Symantec has been struggling with severe competition from nimbler rivals.
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Nimbler rivals such as Vodafone, however, delivered more solid returns.
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Smaller and nimbler private companies are attempting to undercut larger global brands.
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It also faces rising competition from nimbler rivals such as Pinduoduo PDD.
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In contrast, Didi proved a nimbler innovator than Uber and other rivals expected.
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Multinationals subsequently suffered as they carried burdensome costs compared with their local, nimbler rivals.
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But big satellites are dying out — and smaller, nimbler satellites are all the rage.
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Every heroine must have an opponent who makes her better, stronger, nimbler than before.
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These investments can create a nimbler work force, better educated society and healthier families.
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But these days, large ships require not just bigger propellers, but smarter, nimbler, greener propellers.
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The plane marks a shift for Airbus and commercial flight shifting toward smaller, nimbler aircraft.
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Consumer goods groups are facing stiff competition from smaller, nimbler players and changing consumer tastes.
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The deal helped the company to take on nimbler rivals such as Workday Inc and Salesforce.
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In the ride-sharing battle of David vs Goliath, smaller, nimbler David may be gaining ground.
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With lightweight tires, less compartment space, and a carbon fiber cover, it's a nimbler sports car.
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The students are proving nimbler than a government led by ageing loyalists of the ruling family.
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However, Oracle has come under considerable pressure from nimbler companies in the industry such as Salesforce.
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It's a hard move to do, even for wrestlers on the smaller, nimbler side of things.
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A nimbler start-up called Galt keeps poaching Anahata's employees and beating it to new technologies.
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It was smaller, nimbler and, according to reviews of the day, better suited to a global audience.
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Meanwhile, Apple, which had been doing steady business in China, is facing intense competition from nimbler players.
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WPP needs to become nimbler, leaner and better able to serve clients at competitive prices, they say.
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Nimbler retail banks, such as Tinkoff, Russia's leading online bank, have also found ample opportunities to expand.
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BMW's focus here appears to be on making its tech-focused development teams nimbler and more responsive.
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That puts $75 billion Sony in danger of falling further behind its nimbler and more focused rival.
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His experience, he explains, taught him that lumbering, publicly owned companies always lose value to nimbler competition.
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Of course, implementing company-wide work-from home would mean that management would need to be nimbler.
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The slowdown does not bode well for the decade-old company as it fends off nimbler upstarts.
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Nooyi left behind a nimbler company that was more responsive to the evolving tastes of its customers.
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But because Super Angels are smaller and nimbler than VC firms, they can move fast on deals.
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One response to the problem of carriers being too large and vulnerable is making them smaller and nimbler.
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The FCC's "nimbler mechanism" for policing harmful behavior is actually a plan to not police that behavior. Seriously.
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All four wheels also assist in steering, making the 750i much nimbler than its extended wheelbase would suggest.
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Unable to maneuver out of their tracks, unlike nimbler buses, they get stuck behind stopped cars or delivery trucks.
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Sure enough, the incumbents nearly went under—but because of the global financial crisis, not competition from nimbler rivals.
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Millennials' investment mores are already helping some nimbler, newer asset management firms take market share from the traditional heavyweights.
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They are pouring money into entertainment, but they have been cornered by nimbler start-ups like Netflix and Spotify.
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They are pouring money into entertainment, but they have been cornered by nimbler start-ups like Netflix and Spotify.
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Twitter has been struggling to sign up new users amid competition from nimbler rivals such as Instagram and Snapchat.
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But from within controlled cages to supervised demos, we'll see drones that are faster, nimbler and leaner than their predecessors.
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Reinventing PREPA as a nimbler, partly privately-run company, and shedding its debt, is a key piece of that process.
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In January 2015, Jordan helped launch the Freedom Caucus, a more conservative and nimbler group, and became its founding chairman.
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Francona said no matter what the tanker did, the faster, nimbler US destroyer should have been able to avoid a collision.
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There is broad agreement that smaller NGOs are nimbler and more inclusive, but they find it difficult to secure sufficient funding.
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Recognising the threat posed by nimbler fintechs, big banks are investing in such companies in an effort to pair their respective strengths.
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The company in July agreed to buy NetSuite for $240 billion to better compete with nimbler rivals such as Workday and Salesforce.
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With its debt already at the maximum allowed by law, USPS may also struggle to invest enough to compete with nimbler rivals.
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"Floating terminals are nimbler, can be moved around and give buyers prompt access to LNG for however long they wish," said Fyfe.
