Sentences with phrase «make large business»

You tend to make large business purchases and can easily meet the spending requirements to earn the card's bonuses.

They can't see what they need to change to make the larger business work.

Not exact matches

The National Business Group on Health last year surveyed 133 large companies employing 15 million Americans about their benefit practices: An astounding 90 % said they expect to make at least some telemedicine services available to their workers this year.

While ending world hunger is a laudable ambition for agri - tech, another driver is the simpler goal of making the business more profitable for farmers, many of whom are struggling to manage larger farms with fewer hands.

The report also points out that Dreamers start businesses at more than twice the rate of the general population, in large part because they are used to making ends meet without help from the government.

After all, several of the country's largest businesses were were made possible by immigrants — including Apple, Amazon, Google, and Yahoo.

Berkshire has more than 90 operating units, including large businesses such as the BNSF railroad, Geico auto insurance and Berkshire Hathaway Energy utilities, and smaller businesses making Dairy Queen ice cream, Duracell batteries, Fruit of the Loom underwear, Ginsu knives and the World Book encyclopedia.

If your business model revolves more around river tours and large bodies of water, the mighty kraken, complete with lots of morbid jokes about your service to the creature, ferrying tourists to feed its unending hunger for human flesh, may do a better job of making your employees feel like they are part of something greater.

One of the hardest tasks for small businesses is making sure it has the skills and equipment on board to allow it to compete with other larger companies in the same field.

Wholesale orders make up 80 percent of their business along with large orders for special events and mail order.

Businesses large and small have been making the case that they can't afford paying more for labour going back to when laws were first proposed to curb the use of seven year - olds in coal mines or put an end to 16 - hour workdays.

Becoming a renowned leader in one's respective field of business, enjoying the reputation of a desirable employer and earning large profits make for the holy trinity of modern entrepreneurship ideals, but only a selected few -LSB-...]

In Google's case, the fact that the company is one of the world's largest advertising businesses and Chrome is the leading browser by market share makes some publishers and advertisers nervous.

We don't have a tradition of growing medium and large businesses out of small businesses, and that's a mindset shift we have to make.

Youthful naiveté and a keen eye for market gaps led Minhas and her brother to start making a private - label line of spirits for bars and restaurants, and then to move into budget beer; today their Calgary - based conglomerate includes one of the country's largest independent alcohol businesses, plus ventures in construction and media.

Consumers today care about a company's moral compass, the reasons it's in business, how its products are made and delivered and how it views its place in the larger retail industry.

He brought that same fearlessness to his career in business, transforming several software companies into growth champions before tackling his biggest challenge yet — to make Oracle the largest cloud - computing player in the world.

Derek Thompson — The Atlantic: As a business columnist and editor for The Atlantic, Thompson walks a fine line trying to make complex stories accessible for a large audience.

«A bigger move, say outside of a 20 percent band, might destroy confidence and make it harder for small business to raise money, or even to sell to larger companies who might be more worried about their viability, or ability to deliver on orders placed.»

Only a couple of weeks earlier in October, Henry Kravis of KKR (KKR) made a $ 100 million commitment to Columbia Business School, a pledge thought to be the third largest gift ever handed over to a businessBusiness School, a pledge thought to be the third largest gift ever handed over to a businessbusiness school.

The crux of the problem, Richard Mattoon, a senior economist at the Chicago Fed and a lecturer on real estate at Northwestern University told Canadian Business, is that dividends and capital gains make up a much larger share of top earners» pay than they did in the past — and that part of their compensation package tends to be very volatile.

Last year, women made up more than half of newly appointed HR executives, a role that's typically responsible for ensuring a company can acquire and develop the staff it needs to execute the larger business plan.

William Ungar, a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to New York from Poland in 1946, got the idea for the business while working on the assembly floor of the F. L. Smithe Machine Co., a large factory that made envelope manufacturing equipment.

Evans» $ 50 million gift is just one of many very large commitments made to business schools this year.

After seven years running a service business that helps large organizations with multiple locations manage social media and online reputation, my company and I decided to make a leap into the mobile app world.

Uday Hegde, CEO of USEReady, a firm that helps businesses leverage big data and BI technologies, shares why business leaders struggle to implement BI,» The problem is driving adoption in a large organization, as the data needs to be something each stakeholder can make use of.

While there are larger, more geographically diversified operations making a push into the province, the more weighted a business is to Alberta, the more exposed it will be to the province's growth.

My point is this: No matter how passionately you believe in your business, you've got to make the numbers work before you can turn your dream into the reality of a large and profitable company.

The small details of running a business, managing workplace culture and making large investment decisions were not in his purview, according to those who worked at the firm.

«Seymour Schulich had gotten me involved putting some money into the Schulich School of Business, where I'd done my MBA, and that would have been the first what I'd call «large donation'that I made,» McEwen recalled in an interview.

Advances in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies have lowered the price of a phone solution only previously available to large businesses, making it a viable solution for small businesses.

His goal, therefore, is to make Ashley Madison — which is owned and operated by his business, Avid Life Media Inc., ranked 185th on the PROFIT 500 — into the world's largest dating site.

We're the fourth largest fixed - income business in the world and we would say that that business is fundamentally one where active management makes a lot of sense.

Stars Group said the «pivotal» deal will make it a bigger player in the fast - growing business of online sports betting and become the world's largest online gaming company.

Some major institutions may have to divest assets, and Canaccord with Genuity is a larger more profitable firm that could make acquisitions to grow our businesses.

A third contingent, the smallest, make a wholesale switch to the new technology or business model, attempting to make smaller margins on a larger number of transactions, with mixed results.

It doesn't make the drugs itself; it leases medicines from companies, conducts phase 1 and 2 testing, and then it leases the drug to a larger business to conduct phase 3 testing.

The other CEOs in the group saw how Steve could partner with a large digital technology company that generated printable content like Adobe or Microsoft, in a way that would make his business the standard by which people turned their online digital information into hard copy.

The space is available immediately and can house about 1,400 employees, making it the single largest sublease space available in San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Business Times, which first reported the story.

(See Making Student Debt Less Sticky) While the very uniqueness of each loan and each employee's situation makes it inefficient and uneconomical for any one business to take on the problem, in the aggregate this problem is a large source of growing concern for more than 40 million student and parent debtors (as well as their employers).

And while large product and service changes can be costly and will not always make business sense, smaller changes to marketing and product language can often make a big difference in setting customer expectations and improving satisfaction.

VF earlier this year landed a deal to sell its licensed sports business to online retailer Fanatics but investors have been clamoring for a larger deal that would make the company a bigger player in a growing category.

Mike Schroll, the VP of business development for PC Pitstop, a creator of security and performance software, is a former hacker and made his living professionally hacking into and identifying vulnerable areas in the cyber infrastructure of large organizations.

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.»

Calgon Carbon CEO Randy Dearth said in a statement the deal makes his company a «part of a much larger, stronger global company to fully support our» businesses.

The large influx of cash can help launch your business, just make sure you can stay in the driver's seat.

«The moves that we've made are in large part because we looked at these businesses through a new capital lens,» said one executive involved in the business's strategy who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- A group of small brokerages and large commodities companies convinced lawmakers to tweak a rule that they say would have made derivatives trading more expensive for them and sent more business to Wall Street banks that already dominate the market.

Microsoft may also integrate its business software with LinkedIn's growing business of providing sales professionals with contacts and information to help make sales to large companies.

The challenge for small businesses is that their small business numbers (establishments with 1 to 49 employees) is not made up entirely of small businesses — it can include small locations of large companies.