Sentences with phrase «strategy than the firm»

With the new facility now up and running, MacDonald argues that his company has been much more successful with its highly focused direct sales strategy than the firm would have been had it recruited intermediaries or agents to drum up customers.

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Under Welch, the firm downsized more than 100,000 workers in five years, one strategy being to dump the lowest 10 percent of performers.

«Brands are being held to a higher standard than they have been in the past,» Mimi Chakravorti, executive director of strategy at the brand - consulting firm Landor, told Morning Consult.

What you can do: Encourage employees to tweet with their own personal voice rather than taking on a scripted tone — a strategy Peter Shankman, founder of the New York - based consulting firm Shankman / Honig and author of Nice Companies Finish First (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) calls «shredding the scripts.»

«The Elliott book of deals is probably the most instructive, and it's also one of the most far, far reaching,» says Marty Lipton, founding partner of the law firm Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and inventor of the poison - pill corporate defense strategy, who has lately faced Elliott more frequently and on more fronts than ever before.

[4] The extremely short - term strategies of high - frequency trading firms represent more than half of all trading volume.

NEW YORK More acquisitions of U.S. companies by private equity firms are being done through companies that are already owned by buyout funds, rather than the funds directly, a market report showed on Thursday, indicating this «bolt - on» strategy is catching on.

Wealth Logic is an hourly fee - only based financial advisory firm that develops a financial plan and investment strategy designed to create wealth for you, rather than an income stream for someone else.

You see, it really didn't matter at all if a financial adviser knew what they were doing, because selling diversification strategies to clients made it sound like they knew what they were doing, which was an infinitely better proposition for commercial investment firms than employing financial consultants that actually knew what they were doing.

He has more than a decade's experience in software design, engineering and business strategy including as chief of Innovation at US biotech firm Orphidia and as an engineer at MPG Technology.

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

Heramb joined XPV Water Partners in 2016, bringing more than 10 years of experience in strategy, finance, and operations functions within global asset management and financial services firms.

The firm takes a bit more interest rate risk than other short term municipal bond funds and a bit less credit risk a strategy which has contributed to its long term outperformance.

Roma need to hire a PR firm to handle our communication strategy more than we need all these other random staffers.

For example, Ethiopia's growth rates of close to 10 percent per annum are the product of the combination of soaring investment in dams, railways and roads (often in partnership with Chinese firms); a continued reliance on Western aid (to the tune of more than $ 4 billion annually); and, crucially, a domestically crafted strategy of agriculture - led development first.

Red Horse Strategies, a leading campaign and lobbying firm, has been paid more than $ 20,000.

With the help of fancy consulting firm Bain & Company, the New York City Economic Development Corporation conducted surveys and interviews with more than 500 industry professionals to determine the best strategies to develop and keep new talent in NYC.

The award - winning marketing and publicity firm has provided strategy and execution for more than 100 film and TV projects by directors such as Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Michael Mann, Robert Rodriguez and Kevin Smith.

Mastering sound teaching techniques «will be far more productive than being firm of convictions, committed to a strategy, and, in the end, beaten by the reality of what lies inside the classroom door in the toughest neighborhoods of our cities and towns,» says Lemov.

Education Resource Strategies, a nonprofit consulting firm, is now offering targeted budget - development support to school leaders, and the district is focused on developing, rather than exiting, principals.

Editors from eLearning Industry combed more than 300 companies, looking for top notch eLearning firms that design pioneer eLearning strategies, provide learners with memorable eLearning content, and significantly increase their customers» ROI.

The company's «current acquisitions strategy smacks more of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) than of any Japanese firm,» writes Japense consumer market research company Japan Consuming.

Although the iPad currently holds some 95.5 percent of the tablet market, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, any next - generation iPad will face substantially more competition in 2011 than its predecessor.

Although the Global Opportunities strategy currently has less than 2 % of firm AUM, it is a potential growth area and we are confident the strategy is in good hands.

A P / B ratio analysis fits nicely into an overall value investing approach, since a foundational belief of this strategy is that the market is inefficient and at any given time, there are firms trading for significantly less than their actual worth.

