Sentences with phrase «operating structure with»

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In Laloux's terms, Zappos pre-Holacracy was a Green organization that operated with a traditional pyramid structure but focused on culture as a means of empowering employees.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

While the Sinaloa cartel is considered one of the most powerful criminal groups in the Western Hemisphere and the world, the cartel itself operates more like a federation of allied factions than like a traditional hierarchical cartel with a top - down leadership structure.

The application of the tax laws of various jurisdictions, including the United States, to our international business activities is subject to interpretation and depends on our ability to operate our business in a manner consistent with our corporate structure and intercompany arrangements.

Barclays is giving advice «on value - boosting transactions — such as spinoffs, splitoffs and carveouts — to help deter activists,» and working with companies «to pinpoint the factors driving poor performance, such as the company's balance sheet, operating performance, or corporate structure.»

In sum, the public corporation succeeded in large part because it provides a hierarchical decision - making structure well suited to the problem of operating a large business enterprise with numerous employees, managers, shareholders, creditors, and other inputs.

During the 4 - hour meeting, Hsieh talked about how Zappos» traditional organizational structure is being replaced with Holacracy, a radical «self - governing» operating system where there are no job titles and no managers.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

«Accelerating competition from e-commerce channels and changing consumer preferences have challenged the business model of REITs that focus on owning and operating malls, which we define as enclosed structures with both department stores and inline tenants,» Thuy Nguyen, a Moody's Vice President says.

Operating a lean cost structure and with significant opportunity for growth, an investor could acquire and grow the business from the outset.

In addition, our effective tax rate in the future could be adversely affected by changes to our operating structure, changes in the mix of earnings in countries with differing statutory tax rates, changes in the valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities, changes in tax laws and the discovery of new information in the course of our tax return preparation process.

While there is nothing wrong with operating a large company like Wells in a decentralized fashion, the board said, the structure backfired in this case by allowing Tolstedt and other executives to hide the problems in their organization from senior management and the board of directors.

Ingersoll - Rand has a pretty simplified business structure, with only two operating segments: climate, which offers heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) products and services; and industrial, which manufactures a broad range of products such as compression technologies, power tools, fluid management, and motor vehicle parts.

If you are just starting out you may not have the financial capacity or required business structure to retain all the professionals that are expected to work with you, which is why you should make plans to partner with other programmers and software app developers that operate as freelancers.

Thus the C corp requirement is fulfilled, but the business is structured and operates as an LLC with all of the accompanying benefits.

The religious act of belief offers a total structure of meaning; it is holistic, for within it everything occupies its proper place and is duly accounted for; it is the horizon of meaning within which rational or reflective thought operates; it provides us a reason to live and a reason to die; hence, the religious belief is a revealing structure.30 Or again, as Joachim Wach noted, religious belief serves as undergirding for the rational world of experience, conditioning it, endowing it with consistency.

The franchise structure is such that almost all Chick - fil - A restaurants are individually owned and operated, which means out of the 1500 stores in America, there are 1500 different operators with the freedom to donate food to who they please.

Birch and Cobb maintain that the ecological model is more adequate than the mechanical model for explaining DNA, the cell, other biological subject matter (as well as subatomic physics), because it holds that living things behave as they do only in interaction with other things which constitute their environment (LL 83) and because «the constituent elements of the structure at each level (of an organism) operate in patterns of interconnectedness which are not mechanical» (LL 83).

If you believe that the universe does not operate by chance, and that the universe is «structured and orderly», then you need to get familiar with anthropic principle and it's as.sociation with theism.

Although there are probably governmental and institutional structures that can operate in a manner consistant with God's laws of harmony and love, as they stand now they are thoroughly saturated with flawed and inharmonious principles, which makes them for all intents and purposes, human instutions.

The secondary sense in which God is law refers to the means - end structures of coercion designed to keep the human situation integrated so that his law and love in the primary sense can operate with enhanced effectiveness.

«We have the ability to be quick and agile due to our ownership structure, thus allowing us to operate more cohesively internally and externally with partners,» Hannigan said.

With its sturdy and portable design, Cubert Cold Prep makes it possible for food and beverage entrepreneurs to operate their business out of a functional, secure space that has the flexibility of a temporary structure.

So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are really becoming two different businesses, with very different cost structures, that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.

From modest beginnings with a simple website and a 70 sq feet brick - and - mortar store where we offered only one ring sling brand and one soft - structured carrier brand (because there were few options then), we are proud to now operate a 1400 sq feet showroom dedicated to a huge range of babywearing products, while embracing the same humble belief of helping parents babywear, according to their own lifestyle and preferences (unless it violates safety and ergonomics!).

