But Ford isn't the only one playing big-company antics more common among small-fry marketers.
Left alone, market forces create the "level playing field" so desired by bureaucrats and big-company critics.
Dividends have accounted for well over half of the long-term real return on big-company stocks.
Wall Street traders, big-company CEOs, and trust fund brats are included, but they are not typical.
At the NYSE last Thursday, circuit breakers kicked in when big-company stocks began to crater.
Managers stifled by big-company bureaucracy or unsettled by drug mergers may follow his lead.
They talk about junk bond companies going under, but look at the records of some of those big-company takeovers.
Peter had salted away a fair amount of money at his big-company job and was convinced that he could rise no further.
Within that group, the share of big-company managers declined sharply over the last 20 years, while the share of executives of small businesses grew.
Packet Design was set up to focus on Wi-Fi and other basic networking issues while avoiding such big-company hassles as having to choreograph quarterly earnings.
The big-company culture has permanently changed, insists chief executive Dan Akerson.
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However, despite the market's recent surge, it is noticeable that two big-company stocks have recently attracted takeover bids at significant premiums to their stock prices: H.
Big-company shares have scarcely broken even over the past decade.
Plus, the big-company sweetheart deals with 3PL carriers can continue.
Big-company basics, like collaboration and workflow software, can be a nightmare to install and maintain if they're not backed up by a big company's trained crew of information technology professionals.
RightNow gets the big-company marketing, professional services, sales reach of Oracle to grow beyond their current run-rate, and to compete more effectively with SalesForce, Microsoft and to a lesser degree, SAP.
Even beta seems to have lost some of its forecasting ability: small-company shares have not produced higher returns than big-company ones over the long bull market of the 1980s and 1990s.
Workers lucky enough to belong to a big-company union that negotiated its annual wage contracts along with those of workers for other big firms in the same industry tended to do better than average.
Some big-company-by-big-company takeovers turned out very badly.
The going annualized interest rate paid by those who borrowed shares in the social networking company was anywhere from 10% to 40% on the amount borrowed on Friday, compared with 0.25% to 0.5% for the typical big-company stock, according to Robert Sloan, managing partner of S3 Partners, a New York firm that advises hedge funds on counterparty risk and financing of trade.
The domestic game is dominated by big-money company teams, whose cash has attracted many ageing stars from the major rugby-playing nations.
In the days before Snopes, let alone the ability for a false rumor to spread quickly in the digital domain, I was involved in another such misinformed groundswell movement perpetrated on a big-branded company.
While becoming the CEO of any big-name company is probably more than most of us can hope for, if we are honest there are CEO opportunities that we would all love to have a chance at, and others that most of us would instinctively shy away from.
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Shares of big-screen movie company IMAX are trading higher Thursday on strong Q4 results.
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Will the next big start-up company locate in the U.S. with such a cost disadvantage?
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Azim Premji, the chairman of Wipro, a big computer-services company, has called Mr Bhattacharjee India's best chief minister.
He told me about an analysis he had recently done for a big information-technology company on the East Coast.
Competing on price would be a mistake because no one seriously considers cheaper consultants for the really big company-changing projects.
Keys had been a journalist with a big-name media company, and not long after I carried out the interview he landed a coveted social media role with Reuters.
One big credit-card company we work with does nearly 35 percent of its annual dollar volume and 20 percent of its total transaction volume this time of year.
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