Sentences with phrase «while larger firms»

Smaller outplacement firms generally provide services for up to a hundred or so employees in transition, while larger firms tend to work with employers who may send them several hundred employees at one time.

The startup claims they charge half the price of traditional law firms and that they file patents in 14 days while larger firms spend as much as 30 days getting patents filed.

Some firms may want to adopt just the first tier while larger firms may decide to implement all three stages:

Smaller firms may want to apply just the primary approach while larger firms with additional resources could look at implementing all three steps, but he suggests it be done gradually.

While larger firms may employ a dedicated 24 × 7 Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) to handle such response, smaller firms may outsource to third - party vendors.

While larger firms often have clients work with legal assistants, our lawyers work directly with you, from the free initial consultation through the resolution of your case.

While large firms saw a 4 % increase fuelled, in the main, by a 20 % increase in fee growth in the year and greater control on expenditure and overhead reductions, those with between 2 and 10 partners achieved an increase of 5 %, reflecting decreases in non-salary overheads and fee income increases.

Second, while large firms have great experience, being a go - to firm also increases the probability of conflicts — and obtaining client waivers up front which can complicate negotiation of engagement agreements.

However, while large firms continue to dominate the market, the fortune of small firms is more mixed as income and profit levels...

While large firms may be able to afford to spend what it takes to shore up their cyber defences, what should smaller firms do?

While large firms have the resources to maintain such a presence, smaller firms and sole practitioners may find this difficult.

Not exact matches

While part of his plans involve taking on a larger role at Initialized Capital, the VC firm he co-founded with Garry Tan, he also says that the decision involved the «promise he made to this little poppy seed.»

Curiously, that would bar firms such as the largest U.S. - based exchange Coinbase from advertising on the platform, while presumably still allowing Twitter's sister company, Square, to advertise its young Bitcoin buying and selling function on its Cash app.

This company - building - companies structure also lends itself well to helping large corporations behave like startups while at the same time giving smaller businesses access to resources only available to larger firms.

West points out that while it helped to know that both her agent and publisher are from large, well - known firms, she maintains that if business owners mean what they say, say what they mean and are who they say they are, they can't go wrong striking a deal online.

While the San Francisco Bay Area, home of Stanford University and Google, may see the lion's share of venture capital, startups there don't receive the same support from large firms that early - stage companies in Cincinnati do, Mitchell says.

But while the attendees might opt to keep their fortunes out of the press, they are putting those funds to work; everyone at the gathering was a limited partner, tasked with allocating large amounts of private, family - owned capital into various investments, including many of Silicon Valley's venture capital firms.

While those firms are still there (and getting larger), the pool of money that invests risk capital in startups has expanded, and a new class of investors has emerged.

While completing a doctorate degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, «A large Philadelphia law firm approached me with a request to translate thousands of pages in an international litigation case,» says Stejskal, now 48.

And while these firms are most visible in the consumer realm, an even larger market may lie in business and institutional environments.

While the majority of the buyout was financed by Dell's personal fortune and private equity firm Silver Lake Management, an additional $ 2 billion was invested by Microsoft — not surprising considering Dell is the software maker's third - largest customer.

«While women still make up less than 20 percent of U.S. boards on average, movement toward greater gender parity is evident with the proportion of new nominees that are women nearly doubling over the past seven years at larger firms,» Kamonjoh said in a statement.

While sales and revenue grow, the number of composite businesses in this industry is predicted to decline by 3 percent through 2016 as smaller firms consolidate or become independent advisers helping larger companies.

For starters, suggests Joel Evans, co-author of Retail Management: A Strategic Approachand the RMI Distinguished Professor of Business at Hofstra University's Zarb School of Business in Hempstead, New York, entrepreneurs should track their sales and customer retention, and then look at the pricing activities of similarly sized companies in their geographical area - while being mildly alert to what larger firms are doing.

His large buyout firm Onex Corp. controls all of Celestica's multiple voting shares, granting him unassailable control even while owning a minority position.

Large biofuel firms like Abengoa Bioenergy U.S., Iberdrola U.S.A., Pacific Ethanol, and POET joined the pledge, while some of the biggest agriculture firms — like Cargill and Monsanto (MON)-- did as well.

