Sentences with phrase «more firm positioning»

Marketing is more firm positioning and branding while business development is focused on attorney training and bringing in new business.

Not exact matches

With more than 100 clients, this recruitment firm (No. 360) specializes in midlevel and executive positions.

Older workers, in contrast, are paid about 10 to 25 percent less at young firms, because they are likely to be taking more senior positions that would be more highly compensated at larger firms in exchange for equity in a startup.

Launched in 2001, Medallia was in the enviable position of being pitched by select VCs (the startup closed a $ 35 million Series A in 2012) and had the more enviable ability to be choosy as to which firm to work with (according to Crunchbase, Sequoia is their outside funding source of choice).

Companies with women in senior level positions tend to do better than those without any gender diversity, Smith pointed out, citing research by First Round Capital, a major VC firm with more than 300 portfolio companies.

That places Vargas in a similar position to a rising number of Silicon Valley workers brought in by tech giants to work on third - party firm contracts, not only janitorial services and caterers that can be found in any corporate campus, but more specific roles created for contractors as projects evolve.

After PayPal: Regarded as a very useful person to have around at a start - up, Rabois went onto hold senior positions at LinkedIn (more on that in a minute), Max Levchin's Slide (a company responsible for slideshows and animations in social networks) and electronic payment firm Square (founded by Twitter's Jack Dorsey).

After acquiring more than 65 tech firms in the past five years, the mercurial CEO announced in September that he would be «buying chip companies,» suggesting that Oracle is positioning itself for what Bill Tatham, head of Toronto - based enterprise software firm NexJ Systems, describes as «another level of world domination.»

Elevating more women and underrepresented minorities to positions of power is becoming a business imperative for the firm, with clients demanding diversity in their legal teams, Erickson says.

Still, the online retail giant is in a «unique position» compared to other tablet makers in that the company is more concerned with getting more subscribers to its Prime subscription service than pushing its Fire tablets, the firm explained.

The letter urges five overall guiding principles and 10 best practices in order to get more women into the field generally and leadership positions, including: getting executives and boards to make gender diversity a priority; establishing mentorship programs that connect women with life sciences executives; and doing a better job tracking where female talent goes within biopharma firms, among other suggestions.

«High frequency traders were first, but the new and more threatening class of entrant deploys capital and takes positions to support market making,» the two firms said in a joint report.

She also said that these VCs, along with her own firm, have more actively begun steering their most promising companies to «modern venture firms that have women and people of color in investing positions.»

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

Earnings season is about to get underway, too, which is more than likely going to show a fourth straight quarterly decline in profits — and if firms aren't seeing bottom line leverage, they may be slow to dole out new positions, or much in the way of payroll hikes.

In Los Angeles, that kind of space has been specifically positioned for more creative firms, rather than those in fields like insurance, law and finance, according to John D. Zanetos, senior vice president for brokerage services at the commercial real estate services firm CBRE in Los Angeles.

Amazon Web Services is the leader of the $ 14.4 billion cloud computing market with more than 31.8 percent market share, but Azure has been growing fast and holds the No. 2 position with 13.9 percent of the market, according to 2017 third quarter estimates by research firm Canalys.

• Learn how to more effectively grow family office relationships • Become more conscious of the trends affecting Family Offices • Better comprehend the services offered by single and multi-family offices • Understand why regular marketing practices will slow you down when working with family offices • Become able to raise more capital from HNW wealth management firms and family office institutions • Position your firm or career in line with family office trends and industry challenges

In addition, as a client's need changes, they will be positioned to transition to the more traditional services these firms offer.

To rail against carbon pricing, when most Canadians want something done, is to open the door to more burdensome regulations and a worse competitive position for Canadian firms abroad.

In his first year as LPL Financial's CEO, Dan Arnold earned $ 7.4 million, substantially more than the $ 5.4 million his predecessor earned in his last year in that position, according to the firm's proxy statement filed with the Securities and...

I'm a firm believer that on the OL, more than any othe position, consistency trumps talent.

saying that the keynesian conception is about spending what you earn is the opposite of what it stands for (its actually what you haplessly describe as the neoclassical position) beyond the even more meaningless claim that wenger adheres to it... keynes broke with the idea that the economy was simply a collection of perfectly informed individuals and firms responding rationally to price incentives generated by market forces and that the big variables that frame an economies performance — output, employment, price level, wages, etc — tend to move in cycles and are shaped by decisions and judgements made under hugely uncertain conditions that if left to markets generate bad outcomes..

