But Alltel could face significant challenges growing its business long term.
"If we start asking for information like pictures and videos, we're going to hurt our business long term because users won't trust us, " he said.
How can short-term business goals be aligned with long-term social objectives?
As a direct consequence of the Macondo Incident, we were forced to revise our short-term business priorities and expand our focus to protect the immediate and long-term interests of our Company.
Reporting into Phil Harrison, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business (EMEA), the new studio's remit will be to develop a long-term business with Entertainment as a Service at its core, with a focus on Windows 8 tablet devices as the underlying technology and platforms as part of Microsoft Studios' continued expansion across the region.
Developing a solid medium- to long-term business in China will help support the brand going forward.
"We believe that this is a good long-term business where growth potential is phenomenal, " he says.
But competition has never been so fierce, product lifecycles so short, nor long-term business perspectives so challenging.
Focus on your long-term business needs and select a solution that can help you deliver on them.
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What if banks themselves started to realize that disadvantaging their customers does not make long-term business sense?
Companies are much more disposed to have long term business interest in countries where media freedom is respected.
They would be much more profitable focusing on the smaller, loyal and more long term business market instead.
The cost of making a short-term target is that long-term business generally suffers.
Over time, the term business incubator has accrued some negative connotations for not actually helping to start businesses.
Which do you think has a more sustainable long-term business model: Facebook selling ads or Alibaba transacting with 1.3 billion Chinese?
The offer has been made in the hope the garden's trustees could find long-term business partners to bail out the business.
"They continued to execute on their short-term business model, " of controlling costs while making progress on the development of new drugs.
While success is never a sure thing, those with sustainable, long term business plans would greatly benefit from the more flexible loans.
Some banks would like to stash the money for short-term business reasons.
It seems almost axiomatic that long-term business strength, economic growth, and the health of our society in general depends in great measure on innovative leaders.
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In some regions, the term business casual simply does not translate.
Merrill Lynch's move into retail broking suggests that foreign firms are now prepared to do the donkey work needed to establish a long-term business in Japan.
Failing to help workers balance their personal and professional responsibilities is a failed human resource policy that most employers recognize does not make good long-term business sense.
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The company took down its full-year expectations as a result, saying that it will update investors about its long-term business plan in the first quarter of 2012.
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"These changes will strengthen and help sustain Rachel's success for the future, and secure the long term business relationships with local farmers and the area, " said the firm.
Alternative long-term incentive vehicles rarely receive a fair hearing by board compensation committees, even if alternatives are better aligned with a company's long-term business needs and shareholder interests.
Often, tech debt takes a backseat to short-term business thinking.
Tying transparency to sales gives it a long-term business purpose.
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APB's long-term business plan calls for making money on ads (the site recently sold its first sponsorship), spinoffs and partnerships such as the content deal with the Snap portal site.
That's thanks to Act 221, passed three years ago in an effort to promote long-term business investment with credits to offset state income and corporate income taxes over a five-year period.
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