While these are positive steps, the feedback provided to the industry this summer after our review of the 2013 resolution plans for the largest firms suggested that quite a bit of work remains ahead on rationalizing legal entity structures, as well as in other areas, particularly:

«While we've had the majority of large brokerages sending their feeds, there were a lot of boutique firms that weren't sending their listings,» said Brendan Walsh, the Times» executive advertising director, who said the portal would offer a more «complete» set of data.

The financial services firm Allianz estimated that a 30 - minute power loss costs an average of $ 15,709 per customer for medium and large industrial facilities, while an eight - hour outage costs an average of $ 94,000.

Kent Mason, a partner with Davis & Harman in Washington, a law firm serving banks and large corporations, says that while the administration's goal «is to require advisors to act in the best interest of their customers, the industry has no concerns with such a requirement, as evidenced by the industry's longstanding support» for an SEC best - interest standard.

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.

The company calls itself «the largest musical instrument retailer in the world,» and opened as it says «its 262nd location» with its Times Square flagship store in Manhattan in 2014 while it was still in PE - firm driven expansion mode.

While nimble and digital technology savvy firms are either grabbing larger chunks of market share at a faster rate or are creating new business models shaking the very foundation of established markets.

While we believe payrolls and average hourly earnings are both likely to miss consensus estimates, we think the employment report may be somewhat less important than usual for the monetary policy outlook, because 1) recent data have been firm so we have some room for a miss, 2) the August seasonal issue is now well known so even a somewhat larger miss may not significantly alter the staff view, and 3) there are several months between now and December to make up for any weakness in tomorrow's report.

While that could be a headwind for automakers» profit margins and might result in higher prices for US consumers, ending NAFTA would likely not be a large enough inducement to cause firms to shut down Mexican production and move it to the US.

Citicorp at the time was the parent of the FDIC - insured Citibank while Travelers Group owned insurance companies, investment bank Salomon Brothers and the large retail brokerage firm, Smith Barney.

This has come about because domestic inflationary pressures have remained firm, while the disinflationary effects of the large exchange rate appreciation in 2002 and 2003 have continued to wane.

Trends Bribery & Corruption Anti-bribery and corruption enforcement efforts are picking up worldwide, with private firms more likely to be targeted, while large, state - owned enterprises are getting off easier, according to a report by Moody's Investors Service.

Freeing Main Street community banks from regulations designed for larger and riskier Wall Street financial firms will produce a positive economic impact while preserving the widespread benefits of local banking over the long - term.

From 2002 to 2008, the five largest Wall Street firms paid $ 190 billion in bonuses while earning $ 76 billion in profits.

While websites such as Kickstarter and PledgeMe — which allow companies to raise money online from a large group of people — have been operating in this country for some time, offering shares in a firm through these platforms is prohibited.

He now runs a large law firm in Washington while also teaching at two different law schools in California.

While the meatballs are cooking, cook pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until it's aldente — just tender but still firm to bite.

United Spirits Sells Stake in United Breweries The Diageo - controlled firm sold its 3.21 % stake in UB - India's largest beer company for Rs 872 crore, upping Heineken's share to 42.2 % while UB's stake stands at 32.6 %...

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While that's happening, halve five large, firm apples and use a spoon or something to scoop out the seedy bits in the middle in whatever way seems least crazy.

While the industry's premium beer segment remains a firm leader in terms of total sales, craft beers, progressive beverages and other forms of specialty beer are becoming increasingly popular among consumers who are in search of new flavors, high quality ingredients and a general twist on the traditional forms of beer and ale.Premium beerThe premium beer product category generally refers to any «flagship» beer brand that is brewed and manufactured on a large scale and is part of a brewer's standard product line.

While the 1983 biographical sketch describing the origins of Gerber baby food makes no mention of Daniel Gerber's wife, she plays a large role in the narrative promoted by the Gerber firm itself.

While Chinese and Russian companies are now worried about the security of their existing contracts, European oil firms expect to benefit with new business and a larger share of the Libyan oil market.

While Cuomo has no direct connection to the recent Skelos and Silver indictments, Glenwood Management, a luxury real estate firm that has been tied to both corruption cases, has also been the governor's largest donor.