a global firm doing work in marketing, event planning, business development, project management or sales.

Not exact matches

Apple would have done better to focus on China's regional trends rather than develop the payment service for a global market, says Kitty Fok, managing director of the China group at the market research firm International Data Corporation.

«Strikingly, around two - thirds of businesses in mainland China and Hong Kong think that foreign firms that do business in RMB benefit financially and build stronger trading relationships,» wrote Simon Cooper, CEO of Global Commercial Banking with HSBC.

When I told this story to Alan Tecktiel, Global HR Director at the law firm Baker & McKenzie, he noted that Jill was able to go to the lengths she did because companies like FedEx (FDX) their employees to do these kinds of things.

According to management consulting firm Mercer's Global Performance Management Survey, most leaders have a performance management system in place, but nearly half admit their system needs work and more than half admit that they don't align performance ratings and compensation decisions.

More than just a VC firm, 500 gains access to deals in global markets that many traditional VCs do not.»

Don't ask customers a question without a plan for how it will be used to provide insight for you company's stakeholders, says Gina Pingitore, the chief research officer for J.D. Power and Associates, a global customer satisfaction research firm best known for its automotive quality rankings.

The direct listing did solve a thorny capital - structure issue for the firm, the global capital markets exec said.

Leaders of global firms operating in China say doing business there has become far more difficult in the five years since Xi became president.

Employees at Bain & Company, a global management consulting firm headquartered in Boston, rave about its «incredible culture» and its «incredible people [who display] a mix of intelligence but also humility that you don't find at other top consulting firms.»

The answer, having ranked 12 mobile and internet companies and 10 telecommunication firms that are used by more than half of 3.7 billion global internet users, is that they could do better.

The so - called financial passport has allowed London's financial centre to act as a hub for global firms looking to do business in the EU.

Global Finance: What economic indicators does your firm focus on in China?

Martijn Wilder, Baker & McKenzie partner in charge of global environmental markets and climate change, said the firm hadn't done much climate litigation in the past but the pace of inquiries from companies seeking reassurance about any potential liability had quickened.

The federal government's Global Markets Action Plan does prioritize targeting for foreign markets of interest to Canadian firms, but does not focus on removing cultural and linguistic barriers that may prove to be a major impediment to Canadian SMEs.

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At the same time, global investment spending has moderated, in part because of lower potential economic growth; firms need to invest less than they did in the past to sustain that lower potential output.

But as financial firms ponder whether to move or expand an existing subsidiary outside the U.K., as TD Securities intends to do, non-financial companies say this chaos presents an opportunity since they may be able to capitalize on other global companies scrambling to shift their resources and people out of the U.K. or take advantage of other dynamics at play.

Clients don't hire a particular portfolio manager when they hire the firm, they hire our global research and investment process, which is our alpha - generating engine.

According to Reuters, at least three firms are currently doing this in the US, including Cumberland Mining (a division of DRW Holdings), Circle, and Genesis Global Trading.

Clients don't hire a particular portfolio manager (PM) when they hire the firm, they hire our global research and investment process, which is our alpha - generating engine.

The emphasis on investment process rather than on a star manager means that clients do not hire a particular PM when they hire the firm they hire our global research and investment platform, which is our alpha - generating engine.

«In some ways, this is showing that the tariff is having some kind of effect, but it doesn't necessarily grow the U.S. manufacturing market,» said MJ Shiao, global lead for renewables and emerging technologies at Wood Mackenzie, a research and consulting firm with United States headquarters in Houston.

Julian Wellesley, senior global equity opportunities analyst with Loomis Sayles, wrote in a recent report that «banks currently have one of the highest tax rates of all U.S. companies,» mainly because they don't use as many deductions as other multinational firms.

«It's a global world, and many of the small companies we invest in do business all over the world,» he said, adding that his firm already is using estimates that are below Wall Street's consensus.

While the law does not require that companies provide retirement plans, health plans, dental or vision plans, life insurance plans, or paid vacation time, many firms still provide these benefits and many candidates have come to expect at least some of these benefits, especially as they progress to the higher management positions,» said Andrew Challenger, vice president of global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc..

He and Gingrich don't disagree on evolution and manmade global warming probably happening, but the ex-governor does have a firmer grasp on what's required to deal with the economic crisis of our time.

«His favorability and overall job approval ratings are at the highest levels in any poll we've done for the mayor since 2005,» said a report from the Global Strategy polling firm.

