Sentences with phrase «who took»

As if Nooyi wasn't facing enough pressure, she soon had to contend with a major activist investor: Nelson Peltz, who took a stake in the company and began agitating for PepsiCo to undo its merger of Pepsi and Frito - Lay, just as Kraft (KRFT) had spun off Mondelez after a similar campaign by Peltz.

The best - selling author and host of The Tim Ferris Show tells Inc. that people too often believe romanticized tales of entrepreneurs who took a huge risk — and ultimately reaped great rewards — by launching their businesses.

«We have a Cannonball Award that goes to somebody who took a big risk and hit a home run,» says Regan.

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the series of new products and partnerships Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Khosrowshahi, who took the helm several months after co-founder Travis Kalanick resigned, said the aim is to reduce individual car ownership.

To anyone walking by his office, Ted appears still on the job and definitely not a slacker who took off early just because it was Friday.

Iger, who took over as Disney's CEO in 2005, had previously been set to step down in the summer of 2018 and the company has been actively searching for his heir apparent.

«The sword wouldn't cut nothing,» a friend of Todashev who took pictures of his autopsy, told The Associated Press.

Razor Suleman, one of three entrepreneurs who took part in the Business without Borders roundtable, feels the country could benefit from a change in attitude.

The reporter who took Bill O'Reilly down.

These may be one of the most valuable assets you have as a start - up: the advice and experience of seasoned business people who took the time to respond, even with a «no.»

So who took advantage of this resultant infrastructure and user base?

It also named a new CEO who took over in May, but the change did little to appease investors, who have continued to sell the stock.

The kid who took his lemonade stand door - to - door made a lot more summer cash than the teen on the corner waiting for the next passerby.

Barra, who took over as CEO in mid-January, didn't directly answer a question about whether she should have figured out the switches were a deadly problem.

Avon CEO Sheri McCoy, who took the helm in 2012 to fix a cosmetics giant left in disarray by her predecessor Andrea Jung, has repeatedly said that because of Avon's heritage, the fixing the U.S. business is her «No. 1 priority», and has pledged to return its second biggest market to profitability in 2015.

Emergency manager Kevyn Orr, who took Detroit into bankruptcy, says the city will be on a «little bit of a diet for a while.»

Pingitore cited a recent study in Germany that looked at the impact of consumers who took part in satisfaction surveys.

The participants who took acetaminophen consistently rated pain — both emotional and physical, and both their own and someone else's — as less severe than those who took the placebo.

The questioning about whether the White House was seeking to oust Mueller came as top conservative boosters of Trump sought to delegitimize Mueller, a former FBI director who took the special counsel job after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

Cook, who took the reins from late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 2011, only came out openly as a gay man six months ago.

More than 800 of these people were found to have invasive lung cancers over the study's course, and the risk seemed to be especially associated with men who took discrete supplements with vitamin B6 or B12.

«Events are happening that weren't common in this city,» Mexican army Lt. Col. Darwin Puc Acosta, who took over as Cancun's police chief in June, told Bloomberg.

Attending Rhodes» ruling were Detroit's state - appointed emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, who took Michigan's biggest city to bankruptcy court, and Mayor Mike Duggan, who is now tasked with carrying out the plan.

(At this point, it's also worth noting that Facebook's claims about the effectiveness of Free Basics as a development tool in India are highly debatable — the vast majority of those who took up the offer were existing Internet users who wanted some free data, and it seems a very small number of genuinely new users actually graduated to the world of paid - for Internet access.

«She was one of the people — maybe the only person at the time — who took basic lab work and used it to answer real - world questions,» he says.

I wouldn't be here if it weren't for all the other women who helped me — just like the woman who took me to all those parties I couldn't get into or the lady who carried my first clothing line after she got a fax of my line sheet and actually called me back.

That was 40 % of the season available overnight to anyone who took no issue with piracy.

John Chen, who took the reins at the struggling mobile technology company in November 2013, has moved rapidly to try to get the one - time investor darling back on track.

I broke through because I had a sponsor who took me to all of the industry events with her and introduced me to people.

Pichai, who took over in August, received a grant for 273,328 Class C Google stock units on Feb. 3.

April 19 - Toymaker Mattel Inc Chief Executive Officer Margaret Georgiadis, who took the helm in February last year, will step down and be replaced by company director Ynon Kreiz, effective April 26, the company said on Thursday.

Seventy - two percent of small - business owners who took part in the survey say they prefer to accept cash or checks as a form of payment over credit cards.

Put another way, European institutions received 85,262 score reports from people who took the GMAT exam in 2010, up nearly 90 % from the 45,079 score reports test takers sent to European institutions in 2006.

According to a scientist involved in the study, anyone who took part in more than 28 hours of domestic or caretaking work without pay — 28 hours per week is the Australian average — would not be able to handle more than 39 hours of paid work weekly before experiencing problems associated with poor health.

Boire, who took the reins last summer, added that the retailer has benefitted from efforts to diversify its offerings and ramp up its educational toys and gift businesses, sales of which grew 12.5 % and 13.8 % respectively in the quarter ended Jan. 30.

The research also shows that 49 percent of taxpayers who took the deduction had income below $ 50,000 and 69 percent earned less than $ 75,000.

«I think since, really, I'm a conservative investor, that experience of being in debt and also the experience of seeing things happen to people who took too much financial risk and got hurt, led me to be pretty conservative — I'm a guy that looks for singles and not home runs,» Bach said.

At the University of Texas» McCombs School of Business, the percentage of students who took jobs in the technology and finance fields was «neck - to - neck» this year for the first time, said Velma Arney, McComb's director of BBA career services, with 12 % of students heading into technology and 13 % going into banking.

In fact, one of the judges of her competition happened to own a tech company who took Winner on as her mentor, employing her after she was released from prison.

Our focus was on finding photographers who took the most engaging photos.

«We were able to put a ton of effort early on into making this buildable,» says Jim Daly, the fellow who took the job.

Mr. Hackett, who took over in May, has vowed to cut costs to improve the automaker's «fitness.»

Murphy, who took the helm of Marvell in July 2016, classified the move as part of a larger restructuring the semiconductor company is doing under his leadership.

When asked specifically about the green coffee bean extract, Oz cited a study that found people who took the supplements did lose weight.

Troops from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, who took part in the testing in Maryland, spoke highly of the new features on the vehicle, which has been nicknamed «Dragoon» after the regiment.

After all, it's usually the Founder who took the company from nothing more than an idea with a few thousand dollars in cash to where it is today.

«In many ways, it is GM's post-bankruptcy masterpiece, a real feather in the cap of CEO Mary Barra and her executive team, who took what the company had achieved with its ill - fated EV - 1 back in the 1990s and turned it up to 11.»

Europe is like the person who took early retirement and then discovered that he didn't like it.

Ozzie, who took over for Gates in 2006 and left Microsoft in 2010, tweeted on Jan. 4: «What a fantastic year it was.

In May, CEO Steve Easterbrook, who took the reins in March with a clear mandate to stop years of sales bleeding at the world's largest restaurant company, announced a series of steps to shake up the company.