Sentences with phrase «who control the company»

And given the disparity in wealth between Walmart employees (many of whom live below the poverty line) and the Walton family (who control the company, and who are the richest family on earth), this might be a situation where giving beyond what you're legally required to give might be the right thing to do.

The real reason is Ford's lagging stock value, a bigger concern for William Clay Ford and his relatives, who control the company with 40 percent of its stock.

While some of Hulu's moves — keeping its content out of the living room by blocking Boxee, taking down back episodes of shows — are clearly at the behest of the content companies who control the company, this one seems different.

Not exact matches

The trick here is having control over who's able to post Tweets to the company account as disparaging remarks about customers are most likely to be made by bored, uncommitted hires.

Truaxe, who recently changed his job title on LinkedIn to «Worker on Earth,» has control of his company's Instagram account, Jezebel reported earlier this month.

As it expanded into new lines and categories, established figures within the company jockeyed over who got to control what and why.

So Viacom's new chairman is not only unloved by some large shareholders, but also unloved by his own vice-chairman, the daughter of the company's controlling shareholder and one of the people who will direct Redstone's assets after his death.

To J. Maurice, who helped found WizSec but left the company early on and was not involved in the investigation, Nilsson's effort epitomizes the virtues of Bitcoin — a decentralized system free of government control, which relies instead on individual users to sustain it.

«In young, growing companies particularly, owners want an accountant who can help them manage financial business performance and have responsibility for the internal control function,» Chamberlain says.

At least then, a company can control the factor's dunning tactics, and possibly save a customer who could be lost forever if the factor pushes too hard.

58 % of people said it is appropriate for companies to take part in the gun - control debate, compared to 33 % who say it isn't appropriate.

Weston said his family, who also controls Loblaw's parent company, George Weston Ltd. (TSX: WN), has undergone some major changes in the past year, including the $ 12.4 - billion blockbuster acquisition of the Shoppers Drug Mart chain.

The owners, who expect to stay on as technicians after the sale, are selling control of the company mostly to obtain funds for expansion.

David Starkey, who works in production planning and inventory control at a manufacturing company in Ajax, Ont., sits through upwards of four meetings each day, of which he says half are productive and necessary.

Tillerson's predecessor, Lee Raymond, tried to buy Russia's most profitable oil company Yukos from the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who had gained control of it during the highly corrupt privatizations under Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.

«Shaich and Mackey here are one and the same — two company founders inextricably linked to their brands, who were not ready to give up control.

To deal with those who slip past the wall, some larger companies are increasingly using behavior - based analytics and access controls.

If cable companies were once the gods who delivered TV content from their version of Mount Olympus, then the set - top box was their chosen instrument — one to which they alone had access and controlled.

Even after Thursday's rally, Norwegian's founder and top owner, CEO Kjos who controls a quarter of the company's shares, is expected to demand a significantly higher price before selling, said Korsvold.

He has been charged with threatening to kill the former Russian agriculture minister Vladimir Loginov, the man who controls the Russian company which makes Stolichnaya in Russia.

A «comprehensive review» is under way that has «accelerated» in recent days, Brittin said, adding the company had invested «millions» and has thousands of people who work on policies, controls, and enforcement to ensure bad ads — or bad ad placements — don't make it into the system.

The company also hired Environics, a marketing analytics company, to help identify their target market: folks who spend lots of time on their mobile devices, are open to trying new things and have a high degree of control over their finances.

In the end, this is actually probably one of the most popular options for those who are really series about funding a startup because it allows you to keep control over your company, earn mentorship when it's needed, and hopefully make money as your company continues to grow.

Sprint and T - Mobile discussed a deal in November, but talks broke down amid disagreement over who would control the new company.

«The future is foreign markets, so the last thing you want to do if you are a coal company is to give up a U.S. seat in the international climate discussions and let the Europeans control the agenda,» said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

For those leaders willing to make the shift, it's useful first to change your mindset: think of it less in terms of losing control and more in terms of gaining knowledge, experience and leadership from others who will help your company grow.

