Sentences with phrase «see much incentive»

A retailer simply may not see much incentive to drop ebook prices by a dollar or two if a) people are already buying those ebooks through them at the higher price; b) other retailers are likely to match the discount and c) the slightly lower price won't convert many new buyers.

Not exact matches

Yet I don't see much in the way of incentives for businesses, particularly smaller firms, to insure their workers, apart from the obligatory promise to lower costs through technology, deregulation, and tort reform.

«When you look at how much money somebody could make by turning a rental unit — particularly something that's rent - controlled, where the city is trying to keep rent low — into what is essentially a hotel room, you see there's a powerful incentive there,» said Ed Lazere, executive director of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, which helped oversee the report.

In games in which neither team has much incentive to win, it's always interesting to see how oddsmakers adjust their lines.

UPDATE: Paterson, during a telephone conference with reporters, said he will wait to make a final decision about layoffs until he sees how much savings can be achieved through the latest early retirement incentive.

He cites as evidence Taiwan and Singapore, which share an Asian cultural background with China, South Korea, and Japan and «have pursued the same sort of intensive drive to give incentive for blockbuster publications, with monetary rewards,» but haven't seen nearly as much scandal.

Based strictly on the premiere, the show is hardly a disaster, but nor does it offer much incentive to see what maze - like corners this cat - and - mouse game will explore.

While I see the economic incentive for the government, how much of an economic incentive is this REALLY for families of early graduates?

And considering we reportedly won't see a proper BB10 phone running QNX until this fall, developers probably won't have much incentive to develop for a single device that's underperforming in the marketplace.

With Kobo's integration into the physical store, it is much easier for consumers to actually see the books and have incentive to further shop online.

He added: «There's an argument that you sometimes see that «a download is not equal to a lost sale, because that person wouldn't have bought it anyway», and there's varying evidence on that, but it's very much a static analysis of a dynamic problem, because if you normalise the practice of pirating books, you erode incentive for people to pay for them, so eventually, people who would have bought them stop doing so.»

The incentive compensation scheme for WL & Co. has been there all the time for limited partners to see, but perhaps it wasn't until the effects were actually concrete that we realized how much we are paying to the general partner» skills.

Food is a great incentive, but be careful — too much food may lead to an obese Boston terrier that only listens when he sees a cookie.

Federal employees (e.g. NOAA or the DOE labs) see even less effect of grant funding on personal income, and since it's almost impossible to fire a US Civil Servant, job security isn't even much of an incentive.

Still, with so much time wasted on billable hours and the lack of incentives for efficiency inherent in the billable hour, I'd be curious to see what might happen if an alternative, even one like the McKinsey model, were implemented for large firm practice.

What company can afford to invest this much time monitoring surfing activity — isn't this just an incentive to slam down a draconian surfing filter at work, the kind of filter that would prohibit even this post from being seen?

«Until we see Canadian courts repeatedly denying certification, I'm not sure that there will be much incentive for the mass tort approach in this country,» said Michael Brown in Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP's Toronto office.

The credits will offer investors an incentive to finance office, retail, or light industrial facilities in areas that haven't seen much investor interest in a generation.

As if consumers don't have enough incentive to bargain hunt online, the NRF estimates that the average family could see costs increase by 15 percent, or as much as $ 1,700 a year under the proposed regime.