The phrase "around a major" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing something that is situated or occurring in the vicinity of a significant event, topic, or person, often in an academic or professional setting.
Example: "The conference will focus on various issues around a major environmental policy change."
Alternatives: "regarding a major" or "concerning a major".
But what was most ill-conceived about it was Ackman's fundamental premise — namely, that he knew what it took to run, let alone turn around, a major retailer.
Turning around a major company such as J. C. Penney, especially in a fast-moving industry like retail, is a herculean challenge, as James Surowiecki wrote recently in The New Yorker.
After stints with the drummers Papa Jo Jones and Art Blakey, Mr. Griffin blossomed into one of the finest tenor saxophonists around, a major figure in jazz who ended up recording with Monk, John Coltrane and others.
If you're going to have to do a job as big as the one Villas-Boas was asked to do, which is to turn around a major club that has had its most successful period in its entire history, you're also asked to change the style of play and make it more exciting.
Forget that Apple has tightened its noose around a major carrier's neck, forcing AT&T to continue to put the majority of its marketing muscle behind the disruptive platform and its integrated use of WiFi, enhanced corporate services, and above all, the viral App Store and its reach directly past AT&T's traditional grasp on its customers' wallets.
The first turned around a major epidemic of AIDS.
For eight minutes, a great many notes are flung around A-major triads, to no obvious point.
He and Silvia were circling the neighborhood when they spotted her, in tattered clothes, staggering around at a major intersection.
HOW TO GET AROUND For a major city, Rome is surprisingly compact, and walking is the best way to explore it.
ICN still has one of the most global specialty-pharmaceutical businesses around, with a major presence in North America and Europe and tendrils growing in Asia and Latin America.
Besides, his death in 1967 meant that he wasn't around for a major part of the band's existence.
