Sentences with phrase «group than the group»

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In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

Better yet, when tested on the same material thirty days later, the interleaving group scored 76 percent better than the block - taught group.

Wednesday's incident is damaging more to Southwest's public perception than evidence of any systemic issue, Teal Group Fleet analyst Richard Aboulafia said.

But Senator Investment Group cut its position by more than half when it sold 875,000 shares and Third Point trimmed its holding by selling 400,000 shares to own 5 million.

«So folks just aren't making individual decisions as much and advisors are more making longer - term sector and strategic investments than saying let's make a play for this one name or the others» earnings,» Tabb Group's Larry Tabb told CNBC.

That's so that the tweaks that are made spread to the entire organism, rather than affecting only a small group of cells.

May 2 - U.S. aircraft parts maker Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc posted a lower - than - expected profit on Wednesday, and said it was spending $ 650 million to buy European peer Asco Industries NV to boost sales to Airbus Group SE.

A pro tip for public policy advocacy groups: If you're looking for attention, it helps if your problem appears massively huge and your solution impossibly cheap — preferably less than a cup of coffee a week.

For example, Uber sold new shares to SoftBank Group in January in a deal that valued the ride hailing startup at $ 48 billion, significantly higher than the nearly $ 4 billion valuation at which Google had bought its stake in the company five years ago.

Shares in South Perth - based Noble Mineral Resources have surged more than 37 per cent on news Chinese group Zhongrun is to invest $ 87.7 million and take a 42 per cent stake in the company.

Both groups then rated how competent they thought their co-worker would view them, and those who were told they asked for guidance expected their colleague to think less of them than those who were told they worked on the problem alone.

The group's outperformance relative to the staples, down more than 11 percent this year, is currently near two standard deviations outside the average for the past 30 years.

«There's a deeper and more luminous group of properties targeted at Millennial females than there is for Millennial males,» says Forman.

Advocacy group Food & Water Watch says private companies charge 59 percent more than public utilities, or $ 185 more per year, per household.

We can entertain ourselves behind screens; and, perhaps the thing most severely changing group dynamics is texting rather than picking up the phone and having a conversation or communicating, if you call it that, through Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest — you name it.

In mid-February, investment giant Capital Group more than doubled its Lululemon stake to 12.7 million shares, or about 11 % of the company.

Environmental and tribal groups are criticizing an administrative law judge's recommendation that Minnesota regulators should approve Enbridge Energy's proposal for replacing its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline if it follows the existing route rather than the company's preferred route.

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein last week highlighted the client - coverage push in his annual investor letter, noting that it had resulted in more than 75 new mandates across a variety of industry groups and that the firm was 30 % of the way toward reaching its goal of covering 1,000 new clients.

Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

Carbon Business Group has announced the purchase of Pursuit Group, adding to a number of acquisitions in the past year worth more than $ 2 million combined.

I have a particular passion for understanding how to transform a group of individuals into a high - performing team, as a great team does more for a company's results than anything else.

In 2015, U.S. consumers spent $ 143 million on refrigerated ready - to - drink coffees and teas — nearly 300 percent more than two years prior, according to the Specialty Food Association, a nonprofit trade group.

Crude extended losses briefly in post-settlement trade, after industry trade group the American Petroleum Institute released weekly inventory figures showing a larger - than - expected crude stockpile build.

Chinese direct investment in the European Union jumped by 77 per cent last year to more than 35 billion euros (US$ 38 billion), compared with 2015, while EU acquisitions in China fell for the second consecutive year, according to the Rhodium Group.

Running speed was reduced for both groups of phone users in comparison to non-users, while subjects who used their phones for solely music performed at a higher speed and intensity than any of the other groups.

But being truly customer - centric is more than just a press release, says Justyn Howard, CEO of Sprout Social, a company that provides social media management software (that Firebrand Group has been using for years).

Western countries and human rights groups have denounced Duterte for an anti-drug campaign that has included more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings by masked gunmen on motorcycles and others.

Maureen Atkinson, a retail analyst with J.C. Williams Group, noted that a colder - than - usual spring contributed in part to consumers» hesitation to spend on items such as clothing.

LONDON, April 12 - Man Group, the world's largest listed hedge fund, reported a 3 percent rise in total assets in the first - quarter after net inflows of $ 4.8 billion more than offset performance losses.

Oleg Deripaska has agreed to reduce his shareholding in En + Group to less than 50 percent, the company said in a statement on Friday.

Bogle has always adhered to the belief that one of the greatest determinants of investing success is keeping it simple — he has even criticized Vanguard Group on select occasions since retiring for launching more funds (both traditional index and ETF) than he thinks are necessary.

Listed developer Peet and the state's second - biggest homebuilder, ABN Group, will develop more than 600 housing lots in Midvale after purchasing a parcel of land from the Department of Housing for $ 18 million.

Shares of insurers MetLife Inc, American International Group and Prudential Financial Inc declined after disability insurance provider Unum Group reported a lower - than - expected profit.

While the project is massive, it's just one of the Aquilinis» many high - profile, highly profitable ventures: Through Aquilini Investment Group, now more than 50 years old, the family controls one of British Columbia's biggest development conglomerates, as well as its NHL team, the Rogers Arena, blueberry and cranberry farms, restaurants and some $ 80 - million worth of vineyard properties in Washington state.

Trump reportedly owns more than three - quarters of Trump Old Post Office LLC, the leaseholder, according to advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

A second group of participants judged the profiles, and the result was that profile writers thought the judges would like them more than they actually did.

With a polarized electorate, both parties believe they benefit more by turning out core supporters than from courting a shrinking group of swing voters.

One study by Harris Group found that 72 percent of millennials prefer to spend more money on experiences than on material things, and I (Emmie Martin, Money reporter) can't argue with the majority.

The Silverman brothers already have numerous connections to college officials through friends, alumni groups and former and current classmates, meaning the company can use warm leads rather than having to rely on cold - calling in new markets.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. / BOSTON, May 2 - Goldman Sachs Group Inc leaders said more than 87 percent of shares were voted in favor of its executive pay at its annual shareholder meeting, and that a stock plan for employees was approved by more than 65 percent of votes cast.

And the issue seems to be something much graver than a small group of conspiracy theorists shouting while covering their ears.

«In 2016, renewables received about 100 times more in federal subsidies than nuclear plants,» Michael Shellenberger, founder of the Berkeley, California - based, pro-nuclear advocacy group Environmental Progress, wrote in an email to Grist.

Recent research has looked into the health consequences of that mismatch, tracking a group of study subjects for more than six years.

Rather than asking about specific needs, make sure the group is entertained with anything from interactive demos where members of the group can test or sample products, says Proeber.

Research shows that a lack of diversity is drastically affecting the retention of underrepresented groups, which costs the tech industry more than $ 16 billion every year.

They had founded more startups than the next four groups (from Britain, China, Taiwan, and Japan) combined.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

Before Yang designed the collection, she spent two years traveling around the country meeting with employees, observing them at work, getting feedback from union groups and reading through responses to more than 5,000 employee surveys.

To date, the group has provided more than 3 million nutrition packets to children suffering from malnourishment.

«In a study of health care providers, we found that those who used WOOP were significantly more engaged with their work and less stressed than members of a control group,» Oettingen writes for HBR.org.