Amex's problems stem in part from a familiar source: an aggressive move out of its traditional business of charge cards, which must be paid off each month, into riskier credit cards that allow customers to carry a balance.
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In our mortgage business, while charge-offs and delinquencies have improved, credit costs still remain at abnormally high levels and continue to be a significant drag on our returns.
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Anapata is a kind of recruiting company, which leveraged her position as co-president of Stanford Women in Business, to charge law firms to meet job seekers from a number of student groups.
That means it is not beholden to powerful lobbies (though some Italians see the prime minister, who was once an adviser to Goldman Sachs, as a representative of international big business, a charge he vigorously denies).
The devaluation also harmed Chemapol's pharmaceutical-distribution business, which cannot charge more for imported drugs whose prices are regulated.
It said the move is in response to the Scottish government's health levy, a supplementary charge on business rates paid by large stores selling cigarettes and alcohol.
Cumbria County Council has provided two 500 sq ft units at its Maryport Business Centre free of charge so MIRS can store its equipment while the new facility is built.
Mr. Perry, who had been in charge of business operations, realized he needed to learn code himself in order to launch the business, an app called GVING that sought to help merchants better track and reward their customers.
To operate a profitable business they will have to charge more, reducing the attractiveness of their service.
Yang had originally wanted a separate consumer business division to lead the charge, according to Grabe, but Amelio argued that that might undermine the geographic heads.
If you use your car to visit customers, again record the mileage which you can charge against the business at a maximum of 40p per mile.
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Under owner Roman Abramovich, Kenyon took charge of the business side of the club with the long-term aim of becoming one of the most profitable and best supported clubs in the world.
The charge: illegal business activities and money laundering.
By an odd symmetry, an unexpected change of one vote has now put the Democrats in charge of Senate business, so giving America something closer to the divided government that in 2000, as so often, it seems to have wanted.
The way it works now is that the large institutions which are in the business of managing our money charge us handsomely for advice that often describes dangerous events to us only after the bulk of their effects have been felt.
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Not 1st American Flowers, a Canadian business that also doesn't charge sales tax on U.S. deliveries.
John Ross, a former head of Deutsche's Asian operations, was put in charge of the American business.
Kevin Magee, the Fox News executive vice president in charge of the new business channel, refrains from being cocky.
Another problem Xerox will face with commercial printers is that its business model uses a "click charge": Customers pay per page printed.
In this business, how much you can charge for an ad depends upon what your circulation is and there are various different companies that measure this in different countries.
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As editor of ITV News, Turness was in charge of news coverage and business operations.
But they were impressed enough to put him in charge of the newly acquired business.
But she has failed to shake off the charge that she represents big business (of which Peru, sadly, has little).
In Trapani's first five years in charge, he reorganized the business.
Given the fact that airlines from India to the U.S. are struggling to pay the bills, an extra charge just makes running the business a lot more complicated.
Today he runs a lean and distributed team that is driving the charge for the shape of business to come: lean, agile, and quickly evolving with the ability, when needed, to turn on a dime.
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TellMe has opted for an advertising-supported business model, but also intends to charge e-commerce sites for building and maintaining their voice services and it wants to take a cut on every purchase that is made through its system.
Adventure writer and business executive Thayer Walker is leading the charge to protect sharks in the Bahamas by raising money to help the Bahamian government create a management plan, infrastructure and enforcement team to protect a 70 square mile marine protected area in the South Berry Islands.
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This post was excerpted from his new book, The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, published by the Harvard Business Review Press.
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This year, overall revenue is expected to grow 4% and, the big charge for writing down the digital business aside, operating earnings are rising more swiftly.
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