"In the 19th century we'd understand that as empire building," he says.
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"In the 19th century we'd understand that as empire building," Ward says.
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Some analysts describe AT&T's strategy as diversification or empire-building, not integration.
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A Chinese business expert calls HNA's empire-building "a classic case of overextending".
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The hope is clear enough: that the sun never sets on Raden's empire building.
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Mr. Stephenson's time in Mexico also gave him a crash course in empire building.
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Another New York rival in the luxury empire-building race has done something similar.
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To put her tenure in context: She has been empire building through five presidential administrations.
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Still, the outside investors didn't simply hand the agencies sacks of cash for empire-building.
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Historically, Germany came to empire building later than other European countries like France or Britain.
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Along the way, some critics accused the admiral of empire-building, an accusation he denied.
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For about an hour, I was immersed in tales of empire building, passion, and tragedy.
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One Bayer shareholder is slamming its new approach, calling it "arrogant empire building," according to Reuters.
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Ms. Burch grew up riding (it's part of her creation myth), and she is unquestionably empire building.
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Many of the battered southerners regarded the Macedonians as unsavory redneck cousins, but enjoyed the empire-building.
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Barrick, for one, has sold less essential assets and set its sights on cash, not empire building.
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Dealmaking always reflects a power struggle between empire-building executives and bankers, and more cautious investors and regulators.
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The tax results for the years that followed trace an arc of continued empire building — and gathering loss.
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Hospitals still crave admissions, and are hiring people to fill roles in some of their empire-building projects.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, Gallardo established many connections that would become useful for his empire-building while working for the police.
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Shooting and capturing images by definition has a predatory element, which found its most invasive expressions in empire-building.
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As the decade continued, there emerged a new global leader in strident nationalism and empire-building aspirations, the Third Reich.
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It was the beginning of a decade of empire-building that ultimately included eight restaurants in New York and California.
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Investors in the public markets have appeared skeptical of companies that emphasize empire-building over breaking even for many years.
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The empire-building scheme was apparently concocted by Richard before he died, in order to provide Lorelai with something more stable.
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Last week, Murdoch — long known as an aggressive buyer obsessed with empire building — announced the sale of his entertainment holdings to Disney.
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EQT appears to be "empire building," and it's unlikely another driller will submit a successful bid for Rice, according to Mizuho Securities.
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Comcast and its chief executive, Brian L. Roberts, have succeeded in an international foray into empire building, gaining a big European outpost.
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Alcon, a legacy from former Novartis boss Daniel Vasella's empire building, has been problematic since it was bought for $21.2 billion in 2011.
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This was a big week for financiers looking to make enormous profits from the empire-building ambitions of businesses with dubious business models.
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N triggered an investor backlash on Friday, with one of the German pesticides and drugs company's major shareholders calling it "arrogant empire-building".
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Its heyday spanned the late 19th and early 20th century, when the fad for cataloguing differences blended with empire-building and mass migration.
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Sheeran's plan to diversify not only takes a page out of pal Taylor Swift's empire-building playbook — it's also a very 2017 move.
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We went through a period of time at Benchmark where we joke it was like the empire-building phase where we ... TS: Israel. Yeah.
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"I liked the idea of empire building, building economies, building relationships, building a social-type game," said Patel in a phone interview from Austin.
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Randall L. Stephenson, the chief executive of AT&T, could easily be pigeonholed as just another empire-building executive with a white-bread résumé.
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He was still in empire-building mode as recently as a few years ago when he made an aggressive bid to buy Time Warner.
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The move is a departure from the empire-building ambitions of past chief executives who sought to create a vast conglomerate across disparate industries.
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LONDON — Comcast wants to upend the Walt Disney Company's empire-building plans, and a jewel of Europe's media industry could give it an opening.
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The intense political battles over Facebook and the other giant social media companies mark the end of the empire-building phase of those companies' history.
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China's deep economic interests in the Middle East carry little of the historical overlay of the empire building and alliance shaping of the European powers.
