While it isn't surprising to see Microsoft and other players manoeuvring around each other, it is worrying to think that this vitally important area will be compromised for the sake of corporate advantage.
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When a firm like Goldman Sachs has the ability to have conflicts of interest, and their corporate culture takes advantage of their responsibilities by putting their own interest first, they no longer serve their clients.
Like the Staples Center, the other new arenas taking the biggest advantage of corporate sponsorships also house multiple teams.
"Medicare Advantage is corporate welfare and everyone knows it, " he says.
Three times within two weeks the House ethics committee has rebuked the Republican leader for being over-aggressive in his pursuit of corporate donations and political advantage.
In short, bosses are quick to turn every imaginable system of corporate government to their advantage which is probably why they are the people who are put in charge of things.
To take advantage of favorable corporate tax laws, the new company will be based in Ireland.
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The technology that we built became the competitive advantage in the corporate and institutional services business at the bank.
Kinder and Morgan set their firm up as a master limited partnership, an obscure structure that had one key advantage: no corporate income taxes.
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As time went on, Leslie took advantage of these corporate re-organizations.
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Both prosumers and corporate customers alike can take advantage of this program which offers very competitive trade-in values in real-time from their existing smartphone or Internet-connected device.
Russians and others set up businesses on Cyprus to take advantage of a corporate tax rate of only 10 percent as well as a perceived climate of lax oversight.
But Twitter will probably follow the example of other technology companies, basing its corporate headquarters in Dublin to take advantage of the tax rate (then hiring back-office staff) and setting up another branch in London where it can tap into a wider pool of folks who are highly skilled in software development.
Some may incorporate and take advantage of those much lower corporate rates.
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Since corporate culture is the only truly sustainable competitive advantage, leaders must ensure that their culture is adapting to the changing business environment.
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Higher wages have dented corporate profits, but many companies have been taking advantage of their workers for far too long.
According to International Financing Review, U.S. and international companies continued to take advantage of a stronger tone in the corporate bond market on Monday, with a number of deals expected to price later in the session.
If MLPs were to become taxed at the corporate level, they would lose their cost of capital advantage and would likely not be able to pay and grow their distributions at the same rates.
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Wide-spread use many not be the optimal use of a municipal or corporate budget, but on-site devices have the unique advantage of decreasing the time to defibrillation.
It is the only economic resource that cannot be transferred across corporate boundaries, and, therefore, the ultimate source of competitive advantage in global industries where imitation, market saturation, and lower entry barriers quickly eliminate market rents.
Yet, governments should still take advantage of the recovery to complete structural reforms in the financial and corporate sectors.
Some corporations have taken advantage of this, linking ERP systems to Citi and providing the corporate treasury with powerful controls.
What are other examples of corporate projects a CSR manager might use to engage this region of Pakistan to take advantage of changing industry practices?
On Wall Street and elsewhere in corporate America, insiders generally learn quickly how to game new systems and turn them to their advantage.
But with genetic technologies advancing much faster than computing, opening up their corporate jewels to more innovators could prove to be just good business sense, giving them an advantage over their closed competitors.
They take advantage of their expertise and contacts to go do their own thing, no longer tethered by corporate ties.
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But there is an advantage to non-guaranteed issues as well: they provide a more obvious benchmark for evaluating corporate issuers.
By eliminating pages of loopholes and deductions, we can lower one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. (Applause.) Our tax code should not give an advantage to companies that can afford the best-connected lobbyists.
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"It has been an opportune time for corporate borrowers from Eastern Europe to tap the international bond markets, with many Russian, Kazakh and Ukrainian names taking advantage of the stretch for yield to borrow in dollars for the first time since the global crisis, " says Richard Segal, emerging-market strategist at Jefferies International.
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