Sentences with phrase «lots of businesses at»

What are key points to follow when developing an M&A strategy for acquiring lots of businesses at once?

Of course, cynics might say that a smaller show floor made attendance seem more robust; but the feedback I received from many exhibitors was that they still did a lot of business at this year's expo.

Not exact matches

«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

«It will add more complexity and more unfairness to the tax system and provide lots of litigation business to tax lawyers and add pages and pages to the Income Tax Act, already at 50,000 pages.

Justin McLeod: It started just because I was coming out of business school at the time, and I was about to go back into management consulting where you don't meet that many new people, you're traveling a lot.

After eight years in business we looked at the performance of our company in the last three or four years, we had a lot of growth ahead of us, but still we had enough maturity to know that our concept is very resilient, very solid.

A lot of businesses do not offer this service and according to statistics from a survey, a whopping 58 percent of customers at small businesses ask them to accept credit cards.

«The orientation should begin at the first click of the mouse when someone first goes on the company's website, so by the time the person comes in for the interview, they already know quite a lot about the organization,» says Richard Jordan, a business coach who has been responsible for reshaping the recruiting and orientation process at a number of technology firms.

«We're creating a lot of structure that wasn't there before, but it is by no means a long - term solution,» Dalton Hesley, a scientist working on reef restoration in the Caribbean at the University of Miami, told Business Insider for a recent story on coral restoration efforts.

When I look at the innovation that has come out of Silicon Valley, a lot of it has gone into B - to - C [business to consumers].

There's lots of places for you to find out about the best computers — but none with the focus on business that we have here at Inc..

I'm very inspired by Apple and if you look at our business model — we didn't steal Apple's — we definitely have a lot of inspiration with our «HQ Online,» which is our software that you can download and [where you can upload] your stats, and that connects to our online portal.

A lot of those questions were directed at Canadian Business.)

«With a lot of the ways banks have traditionally embraced the relationship - management side of business, they just can't reach these younger kids,» says David Unsworth, co-founder at Information Venture Partners, a Toronto fund specializing in fintech.

There are lots of new massage therapists out there who would jump at the chance to promote their business by dropping by your office to offer 10 minute chair massages.

At one level this is understandable since it is a dream for many, if not most, entrepreneurs and leaders to create a lot of personal wealth through a wildly successful exit from their business.

«A lot of people get discouraged about meditation because they like the idea of it, but then feel like they're «failing» at it because they just come face to face with the quality of distraction,» says Arden Pennell, Business Insider's program director.

Tacchi spent a total of four years at NeXT and Apple, and he learned a lot about how to run a business (and how not to).

That moment encapsulates a lot about what is at the center of Cole's belief system about people and about how to do business: Focus on the positive, even across a wide experiential or cultural background.

I see a lot of people «bouncing around» and just dropping business cards to every person at the event.

Short version, it involves waking up at 5 a.m., lots of exercise, and taking business calls from his bathtub.

While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, Branson notes: «The principles are the same and still fit what I am good at: finding markets that need shaking up, coming up with ways to make people's lives better, then finding brilliant people to bring it to life.

«Think about it: If you retire at 60, and you live to 100, that's a hell of a lot of time,» says Gratton, the London Business School professor.

It takes a lot to develop this type of relationship, but those who do will certainly succeed at building a business from referrals.

A battle over how players and team owners will split the league's $ 4 billion in annual revenue, which led to the suspension of exhibition and regular - season games through at least Nov. 14, is bringing collateral damage to a range of businesses counting on professional basketball events to survive, including caterers, bars, stores, parking lots — and even the self - employed masseurs who tend to players.

At Microsoft's annual Build conference in Redmond, Wash., CEO Satya Nadella explained that business meetings are not a «one - time thing» but rather require a lot of follow up by employees after they conclude.

For a lot of businesspeople, this is a nonissue — they detest planning so much that there's no chance at all they'd forgo actually doing business and merely plan it.