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A milestone in Mr. Newhouse's empire-building was the revival of Vanity Fair, a magazine of wit and sophistication that had ceased publication in 22007.
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But as the company pursues empire-building overseas, observers have been left to wonder where Rosneft's profit motive ends and the Kremlin's political ambitions begin.
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The process has not been exactly frictionless, shot through with accusations of empire-building and profiteering by the campaign manager, Brad Parscale, and his allies.
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Two senior White House officials said the Lerner episode made Mr. Trump more acutely aware of what these aides described as Mr. Pence's empire-building.
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Buying companies is fun, and empire building brings with it the potential for an expanded compensation package to go along with expanded assets to manage.
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Victoria takes Europe's great powers through an age of empire building, culminating in the chaotic Great War that sets the stage for Hearts of Iron.
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Novartis's gradual $212.5 billion takeover of Alcon from Swiss foodmaker Nestle was completed in 237 as part of previous CEO and Chairman Daniel Vasella's empire-building.
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"After years of empire building ... that's what investors want", said Cedric de Fonclare, a fund manager at London-based Jupiter Asset Management and a Novartis investor.
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Since taking the helm in 2011 Stuart Gulliver has reversed the empire-building that took place in the 2000s to refocus the bank on financing trade.
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So from Theodore Roosevelt's empire-building to Kennedy's "pay any price" and Reagan's shining-city-on-a-hill, America kept recommitting itself to remaking the world.
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"Having them not force their empire-building on Queens neighborhoods is exactly what we want," said Make the Road co-executive director Deborah Axt on Thursday.
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"I had hoped that the days of such arrogant empire-building and ignorance of the actual owners of the business were at an end," Bennett said.
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Until, in 1898, America grabbed the island in the spasm of empire-building that also took it to Cuba, Guam, Hawaii and the Philippines, and it stayed.
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These "solopreneurs" are looking to get out of the house and into a creative space with a solid community, perhaps even more than their empire-building counterparts.
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Another zero this year might start to restore some lost credibility — and might make other empire-building leaders think twice before getting caught up in merger mania.
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Empire-building came at a cost: ChemChina's debt, adjusted for various items, stood at an eye-watering 12 times EBITDA in 2017, according to Moody's Investors Service.
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Thursday's strong results suggest that the company's empire building has not harmed the current core of its business: selling ads to the merchants on its shopping platforms.
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Perhaps only an expansionist, empire-building era could have thought up an age that began with naval attacks on foreign shores and ended when these attacks ceased.
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The empire-building CEO, accustomed to using easy credit and an ever-rising stock price to acquire rival companies and reduce their costs, may no longer be suitable.
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Fellow chefs asked whether he had taken on too much and succumbed, as a celebrity chef, to the seemingly impossible demands for culinary prowess, media swagger and empire-building.
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"These systems are empire-building, there's no question," said Jill Zorn, a senior policy officer for the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, which seeks to improve access for residents.
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And Volkswagen indicated it would prepare its truck and bus divisions for possible sale on the stock market, a major departure after decades of empire building by previous chief executives.
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Dark smudges along the map's creases underscore that the map was a circulating object, part of Spain's empire-building, as it would have gone with the relacion geográfica back to Spain.
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The business case for all this empire-building, Alibaba says, is that the company's lakes of commercial data give it a leg up in anything that requires understanding customers or merchants.
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In comparison to his counterparts in Britain and France, King Leopold II of Belgium was a relative latecomer to empire-building, founding Congo as a colony in the late 19th century.
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F.A.'s acquisition of Dean's processing plants would be the crown jewel of its empire-building, the death knell for independent farmers struggling to find a place to sell their milk.
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Continental Europe's two giants, AXA and Allianz, both say that they eschew big deals, but have spare cash, half an eye on Asia and 20-year records of empire-building through acquisitions.
