Sentences with phrase «too little the company»

Efficient premiums cover exactly what's paid out; if you charge too much customers leave for competition, and if you charge too little the company goes under, or at least loses money.

Not exact matches

Here's how it went down: A Delaware court ruled on Tuesday that Dell founder Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners paid too little for Dell when they bought the computer company for $ 25 billion three years ago, or $ 13.75 a share.

The team behind the announcement is not the first to attempt something of this nature, and previous efforts by other companies have been criticized for having too little research behind them or focusing too much on detection rather than treatment.

Poorly measured, conferring little corporate glory and mired in office politics, customers» affection is taken for granted — or, worse, considered unimportant — by too many companies.

Lobbying, both public and private, is likely to occur when companies think that governments are spending too much money on one thing, and (as a natural result) too little on others.

Wal - Mart's critics — including a group of its workers backed by labor unions - say the retailer pays its hourly workers too little, forcing some to seek government assistance that effectively provides the company with an indirect taxpayer subsidy.

To protect yourself against accepting too little or asking for far too much, you can turn to sites like Glassdoor and Salary.com to determine the average compensation range for someone with your level of experience and skills and in your industry or company (or a comparable one, in terms of number of employees, revenue size, and location).

The co-founder behind Spacial, a drone company that records indoor events, knows the adage «you only get one chance to make a first impression,» a little too well.

Too many companies have too little direction on their social - media marketing — that is, other than «build engagement» and hope for the beToo many companies have too little direction on their social - media marketing — that is, other than «build engagement» and hope for the betoo little direction on their social - media marketing — that is, other than «build engagement» and hope for the best.

While many company cultures work hard to build a close and friendly team, sometimes that can lead employees to feeling a little too friendly.

But many companies stretch the definition of a contractor a little too far.

But while such deals have traditionally met little opposition in Washington, the Justice Department has sued to block AT&T's $ 85.4 billion takeover of Time Warner on the grounds that it would create too powerful of a content company.

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, struck back on Wednesday at critics who have charged tech companies with doing too little to fight off NSA surveillance.

The sales manager is in the unique position of serving as a critical leverage point in distributing a company's message and in ensuring the implementation of the go - to - market strategy, with (all too often) little input into the strategy and tactical plans that are developed.

Whether you accidentally sent your boss a NSFW email intended for your boyfriend, got a little too rowdy at the company picnic, or were caught in a flat - out lie (cough cough, Ryan Lochte), it's important to make efforts to repair your damaged professional reputation.

Did you eat a little bit too much at the company party?

(I'm not afraid to admit I may be a little too competitive at times) Be it hitting a company related target or a light - hearted dance - off; it's a way to bring your employees together for a fun treat.

Icahn says Dell is robbing shareholders by offering too little to take the company private.

«Investors have been so oversold on diversification that fear of having too many eggs in one basket has caused them to put far too little into companies they thoroughly know and far too much in others which they know nothing at all.

The bill, they argued, did too little for «pass - through businesses»: companies organized as sole proprietorships, partnerships, LLCs, or S corporations that don't pay the corporate income tax.

The board is «a little bit too vanilla,» said Maldonado, the creative director for Insignia Entertainment, a music company.

The safest bet is to save up a little of your own money for cleaning products then begin a small domestic cleaning company that won't require too much investment on your part.

But is this just too little too late for the company?

The first is to have an inexact knowledge of the securities in which one is dealing, to know too little about a company's management, its earnings and prospects for future growth.

Our little design company was stepping into shoes that seemed several sizes too big, since businesses operating in the magazine - sector tend to be big publishing houses responsible for dozens of magazines.

There's lots of different things they do on Papa time - this week has included a lot of baseball; a lot of dirty clothes; a little more time in the woods; nachos for lunch; trying to solve the Rubix Cube (I think Calvin's going to walk around muttering, «clockwise, clockwise, counterclockwise» until he solves it), and a healthy dose of You Tube too - this week, introducing the kids to the wonders of The Electric Company -(Knock Knock Rock, and One Word Comes After Another are the most requested around here - because Morgan Freeman is groovy).

