Where companies are better run and the business environment more favorable, it shows in the results.
So the sustainability champions seek to shape the business environment in which they operate.
The Fed will also give a longer view of the business environment, projecting three years rather than two.
The top concern in the survey is the business environment which financiers said is getting more important and tougher.
At a minimum, the business environment in China will be an unstable and unpredictable one for some time to come.
First, eBay failed to recognize that the Chinese market and the business environment are very different from that of the West.
The business environment remains uncertain, and Ford will continue to monitor the situation in Europe and take further action as necessary.
Context is a function of the business environment, organizational history and recent business performance, informing the relative importance and urgency of change.
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Are there any changes in the business environment or the product line-up?
In the business environment of today and tomorrow, you can't bury yourself in your office in New York or London or Tokyo.
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The business environment with its economic challenges, evolving technologies, regulatory requirements, and a rapidly changing workforce can make this a challenge.
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Social stability and the business environment would suffer as a result.
There are literally hundreds of cluster initiatives all over the world today that are pursuing varying approaches to public-private collaboration to improve the business environment.
We heard from President Medvedev about his apparent eagerness to dramatically improve the business environment, introduce greater clarity about the legality and rule of business law.
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The complexity of the business environment, where the connection between cause and effect is so difficult to visualize, makes it necessary to admit mistakes, explained Levitt.
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If you think that it's governments--taxing, spending, regulating, and printing money -- that distort the business environment and penalise success, you stop government doing these things.
Cutting tax breaks for firms as part of the budgetary tightening now planned by the government to free the IMF loan would make the business environment even more difficult.
Such regulations should be efficient, the World Bank states, striking a balance between safeguarding some important aspects of the business environment and avoiding distortions that impose unreasonable costs on businesses.
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Hewson is better suited to the business environment in which Lockheed Martin will have to operate during a second Obama Administration than the person previously in line for the top job.
Later, as Lucent's business imploded, D'Amelio became a key sounding board for other executives at the company, a pragmatic voice for investors about what management did and didn't know about the business environment.
So let's just be -- let's remind ourselves that if you've got an economy suddenly contracting by 6 percent, or a loss of trillions of dollars of wealth basically in the blink of an eye, or home values descending by 20 percent, that that's going to create a whole lot of uncertainty out there in the business environment and among families.
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However the tepid business environment in the U.S. today has led many people to look at the returns in emerging markets investments in a new light.
Activist investors, then called corporate raiders, have been part of the American business environment since the 1980s, when the fictional Gordon Gekko attacked corporate boards and executive vice-presidents in the name of public shareholders.
In the Chinese business environment, even the virtual world has real walls.
Such is the Russian business environment today that the men at the top often have use for the shadowy army of killers and thugs who work further down in the scale of corruption, running prostitutes and protection rackets.
"Despite the difficult business environment due to the economic slowdown in developed markets, Samsung achieved a solid performance and recovered its double-digit operating profit margin in the quarter, driven by strong sales of our smartphones, " said Robert Yi, Vice President and Head of Investor Relations.
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The challenging business environment has also forced the carrier to post its first annual loss in nearly two decades since its privatization in 1995.
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And the agency says there are mafia strongholds where the local business environment is so polluted by the presence of gangster-run enterprises that it is almost impossible for honestly managed firms to operate.
Although there are almost no airlines similar to L'Avion available to whet British Airways' appetite going forward, the difficult business environment will likely see more carriers collapse into the arms of larger rivals.
While the legal business environment is getting less friendly on a nearly daily basis, the law schools continue to turn our lawyers at a fairly precipitous clip.
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