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Some have reorganised themselves to become nimbler, copying startups by forming small teams to generate, test, reject and improve ideas at speed.
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But as they're replaced with, for instance, nimbler gas plants, that will ease the daytime traffic jam of electrons caused by solar.
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California-based Embark would like to see driver-monitored trucks pilot themselves on interstates but be manually driven into warehouses by nimbler humans.
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We counteracted many of the tectonic shifts of declining legacy businesses, and built a Yahoo that is unequivocally stronger, nimbler, and more modern.
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The shortening of product cycles and the fickle nature of modern markets has duly seen manufacturing atomise into smaller, nimbler, more specialist factories.
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The company, whose bikes can cost upwards of $28,000, last year unveiled a plan to introduce cheaper, nimbler motorcycles to woo young riders.
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"That's one of those few strategic advantages you have as a smaller, nimbler organization that doesn't have a lot of legacy," he added.
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Now, with "The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs," Wye Oak extends that approach to make it nimbler, more intricate and welcoming.
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She's calling for the expansion of supposedly nimbler charters and vouchers that enable parents to send their children to private or parochial schools.
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Cargo bikes are smaller and nimbler than traditional delivery trucks, so they could help relieve some traffic slowdowns caused by trucks' double parking.
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Harley wants to woo younger buyers, particularly in fast-growing Asian markets including China and India, with nimbler motorcycles that have smaller engines.
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Large energy suppliers such as SSE have struggled amid fierce competition from smaller, nimbler rivals who have often been able to offer cheaper prices.
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The company in July agreed to buy NetSuite Inc for $240 billion to better compete with nimbler rivals such as Workday Inc and Salesforce.
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Airbus last month said it would scrap the A380, producing and delivering only 17 more by 2021, because customers preferred smaller and nimbler jets.
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The Herald and its kind are being replaced by publications run by nimbler entrepreneurs, providing information on local events mainly to tourists and expats.
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British Gas shed 21,2500 customer accounts in 22 as the company came under pressure from smaller, nimbler rivals, often able to offer cheaper deals.
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NetSuite, which Oracle acquired in 2016, is also expanding its data center footprint to take on nimbler rivals such as Workday Inc and Salesforce.
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"AWS lets developers do more and be nimbler, and it continues to get even better every day," said CEO Jeff Bezos, in a statement.
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To make emergency response nimbler, the OEM has established nine supply depots across the state, whose inventories can be augmented in advance of storms.
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Britain' big six energy companies have been losing customers over the past few years, under pressure from smaller, nimbler rivals often offering cheaper deals.
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Outside of the EU, Britain will be nimbler, more open to innovation and technological change, at the same time as driving up global standards.
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It eliminates the old, common carrier model that places a drag on Internet growth, while adopting a nimbler mechanism for policing potentially harmful behavior.
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The platforms tend to be nimbler than cable; with some "pop-up channels" lasting only a month or two to capitalize on entertainment events.
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More worryingly for the bulls, there are signs that U.S. shale production, which is nimbler than conventional output, could be about to pick up again.
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The banks are less profitable compared with their nimbler private sector rivals and were largely not favored by investors until the recapitalization plan was announced.
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It's lighter, nimbler, and slower than a passenger car, and is equipped with state-of-the-art software and sensing capabilities that never get distracted.
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"This is a big, lumbering bureaucracy," Mr. Ackman said of ADP, laying out his case that the company was being overtaken by smaller, nimbler rivals.
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Lykouretzos made some changes roughly a year ago to put the firm on better footing, but the "reset to a flatter, nimbler team" was not enough.
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"We have a much smaller, much nimbler, much more focused company," Whitman said during the call after Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi said the move felt abrupt.
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Mr Peltz's most substantive change would be to reorganise its ten business units into three, overseen by a lean holding company, to make the firm nimbler.
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The "Out" camp says it would be nimbler than the 28-member EU to do deals with big powers such as the United States and China.
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There's a sense in digital publishing that something has gone horribly wrong — that publishers are doomed to lose out to newer, nimbler and more "social" platforms.
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The changes, however, have allowed it to reinvent itself as a smaller, nimbler operator focusing on Venezuela's wealthier customers and balancing domestic decline with foreign expansion.
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When she moved to the west side in 1962, Neel's paintings grew freer and nimbler, thanks partly to the copious light that flooded her new digs.
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Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has staked his reputation and job on the outcome, arguing a change in the legislature will usher in a nimbler, more productive Italy.