«The question of inherent unfairness concerns not simply the structure of the system which may be capable of operating fairly, but whether there are mechanisms in place to accommodate the arguably higher risk of unfair decisions for those with mental health, learning or other difficulties which effectively deprive them of the ability effectively to participate in, at least, some of the decisions,» Lord Justice Leveson said.

While plaza redesign will vary, each automated tolling structure on MTA - operated bridges and tunnels will be covered with a decorative artwork presenting a «wave» effect.

Or perhaps we should consider a cosmetic surgery licensing body with a different type of structure and operating as a financial guarantee scheme, such as ATOL, which provides financial protection for flights and air holiday packages.

But to some state - government insiders, Silver's quiet authorization of a $ 103,000 payment to two of Lopez's accusers was merely in keeping with the fundamental operating principle that's allowed the speaker — and the current Republican Senate majority leader, Dean Skelos — to dominate the power structure.

She said she had already planned to meet with the students, her department was encouraging schools operating out of the same structure to form unified sports teams to make best use of their spaces.

Then they constructed a model of which companies controlled others through shareholding networks, coupled with each company's operating revenues, to map the structure of economic power.

The American Engineers» Council for Professional Development defines Engineering as: «The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property.»

In a proposal to CERN management that March, Berners - Lee suggested constructing a system that operated more like the working structure of the organization itself: «A multiply connected «web» whose interconnections evolve with time,» he wrote in Information Management: A Proposal.

«By twisting and controlling the molecular bonds with light,» Awschalom says, «it is possible to operate on the electron spins as they move through the chemical structure.»

The Washington Post reports today that NIH Director Francis Collins plans to replace the NIH Clinical Center's 22 - year director, John Gallin, with a new leadership structure similar to that found at most hospitals: a chief executive, a chief operating officer, and a chief medical officer.

What they ended up with was a Rubik's Cube of three dimensional data, which in the end had a unique solution that explained the structure of the TOM 40 protein complex and precisely how it operates as the gateway for entry into mitochondria.

Together, this translational program is developed within the National Cancer and Cognition Platform (CNO / Ligue Nationale contre le cancer), with the aim to collaborate in a structured way with French oncology groups, research teams as well as pharmaceutical industry, by providing preclinical models and guidance on standard operating procedures for ancillary or future studies in identified population at risk.

The new structure gives thin - film transistors stability comparable to those made with inorganic materials, allowing them to operate in ambient conditions — even underwater...

After operating with a «15 -3-8» structure, FAAAF Executive Director and Black Reel Awards CEO Tim Gordon announced that the awards will expand from 26 categories to 28, adopting an updated «13 -7-8» structure that will allow the awards to increase the focus on cinema from the African diaspora.

As with the adoption of the Microsoft operating system or VHS, communities accepted these near - universal standards and structures with no central authority imposing them.

When students are equipped for autonomy through explicit social and emotional learning and a structured, yet flexible curriculum, they operate with much less assistance from a teacher, allowing educators to spend time doing what really matters — interacting with kids.

Yet the historical splits between different levels of education in the United States have made coordination difficult, with early - childhood education, elementary and secondary schooling, and postsecondary and training institutions often operating in separate silos, with different rules, different financial structures,...

Trainings will always be provided by an attorney with a strong background in education law and a complete understanding of how Kentucky's educational system is structured and how public schools operate.

After all, states are charged with overseeing how teaching and curricula is provided to students, and state laws play a much - larger role in structuring how districts operate than the collective bargaining deals they strike with AFT and National Education Association affiliates.

Network and School Autonomy: Because we contract with the Chicago Public School District, we are able to operate autonomously — and this includes structuring more personalized professional learning.

Operating through its Early College High School initiative, CUNY lays a lot of the groundwork in coordinating P - TECH's structure with IBM and the New York City Department of Education.

AppleTree is excited to partner with Democracy Prep to provide an engaging and structured introduction to school for three - and four - year olds by operating preschool and pre-kindergarten classes at Democracy Prep.

The report called for the Department for Education (DfE) to set up a profession - led definition of executive headship to include associated skills, competencies, organisational structures and indicative remuneration, with a range of operating models.

The role of the RSD in managing its charter schools consists largely of directing the open enrollment process, while allowing each school to operate with a high degree of autonomy; in contrast, the OPSB still operates traditional schools with local governance structures while also managing its selective, priority, and open enrollment charter schools (Adamson et al., 2015).

For this reason, we believe that afterschool programs should abide by the CASEL framework: structured and operated according to the SAFE model, with emphasis on at least one component of the CASEL competency clusters of self - awareness, self - management, social awareness, responsible decision - making, or relationship skills.