Sentences with phrase «risks to the business model»

Discuss the implications of this data when explaining their capital expenditure strategy and risks to the business model

However in this report Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) explains that far from assuring investors, we believe that ExxonMobil is underestimating the risks to its business model from action on climate change.

Not exact matches

Suddenly, their whole business model is at risk and are no longer an option to employ workers.

The European Central Bank warned on Thursday that banks need to boost their profitability and business models amid the risks that the sector faces.

It was also then that some of the biggest marketers succeeded with a business model that may still hold about an 80 percent share of the DRTV market: Find products created by a would - be Edison somewhere in America, market them on DRTV, give a small royalty cut to the inventor, and share the risk of a capricious DRTV audience across your product portfolio.

And the business model intentionally minimizes risk for a demographic that has more money but also less time to make up losses.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

The new software targets data - intensive applications requiring high - speed access to massive volumes of information generated by countless devices, sensors, business processes, and social networks; examples include seismic data processing, risk management and financial analysis, weather modeling, and scientific research.

Today's valuations, however, are less overblown and more realistically grounded in revenues, cash flows, and price - to - earnings ratios, which all combine with today's more sustainable business models to significantly decrease risk.

Still, despite the fiduciary risks (which are outlined, in near - apocolyptic detail, on pages nine through 29 of the filing) buyers of Zipcar stock seem to believe that the company's business model will ultimately become a profitable enterprise.

Investor Dany Farha addresses the business model of venture capital, and what it takes to for VCs to take calculated risks investing in startups: a strong entrepreneurial team that is mission - driven.

Seasoned entrepreneurs understand the need to take risks with their IP, typically by sharing early - stage product ideas, concepts, or business models with potential investors.

A major one is that the culture tends to be more risk - averse, and venture capitalists are wary to invest in new or creative business models.

In particular, they can implement key compliance measures to ensure the firm and its business model are ready for the rule to take effect with minimal disruption and risks.

Ravelin's machine learning models adapt to meet existing and new threats so your business can add more customers with no more risk.

«Having architected a financial risk model for PayPal's payments business that helped catapult PayPal from a multi-million dollar enterprise to a multi-billion dollar one, Bret has a proven track record as a key growth driver and strategist for fintech companies navigating new territory.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

NEXUS» goal is for its members to achieve higher returns with less risk than typical angel investments by utilizing a model combining the business acumen of NEXUS members with Florida's community resources — including the vast university system and regional economic development programs.

Finally, robo - advisors pose a risk to the mutual fund business model.

By: Kimberley Smuts 6th May 2016 The use of multiparametric block models, which contain more than just geological data, to analyse the risks associated with the mining process, allow more informed business decisions to be made on the basis of risk and exposure to that risk.

The future of Disney's integrated business model after all its moves last year (Redef) It's Hard to Predict How You'll Respond to Risk «How you responded to the last big loss, or the -LSB-...]

If a business has attractive economics but is extracting value from (rather than adding value to) its customers, then I think there are some inherent risks in that model that will eventually come home to roost.

Without significant changes to Twitter's business model, this stock exhibits large downside risk and nearly no upside potential.

When determining if your business is right for an unsecured business loan, our underwriters analyze a variety of metrics such as big data, historical risk models, and trade line distribution to determine its unique growth potential instead of just looking at your credit score.

From the perspective of someone interested in making investments with 20 + year holding periods in mind, you need to be careful of owning banks because of the debt to equity levels involved in the investment, you need to be wary of technology companies because they must constantly be innovating to remain profitable and relevant (unlike, say, Hershey, which could stick with its business model of selling chocolate bars for the next century), and retail stocks which are always subject to the risk of a new low - cost carrier arriving on the block.

«Pursuant to its three lines of defence model, JPMorgan's front office had primary responsibility for identifying, assessing and managing the risks associated with its G10 spot FX trading business.

In late July 2013, the industry group Committee for the Establishment of the Digital Asset Transfer Authority began to form to set best practices and standards, to work with regulators and policymakers to adapt existing currency requirements to digital currency technology and business models and develop risk management standards.

