Sentence examples for enduring businesses from inspiring English sources

Spotify will not discuss the details of its arrangements with the European divisions of the music companies, and many music entrepreneurs and observers question whether Spotify — and other digital music start-ups, for that matter — can build enduring businesses.

These sites are called news aggregators, and though some have large audiences, the companies that run them have yet to figure out how to turn them into enduring businesses with unique identities.

"I don't think great companies are on one extreme or the other, the great companies that become enduring businesses, they have both.

But the reality is that along with the money comes a huge responsibility to investors and employees alike to build large and enduring businesses.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, as many enduring businesses can be built as the most technologically advanced player in a region.

And these simple innovations have spurred further innovation that taken together, have changed billions of lives and their respective industries, which is why all three are among the 30 case studies of innovative companies cited in Repeatability; Building Enduring Businesses for a World of Constant Change by Bain & Company partners and co-authors James Allen and Chris Zook.

Famous "transformational" female managers include Jacqueline Gold, the founder and chief executive of Ann Summers, whose women-only parties business was one of the enduring business successes of the past two decades.

His great strength is that he can speak from a position of authority, being that rare creature who has found success both as an intelligence agent and as the operator of an enduring business.

Because of this, it's more important than ever to understand the key factors that go into building an enduring business vs. a flash-in-the-pan that can't withstand market volatility.

JM: One of the enduring business mysteries of the last decade is how the makers of BlackBerry, one of the most beloved and transformational devices of our generation, lost their way so precipitously.

Sure, at first I worked out of my home to keep costs down, but it wasn't until I made a basketful of mistakes over two and a half years that I began to truly learn the game of building an enduring business.