Why would an orthodontist agree to give away 40% of his operating income to an outside firm?
An outside firm should never replace a business owner telling his or her story directly.
New committees will oversee governance and modelling and will be reviewed periodically by an outside firm.
She built FastPDF with open source software, so no licensing of maintenance fees, and hosted the service with an outside firm.
The outside firm is none other than Susman Godfrey, a Houston boutique with a well-founded reputation for tough litigation tactics.
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Unlike many other game companies, Days of Wonder develops all of its digital games itself, rather than hiring an outside firm to do it.
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They combine that with search engine optimization (SEO) software like that from SEOMoz, and typically hire an outside firm to manage their SEO and social marketing efforts.
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She suffers from bipolar disorder, she revealed in court papers relating to the case, and this was one of the reasons she employed an outside firm to handle her business affairs and investments.
But if a prestigious outside consulting firm weighs in, that can turn the status tide.
The average tenure is even shorter for chief executives recruited, like Ms Bartz, from outside the firm.
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Mr. Beckett said he was fired by Binder in 2009 for taking on clients outside the firm's auspices.
Once they close, the patent files are boxed up and sent to an outside law firm selected to manage the portfolio.
Several Disney board members wanted to bring in a well-known and proven media executive from outside the firm.
In fact at McKinsey there is a policy that prohibits employees from doing any paid work outside the firm.
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Mr Kindler acknowledges this, but says his experiences outside the firm showed that people like working without layers of bureaucracy.
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That said, Microsoft apparently hired an outside law firm to do its own investigation into possible misconduct but found no evidence of wrongdoing.
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Many inside and outside the firm came to blame its hard-charging investment bankers for emphasising quick trading profits over long-term relationships with clients.
If her colleagues at Kleiner Perkins are acting coldly toward her, it may help that she has already garnered support from outside the firm.
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In FCPA cases, unlike almost any other criminal probe, companies under investigation are required to do the bulk of the detective work themselves, typically by hiring an outside law firm.
In a statement Wednesday, Barchi said the initial decision to allow Rice to keep his job was based on the results of an investigation by an outside law firm into the coach's conduct.
Halliburton announced earlier this month that it had hired an outside law firm to conduct an internal investigation into the brewing scandal, but the company refused to name the law firm or the lawyer conducting the inquiry.
In his resignation letter, Pernetti said that his initial instinct on viewing the footage was to fire Rice, but an investigation by university lawyers and an outside law firm into the coach's conduct determined that dismissing the coach was not justifiable.
But according to a 2006 SEC request for documents, the agency was seeking information about McLaughlin's dealings at Apollo and another tiny public company he runs, Blue Wireless, as well as payments to outside consulting firm MAC Partners, which McLaughlin founded in 2002.
The payment is a 30% discount to the market value of his stake, not including the cost of the 10-year waiting period, which was based on an outside financial firm's assessment of fair value because there are some restrictions on his stock, it said.
Company leaders literally walked the walk even when working with people outside of the firm.
He runs a ten person consulting firm outside of Philadelphia and can be followed on Twitter.
The risk of failure of a large member firm outside of the United States is especially acute.
Once the e-mail makes the leap outside of the firm, does he still have a reasonable expectation of privacy?
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