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"It's an exciting project; food in airports has been improving a lot," said Mr. Vongerichten, a prolific restaurateur who, unlike many of his empire-building peers, has not opened an airport restaurant.
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AT THE PEAK of Kublai Khan's empire-building career, his reputation for ferocity was such that Mongol armies conquered some cities with handwritten notes, wrapped around arrows and fired over the walls.
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While the schism between public (state-funded) and private (patron-funded) institutions remains a talking point in Europe, so too comes the need for challenging the empire-building patrons who construct them.
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As Western empires had their "civilizing missions" in India, Africa and elsewhere, so Japanese leaders drew on the likes of Watsuji to supply cultural ballast for their own empire-building and war-making.
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But it seems that Mayor de Blasio is very serious about the plan, which ties in nicely with other recently announced transportation initiatives and adds a nice bow of empire building to his administration.
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Dateline/Los Angeles The raw tuna dish at Son of a Gun, a seafood-focused restaurant from the empire-building Southern California chefs Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook, can make a strange first impression.
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This image resembled nothing more than "The Rhodes Colossus," a famous jingoistic cartoon from 1892 in which the racist, empire-building diamond tycoon Cecil Rhodes stood similarly astride Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town.
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Steve Ballmer's Microsoft was legendarily a fairly cutthroat sort of place, with stack ranking an important part of employee evaluations, lots of empire building and working in silos, and little collaboration between major units.
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John Flannery, the new chief of General Electric, is backing away from the ambitious designs of his two predecessors, who steered the corporate giant and its conglomerate-style empire building for more than three decades.
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Separately, Volkswagen has abandoned its decades-old obsession with empire building and no-expense-spared engineering to free up resources for the development and mass production of electric cars, its CEO Herbert Diess told Reuters.
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Gulliver and outgoing Chairman Douglas Flint have sought to unwind much of the empire-building of their predecessors since their appointments in 2010 - a response to a tough environment of low interest rates and increased regulation.
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MANY HAVE BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF THE DEAL, PARTICULARLY AS YOU'VE SORT OF TALKED TO YOUR INVESTOR BASE, BUT THERE ARE THOSE WHO SAY THIS IS EMPIRE BUILDING, THIS IS TAKING THE COMPANY IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DIRECTION.
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I have almost a decade on these kids, and the first notes of Buffett's empire-building song "Margaritaville" send even me less to Bermuda and more to flashbacks of drunk dads at my high school pool parties.
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Flannery told GE shareholders late last year he plans to pare GE down to three core businesses: power, aviation and healthcare, a departure from the deal-driven empire building of his predecessors, Jeff Immelt and Jack Welch.
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It's unclear whether the track will appear on Ross's forthcoming ninth studio record, Rather You Than Me. What is clear is that Gucci Mane and Rick Ross can make washing cars seem like a legitimate empire-building enterprise.
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At the Palais Garnier, a dazzlingly lavish and eclectic Second Empire building located on the Boulevard des Capucines, four new works of dance and ballet are being premiered by Justin Peck, William Forsythe, Crystal Pite, and Tino Sehgal.
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FRANKFURT, Sept 20.9034 (Reuters) - Volkswagen has abandoned its decades-old obsession with empire building and no-expense-spared engineering to free up resources for the development and mass production of electric cars, its CEO Herbert Diess told Reuters.
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The year saw Donald Trump's protectionism, Chinese expansionism, a reborn nationalism in India and Japan, Iranian empire-building, and Russian opportunism all combine to undermine the international cooperation that has sustained the 70-year-old postwar global order.
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After all, the empire-building and thirst for military bases that led the United States to take Puerto Rico away from Spain in 1898 are long since obsolete, and Puerto Rico is linguistically, culturally, and economically distinct from the United States.
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This leaves Thrones of Britannia feeling like little more than a territory-acquisition game, which is perhaps always the essence of a Total War game, but never before has the process of empire-building felt so hands-off and uninvolving.
