Sentences with phrase «of company men»

Given the picture's enduring popularity, there's really no point in rehashing the plot — OK, for the uninitiated (all two of you): Ripley (series star Sigourney Weaver) heads back into space and leads a team of military grunts against the nasty extra-terrestrials — but there's always room to rehash many of the highlights: Weaver's terrific performance in the central role; the contrast between the heroic Corporal Hicks (Michael Biehn) and the cowardly Private Hudson (Bill Paxton); the escalating villainy of company man Burke (Paul Reiser); scripter Cameron's ability to keep piling on confrontations and director Cameron's ability to milk them for maximum tension; and, of course, those wonderful alien creations.

Now he's a bit of a company man because of decisions he's made in other movies.

Not exact matches

Which means this uptick in Art of the Deal - style pushiness — if it's a real phenomenon — probably isn't a good thing for the men employing it, their negotiating partners, or their companies.

Liquor company Diageo tried to promote the progressive history of its Johnnie Walker brand in late February when it introduced its limited edition «Jane Walker» scotch whisky, its traditional Johnny Walker bottle with a female iteration of the brand's Striding Man logo.

Former Telus top man Joe Natale officially took over as CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. this year, signaling a return to stable leadership for the company after former CEO Guy Laurence was axed last fall.

I think for a long time, men have been building companies they believe solve the problems of women.

I was surprised when I learned that Kevin Johnson, CEO of America's most popular coffee brand Starbucks, decided to close more than half of the company's U.S. stores on May 29 to conduct racial bias training for staff, following the uproar over two black men — Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson — being arrested at a Philadelphia location.

And in a true sign of the times, the company lured Microsoft's Xbox boss and Vancouver native Don Mattrick — the most powerful man in video games — to take over as chief executive in July.

-- Com Mirza, «The $ 500 Million Man» and CEO of Mirza Holdings; failed in eight companies back to back and today, runs a nine - figure empire with over 600 employees

Co-founders of shoe company Jack Erwin, Ariel Nelson and Lane Gerson, didn't come from the fashion world, but they are now running a widely known men's shoe company.

After presenting, a man distinguished from a sea of business attire by his T - shirt and jeans approached him and told him that he had been thinking of ways companies could be run like cities.

While yoga was a passion of Lululemon founder Chip Wilson, the company's website also emphasizes the use of its men's apparel for running, biking, and playing golf.

The company has recruited a volunteer army of decidedly manly men to champion its products.

In the startup world, this means that companies that aim to improve the experiences of young white men get a heck of a lot more attention than those that spring from the experiences of pretty much anyone else.

The complainer has probably been running his company for decades and has had to deal with his fair share of swindlers, con men and cheats.

In so - called diversity reports detailing employee demographics, a number of major companies have confirmed that men vastly outnumber women at all levels.

This is not just the fate of one man — or the fate of one company, with its scores of clients, its $ 1.5 million investment, and the 19 American employees.

Jack Ma's fairytale journey from schoolteacher to China's richest man was the signature entrepreneurial storyline of 2014, an arc that culminated in his e-commerce company Alibaba completing the splashiest IPO in Wall Street history.

Connor's company is called Riff Raffs and he want to offer a range of natural grooming products including a dry shampoo for men, which currently does not exist on the market.

More women than men are being appointed to the boards of Australia's top 200 companies for the first time on record.

Recently, Equilar, a research firm that focuses on board recruitment, put together a Gender Diversity Index and predicts that the board of directors on the Russell 3000 list — the 3000 largest companies based in the United States — will achieve parity, with a membership made up of 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by the fourth quarter of 2055.

«For all of the Mark Zuckerbergs or the successful companies that we see that are founded by white men, how many have failed?»

But apparently, even in a world where the CEO of one of the world's biggest companies wears an identical grey T - shirt every day, getting dressed is still a head scratcher for many men.

Consider Subway, whose most prominent pitchman since 2000 has been Jared Fogle, a man whose sole accomplishment is losing 245 pounds on a diet consisting of the company's sandwiches.

