Sentences with phrase «turning around»

The key to turning around a mistake: fix the mistake to the customer's satisfaction as quickly as possible.

Turning around a technology company has been historically rare.

Pursuing these opportunities is not simply a matter of making a bad situation a little better, it is a matter of turning it around.

Mr. Wiener, who has been on comScore's board for six months, will be charged with turning around the beleaguered measurement business after a string of accounting issues.

Less than a year into his job, in which he was tasked with turning around a company considered on the brink of bankruptcy, Joly said Best Buy's program had given employees too much independence.

Richard Ravitch, the former M.T.A. chairman credited with turning around the subway system in the 1980s, urged Mr. Lhota to focus on analyzing the immense needs and prioritizing «state of good repair,» an industry term meaning a system is receiving proper maintenance.

«When companies do this right, on average 18 months is the time period for turning around a reputation,» said Thomas Cooke, a professor at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business.

«Looking at the amount of apartments people are putting money into and turning around, there seems to be a lot of opportunity,» he says.

CB Media's new chair, Michael de Pencier, chairman of Key Publishers, was well known for turning around such magazines as Toronto Life, Quill & Quire and Owl.

«Marcelo has done a remarkable job of turning around the Sprint brand and business, driving enhanced network performance, strong subscriber growth and significant cost reductions leading to the best financial results in Sprint's history,» said Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. «Marcelo has also positioned Sprint as a leader in the race to 5G, which promises to revolutionize the communications industry.

That year Greenfield and Olsen - Harbich, who now owned 10 % of the company, decided to sell the winery label, name, inventory, and equipment to Peter Carroll, who'd had experience turning around another winery.

But when Mr. Fields couldn't move fast enough to head off slippage in Ford's profits, the board dismissed him last May and handed the reins to Mr. Hackett, a former chief executive of Steelcase who is credited with turning around the office - furniture maker.

the teacher says, turning around from the front row and addressing the students in the audience.

No one ever said turning around Yahoo would be easy, Mayer is facing restless investors as ad revenue remains challenged — and in the wake of the sale of part of the company's stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

Packed into a Toronto hotel ballroom, a crowd of more than 350 shareholders and others watched as Ackman introduced Harrison, the retired executive credited with turning around both Illinois Central Railroad and Canadian National.

Just as things were turning around, a pounding snowstorm shut down the local economy for three weeks.

Japan has made economic progress, but population decline and other factors mean regional banks face an uphill task in turning themselves around.

Japan has made progress in turning around its economy, but business prospects of regional banks stay dim, analysts said.

«He has a proven track record of turning around struggling businesses, and his background in the restaurant industry will help foster an environment for job creation.»

John M. Collard, chairman of Annapolis, Md. - based Strategic Management Partners, conceived of turning around a company company as a five - step process.

Mary Barra, a longtime General Motors employee, deserves some of the credit for turning around GM.

Turning around a failing consumer tech company is notoriously hard.

«The foxhole mentality of waiting out economic downturns will put you behind your competitors when things start turning around.

Some investors have already realized that things are turning around.

That message should put him in good stead with residents, but turning around a stadium is different from managing property, particularly when the city is scrutinizing his every move.

Earnings for the Spider - Man franchise have been dwindling since the premiere of Sam Rami's «Spider - Man» in 2002, but things seem to be turning around.

Mark King (left) and Eric Liedtke are tasked with turning around Adidas's U.S. business.Photograph by Chris Hornbecker for Fortune

Now it's turning around, but we are still down almost $ 100 billion in bank lending to small business.

Now, it looks like things are finally, really, turning around.

Turning around the U.S. business is «the top priority» for Adidas, according to recent statements from the company's leadership; Adidas wants to report double - digit sales growth in the region.

The bad habit: You keep turning around to read from your slides or staring down to read from your notes.

Tony Nash, managing director at the consulting firm IHS, pointed to anecdotal evidence to show that Japan's economic prospects are turning around.

«The progress we have made turning around the F&R business and its future potential are reflected by Blackstone's interest,» Thomson Reuters Chief Executive Jim Smith said in a staff memo.

Turning around and accelerating rapidly, Dzhokhar drove straight at the officers, his brother, and the police barricade.

I'm going to go from running 386 people to 40,000 and you believe that my turning around the research business will drive the stock higher, and you want to keep me flat?»

That's why turning around people's attitude toward failure won't be easy, and at times rejection will feel like an unscalable wall.

When you arrived at Cara in 2013 from the Brick, what needed turning around?

After successfully turning around the struggling low - cost airline back in the early 2000s, however, Fernandes accepts that he's «done alright.»

We had to take what I've learned from turning around companies and growing them, and what the people here know about getting 100 million meals into Canadians» bellies every year, and mesh those skill sets.

Bakish is focused on turning around the business after years of falling domestic ad revenues and poor ratings as younger viewers increasingly watch content online, while Paramount has suffered from a lack of box - office hits.

The crude oil trade was largely responsible for turning around the fortunes of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, which owned the train that was eastbound through Lac - Mégantic.

Ahead of its delisting, the company had been aggressively closing underperforming stores and focusing on licensing efforts as it tried to turn around the business.

April 11 (Reuters)- Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

Then there's this comment by a female tech executive McClure quotes: «There's a special place in Hell for women who «make it,» but aren't willing to turn around and help their peers who haven't.»

The hedge fund, founded by Barry Rosenstein, is putting more pressure on the grocer's management to turn around slow growth.

Odom and Romines are now reaching out to Marcus Lemonis to see if he can turn around the company.

«I just hope that we all get behind him every way we can and we'll get this country turned around in ways that will benefit the whole world, but above all benefit our people.»

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

As the economic environment continues to soften, many young professionals are contemplating returning to graduate school so they can «take shelter» during the downturn and be set to reenter the workforce as the job market turns around a couple of years from now.

Will anything turn it around?