And at the same time he was losing subscribers, suggesting that the share price movement was very much related to online sentiment and not to business fundamentals.
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Monti did not fare well enough to give Bersani the boost he needs, and he has vowed not to do business with Berlusconi.
Mr. Quelch: I think that Chinese companies will add value initially in the B-to-B (business-to-business) sector, not the B-to-C (business-to-consumer) sector.
We're business-to-business and not business-to-consumer like Google, so it's not a direct competition.
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Otherwise it risks flouting another key principle: not to steal business from private-sector financiers.
This is a theme I see throughout our society and one not immune to business.
Yet she will not go to business forums, and rejects meetings with ambassadors hoping to promote industry ties.
They get paid for their time, immediately, and they take little risk: their fee is not linked to business success.
In short, we go to great lengths to know potential customers before deciding whether or not to do business with them.
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The alliance members have a gentleman's agreement not to poach business in each others' blue-chip shares, but nobody expects that to last.
It also alleges that AIG employees used information withheld from Starr employees to "improperly inform" customers not to do business with the agency.
This tradition of charity was not extended to business rivals.
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By contrast, corporations that forge compliance programs at the corporate level through collaboration produce the sort of harmony across organizational functions that eliminate anachronistic and ineffective compliance programs not aligned to business needs.
"A lot of the missing income represents payments by consumers to business, incorporated or not, as opposed to business-to-business payments, " she says.
Some ethical funds chose to avoid companies they deem "not to be doing business ethically" according to their subjective criteria.
Something to keep in mind when a plumber asks you to write the check out to him personally, not payable to his business.
The new strategy also meant the loss of much of HTC's existing business, because some customers did not want to do business with an emerging rival.
State law also may allow you to require employees to sign agreements not to compete with your business or to solicit your customers for a period of time after their employment ends.
It is simply not fruitful to attempt to debate business logic with those who do not recognize logic to begin with.
One of the reasons people who start companies look down at franchisees is that the franchisee does not have a passionate relationship to his business, since he did not give birth to it.
The second is that merely adding a website on to an existing business is not enough: the whole business needs to be redesigned around the cost-saving, communication-easing properties of the net.
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But we now have to make sure, back to infrastructure analogy, let's build the right roads and the right systems to allow these products to trade transparently, but still allow enough flexibility for innovation to allow America to thrive in the and not send this business to London or Hong Kong or wherever else it may grow.
This is what enables an entrepreneur to start a business--not to mention create a whole new industry--that may challenge existing powerful business entities and not have it effectively seized or gobbled up by those already-existing bigcorporations.
Why would Hennessy, who had made such an effort to persuade the university community to embrace StanfordNYC, not pause to call a business-friendly mayor to try to get the city to roll back what he saw as its new demands?
Managing director Robert Sinclair said no viable alternatives to the closure of the business had been identified and they had not been able to sell the business as a going concern.
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Do companies need to retain data that is not specifically tied to the business purpose of their interaction with consumers?
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"This is a significant change and not necessarily tied to business cycles, " says Mr. Headd.
For a start, the government insists that tariffs were increased to raise revenue, not to protect Indian business.
The concept of game day jersey sponsorship is not new to the business of U.S. professional sports leagues.
Also beware of financing techniques that do not conform to customary business practices.
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