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The incumbents that successfully thrive in the digital age will be those that despite their scale, work and operate like the nimbler, customer-obsessed, more open disruptors.
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It also faces rising competition from nimbler rivals such as Pinduoduo which have outsmarted the retail juggernaut in smaller cities with deep discounts and group-buying deals.
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For one thing, subcompact SUVs are popular with buyers looking for a car that offers the ride height and flexible storage of SUVs in a nimbler package.
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More negatively, the company's 2019 gross profit margin will be lower than smaller and perhaps nimbler European mass-market peers Peugeot and Renault, according to Refinitiv data.
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Schwab's decision marks an inflection point for online brokers, as newer, nimbler rivals attempt to gain market share by offering zero or low-equity commissions to customers.
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That is changing as China builds farther-flying and nimbler missiles that are harder to spot before launch and pose a more serious threat to American soil.
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That is changing as China builds farther-flying and nimbler missiles that are harder to spot before launch and pose a more serious risk to American soil.
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Background: For all the talk of banks being disrupted by nimbler digital competitors, it's generally impossible to see anywhere they've suffered so much as a flesh wound.
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But it's clear that many in the food industry perceive GMA as fossilized and out-of-touch with both its nimbler members and, more importantly, the marketplace.
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Start-ups like Funding Circle will look to fill lending gaps created by institutional inertia, and this pattern will be replicated across fintech as nimbler companies outmanoeuvre incumbents.
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Luo was meant to help the firm improve ties with local joint-venture partners like Chongqing Changan Automobile Co and be nimbler in responding to local consumer demands.
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But keeping up with the times has been costly as nimbler competitors, internet shopping and empty malls have taken a toll and the company has had to restructure.
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While loss-making Sharp owns core technologies required to produce OLED, it has never commercially produced it, and there are risks that others may be faster and nimbler.
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However, its experience suggests there are still opportunities in the sector for smaller, nimbler independent players, backed up by some international know-how and a dose of good luck.
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In today's conversational arena, the burden of proving otherwise always rests on the powerful institution, which is held to a different standard than smaller, nimbler, more openly partisan outlets.
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Companies in a range of sectors are facing threats from nimbler and more innovative start-ups and one way to fight back is to invest in technology start-ups.
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It is the one of the largest recent examples an established business buying a younger, nimbler competitor born of the internet and predicated on reaching consumers in new ways.
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The revamp is the latest among established British retail power providers, which have been losing customers to nimbler recent market entrants and been hit by a regulatory price cap.
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Large energy retailers in Britain have also struggled due to competition from smaller rivals, often able to offer customers cheaper deals due to their frequently lower overheads and nimbler operations.
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But projects have struggled to find offtakers as the world's biggest buyers in Japan and South Korea seek nimbler terms while others such as India and Pakistan are less creditworthy.
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That may help P&G improve its performance in markets such as China - the world's second-largest economy - where it has lost market share to nimbler rivals and local players.
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Xi has radically overhauled the old Soviet-era command structure of the military to make the armed forces nimbler and better able to respond to crises at home and abroad.
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Companies that sell dresses and shoes to conventional retailers like Macy's find them in turmoil, threatened both by online sellers and by nimbler bricks-and-mortar ones such as Zara.
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On Monday at CES, the company unveiled mockups of a smaller, nimbler fully electric model, the Nexus 4EX, based on the lessons learned from the response to the earlier model.
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But that business has been besieged by food scandals and marketing missteps for the past two years, while the company also faces tough competition from nimbler rivals in the United States.
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Walking away from a "master narrative," in favor of discrete "scenes" (as an introductory text here states), the Jewish Museum now offers a nimbler and lighter perspective on art and faith.
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In response, Office Depot and Staples have, in an effort to become nimbler, been closing larger stores and opening smaller-format stores, especially since their attempt to merge fell through in May.
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As part of an organisational change, from March 31st onwards the bosses of individual watch brands will report directly to Richemont's chairman, Johann Rupert, which the firm believes will make it nimbler.
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Civil–military fusion is China's attempt "to build a leaner, nimbler defense industrial base that can harness innovations like AI," said Lorand Laskai, a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Symantec has been struggling with severe competition from nimbler rivals and sources had told Reuters last month that it walked away from negotiations to sell the entire company to Broadcom over price disagreements.
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Their weak financials and loss of market share to private sector lenders has revived calls for a consolidation of state-run banking sector to create a smaller number of bigger and nimbler banks.
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WeChat is effectively the operating system in China, so Apple's iOS and App Store lock-in isn't a thing, whereas Samsung's generally being outpaced at its own spec race by nimbler local rivals.