Faber's firm also manages an ETF that uses the strategy, and it is down more than 6 % since its inception in November 2010, a period when balanced portfolios delivered positive returns.

Traditional value strategies formed on price signals alone tend to be short quality, because cheap firms are on average of lower quality than similar firms trading at higher prices.

High quality firms tend to trade at premium prices, so value strategies that trade on quality signals (i.e., quality strategies) hold very different stocks than value strategies that trade on price signals.

The beauty of these options strategies is that they are less risky than just «buying and holding» stock so most brokerage firms will allow you to trade them in an IRA.

Doing this tends to be an inferior strategy, because fund performance history is much less useful than picking low cost no sales charge index investment firm funds that are characterized by low fees, low turnover, and passive management.

Zappia comes to Matrix, a brand strategy and communications firm specializing in the pet care industry, with a strong background in the pet care industry, having been a top - producing sales manager at Bowtie Publications for more than 10 years.

I understand the legal market here in Boston better than anyone else in the industry, and I understand the challenges law firms face with respect to generating a cost - effective online marketing strategy that actually produces positive results.

I feel that in today's competitive landscape, it's more important than ever for law firms to have a strong marketing strategy.

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

With more than two decades of hands - on marketing experience, and more than half of those years in law firms, Erin Corbin Meszaros helps Eversheds Sutherland (US) attorneys turn business strategies into business successes.

If some partners hold to a view that the firm should «keep our options open and not limit ourselves» than you, in essence, will not have a strategy.

My prediction is that law firms will begin to transform their traditional marketing strategies into analytics - driven, client - centric efforts that rely on data rather than on «gut» instincts.

We organize our firm around teams and expect our teams to be more nimble than larger traditional practice groups and be able to set the best strategy and react to a disruptive environment.

I mean believe me I do that too so I think we have to send a message from the beginning, and this is clearly bigger than law, it's a societal issue, but law firms are in a position to be able to say, «We're offering leave for both parents and here's a great strategy that a lot of parents use,» so perhaps dad doesn't stay home for the entire first stage, let's call it 12 weeks.

In many firms, historical events, powerful leaders and oversized partner personalities influence behavioral norms more than an intelligently crafted strategy.

Knowledge strategy is more than knowledge management, which is how lawyers within law firms and corporate law departments share what they know about client work, about clients, about markets for their services, and about their firms as businesses.

Our firm is different than other consulting firms that advise law firms on practice management and knowledge strategy.

Rather than using the cop - out of hourly pricing, here are four main pricing strategies to consider that are most applicable to law firms:

In many respects, practice focused SEO has the potential to be substantially more effective than the firm's larger SEO strategy, which is often (necessarily) broad and less aligned with the services provided.

The current strategy of proposing that firms encourage pro bono legal work attacks the symptoms of restricted access to justice, rather than the cause: the lack of affordable lawyers.

Chapter 4 presents more than 35 metrics used by law firms and clients which impact pricing strategy.

[14] For a general discussion on the value to law firms of persons with expertise in areas other than law, see John Sterling, «Non-Lawyers: A Critical Success Factor for the Law Firm of the Future,» Sterling Strategies, December 5, 2013, http://sterlingstrat.com/non-lawyers-a-critical-success-factor-for-the-law-firm-of-the-future.html; see also Frank H. Stephen, Lawyers, Markets and Regulation (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2013), 128 - 131.

And that among these large firms more than twice as many will charge their clients for photocopies and «long distance phone calls» (really) than incorporate cost - saving strategies like predictive coding for electronic discovery or document assembly software for contract drafting.

What I have yet to see and hope for in 2018, is a robust discussion about the importance of placing a firm's talent management strategy at the same level or even more important than its digital strategy so that people management skills are recognised as being at least as important as digital literacy — the two are inextricably linked in the new legal talent economy.

In addition to legal research, there are many other specialized support services that can be provided with such expert advice, including the automation of routine legal services at a lower cost than can the investor - owners of law firms (the ABS alternative), and advising on marketing strategies and methods of maximizing income and client services and satisfaction.