Sun - Pat are convinced that all kids need to get outdoors is a little inspiration and some good company and on that note, they are giving away 420 special sports kits this summer and you can easily get one too.

This week's Google tax imbroglio is a reminder that some things are taxed too little (like global companies, luxury goods and high value properties) while other things are taxed too much (the incomes and expenditures of the low - paid).

Right now, unfortunately, companies are currently doing far too little to wager for public trust.

Myself, my neighbors, and three quarters of Area 6 are paying satellite companies far too much for far too little,» she said.

[Side note on this effort: A little too late for ensuring living wage at the Bronx's Kingsbridge Armory project, where the developer, The Related Companies, is receiving millions in city tax breaks and a discount on the sale price.

Another disincentive is that, in too many departments, patents and startup companies may count for little during hiring and promotion.

Clinical trials that charge enrollees to participate are ostensibly aimed at giving patients early access to promising therapies — often in the fields of stem cells or aging reversal — that are too unusual or have too little profit potential to get funding from traditional sources such as companies, foundations, or the National Institutes of Health.

Many of them voiced frustration with the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies, which they said pay too little attention to fixing the root cause of disease.

Until recently, there was little love lost between researchers and the E.U. Scientists have long bemoaned Europe's Framework Programmes for their focus on applied research, the forced collaboration between many labs and companies across the continent, the crippling bureaucracy, and what many see as too much meddling by politicians and bureaucrats in Brussels (Science, 8 December 2006).

It also gives a bit of an indication as to the competency of management: If they're making too much or too little stuff, they're probably not running their company properly.

Adapted from Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir by arrangement with Time Books, and imprint of Henry Holt and Company, LLC (North America), and Allen Lane (UK).

Did you eat a little bit too much at the company party?

Something a little bit like the LUSH Celestial Moisturiser... I worked for the company a while back as a product trainer and it is their best selling moisturiser, so I feel a formulation based on this cream would be really useful for your subscribers too!»

I was excited to make this for two reasons: 1) I've been itching to make a t - shirt dress for ages, even though I suspected it wouldn't suit my midriff too well (I was right — ah well) and 2) I've been wanting to try a Friday Pattern Company design for quite some time as well and it was a good little test.

Another important detail to remember is if you ever feel uncomfortable with a member that could be a little too aggressive, or is presenting something that is false, make sure you contact the dating company's customer service assistance line and advise them of the actions.

WIP may not have hit any major strides (though a Best Picture nominee one year after it became a brand wasn't too shabby), but I believe Bob Berney had built something special at Picturehouse, a company that was beginning to look like a real home for filmmakers and visions you can't put into little boxes.

That's not to say that the real - life BP representatives weren't pond scum, because anyone who places a company's bottom line above human life is deserving of much worse treatment, but it's poured on a little too thick.

Perhaps not, but it's a little too convenient that just as grumblings about turbocharged Carreras and four - cylinder Boxsters arise, the company chooses to remind us just what its engineers are capable of.

He is proving himself to be too little too late as he did at every other auto company he worked at.

The weather may be getting cooler, but Hyundai is certainly feeling the heat after revealing that fuel economy estimates on a number of its top sellers may have been a little too lofty... The news, which affects almost one million vehicles of Hyundai and sister division Kia, for model years 2011 to 2013, came after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was not able to validate the company's fuel economy data.

And while the book is only loosely based on an actual event in which the Disney company, big supporters of Sierra Club, was actually blocked by Sierra Club from building a ski resort in an area that would have destroyed the habitats of endangered animals, there was a ring to it that perhaps this was trying a little too hard to bring new details to light from that former case.

Karen Smith, who penned Dark Dealings under the pseudonym K. Victoria Smith, just felt that her given name was a little too commonplace for an author of urban fantasy, proven by the fact that she was one of twenty - three employees in her company with that name.

Pocket - lint got its hands on with the beefed - up tab back in September and now the Japanese company has announced that it will be available in spring next year, along with a 7 - inch little brother (the B1) at some point too.

Note: Most companies, including Amazon, have their own little «we're too big for our breeches» episodes.