Sentences with phrase «on big corporate»

In fact, who wouldn't agree that everyday people, farmers and small business should have a level playing field when it comes to taking on Big Corporate America?

The demise of KWM Europe is perhaps the most compelling case for calling time on the big corporate law firm model.

I heard someone tell me they still use pesticides on big corporate farms.

What was heard most clearly during the Squawk interview, though, was the answer to the question on every big corporate spender's mind when it comes to opening up the purse strings and hopping on the big data bandwagon.

I was doing kind of tax and tax litigation on the big corporate level.»

Not exact matches

The biggest obstacle intrapreneurs face on the corporate ladder is their employer's disinterest in change.

Corporate travelers often book on big airlines that offer the most flights and flexibility because their plans change so often.

Fortune broke down some of the highlights of this year's festival, including a variety of virtual reality - focused panels and the premiere screening of Netflix's (NFLX) Pee - Wee Herman film reboot, while corporate sponsors such as McDonald's (MCD) and Samsung will also be on hand with big events.

Keep tabs on your employees and celebrate their personal milestones — doing so not only makes them feel like they're a part of your corporate family, it also involves your other employees as part of a bigger collective.

Jamie Allen of the Asian Corporate Governance Association says the effort to get more big - ticket listings on Hong Kong's stock exchange by allowing dual - class shares has more cons than pros and could set a standard for other countries.

The combination of CVS Health, the seventh - biggest company in the U.S. by revenue, with Aetna (No. 43 on the Fortune 500) would, if it were to go through, create a corporate behemoth with $ 240 billion in annual revenue across a wide swath of the healthcare continuum, from retail pharmacy and benefit management to insurance.

When I started working on this stuff the biggest challenge that I had was that I didn't come from a university setting or research background or a corporate setting.

The biggest culture shock during our transition from corporate employees to business owners was the demands on our time.

Carson knocked on many corporate doors before his big break: the newsletter was handed out at a board meeting of the Business Roundtable, whose members top the Fortune 500.

Attracted by a combination of low corporate taxes and inexpensive labour, big multinationals like Dell and Intel set up shop on the Emerald Isle.

The nation is strikingly united — across ages, income levels and political ideologies — in its generally negative opinion of corporate behavior, and on the ways in which it believes big business can and should do better, according to the organization's survey of 43,000 Americans.

And yet, a recent internal investigation concluded that the widespread fraud at one of the nation's biggest banks was indeed the result of a toxic corporate culture maniacally focused on achieving overzealous sales goals.

On selling a company: «If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same,» he said, referring to the rejected Yahoo bid in 2006.

Tying autonomous shops into a corporate structure is a great way to make a big return on investment.

The Liberals made a few big - ticket election campaign spending promises, but, on the tax side, they also indicated they intend to pad revenues over the next few years with higher tax rates for personal and corporate income.

Pressure on Big Food is increasing, and a lower corporate tax rate may make a company breakup cheaper.

Everyone may want to make it big on their own these days, but if I had to guess, I'd say that at least as many people have highly successful and fulfilling careers in the corporate world as in entrepreneurial endeavors.

Based on where bonds are trading today, the market is saying about 5 % of those corporate loans will go bust, or roughly $ 35 billion worth at the six biggest banks.

LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters)- Carillion collapsed on Monday when its banks pulled the plug, triggering Britain's biggest corporate failure in a decade and forcing the government to step in to guarantee public services from school meals to roadworks.

Rogers» take is that while most big web applications that must run on thousands of servers spread all over the world have flowed to AWS, it'll take much longer for important enterprise software like accounting and inventory systems that have run in corporate data centers for decades, to do the same.

But with the past year of corporate scandals bringing billion - dollar companies to their knees, most business owners are realizing that not having a handle on the company's financial inner workings can lead to disastrous consequences for companies both big and small.

LONDON, Jan 15 - Carillion collapsed on Monday when its banks pulled the plug, triggering Britain's biggest corporate failure in a decade and forcing the government to step in to guarantee public services from school meals to roadworks.