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A former prime minister of Portugal, Mr. Guterres, 67, has tried to cast himself as the man who can deliver a leaner, nimbler United Nations — and therefore one deserving of United States support.
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And even while the military, Jenzen-Jones says, may have the capability to bring down drones, demand is shifting to nimbler, more agile devices to cope with attacks using smaller off-the-shelf devices.
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It also hopes this will help it compete with smaller, nimbler rivals who have been eating away at the market share of Nestle and other big firms like Danone, Unilever , Kraft Heinz and Kellogg.
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Oracle, the software giant run by founder Larry Ellison, agreed to buy NetSuite in July for $109 per share, or $9.3 billion, to better compete with nimbler rivals such as Workday Inc and Salesforce.
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Anne Goodchild, the director of the University of Washington's Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center, pointed out that cargo bikes are smaller, nimbler and easier to maneuver than trucks and emit no greenhouse gases.
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Industry veterans said Kroger's partnership with Ocado was a bold move that positions the company, which posted 2017 sales of $123 billion, to grab share from younger players seen as nimbler and more innovative.
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It also hopes this will help it compete with smaller, nimbler rivals who have been eating away at the market share of Nestle and other big firms like Danone, Unilever, Kraft Heinz and Kellogg.
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With their ever-expanding customer bases and nimbler platforms, the tech companies could supplant the banks as the face of an industry that accounts for 34 percent of all banking revenues, according to consultancy McKinsey.
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As IPO proposals value Uber at an eye-popping $120 billion, traditional automakers are racing to gain ground on everything from car sharing to driverless technology, reimagining themselves as nimbler software-as-a-service companies.
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Officials used to managing streets designed for cars are facing a bevy of new options that can create unseemly mess in a very limited space, even as they provide sometimes healthier, cheaper, and nimbler transportation alternatives.
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Being outside the customs union does, however, allow Norway and other EEA members to strike their own free-trade deals; EFTA has often proved nimbler at this than the EU. Individual countries can do the same.
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The company last year unveiled a plan to introduce cheaper, nimbler bikes to woo young riders, and plans to launch its first electric motorcycle without the traditional clutch and gear-shift controls by fall this year.
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Because they are dominated by private enterprises, towns such as Gurao may be nimbler at adapting to changing market conditions than China's steel and coal cities, where 1.8m layoffs are planned in the next few years.
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Because today's giants are nimbler and more paranoid about upstart competition than the tech behemoths of yore, they have cleverly created an ecosystem that enriches themselves even when they don't think of the best ideas first.
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Sure, they may have a range of popular products now, but compared to the market redefining developments that younger, nimbler organizations are unveiling, some of these existing company's offerings are starting to look a bit stale.
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Twitter, which has seen user growth stall amid competition from nimbler rivals such as Instagram and Snapchat, said its user base ticked up 3 percent to 317 million average monthly active users in the third quarter.
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The decision marks an inflection point for online brokers, as newer, nimbler rivals such as Menlo Park, California-based startup brokerage Robinhood have been capturing market share in recent years by offering commission-free stock trades.
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And while Grab's existing GrabBike service targets Jakarta's traffic problem by letting users get around more quickly on a nimbler mode of transport, motorbikes, a helicopter service could speak to users looking for an upscale experience.
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Nimbler oil trading firms have snapped up the unwanted oil refineries and retail stations particularly in industrializing nations such as South Africa where young populations and a fast-growing middle class are expected to boost fuel demand.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A wave of start-ups is emerging in famously risk-averse Japan as cash-rich corporations increasingly delegate the task of keeping pace with technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics to smaller, nimbler businesses.
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"A reduction in workforce is never an easy decision but streamlining and simplifying our business with a smaller and nimbler workforce will help us react quickly to the changing needs of the business," Marcus said in the statement.
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The Arnott's stalemate highlights a broader challenge for the food industry, as a number of Big Food brands like Kraft Heinz, Kellogg and General Mills look to pare down their portfolios to focus their fights on nimbler brands.
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"Life is becoming more difficult for the consumer goods giants, as competition from smaller, nimbler players intensifies and consumer preferences shift toward niche and alternative brands," said Charlie Higgins, fund manager at Hargreaves Lansdown, which owns Unilever shares.
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The move to craft a nimbler way to bring electricity to poor, hard-to-reach communities reflects a wider shift in how the world is starting to think about providing urgently needed infrastructure in a high-tech era.