«There's lots of additional content to consider, such as everyday savings offers, general business advice and the availability of things like working capital lines of credit and installment loans,» says Richard Tambor, senior vice president and general manager at New York City - based American Express Business business advice and the availability of things like working capital lines of credit and installment loans,» says Richard Tambor, senior vice president and general manager at New York City - based American Express Business Business Finance.

We're not all in a position to spend a lot of money, of course; if you're starting a business from home you might very reasonably want to limit your outlay at the outset.

«There are a lot of naturally occurring dog diseases — especially psychiatric diseases — that are very similar to human diseases,» Hyun Ji Noh, a geneticist at the Broad Institute and the lead author on the study, told Business Insider.

At the moment about 90 % of its business is in the education sector, which means it has a lot of room to grow elsewhere.

Quite a lot, explains Leslie A. Perlow, a professor of leadership at Harvard Business School, in a recent HBR blog post.

That suggests more turnover at the upper echelons of business — which, it's fair to say, is a very good thing for a whole lot of powerful women.

Thurman says that as people in business, «we should take heart because, although a lot of people who consider themselves progressive and spiritual feel like business is something very lowly, that it's about just making money, the vocation of business can be extraordinarily honorable and has the ability to make a long - lasting positive impact on our society and world at large.»

«DevFacto does a lot of empowering of its people,» says Westerlund, who, as director of project development at Queen's School of Business Centre for Business Venturing, works with BSME firms.

«We expect to be cutting a lot out of Dodd - Frank because, frankly, I have so many people, friends of mine, who have nice businesses who can't borrow money,» Trump said at a meeting with CEOs.

You see, you need to look at a lot more than that first purchase in determining the actual value of the mailing to your business.

«At the same time, we've learned a lot from our customers, in terms of care, and empathy and service, and we plan to bring these lessons to larger and larger businesses, as well as more small and medium enterprises, over time.

Workflow is a word that makes a lot of people fall asleep at their desks (or click away from an article), but it's actually a vital part of many giant businesses.

For me, though I learned a lot in college, the skill I continue to use on a daily basis in my consulting business is the ability to look at my own argument or point of view and examine why someone else might have a different perspective.

Business owners are popular targets for identity thieves, he says, because they typically have access to substantial lines of credit, they're engaged in a lot of transactions that could put their information at risk, and their personal and business finances are often inteBusiness owners are popular targets for identity thieves, he says, because they typically have access to substantial lines of credit, they're engaged in a lot of transactions that could put their information at risk, and their personal and business finances are often intebusiness finances are often intertwined.

We sabotage our energy reserves (and waste a lot of time and money) by trying to fix the business one incident at a time.

The speech, given by Smith to students and faculty at the university's Terry College of Business, covered a lot of ground, but it frequently returned to security issues that kept the former CEO awake at night — foremost among them was the company's large database.

«If I were to buy the Toys» R «Us business in Canada, I would be buying it at a discount, I'd be buying the leases at a discount, and I'd be buying the inventory at a discount, because I think there's a lot of risk to the business in the long term, even if it's doing OK today.»

That ability to think for himself has won Wallace lots of fans at Blackstone, where he's one of the most senior executives in its buyout business.

Spending 40 hours or so per week at your day job doesn't leave a whole lot of other time to build your business and have a personal life.

A lot of the company's business was in hooking together PCs at small businesses so teams could share information.

There are a lot of people who aren't chefs but want to get into the food - truck business, which looks like it has a lot of life left — at least the next five years.

For that reason, Northrop shares edged up only 0.3 % in early trading Monday, suggesting that, while the deal made lots of sense over the long term, the price is pretty full and the buyer has less practice than some at integrating new businesses, especially big ones.

As CIBC vice-chair Jim Prentice, a former federal environment minister, noted at a business forum in Lake Louise, Alta., in November, «a lot of assumptions have been based on the seemingly insatiable appetite of the United States for energy.