Sentences with phrase «in a challenging environment for»

CEO Jean - Laurent Bonnafé observed that in a challenging environment for the entire banking industry, BNP Paribas succeeded in maintaining its client franchise, profitability and strong risk - management culture, while adapting the organization to changing market conditions and regulation.

In other words, you didn't conclude that you wanted to teach in a challenging environment for the sake of doing so.

The crowd of recent biotech IPOs, however, is telling us that we are still in a challenging environment for the public markets.

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«The challenging thing for investors is we're in this environment of muted returns, but it's accompanied by the risk of higher volatility,» Cooper says.

For companies committed to fostering both creativity and productivity in their office environment, leaders and office managers are faced with a challenge: How do you design an office where employees feel just as — if not more — productive as they do at home?

Nestle fell short of earnings expectations for 2017, citing «challenging environments» in their North American and Brazilian markets.

«After a challenging first half, the firm performed well for the remainder of the year as the operating environment improved,» CEO Lloyd Blankfein said in a statement.

So if a guy living inside a giant, high - tech tin can floating in the most hostile environment imaginable for a year can find the funny in his everyday life, certainly most of us can do the same despite our mundane professional challenges and personal annoyances.

Then, when Zynga officials presented its second - quarter earnings report on July 25, in which the company lowered its outlook «to reflect delays in launching new games, a faster decline in existing Web games due in part to a more challenging environment on the Facebook Web platform, and reduced expectations for Draw Something,» the company's stock price plunged, falling some 35 percent overnight.

Agrawal spoke with Entrepreneur about her Flood the Phones initiative, and the new challenges for business owners in a politically charged environment.

On a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.»

The left side of the brain, for instance, might have evolved to carry out routine operations — things like foraging for food — while the right side was kept free to detect and react rapidly to unexpected challenges in the environment — an approaching predator, for instance.

At the Challenge Festival, startups like as BaseTrace, which «uses DNA - based tracers to track where industrial fluids are going in large, complex environments» and Reliefwatch, a cloud - based system that uses smartphone technology to track inventory and diseases for healthcare organizations in the developing world, battled it out on stage for a grand prize of $ 150,000 in investment.

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

Since the 2010 Budget, the medium - term outlook for revenues has declined, reflecting, in part, slower economic growth in a challenging global environment.

«Last year, we delivered higher revenue and stronger pre-tax margins despite a challenging environment for our market - making businesses,» Lloyd C. Blankfein, Goldman's chairman and CEO, said in a statement.

This observation is important because it highlights the potential for an evolving global environment to complicate the challenge of crafting economic policy, and in particular, monetary policy.

GOIS eliminates time consuming challenges by accumulating and centralising all inventory data for real - time visibility in a distributed warehouse environment to prevent inventory loss.

He won an Apex Award for a book he wrote several years ago called Principled Profit, which was one of the first to challenge the conventional wisdom about the place of ethics and the environment in business successand that self - published book was republished by mainstream publishers in both India and Mexico.

The challenge has been in getting support and traction from middle management, those workers who have persevered for many years to get offices and secretaries and the perceived prestige that they bring in a traditional office environment.

Given the challenging economic environment and sharp increase in gasoline prices that coincided with this promotion, a premium price offer like Lobsterfest was less well - suited for the period.

As Tonbo explains, modern - day battlefields, critical infrastructures, unmanned reconnaissance, transport vehicles driving in the dark — all offer challenging environments for effective visualization.

In general, despite persistent macroeconomic challenges, the environment for corporate profitability has been reasonable, allowing business profitability to move forward, albeit at a less than robust pace.

For those who strive to think logically, the current market is a challenging environment in which to make money.

QUESTION: What are the challenges with portfolio management for clients in today's environment resulting from and characterized by 0 % or even emerging negative interest rates?

In an increasingly global and virtual environment, challenges for employees and managers will be to cultivate these personal relationships.

At GFI, you will enjoy a challenging and fulfilling career, supportive colleagues, a high degree of autonomy, and room for advancement in a rapidly evolving work environment.

I enjoyed the resources industry because it really epitomizes the concepts of practical design: you end up engineering things on the run to be «fit for purpose», making do with potentially less equipment and materials than you'd prefer in some fairly remote and challenging environments.

The Saxo Collection is a crucial part of the Bank's environment, and provides daily inspiration for the highly specialized individuals working here in order to challenge the status quo, innovate and push frontiers.

The Forum is a monthly venue for CIO's and CTO's to discuss topics of relevance in their daily lives, and has afforded these leaders the opportunity to develop a close network to discuss current challenges in a peer group environment on a confidential basis.

Under her leadership P&CB continued to deliver strong results in a challenging environment, winning numerous industry awards including the recent recognition by JD Power for the highest ranking in customer service among the big five banks.

Learning to strive together for excellence and unity in a competitive, challenging environment can help players grow and deepen their beliefs, he says.

Say we have a population of animals which has to meet some new challenge offered to it by an altered environment; there may be some individuals in the population whose development is changed by the environment in a way which makes them better able to deal with the challenge — they show a capacity for adaptive modification.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

The challenge may be delivered through physical conditions of race and environment, but the degree and nature of the human response can not be fully accounted for without in some way going behind these factors.

Sluggish demand compounds challenges in the operating environment for baking companies, Mr. Alton said.

It's challenging in this environment with the economy the way it is, but for a family of four or five to come in and have a great meal and a great time together for $ 30 is important to us.»

In 2015, the enthusiastic responses and turnout of 56 supply chain attendees representing 48 restaurant concepts illustrated the continued need and great appetite for establishing relationships and partnerships to help address key topics surrounding today's challenging economic and competitive environment.

When paired with other operating pressures, it's easy to see that the business environment will become even more challenging in the coming year for foodservice operators and it may start to weed out some of the weaker players.

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Avoiding meat for an entire day in itself is a challenge for most people, however we should also discuss the impacts that dairy and egg production has on the environment.

Thanks to the high ingress protection (IP) rating it can maintain the same non-stop high speed production even in the harsh, humid, sugar - laden environments of beverage canning, which would pose a challenge for most coding and marking systems.

For white and sparkling wine label materials, the challenge of condensation and exposure of labelled bottles to cold and wet environments in ice buckets and cold boxes is impacting film and paper choices.

Despite the challenging environment for the UK economy and the drinks industry, British regional brewer and pub operator Fuller Smith & Turner increased revenues by 8 % to # 227.7 m in the 52 weeks ended March 27th 2010 and adjusted profit before tax (excluding -LSB-...]

I am certain that it will be a great opportunity for all of our players to continue their development in such a competitive and challenging environment.

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Gather any group of sports fans together for very long in a gambling environment and inevitably challenges are leveled and wagers made — most extending far beyond the standard offerings of a sportsbook.

For LoVett the lawsuit has only added another distraction to an environment in which he already found learning to be a challenge.

The punishments for Evans and Cisse may spark a transition, because in any logical environment a challenge which seriously endangers the well - being of a person should always be dealt with more severely than a spit.

All of our programs offer a solid foundation of fundamental skill development for beginning players and a strong challenge for advanced players.court in a safe, professional and encouraging environment of learning and fun.Our goal is for all campers to work hard and feel good about themselves in a safe, disciplined, highly structured and motivating environment of learning and fun.