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As its core business of selling software licenses continues to shrink, Oracle has been beefing up its cloud business, most recently though the $261 billion acquisition of NetSuite, to take on nimbler rivals such as Workday Inc WDAY.
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Among the inaugural offerings at the larger, nimbler, hardly perfect, much improved Museum of Modern Art, the most important is "Sur Moderno": a stupefying showcase of more than 200 midcentury abstract works from Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Uruguay.
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Britain's ageing North Sea has undergone a major transformation in recent years as long-standing producers have sold assets to smaller players such as Chrysaor that say they can squeeze more money out of fields due to nimbler operations.
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For one thing, the current Corvette still has its engine mounted up front, while most of its global competitors have opted for a mid-engine layout that makes a vehicle nimbler, both on the street and on the track.
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Britain's aging North Sea has undergone a major transformation in recent years as long-standing producers have sold assets to smaller players such as Chrysaor that say they can squeeze more money out of fields due to nimbler operations.
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"The changes in the new rule allow for producers to be nimbler, with more adaptive guidelines based on the most up-to-date insights and innovative technology," said Barry Russell, chief executive of the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
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One side builds better defenses; the other side builds bigger drones that fly faster/farther and carry more explosive and nosedive onto their targets, or smaller nimbler drones that outswarm defenses; then the defenders upgrade; then the attackers innovate.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp said its sales fell nearly 68 percent in June, its biggest slump in more than two years, as the struggling firm continues to lose customers amid intensifying competition with nimbler manufacturing rivals.
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In Biella, a small town in the foothills of the Alps at the heart of northern Italy's wool industry, factory owners say a narrowing price difference with China and demands for nimbler production nearer home are winning back higher-end customers.
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With the channel shift towards e-commerce and specialty stores, Avon, the world's #21000 direct selling beauty company, is facing intensified competition from multi-national beauty giants who are implementing omni-channel strategies, as well as smaller, nimbler, fast-growing companies.
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But the actors are talented enough to pull it off, and perhaps because of the show's more mysterious structure (or the contribution of Joy, an experienced TV writer herself), the dialogue feels nimbler and trickier than in Nolan's past work.
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Toxic, indiscriminate, cell-killing drugs have given way to nimbler, finer-fingered molecules that can activate or deactivate complex pathways in cells, cut off growth factors, accelerate or decelerate the immune response or choke the supply of nutrients and oxygen.
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The case he's been making while doing the rounds with media reporters this past two weeks is that SI is in terrible financial shape after years of being neglected by its past corporate parents and leapfrogged by nimbler digital rivals.
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Many analysts and former employees bemoan the missed opportunities and bad decisions that left Yahoo far behind younger and nimbler companies, like Facebook, whose shares are worth about $348 billion, and Google's parent, Alphabet, which is worth about $507 billion.
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Our new GSA agreement allows foreven more anti-fraud uses, including improved data utilization within government, advanced analytics, modernization of procurement policies, nimbler policy implementation, multi-dimensional risk analysis, and proactive fraud determination instead of a reactive "pay and chase" approach.
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The European planemaker also said it would cut output of the A380, the world's biggest jetliner, to just eight from 215, putting on life support a project that has been undercut by a generation of nimbler, fuel-efficient long-haul planes.
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The CYBG-Virgin deal comes at a time when mid-sized banks like them in Britain face competition from both the incumbents with their bigger branch networks and technology budgets, and nimbler digital-only rivals like Monzo, Starling and Atom.
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The conventional industrial model governing the American defense industry is severely hamstrung by everything from the vagaries of funding cycles to the influence of corporate lobbyists, making it tremendously difficult for the US military to keep pace with its nimbler adversaries.
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The plan, to be unveiled on Thursday in the mayor's State of the City speech, calls for a line that runs aboveground on rails embedded in public roadways and flows alongside automobile traffic — a sleeker and nimbler version of San Francisco's trolleys.
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While some see this as a risky maneuver meant to circumvent the security and compliance safeguards of a traditional IT department, others say it is an inevitable outcome of the push for businesses to be faster and nimbler in their problem-solving abilities.
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If you can square that with Otto Warmbier's moribund condition when he was finally sprung from a North Korean gulag and mailed back, like expired meat, to his devastated parents, then you're a nimbler moralist than I. Where does Ivanka come in?
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Juncker's legislative proposals will face scrutiny in Parliament and from member states, with some of the latter wary of a plan to scrap their veto over some areas of foreign policy in an effort to give the EU a nimbler actor in global diplomacy.
