While labor costs are high, his studio has a reputation for cost-effectiveness.
Certainly for-profit plans have a reputation for cost-cutting, whereas not-for-profits, such as Kaiser Permanente, are known for innovative health-care delivery.Yet both have suffered losses in recent years, and have witnessed growing dissatisfaction among doctors and patients, increasing government regulation and rising health-care costs.
InBev has a reputation for cost-cutting and exactly how it will do so with Anheuser-Busch is yet to be seen.
They've also developed a reputation for low cost in-house manufacturing which they've optimized for their Falcon rockets and Dragon space capsules.
But any such bid could face opposition from Le Monde employees, who worry about the Spanish company's reputation for cutting costs.
Mr. Rothman, who has a reputation for controlling costs, said he expects to staff the company efficiently but said that under the arrangement, he will operate without formal limits on the size or type of films he might make.
In court, Citi's lawyer Mark Howard had said Hands had been described as an investor with "magic sauce", with a reputation for cutting costs and securitising – borrowing against income streams generated by the business – and being a good negotiator.
Both men have a reputation for paring costs and for pouncing on under-valued companies, which they then turn into machines for generating cash with which to buy yet more under-performing assets.Mr Lampert, who is reckoned to be worth about $2 billion, has already survived a kidnapping.
The former editor of Today and the News of the World, who gained a reputation for ruthless cost-cutting while in charge of the Mirror Group in the 1990s, has been battling fellow executives and shareholders for nearly two years over Mecom's strategic direction.
When Mecom, in partnership with the private equity firm, Veronis Suhler Stevenson, acquired the Berlin papers in 2005, employees and journalists worried that Mr. Montgomery, who had a reputation for cutting costs in his previous role as chief executive of the Mirror Group in Britain, would do the same in Berlin.