For most of the woman's menstrual cycle, the cervix tends to remain firm, and is found to be positioned low and it is closede But, as the woman nears ovulation, then cervix becomes even softer, and it rises and opens when responding to the increased levels of estrogen that are present at ovulationo When a woman gets pregnant her cervix will tend to rise and thus the phrase high cervix pregnancyc The high cervix during pregnancy also becomes softer than normala The high cervix and pregnancy are the two features that the doctors associate with each othere Read more on friable cervix

Prior to that he spent more than 30 years in advertising, first in senior management positions (CFO and COO) at two of the largest advertising agencies in Philadelphia, then as a financial and management consultant to small and mid-sized advertising, public relations and marketing firms.

I am increasing the funding for UK Trade and Investment by over 25pc a year, so it can help more firms, build the capacity of British chambers overseas, and maintain our country's position as the number one destination in Europe for foreign investment and we are launching a new # 1.5 bn export finance facility to support the purchase of British exports.

Instead of taking a firm position on the side of the Palestinians and pressing the point of principle, they press the weaker party to make more and more concessions.

The total boost for 45 of the bureau's 61 positions would top more than $ 2 million, and comes after the Stringer got an external firm to review what similar positions pay on Wall Street, at city nonprofits and at other sizable public pension funds.

The grand jury indictment said he used that position to mask bribes and kickbacks, including more than $ 3 million earned for referring asbestos sufferers to the firm from a doctor whose medical research secretly received $ 500,000 in state funds at Silver's direction, as well as other benefits.

Although more than 60 percent of survey respondents rated a research - oriented faculty position as one of their most attractive career paths, more than one - third rated other careers as more attractive, including research in government, established firms or startups, as well as teaching and other non-research careers.

The medium - firm mattresses may put less pressure on the shoulders and hips, allowing for a more natural sleeping position, often in the fetal position.

In a study aptly titled «The Elephant in the Valley,» researchers polled more than 200 women in top positions at Silicon Valley tech firms.

Once I got a firm grip on my position at work, I started getting much more interested in girls.

Synopsis: Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) accepts a high - powered position at a New York law firm headed by legal shark John Milton... [MORE]

Now suppose further that «Headhunter» came to him and offered him the position of CEO of a bigger firm with lots more money and benefits.

Gerard has been working for a consulting firm in Stamford, Connecticut, but is looking for a new, more fulfilling position.

He holds a management position with one of San Diego's top public affairs firms, bringing to his clients more than a dozen years of experience heling many of California's top businesses and public agencies achieve their objectives by building consensus and seeking creative solutions.

Lexus has positioned the ES in the comfort luxury segment, with an emphasis on interior amenities, quietness, and ride quality, [4] in contrast with more firm - riding sport sedans.

Put simply: No firm knows more than Smith Publicity when it comes to effective book publicity, author marketing and positioning of self - published books and authors.

The deal marks a new step for the Japanese firm as more companies look to position themselves in the highly competitive tablet and e-reader markets in the wake of the success of Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle.

Imagine, if you will, one or more firms (troubles often spread) with positions that are many multiples of ours attempting to liquidate in chaotic markets and under extreme, and well - publicized, pressures.

Graham's request for 2.0 or more simply reflects a position that a firm unquestionably has what it needs to pay back debts over the next 12 months.

Our panels were also prepared to address proactively positioning their firm for regulatory change, Read more -LSB-...]

The portfolio manager of the AlphaNorth Partners Fund (hedge fund), and the AlphaNorth Growth Fund and AlphaNorth Resource Fund (mutual funds), noted that while short positions are a relatively small part of the firm's strategy, they are being used more these days.

The Firm will also monitor the positions it takes in ETF holdings to ensure that it never holds more than 3 % of the outstanding voting shares of the ETF.

Sometimes, new fund managers will get lucky by taking positions in smaller firms with more volatile stock prices, or they may pick some larger capitalization firms whose stocks might appreciate dramatically in the short run.

(d) If one or more valid additional nominations are received by the Recording Secretary on or before July 15, the Recording Secretary shall, on or about August 1, mail by First Class Mail to each member in good standing a ballot listing all of the nominees for each position in alphabetical order, with the name of the State in which they reside, together with a blank envelope and a return envelope addressed to the independent auditing firm marked, «Ballot» and bearing the name of the member to whom it was sent.

This is an interesting move by Qatar Airways as it firms up the airline's hold on the oneworld alliance (it now owns ~ 10 % or more of 4 oneworld airlines) and must surely make American Airlines» position a little more uncomfortable.

And while the JRPG genre — nay, the Japanese development scene in general — scurries around trying to make itself more relevant or rides the coattails of greatness, Square Enix demonstrates exactly how it got into its respected position — the firm keeps a cool head, returns to a tattered blueprint and approaches it from a fresh direction to create one of the most adept, alluring and downright addictive RPG experiences in recent memory.

wouldn't some take the holding firm on a position for more than a decade as «dogmatism»?