Sentences with phrase «of modern company»

In «Principles of Modern Company Law» (8th ed.)

(Gower & Davies, Principles of Modern Company Law, Eighth Edition) Section 172 Applied to the «Fast Fashion» Industry

Training and development are an important part of the modern company's strategic growth plans.

Creating an outstanding customer experience must remain the goal of every modern company.

As information technology has become an increasingly critical aspect of a modern companies» operations, potential buyers have intensified their scrutiny of the seller's IT systems.

Not exact matches

«The gig economy is typified by irregularity, meaning there is no job security and instead of having a boss who trains you and helps you improve, your performance is rated on a scale of 1 - 5 stars by strangers who have no understanding of your growth as a professional,» explains Scot Wingo, founder and CEO of Spiffy, a modern on - demand company.

Instead of gigs, modern on - demand companies are hiring their workers.

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

As part of that reinvention of McDonald's, Easterbrook has pledged to turn the chain into a «modern, progressive burger company» and recently said it would start using fresh instead of frozen beef for its Quarter Pounders in 2018.

New health tech innovations from companies like Amazon, Alphabet, and Apple could help to incentivize and drive the adoption of modern tech solutions as they explore entry points into the lucrative healthcare market.

But Area 51's approach will differ from that of other prominent incubators, like Y Combinator, where startups trade a stake in their company's equity for a modern workspace and mentorship.

The new office, referred to internally as «HQ2,» is an exemplar of many of the modern trends in workplace design, and given Hootsuite's stated intention to stay a proudly Canadian company, it's filled with nods to its home and native land.

Hundreds of thousands of IBMers brought us into the modern computer age, leasing and servicing those room - size mainframes to companies around the world.

However, someone needs to point out a few of the gaps opening in the seemingly impregnable reputation of the modern - day version of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd — now known as BHP Billiton.

He gave it a name and a face: a modern Robin Hood helping the working class by stealing from himself — and perhaps from shareholders of other companies whose bosses are now also putting employees ahead of profits: #imwithdan!

In a statement to Fortune, an Uber representative said the company will «continue fighting this judgement in the hope that Italians will be able to enjoy the benefits of modern technology that provides reliable transportation at the push of a button.»

Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures noted that some firms, including hers, have begun steering their most promising portfolio companies toward «modern venture firms that have women and people of color in investing positions,» according to TechCrunch:

It has already invested in some companies that graduated from the Labs incubator, including Modern Meadow, a New Jersey — based startup that's biofabricating leather without the need for animals, and 3Scan, a company that enables 3D analysis of tumors and organs.

The LEGO Group is one of the only modern businesses (let alone toy companies) that has designed a product meant to be passed down from generation to generation.

While it offers benefits and perks like any modern creative company, Adobe's is a culture that avoids micromanaging in favor of trusting employees to do their best.

The company boasts all the trappings of a modern tech firm: The 54,000 - square - foot office in Montreal's up - and - coming Point - Saint - Charles neighbourhood has an indoor halfpipe for skateboarders like De Baene, the obligatory foosball tables and a full - time barista.

Understanding this issue requires a deep dive into the intricacies of the modern workplace, including equity and access, so companies can achieve inclusivity and reframe the metrics of «successful diversification.»

So happy, they may even be willing to take a pay cut to work for a dog - friendly company: a survey conducted by Modern Dog magazine revealed that 65 % of readers would take a job for less money if it meant they could bring their dog to work.

At the end of February, the company's chairman and CEO Edward W. Stack announced that Dick's Sporting Goods would no longer sell «assault - style rifles, also referred to as modern sporting rifles.»

Another reason for the growing firm - to - firm pay gap, according to the authors of the study, could be that in the modern economy companies have become so specialized and lean that some attract high - skilled workers and others mostly lower skilled ones.

I've been watching and admiring a lot of these «modern media companies» along with others like BuzzFeed, Vice, and Vox that have successfully built large media properties in a modern world the same way I would have.

At the same time, the company's appeal to Millennials and other modern users of health care has set it apart.

The modern call centre was arguably born in the 1970s, when automatic - call - distributor devices enabled companies to route incoming calls to a specific group of agents.

A native of South Africa with an MBA, a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, and an ambitious, impatient temperament, he brought modern management to the venerable company.

Instead of working in some modern office tower for a world - class company, the pair spent their summer inside a converted brick duplex in Oakland, California.

Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital and an investor in startup Modern Fertility, says the number of pitches he sees from companies addressing women's health care has increased about 10 times in the past five years.

After playing a two - year game of chicken with management, bondholders forced the company to wipe out shareholders and legally separate the Lake Erie operation — the most modern integrated steel plant in North America — from the Hamilton mill and its related obligations.

Companies like Okta have essentially built modern - day versions of identity management software that work with various cloud apps and services and not just the software in a company's internal data centers.

«To continue to offer a great product that addresses your unique needs, we're going to focus our development efforts on our modern, Web - based versions of TweetDeck,» the company said on its blog.

I chatted with Ryan Zagata of Brooklyn Bicycle Company to understand how the humble bicycle has spurred a modern lifestyle industry.

Zoa, as Modern Meadow's product is called, looks and performs like leather, but is created in the company's lab through a process of DNA editing that grows collagen — the protein in skin — from yeast.

For instance, last summer, the company launched the Novello, a modern, brightly coloured desk chair meant to offer «an innovative and dynamic expression of material science that synchronizes the seat and back with every movement.»

Pepperdata's technology is essentially a sort - of real - time analytics tool intended to help a company's IT operations staff better track and improve the performance of modern - day software apps so they more efficiently consume computer hardware resources, like CPU and RAM usage, explained Suchter.

Since the beginning of the Internet, there have been companies that have decided for whatever reason that they are going to stay the course with the designs and product they have, as opposed to moving toward more modern standards.

He gives these companies a shot of capital with which to try to prove that their technology works in hopes that they will then be able to attract conventional VC funding — as Modern Meadow managed to do this past June.

The latest figures are another indication of a key trend in modern IT, and one that's got traditional server makers — the Dells, the Lenovos (lnvgy), the HPEs (hpe) of the world — on the defense: More big web - scale companies are designing their own servers and having them made by contract manufacturers instead of buying name - brand servers.

Some of the greatest tech companies of the modern age would never have existed without VC funding.

Outraged by this statistic, founder and chairman of Buffini & Company, Brian Buffini, created a modern guidebook to thriving in the U.S..

With a skill set that well complements Evernote's current executive suite, Chris will help the company focus on sustaining growth, increasing revenue, and on an overall reimagining of the productivity tools that enhance an increasingly global and mobile modern workforce.

In fact, failure is probably the constant of modern commerce: Companies are launched, they exist for a period of time, and then, well, they pretty much all fail.

The average balance of opinion on investment since 2001 is about 13, so Canadian companies are positively giddy by by modern standards.

The company has transformed the interior of the four storey — tall establishment that was once a rubber factory to achieve a more modern feel.

Swedish media company Modern Times Group has acquired a majority stake (74 %) of Turtle Entertainment, the holding company for ESL for $ 87 million.

«Growing a modern media company, it was important to call on the advice of seasoned people,» said Derek Riedle, founder, CEO and publisher at Civilized, a distinctive industry publication aimed at elevating cannabis culture.

Modern corporations are typically characterized by a «separation of ownership and control» — that is, companies are generally run by professional managers, who manage on behalf of a very large number of mostly - anonymous shareholders.