We rage against out - of - control CEO pay, demand stricter corporate governance, and yet we love the dominant leader who cuts through the noise, gives us something we didn't know we wanted and creates the most valuable company in the world in an industry — consumer electronics and entertainment — that commands just two or three per cent of household budgets and GDP.

The simple point is that if you control 51 percent of your company and / or the voting rights, you can avoid a lot of headache and you can still be very generous with early people who join your mission.

«When the same people are controlling pay at a number of companies, that can cause a direct ratcheting up of pay,» says Eleanor Bloxham, who heads The Value Alliance and Corporate Governance Alliance, a board education and advisory firm, and is a regular contributor to Fortune.com.

On Friday, a Delaware court backed a bid to oust Tilton — who controls dozens of companies — from control of some of the companies she runs.

Ahern earned an electrical engineering degree from University of Vermont and with help from an unnamed angel investor who «bet on people heading in the right direction» started a company in 2002 — Industrial Defender, a cybersecurity firm that protects industrial control systems for the electrical grid, oil and gas, and chemical companies — which Lockheed Martin acquired in 2014.

(Holmes, who agreed to pay a $ 500,000 fine, forfeit shares, and give up voting control of Theranos, did not admit or deny the allegations; there is also an ongoing federal criminal probe into the company.)

And it probably took an amount between $ 500 million and $ 1 billion to motivate the co-founder, who already was worth billions on paper, could sell some of his shares even while the company was still private and, with his college buddy Bobby Murphy, effectively controlled the company.

The bottom line is that Apple's ambitions in the content industries seem to be hampered in part by a lack of a consistent vision about what the company wants to do and why, combined with a culture clash between existing movie studios and TV networks about who is the most important player in the relationship, and who gets to control the terms.

«You control who sees what and for how long,» the company explains on its website.

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And in the absence of Apple's Steve Jobs, Bezos is the new undisputed role model for founders who want to keep control of their companies.

The irony of this is that patent laws are already wildly out of control, with everyone suing everyone and an entire category of companies (patent trolls) existing solely to litigate against those who have allegedly infringed.

Of the 12 companies hit with sanctions in Friday's action, the Treasury Department said seven are either controlled or owned by Deripaska, the billionaire who emerged as a central figure in the U.S. probe of possible election interference by the Kremlin and its associates.

«We need to know who really owns and controls our companies.

Control of the company rests with the Bombardier and Beaudoin families, who, if the company's current situation is any guide, have not been the most astute owners.

Content that was once shackled to existing distribution platforms like TV and newspapers has been set free to roam the Internet at will, and that in turn has transferred the power from existing media companies (that controlled those platforms) to anyone who understands how content works in this new landscape.

One way of controlling some risks is by lending to companies who are heavily restricted in their decision making, either by regulation or by industry dynamics.

Washington said on Monday it would consider lifting the sanctions if Deripaska, who along with the company was included on a U.S. sanctions list on April 6, ceded control of Rusal.

Modern corporations are typically characterized by a «separation of ownership and control» — that is, companies are generally run by professional managers, who manage on behalf of a very large number of mostly - anonymous shareholders.

She added that the path of the two companies could have been different under different leadership, a reference to Viacom's former Chief Executive Officer Philippe Dauman, who was forced to resign in August after losing a battle for control of Viacom with the Redstones.

To business owners who recoil at the thought of endless detail cluttering their monthly bills, Mays responds, «Companies that take control of their legal relationship by requiring more of this kind of information force law firms to be more accountable.»

Similarly, when CBS merged with Viacom in 2000, the company's bylaws gave Mel Karmazin, who was president and chief operating officer of the combined company reporting to Redstone, full operating control.

She had acquired the capital to build the company by selling equity to a group of angel investors, who owned just over 50 percent of the stock and thus controlled the board.

It seems obvious that chairman and controlling shareholder Michael Ferro, who took over the company in February, wants to show that Tribune is moving forward into a digital future.