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In this ideal world, as a woman, every pain point you've experienced walking through daily life is an empire-building business idea that has never occurred to a single one of the Fortune 500 CEOs named John, Mark, or James.
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HSBC's previous management duo of Gulliver and former chairman Douglas Flint spent the years since their appointment in 2010 shrinking HSBC, after a period of empire-building in the run-up to the 2008 global financial crisis left the bank overextended.
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Flannery's plan to shrink GE's multi-industry array of businesses was a reversal of the deal-driven empire building of his predecessors, Jeff Immelt and Jack Welch, and potentially a milestone in the decline of the conglomerate as a business strategy.
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But if there is a lesson to be taken from Mr Carnegie's experience of empire-building in Pittsburgh, it is that the public rarely looks kindly on those who amass big fortunes if they do not contribute some of their winnings in return.
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"The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America" by Greg GrandinGreg Grandin is a giant in American history, having written extensively on US empire building, especially in Latin America, and its pernicious effects.
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Sharman reasons that it was a combination of internal fractures within the Qing and Ottoman Empires, as well as the inclination of Europeans to think that empire building was the route to national sovereignty: in other words, almost a kind of vanity project.
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But in September, a judge allowed the case to move to trial, writing in her decision that the plaintiffs had presented evidence from which a "rational jury could conclude that the D.F.A. management favored growth of its commercial operations and empire building over the interests of its farmer-members."
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Yes, there are serious themes to be drawn from it if you're so inclined — it's about greed, and empire-building, and exploitation of a land and its native inhabitants — but you can also feel free to take it as simply an action-packed, rather bloody tale from those frothy preindustrial days.
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"Management sim games often reinforce or try to validate existing systems rather than examine them critically," Tseng told Hyperallergic, citing the empire-building Civilization as an example where the existence of states is unavoidable, and SimCity where crime in your fictional metropolis can only be combatted by increasing the number of police stations.
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It features enough bravura portraits and heroic history paintings to convey an undimmed sense of the glory, guts, and grandeur of empire-building, but if you look at each item and read each label, you can't escape an awareness of the devastation wreaked by imperialism over at least four continents and countless islands.
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In recent months, Hong Kong's middle class saw their economic output being threatened and siphoned even more by mainland China's tariff war with the U.S. That's very much like America's Founding Fathers, who balked at Britain's mercantilist squeezing of the colonies' economic output to help fund Great Britain's wars and empire building.
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But the movies that she did direct endure, including "Ishtar," a loony, loopy blissout that stars Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman as two terrible, tuneless songwriter performers who accidentally end up in an adventure that crosses an old Bob Hope and Bing Crosby road movie with a blistering sendup of American empire-building.
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That's because a dearth of reason, facts, and statute, was the hallmark and ultimate source of most all of the controversy and illegitimacy this FCC has caused with its serial, 3-2, empire-building policies that unilaterally modernized communications law, re-imagined competition policy beyond recognition, and power-grabbed the Federal Trade Commission's jurisdiction.
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Almost anyone familiar with the interior life of large corporations, corporatized hospitals, newspapers, museums or universities, is aware of the burgeoning army of flunkies, box-tickers, consultants and managers whose sole task seems to involve managing other managers, and endless tiers of empire-building executives whose entire jobs seem to consist of coming up with performance metrics and flying off to meetings.
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Food stuffs have long been a tool of or justification for empire building, says Irwin, and while Salad Cream isn't exactly tea or sugarcane or spices (all of which have led to nasty conflicts and hideous forms of exploitation), the condiment began to follow in the wake of the UK's imperial conquests, showing up on salad recipes in places like the Falkland Islands and Nigeria.
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So, for example, when they assert that "the likelihood that a state will suffer a conquest has fallen from once in a lifetime to once or twice in a millennium," and support the claim with data comparing the amount of territory conquered annually between 1816 and 1928 with the amount conquered annually after 1948—it was many times greater in the earlier period—they are only recording the difference between a period of intensive empire-building and a period of imperial divestment.
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