Not only was he taking on the mantle of one of the biggest companies in the world, but he also had to succeed a legend, A.G. Lafley, a hero both in Cincinnati and in the corporate world.

RP: The big thing is the high visibility of directors and public focus on the role of corporate boards.

«One of the biggest flaws with the UK set up is that it is based on self - reporting and Companies House (which runs the UK Corporate register) has limited resources to go after people who fail to provide information or provide incorrect information,» he said.

But, like other «big craft» brands, Six Pints» corporate roots aren't disclosed on its website or its bottles.

So the fact that Tesla, one of several innovative companies that Musk is juggling, is now a newly minted member of the 500 Club — arriving for the first time this year on Fortune's annual register of the biggest U.S. companies — might strike some as a curious, if marvelous, oddity: the brash, antiestablishment carmaker parked in one of the reserved spaces for America's corporate elite.

BC, Canada's largest telecommunications group, announced the biggest buyout in Canadian corporate history on Saturday, accepting an offer worth C$ 51.7 billion ($ 48.5 billion), including debt, from a group including the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.

The Corporate Agent, Angelique Rewers, shares her expertise on how a small business can market their services towards a big business.

They go beyond his answers to senators» questions, providing Facebook's latest official positions on big topics like succession and corporate restructuring.

Gone are the days of doing deals for big casinos in Macau, part - owning a fast - growing online bookmaker with former cricketer Ricky Ponting as an ambassador, while even corporate jets and luxury country retreats have been on the sale block.

Any financial geek will be proud to own these key items such as golf club covers with the Enron logo stamped on them in remembrance of one of the biggest corporate meltdowns in recent history.

The CLC estimate is what you get if you assume that the only behavioural response to an increase in corporate tax rates is that firms» CFOs will grit their teeth and put bigger numbers on the cheques they send to the Receiver - General.

The biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax code in over 30 years, the new law slashes the corporate income tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent, and charges multinationals a one - time tax on profits held overseas.

So increasing focus on shareholder - friendly corporate governance, the rising clout of activist investors and the robust market for corporate control are all manifestations of the fact that shareholders want big companies to give them back their cash, and that companies are increasingly willing to do so.

March 08, 2017 - PRESS RELEASE: Post-Election Proxy Season Sees Big Boost in Requests on Diversity and Equal Pay But Climate Change and Corporate Political Transparency Still Top the Agenda

A lot of people have left the big corporate jobs and started their own businesses, and they want to pass on what they've learned to other people.

So big mutual funds pulling activist strings are a way to aggregate and simplify control of corporations in a way that give some control rights back, ultimately, to the individuals who own the residual claims on corporate earnings.

Future Ready Singapore, 12 February 2015: As the international corporate community rethinks the way it conducts business to address global challenges, solving water scarcity and managing water use could be the top untapped opportunity that will have the biggest positive impact on societies.

U.S. stocks finished mostly lower on Thursday but avoided bigger losses after upbeat corporate earnings offset a volatile tech sector.

The suggestion that this is a bad thing, however, would come as a surprise to the large union - run pension plans — not to mention the Canada Pension Plan, the retirement system on which all Canadians depend — that collectively own a big chunk of corporate Canada.

As the corporate wrote in its weblog: «Customer polls last year revealed the popularity of Litecoin as a rival alternative crypto to Bitcoin... It's faster than Bitcoin, has lower blockchain fees and may become a global payment option available on dozens of big brand websites in coming months.»

In doing so I spoke with everyone on the street, from investment banks to some big name corporate development people and they all said the same thing: Everyone's hiring again.

Corporate Knights said this analysis could explain «why some of the biggest oil sands players are gobbling up low - carbon patents and quietly running the numbers on different scenarios, such as when they should exit the oil sands or make the shift to becoming predominately alternative fuel and green energy firms.»

Ziad Makkawi, CEO of Qatar First Bank (QFB), which listed on the Qatar Stock Exchange in April, says: «Our focus as an institution is not on competing with the larger banks for big corporate clients, but rather on the private client sector.