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I think we can at least all agree that it is vastly nimbler and more flexible, and arguably even more internationally influential, than the paralyzed, increasingly kleptocratic catastrophe that nation-state politics have become, and much more meaningful than most publish-or-perish science.
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The firm, more than 40 percent owned by Swiss building materials manufacturer LafargeHolcim, has seen its market share plunge by half in the last three years, to just 12 percent, weighed down by high costs and nimbler rivals who have invested in new technology.
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Chrysaor is among a new generation of smaller, privately-owned companies that entered the North Sea in recent years by acquiring fields from long-standing oil companies such as Shell, Engie and OMV, hoping to extract oil at lower costs thanks to nimbler operations.
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Fidel Castro's speech capped the party congress, during which the Communist leadership railed against the threat of introducing other political parties, acknowledged the need for nimbler economic management and accused the United States of using the private sector as a Trojan horse intended to undermine Cuba's government.
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The wildly innovative sculptor and filmmaker, Yale class of 1989, heads back to the halls of ivy to present his first major project since the six-hour excremental eruption of "River of Fundament" — and shows Barney in a lighter, nimbler mode than he has displayed in years.
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High fees coupled with persistent underperformance at traditional funds and a nimbler set of low-cost ETF offerings that slice and dice markets to mirror some of the traits of "active" fund management, are among the main reasons that cost-conscious asset-allocators remain hooked, market participants say.
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Cold Start is an attempt to draw lessons from this: having nimbler, integrated units stationed closer to the border would allow India to inflict significant harm before international powers demanded a ceasefire; by pursuing narrow aims, it would also deny Pakistan a justification for triggering a nuclear strike.
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Chief executive Mike Cagney — a former banker at Wells Fargo — has said that the likes of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citi have become "commoditised utilities of questionable value and little trust", and that smaller, nimbler groups such as SoFi are better equipped to meet customers' needs.
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Demand growth for their higher-priced wide-body jets that can fly longer distances has slowed the most, as carriers opt for nimbler, fuel-saving planes that can fly travelers on ever-longer nonstop flights, a trend that helped kill the largest jetliner in the world, the Airbus A212.
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"Cruise lines are building more Arctic vessels to keep up with the demand — and the ships are getting smaller and more luxuriousWhile ships to Arctic destinations used to be "mostly bare-bones expedition ships," Golden wrote, the "new breed of polar ships is smaller, nimbler, and far more comfortable.
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As a free element in the Pentagon, disliking the grandiose talk of big platforms and one-or-two-theatre wars and the numbing inter-service rivalry, he relished a type of combat that would be nimbler and quicker, with sensor-fitted precision weapons, robotic devices and IT co-ordination between forces.
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Like Facebook's, most of these bots work right inside messaging apps; it's like texting with a concierge, or if Siri birthed a litter of smarter, faster and nimbler offspring — ones you can issue orders to silently and who never get tired, or creeped out, by the nature of your requests.
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Coty splurged more than $12 billion to buy P&G's perfume, hair care and make-up businesses, including CoverGirl, Max Factor and Clairol, in 2016 to scale up its beauty business, but has since struggled due to supply chain disruptions in Europe and the United States and competition from nimbler rivals.
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"Today's Q3 numbers weren't expected to come in close to the levels seen in Q2 given the decline in oil prices seen since then, however they still show a company that is nimbler and more efficient than it was a decade ago," Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets said in a note.
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Mr. Marshall's defenders point out that the pathbreaking work he and his disciples did on military modernization had formed the pathway for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's program to transform the military during George W. Bush's administration, emphasizing lighter and nimbler forces that would form the backbone of American military power during the Obama administration.
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We are so bummed to have to say goodbye to our good friends at the Fire Department, but it is with the utmost respect for the work they did that we will continue their efforts with a smaller, nimbler team: one low-paid grad student named Devlin who will make compilation vids of big fires and explosions.
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Derek Xiao, the current president of The Crimson, said Ms. Guillaume's vision to make the paper into a nimbler, more digitally oriented publication, as well as her work as chairwoman of the paper's diversity and inclusivity committee, made her pitch stand out at "14 P" — Harvardese for 14 Plympton St., the location of The Crimson's redbrick offices.
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Adoption of the benefit is more common among smaller and mid-size companies with nimbler decision trees and the need to position benefits as a competitive edge in recruiting, according to Meera Oliva, chief marketing officer at Gradifi, a subsidiary of First Republic that provides a student loan benefit platform for employers, including PwC and Penguin Random House.
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