Sentences with phrase «smaller than larger firms»

Just 12.5 percent of the firms in the sample have paid search engines for higher search engine placement, a practice that was more common among smaller than larger firms.

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«For example, we find larger companies take dramatically longer to hire candidates than small and mid-sized firms,» writes Chamberlain.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

Small businesses tend to attract fewer and less - experienced candidates than their large firm counterparts, and startups in particular find it difficult to provide adequate compensation for talented prospects.

A little less than one in three small businesses were found to offer health insurance benefits to employees, for example, as compared to the national average of 96 percent of larger firms.

Founded more than two centuries ago by small medicines vendor and namesake Chobei Takeda in Osaka, Japan, the company was that nation's largest pharmaceutical firm by revenue as of 2014.

If you own a small firm and have been in operation for less than three years and have a credit score of below 650, you likely won't be able to secure a small business loan from a large bank.

One explanation is that CEOs in larger firms have less of a direct impact on the company's performance — perhaps because they delegate more than CEOs at smaller firms.

Reinganum found that the portfolio containing the smallest firms realized an average rate of return more than 20 % higher than the portfolio containing the largest firms.

Small businesses typically create more jobs than larger firms do at the start of economic recoveries.

For the average user sending small amounts of money, however, «My sense is that there is a larger anonymity set that you are a part of in Monero than within a bitcoin mixer,» Jonathan Levin, co-founder of bitcoin blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, wrote me in an email.

The yearly return figures illustrate the higher risk of foreign and smaller firm stocks — small - cap stocks had more yearly losses than did large - cap stocks, and the losses for both international stocks and small - company stocks can be larger than for large - cap stocks.

While smaller - company stocks tend to be more volatile than the stocks of larger firms, studies indicate that their average long - term returns have been greater.

«Small firms, with their dependence on domestic customers, are much more concerned about Washington's inability to formulate coherent fiscal policy than their larger, globally - focused competitors.»

Small - cap firms possess market values larger than micro-cap companies, but smaller than those in the mid-cap range.

But larger investment firms are profiting much more than smaller firms and that's driving the growth of digital - based investment advice to new heights.

He says that large, multinational corporations have many more strategies available to them to reduce tax burdens than smaller, domestic firms do.

Prior to that he spent more than 30 years in advertising, first in senior management positions (CFO and COO) at two of the largest advertising agencies in Philadelphia, then as a financial and management consultant to small and mid-sized advertising, public relations and marketing firms.

Nor is it sensible to treat smaller firms as inherently more virtuous than larger ones: what matters is setting a stable framework in which making a reasonable profit is compatible with the public interest.

«The message this bill sends is that workers» lives at larger, more established companies are more valuable than workers» lives at smaller, less established firms,» she said.

For example, when it comes to industry groups, a small Japanese firm in 2011 was better organised than 95.2 per cent of simulations, versus 70.2 per cent for a large US company.

NPD's research shows that iPad purchase preference is higher among larger firms than smaller ones, which is an important indicator that Apple is gaining traction far outside its typical consumer space.»

When shopping for turnips, look for fresh roots that are smaller, more firm, and rounder — these will have a more mild and sweet flavour than the larger, more fibrous roots.

The firmer suspension is a big improvement, and the larger brakes and 17 - inch tires and wheels make the Ion Red Line handle better than any small other GM car.

The market is much more diverse, more centered (most items are bought for K - 12 educational uses), much larger in sales than the library market, and the K - 12 publishers aren't the Big Six but rather smaller independent firms that work far closer with the school systems to survive.

Pinnacle looks for firms with strong balance sheets since small firms have fewer buffers in a downturn than large ones do, management teams that do an outstanding job of allocating capital including their own, and understandable businesses which tends to keep him out of tech, bio-tech and other high obsolescence industries.

Mid-cap stocks have gained more than large stocks over the long term and they're better able to weather economic shocks than smaller firms.

You can still make mistakes with big firms, but the mistakes are less likely to be fatal because large companies tend to be more stable than smaller firms.

Mid-cap stocks have gained more than large stocks over the long term and they're generally able to weather economic shocks better than smaller firms.

Graham also felt that the market responds more quickly with a price increase when an improvement is shown for a large firm than a small firm.

With limited analyst coverage and low trading liquidity, many high - quality small companies are «lost in the shuffle» and trade at significantly lower valuation multiples than larger firms.

Small firms can have their true valuation realized in many more ways than larger companies.

In addition to generating an income, companies that pay dividends tend to be large, mature firms that can more easily cope with changing economic circumstances than smaller firms.

Senior bondholders and derivative counterparties owed money by Bear are much, much larger than the teensy equity base of the small - cap firm.

Having run the GIC desk of a small well - capitalized insurer, with lower ratings, less leverage, and a higher ROE than other larger competitors, I was / am biased against firms with bad credit profiles that get good ratings only because they are big.

«Small patenting firms produce 13 to 14 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms.»

If you are at a medium - or large - sized firm, there is a far greater chance that a colleague can cover for you if a continuance is refused than if you are in a small firm.

Growth in use of the cloud is greatest among solos and small firms and lawyers in these firms are more likely than their larger - firm counterparts to use cloud - based applications.

According to research recently reported on eMarketer.com, smaller businesses apparently understand the logic of this strategy more than larger firms.

At the moment, smaller law firms are being targeted by those threat attackers lower down the food chain but they are being targeted more frequently than the larger firms who are ignored by those less capable attackers.

It's easier to know who helps whom and who only works on his or her own clients at a smaller law firm, where all the partners know each other, than at a large firm with offices scattered across the globe.

And those small, focused firms have dramatically lower overhead costs than larger firms.

Some may argue that many of the «independent» European law firms are smaller in total size than the large US and UK global firms and perhaps don't have the resources for AI systems.

Our founder, attorney Matt Boulton, has more than 20 years of experience working at both large and small law firms handling the most complicated cases.

He knows that attorneys specializing business law have different needs than those who practice personal injury law, and he understands the unique challenges of both small firms focusing on one practice area and large firms with a broad range of specialties.

Biglaw attorneys also need mediators and arbitrators, and smalls are less likely to be conflicted out than neutrals at other large law firms.

Some predict that small and midsize firms, which are less diverse than large firms, will take a bigger hit.

When the top goals are broken down by firm size, the survey shows that larger firms are much more focused on marketing and business development than smaller firms.

And not surprisingly, there's something else that's «bigger» for large law firms than for small fry: malpractice liability.

Generally speaking, large law firms do everything «bigger» than small firms.