The near - term risk for investors is that, regardless of the particulars of the business model, any stock even tangentially related to oil or energy is being thrashed.

Our unique, highly efficient business model allows us to forecast with less risk than traditional bricks and mortar supermarkets.

It is currently playing out in the live animal export sector, where the demise of local processing opened the door for a live export sector, which in turn through its simple business model has compromised livestock welfare and alienated many consumers, reduced employment in Top End towns which once had abattoirs, and added risk to cattle business profitability by providing only one market outlet.

Regardless of those who continually spew nonsense about how we can't compete with the oil - rich fat cats and the like, this club and it's majority owner have bags of cash at the ready, but simply refuse to deviate from the business model that has allowed them to reap the rewards of our financial loyalty without assuming any monetary risks whatsoever.

And there is an obvious fatal flaw to this in any event; if say 5 teams embark on this allegedly «risk - free» business model and spend, spend, spend then pretty much by definition 4 of them come unstuck every year because only one team can buy the PL.

Furthermore, they have constructed a business model, with Wenger's active involvement, that appears to serve no one except the owner, Wenger, Gazidis and the multitude of overpaid, oft - injured and / or underachieving players that has enabled the owner to invest nothing, while still increasing his overall net worth with no foreseeable financial risk.

«The recognition of being named as Bank of the Year in your own country by the world's longest running international banking title is testament to the strong management, sound business model and prudent risk approach of your bank.»

Helpfully he had come armed with suggestions for how this might be done: extending the kinds of business models that the ownership commission reported upon the day after the jobs summit; ecosystem policy, rather than industrial policy; a twenty - first century social contract, which would allow individuals to mitigate the risk in their lives; and a state - backed infrastructure bank.

«Hi Tor operates as a no - kill shelter and we are here to help all animals survive and thrive, however we must be able to operate on a fiscally sound business model or risk insolvency and the possibility of putting these animals lives at risk.

This could «reduce the risk to publishers of moving to an open - access business model,» says Stuart Shieber, who heads Harvard's Office for Scholarly Communication and is one of the drivers behind the initiative.

As a recent McKinsey Global Innovation survey found, while 84 % of executives believe innovation is important to growth strategy, and 80 % believe their business models are at risk, only 6 % are satisfied with the outcome of their innovation performance.

Truth: Blumhouse Productions is the boutique horror studio whose high - volume, low - budget business model has fostered a culture of creative risk that actually pays off, and has given rise to films as vital as Whiplash and Get Out.

«Those multiple revenue streams, which have over $ 9 billion of contracted revenue under long - term contracts which extend out to 2026, with staggered renewals, with many of the counterparties including high - quality corporates and governments, create an incredibly low risk business model,» he explained this week.

Toyota is also trying to move upscale with its models, so the company doesn't see much risk in losing the business for low - priced diesel models.

Their risk - averse business model is actually killing them, because it makes them too afraid to take the very chances that would make them relevant to customers.

«Like any new business model, the advantages of hybrid publishing come with certain risks and uncertainty; the IBPA's criteria are intended to help authors navigate those risks and identify the reputable players....»

However, with this business model, there is considerable risk — and it is tempting for small publishers like us to minimize risk and go for the «sure thing.»

It's an old business model and certainly does not make for a quick profit, but the agent takes a calculated risk if s / he attempts to find you a publishing deal, and is rewarded by a commission on the author's earnings.

«The fact that Sprint was willing to negotiate with Amazon shows that Sprint is struggling» and willing to take a risk in hopes of disrupting the normal business model for operators, said Derek Kerton, an analyst at The Kerton Group in San Jose.

Old media wants to resist change as much as possible because developing new business models is a risk.

Our ongoing focus on using technology to connect to the world's markets and automate all aspects of the trading and settlement process, combined with our low - risk business model and risk - averse philosophy results in continued growth of our clients» equity.

While full legalization at the federal level isn't yet on the horizon, you have to consider that a significant potential risk to GEO's business model.

I'm comfortable with a high payout ratio for Enbridge because they are low - risk due to the nature of their business model.