Sentences with phrase «with higher incentives»

I think most likely they're living with higher incentives at least for the first part of the year.»

Prices: Because the large Roadmaster was out of style from the day it was introduced, sales never took off and many models were sold with high incentives.

So, I believe the real reason for the price cut is because Apple is planning to launch the 32 GB model and will phase out the 8 GB model and T - Mobile is simply bundled as a promotion to cleanup the stock of 8 GB iPhones with a higher incentive for those going for a costlier tariff.

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According to well - established research lasting motivation does not happen with incentives, but rather when employees (1) feel a sense of achievement, (2) have choice and the ability to participate on their own terms, (3) have opportunities to interact with others, (4) feel connected to a higher purpose, and (5) have fun.

That includes funding programs that teach STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to young people in underserved areas, collaborating with higher education institutions, investing in women and minority - owned companies and creating bolder hiring and retention incentives and programs to encourage diversity within Intel.

At the time, she said the company would collaborate with higher education institutions, invest in women and minority - owned companies, and create bolder hiring and retention incentives to encourage diversity at Intel.

Following successful models like the X-Prize, private - and public - sector leaders should work together to set up a high - profile Canada Prize that offers incentives for entrepreneurs and researchers to solve critical problems with commercial and public benefits, like cheap desalination units or better distribution of electricity to villages.

At the same time, quality can be expected to be maintained high because, with few authorized producers, nobody has an incentive to dilute quality.

If the aim is to encourage anyone with residential space to offer it as housing rather than hotel rooms, the higher the transient occupancy tax, the stronger the incentive gradient.

However, advocates of reforming executive pay — by linking it with performance and reducing incentives for risk - taking — argue the pay ceilings are so high they lack teeth.

The decrease in net revenues compared with the third quarter of 2010 was due to lower incentive fees, partially offset by higher management and other fees, primarily reflecting higher average assets under management.

Mortgage rates have moved decisively higher this year, leaving fewer borrowers with any incentive to refinance.

Iceland and Greenland have approached the company to try to persuade it to build mining operations in their countries which offer «similar power rates, along with tax breaks and incentives... [p] lus, the usually low temperatures there hold down the costs of cooling high - powered computers.»

This performance was reflected in our NEOs» cash incentive awards, which, consistent with our pay - for - performance philosophy, paid out at higher levels for fiscal 2013 than for fiscal 2012:

However, to improve the prospects of middle income earners, a more forceful intervention might be needed through either higher mandatory contributions or at least auto - enrolment in private pensions with targeted financial incentives.

Higher - income taxpayers with mortgage interest, property tax, and other deductions in excess of such amounts would have no tax incentives to give to charity because charitable gifts would not add to their deductions.

1) Diversify into heartland / flyover states and away from coastal city real estate 2) Conviction is HIGHER now that the new tax plan has passed with the $ 10K SALT cap and $ 750K mortgage cap 3) Invest in the fund with 12 — 16 deals, b / c they are picking the best deals on their platform and have a high incentive not to mess things up if they want to raise new funds 4) Learn from the investments of the fund and eventually invest in specific deals w / real capital (1 - 2 years away)

Living Goods began, in 2008, as a partnership with BRAC to operate a network of CHPs in Uganda, and in 2009 launched a directly - managed network of CHPs using the same model.42 Living Goods has provided both technical and financial support, totaling over $ 2 million, to BRAC for the CHP program.43 BRAC has 128 branches with active CHPs in Uganda, but only 24 of these branches currently receive significant funding from Living Goods and have additional features, such as incentive payments for CHPs and a higher number of CHPs per branch.44

The current regulatory environment, they say, also allows fund sponsors and advisory firms «to create incentives for their advisors to recommend excessive churning (repeated buying and selling) of retirement assets and to steer savers into higher cost products with financial payoffs for the advisor.»

Without supportive policies (employee involvement, training, job security, and low supervision), workers with company stock and other group incentives may even have lower satisfaction and higher turnover intention.

The evidence that incentives based on group outcomes are associated with higher productivity contravenes the oft - repeated critique that employee stock ownership and profit sharing can not possibly work due to the incentive to «free ride.»

For example, we will consider paying signing bonuses to compensate for amounts forfeited by an executive upon terminating prior employment, to assist with relocation expenses or to create additional incentive for an executive to join our company in a position where there is high market demand.

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

Favourable attributes associated with boutiques include: 1: Managers who think independently 2: A lack of benchmark - hugging 3: A reasonable, incentive - based remuneration 4: Less run by committee, meaning decisions can be made quickly 5: Less bureaucracy and company politics to deal with than at big firms 6: Higher level of employee ownership and investment in own funds, aligning employee and client interests 7: Lower staff turnover

The existence of an effective insurance «floor» means that money managers at big companies have an incentive to take on extra risk to achieve higher returns and to hell with the consequences.

