Sentences with phrase «persuade company executives»

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It's going to take more than a massive hack against Sony Pictures, Anthem, and the Internal Revenue Service to persuade business executives to protect their companies from data breaches.

According to the indictment, Skelos supposedly persuaded a New York real - estate executive to pay commissions to Adam, helped Adam get a consulting job for which he was unqualified at an environmental firm, used his office to help the firm get a multimillion - dollar government contract, and leaned on the pollution - control company to pay his son more or risk losing Skelos's support for the contract bid.

And the world of start - up companies will always have slick, charismatic executives who persuade the investment community to back smoke - and - mirrors ventures.

Stamos was persuaded to stay through August to oversee the transition of his duties because company executives thought his exit would look bad, it said, citing current and former employees.