U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled expanded criminal charges against three men in connection with a massive 2014 cyberattack against JPMorgan Chase & Co and the hacking of several other major financial companies and financial news publishers.

That's according to a new survey of more than 1,000 adult men conducted by clothing brand Perry Ellis ahead of the launch of its new personal styling service and reported by Fast Company.

In terms of gender, between 60 and 70 percent of employees at each company are men.

Whether it's a new product or something as benign as a store layout, you don't have to look hard to find examples of (largely white) men at tech companies siloing themselves off to develop The Next Big Thing, only to discover a major, avoidable flaw after the fact.

The researchers postulated that one of the (many) reasons men dominated the upper echelons of the company is that they were willing to try for more positions than females.

The product «has the potential to reduce the ecological impact of food production,» the company wrote in a blog post announcing the launch, which also features a promo video of a man stranded on a deserted island who's able to subsist solely on the creamy white liquid.

Deloitte is also considering eliminating the self - assessment component of the company's performance reviews, she says, since research shows that women tend to be unfairly critical of themselves and their accomplishments compared to men.

When a rifle company spent a couple hours taking an enemy machine gun position, losing half of its hundred men in the process, the defenders would be killed in the end, perhaps finished off with bayonets, and everybody at the front understood this.

Rather than climb a single corporate ladder like the company man of yore, you're more likely to spend your career scaling a professional jungle gym, maneuvering between projects, jobs, companies, industries, and locales.

In aggregate, the data showed that 3 % of the companies on this year's Fortune 500 are fully transparent about the demographics of their workforce — and 72 % of the senior executives at those 16 companies were white men.

With a lot of knowledge and a little money, one man made it his mission to help companies get site visitors.

Jobs's legendary attention to detail was well in evidence at NeXT where, Tacchi reports, the men's room dcor was done in the same shades of black, white, and gray originally available on the company's products.

Bilinkis is a man who takes his responsibility to society seriously, but he admitted to me that when he sold the company, the thought of hiding the proceeds from the sale in a foreign bank account flitted through his mind.

As the CEO of Marsh and McLennan, a giant global consulting firm, he advises the men and women leading Fortune 500 companies on the importance of what's known as «leading with purpose.»

Amazon has had success with original shows like «The Man in the High Castle» and «The Grand Tour,» and the company's aggressive spending highlights its ambition to become as much of a destination for high - quality shows as Netflix and HBO.

When tech entrepreneur Kieran Snyder analyzed performance reviews done by a diverse group of managers at a variety of companies a few years ago, she found that constructive feedback given to women included strong elements of «negative personality criticism» that were all but absent from the suggestions for men.

But while DSC originally began with the goal of making the experience of shopping for razors as painless as possible, the company has grown to cover a wide variety of men's grooming needs.

If you are a one man band or a smaller business, you may find it hard to access the best talent of a large support company, despite what their ads may say.

For all the grand visions of men on Mars, SpaceX's pitch is straightforward: The company says it will send your satellite into orbit for as little as a quarter of the going rate.

To add insult to injury, some of the camp - dwellers were so desperate for more time that they were reportedly scammed into paying a man who claimed to work with the property owner's management company and promised them an extension.

The Weinstein Company finally finds a buyer, the Boy Scouts make a bid to woo girls, and the woes of certain media men continue.

To get into this line of work, you can join a moving and hauling service in your area, or if you have a van or a truck, you can go independent and advertise moving and hauling services on your own, which is how the company Man with a Van started out.

In Canada, one of the companies spearheading the trend is Montreal - based Frank & Oak, a men's online clothing store specializing in premium basics like Oxford shirts and silk ties.

And even setting that aside, nearly 70 percent of the time a man receives a higher initial salary offer than does a woman vying for the same job title at the same company.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

As for the balls, that's where the story takes on the sheen of a Hollywood potboiler: a talented protege oversteps his bounds and is thrown out of the company he helped build alongside a man he considered a father figure.