Also among the firms that agreed to pay stiff fines was Global Strategy Group, a Democratic political consulting company that arranged lucrative pension deals between the comptroller's office and investment firms, though it was not licensed to do so.

At least six people with links to Rudin Management, one of the city's largest building developers and owners, gave $ 4,950, as did five members of the Gural family of the global real estate firm Newmark Knight Frank and the president of Newmark, James Kuhn.

A few firms have been floated as replacements for DKC (Global Strategy Group, for example, did some work with CSNY and is likely to continue, perhaps in a broader capacity), but none has yet been selected.

The U.S. government is also interested in recycling the spent nuclear fuel, as France, Japan, Russia and the U.K. do, under the terms of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, a consortium of 21 foreign countries as well as domestic nuclear technology firms formed to promote nuclear power.

Leeds Global Partners, the New York firm that helped reorganize the Education Department «and create policies and procedures that promote student achievement in Connecticut» sued the state Education Department for paying only part of $ 200,000 it claimed it was owed for work it did past the due date of the original contract.

Coleman went on to become a consultant for McKinsey, the global consulting firm, and though Zimba returned to do stints of factory work to help support his family in Detroit, eventually he headed to the prestigious math department at the University of California Berkeley for a PhD in mathematical physics.

We do see opportunities in emerging market companies, as well as in global firms with robust cash flows and dividend - growth potential.

So long as political pressures are «to do whatever it takes to create prosperity» at home in the short - run, governments will target spending to domestic firms (an increasingly squishy concept in a global world).

But firms that don't rely as much on global trade will be harmed less than those that do.

That's essentially what many consumers do since Americans earn approximately $ 48 billion in rewards points and miles each year through customer loyalty programs, yet about one - third of that amount — or $ 16 billion — goes unredeemed each year, according to a study by loyalty marketing information company Colloquy and global commerce firm Swift Exchange.

How does a global PR firm get positive stories into the press?

«While some firms have made strong submissions, most reports filed to date don't include enough information to show that companies are doing credible checks on their supply chains,» said Sophia Pickles, a campaigner for Global Witness.

José Luis Blasco, KPMG's global head of sustainability services, said the results proved considerable work still needed to be done to encourage firms to disclose information on the climate - related risks they face.

SebH (I do not like people hiding behind acronyms) is a firm believer in man - made global warming so let's leave him there and concentrate on «global cooling».

This colossal global biofuels industry exists only because resource depletion and climate Armageddon ideologies do not die easily — and because politicians lavish government mandates and billions of dollars in taxpayer and consumer subsidies on firms that have persuasive lobbyists and reliable track records for channeling millions of those dollars back to the politicians who keep the racket going.

As shown Sunday on CBS» 60 Minutes, a Global Witness investigator wearing a hidden camera met with 13 New York law firms and asked how them to get suspect money into the U.S.. All but one gave us suggestions on how we might do it using anonymously owned companies and trusts, which can be very easily set up in America, and used to move suspect money.

New York mayor and C40 Chair Michael R. Bloomberg's words were firm and self congratulatory, but that didn't make them any less true: cities seem indeed to be ahead of the global process, announcing measures constantly and achieving actual results.

Huge consulting firm Price Waterhouse Cooper talked to chief executives in advance of Davos, and global warming didn't even make the list of top concerns and priorities, falling far below regulation and taxation in CEOs» minds.

Gross points out that the program reflects a number of important trends, including (1) A Touch of Conscience (where most companies pay lip service to concerns like global warming or poverty); (2) The New Guilded Age (where fat and happy law firms think nothing of the absurdity of giving students a $ 60 allowance for lunch); (3) Defining Public Service Down (a situation where most people claim interest in community service but don't want the lower incomes that go with it, so they find a win - win situation like doing pro bono at a large firm); and (4) It's Good To Be the King (describing how partners set priorities and realize that the $ 15 lunch is quicker and gets associates back to billing more quickly and spares partners from socializing).

Rob Landry, head of global HR at Magna International and former chief operating officer at Gowling WLG Canada, is worried that law firms do not take the Big Four threat seriously and are too complacent.

And while a bigger website may not necessarily be better, I do think it represents an understanding that modern global business relationships have a strong virtual component, that law firm brands are constantly in flux, and that people's opinions are altered by online exposure.