If you want them to spend money, you need to make sure that they do not have the incentive to save it, which means doing away with high interest rates.

So I think publicly traded companies who have incentives to constantly cull out costs and expenses and replace them with higher productivity and more efficiencies in their system.

Combined with higher revenues from Plus Points, one time use points provided as incentives, the company generated $ 8 million of rental revenue net of expenses, a $ 6 million increase from the first quarter of 2011.

Many ETF industry sources have told IndexUniverse.com that high - speed computer - driven trading has cut profit margins for market makers, and therefore seriously curtailed their incentives for taking on the financial risks associated with providing trading liquidity in particular securities.

Second, lenders with short - termism incentives push relatively high - quality borrowers into material covenant violations because these are precisely the borrowers from whom rents can be extracted.

The outlook for business investment remains positive, with high capacity utilisation rates and a generally favourable outlook for the domestic economy providing considerable incentive to invest.

If there are 5000 charities monitored and evaluated by Charity Navigator — with some having «no stars» ranging to the highest — what would be my incentive in risking sending money to an organization (mission or not) that I can't review by spreadsheet / graph / stats?

With private property initiatives and market incentives kept in place, appropriate cultural changes («a great deal of educational and cultural work,» CA No. 36) can be introduced to purge capitalism of consumerism and thereby bring the market economy to a higher level of moral perfection.

The importance of early treatment is highlighted by the now well - established fact that those who have treatment while they are still holding jobs and with their families have significantly higher recovery rates than do those who have lost these key incentives to recovery.

With the self - generation incentive program, we were able to use biogas and fuel cells to get the highest amount of money back for the process.

With Australia's high levels of obesity and diabetes, there are already strong incentives in place for local F&A businesses to develop solutions.

With the added incentive of the free DVD prize, the large cash prizes with matching category manager prizes, and the easy to access display materials, we expect to attract an even a higher rate of participation than last year.&raWith the added incentive of the free DVD prize, the large cash prizes with matching category manager prizes, and the easy to access display materials, we expect to attract an even a higher rate of participation than last year.&rawith matching category manager prizes, and the easy to access display materials, we expect to attract an even a higher rate of participation than last year.»

What is wrong with a new 3/4 year contract with the first year on lower basic, but with incentives linked to availability and then following years automatically moving onto a higher wage if a minimum number of appearances made.

Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

The May 1, 2011 - April 30, 2015 agreements with police dispatchers, telecommunications operators, and public works and building maintenance employees and upper police management: • * increase required employee contributions to participate in conventional preferred provider organization health plans, • * provide financial incentives to employees to switch to consumer - directed plans or managed - care plans, • * provide village funding of 40 percent of the deductible for high deductible health plans with health savings accounts and • * require employee participation in annual wellness and health risk assessment screenings in order to qualify for best rates.

The State Affiliates will be working toward the Incentive for Scholarships and will be competiting with one another to have the highest percentage participation in 2016.

According to Dr Rutherford, the reasons for this difference in volunteering activity could be due to the higher costs associated with running public services in the countryside, meaning that there is an incentive for communities to cooperate locally through voluntary organisations in order to provide essential services.

The only way you can not lag long term and be a communist regime is to not have a competing free system with higher productivity driven by better incentive structures.

The Buffalo school district is partnering with the Buffalo Teachers Federation and SUNY Buffalo State on a new program that will recruit students while they are still in high school and offer them incentives to pursue a career in education.

Undoubtedly the scarcest commodity in American political life, with its sky - high levels of partisan polarization and its cable - news - driven incentives toward oppositionalism and contrarianism, is unanimity of opinion.

«Iain Duncan Smith is right to be looking at the perverse incentives in the current system, but with the welfare bill so high, cutting the deficit requires more radical reform.»

In an attempt to diversify its teaching ranks, the Buffalo school district is partnering with the Buffalo Teachers Federation and SUNY Buffalo State on a new program that will recruit students while they are still in high school and offer them incentives to pursue a career in education.

The proposed federal tax overhaul will reduce tax incentives for homeownership, potentially depressing the prices of Long Island homes with high property taxes and spurring demand for already - scarce lower - cost homes and rentals.

With award - winning higher education, a skilled workforce, competitive real estate, attractive incentive packages and utility rates, it's no wonder why major companies such as Gap, GlobalFoundries and IBM collectively employ more than 10,000 people here.

«Possibly there's four or five incentives tax relief that can help our high - tax states that we're working with our lawmakers on,» Brady said outside his office in the Capitol, where he met with Republican House members to discuss the tax overhaul.