Sentences with phrase «at a big firm at»

For me, I was also still working at a big firm at the time, so the idea of a large upside versus another paycheck was quite alluring.

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The slowdown in mining project work has resulted in a 26 per cent fall in the number of environmental professionals employed at the state's biggest consulting firms over the past year.

Before he made it big as a musician, Legend worked at Boston Consulting Group, one of the most prestigious consulting firms in the world.

ROSS, for example, helps small law firms pour through documents, much like the armies of lawyers do at big firms.

Mervyn Kitay has been anointed as chief executive in waiting at Crowe Horwath Perth, Western Australia's eight biggest accounting firm, taking over from Geoff Kidd, who has run the partnership for the past 19 years.

Not so at big - time VC firm Andreessen Horowitz.

The biggest position, at 1.85 percent was for British firm Marshall Wace, followed by Pelham Capital at 1.7 percent and BlackRock Investment Management, at 1.69 percent.

Alison Kitchen will become the first woman in Australia to chair a big four professional services firm when she takes on the role at KPMG Australia later this year.

The firm attributes 30 % to 40 % of its profits to the U.S., and trades at a bigger - than - average 75 % discount to tangible book value.

ure out a way to say this,» starts entrepreneur Peter Thiel, who was Facebook's first big investor, thanks largely to Parker, and who later brought on Parker at his VC firm, Founders Fund.

«We see many international retailers reluctant to come to the U.S. [after] you've seen big retailers take longer to resonate here than elsewhere,» said David Zoba, chairman of the global retail leasing board at commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle.

The benefits of trade should be shared more widely, he said, with a system that does more to include poor countries, small firms, marginalised groups and entrepreneurs — an apparent nod to anti-globalisation activists who say that secretive trade talks are exclusively aimed at helping big business.

I've done a couple of startups before this and I've had experience at a big venture capital firm.

The Montreal - based firm is RIM's sixth biggest investor (10.2 million shares at the end of the first quarter, worth about $ 361 million yesterday), and just sold over half its holdings.

It's attempting to look at the tech industry not as a silo of big tech firms such as Google and Facebook, both of which have offices in New York City, but as a diverse ecosystem stretching throughout the city's economy.

At its core, the market sell - off, which shoved the Dow Jones industrial average nearly 1,600 points lower Monday in the biggest intraday point drop in history, showed traders adjusting to signs of firmer economic growth and, potentially, a resurgence of long - dormant inflation.

Opened two years ago, Potomac Law Group leans heavily on cloud technology and is itself a kind of cloud — a constellation of 40 lawyers who went to the best schools, trained at the best firms, and are now working, mostly from home, to their own schedules, for about half the price bigger firms charge.

«Feel free to push the argument at the security line that a keyboard, portable battery or any other piece of electronics bigger than a smartphone (whichever size smartphone they decide upon) is considered a risk,» says Chris Roberts, a Chief Security Architect at security firm Acalvio.

Bob Johnson, director of photovoltaics at research firm Strategies Unlimited, in Mountain View, Calif., says PV cells may drop below their current price by 30 % or more by 2010, even without big technological advances, making the cost of solar energy competitive with conventional sources.

Some pundits and companies have found the cost prohibitive for firms operating on a smaller scale than behemoth Google, but at least one tech company is willing to take the idea and run with it — big time.

That strategy will help producers pay for the big, transformational deals they made in 2016, aimed at overhauling their business to contend with low prices, said Curt Karges, who leads consulting firm PwC's corporate finance team in Houston, in a year - end report.

So while a firm like NEA may not have a woman at the table when the big decisions are being made, there is an argument that it can afford the infrastructure needed to stem bad behavior, both at its portfolio companies and within its own ranks.

«Even for the patriotic, diehard Canadian who insists on their startup being in Canada, in many cases the company gets to a point where it's forced to sell to a U.S. big tech firm,» said Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory in Ottawa, a Raymond James company.

TED staff at the event were friendly but firm (they even offered to help Jackley find a local caregiver), but the staffer also admitted that the organizers «lost the moment to ask the bigger question: Is it time to change our policy?»

A list of big, important predictions from the investors at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

I knew that my archrivals at bigger firms were probably offering her the world, and that the only way I had a shot was to simply gang up on her.

«No matter what they do in their careers — go off to a private equity firm, to consulting, go work for a big company, be in the marketing unit at Merck — they're almost certain to be involved in launching new businesses or new products, or working with people who are,» Eisenmann says.

While T. Rowe Price doesn't build a stock portfolio based on potential takeover candidates, Umbarger says, that possibility has lately become a bigger part of the investment discussion at the firm, in terms of «How could you value it in the eyes of other beholders?»

I get it: Hiring and firing at big private firms is a better indicator of the overall health of the economy.

At the same time, tech firms like Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet's Google have looked to play a bigger role in the $ 3 trillion health market, with mixed success.

That was a big deal, legally speaking, because gender stereotyping was key to one of the biggest Supreme Court cases upholding federal anti-discrimination laws, involving a woman's inability to make partner at the former accounting firm Price Waterhouse.

«I was at law school, and I went for articling interviews with all the big firms in Toronto.

«If we want to broaden people's knowledge by letting them work in different places, most firms have a policy of setting competitive wages in the places they come to,» said Mikael Norman, CFO at Sweden's Nobia, Europe's biggest kitchen maker.

At $ 30 - $ 75 per month, which includes other benefits like syncing, sharing and cloud storage, this instantly makes such apps affordable for more than just professional designers employed by enterprise or big media and advertising firms.

Examples include on - site libraries, self - paced video courses and virtual learning events like those at Big Four audit firm KPMG.

PARIS, Feb 9 - L'Oreal on Friday underscored its readiness to buy Nestle's 23 percent stake in the world's biggest cosmetics firm were its Swiss shareholder to sell, saying it had access to cash and funding at its disposal.

Roughly half the staff at Odgers Berndtson Canada, one of this country's biggest search firms, resigned (or were cut loose, depending on whom you believe).

So Symphony — which has the backing of some of Wall Street's biggest firms including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, and Nomura — launched back in September 2015 and is at the center of this services un-bundling: if Symphony works, the whole process works.

Brilliant investors started all the big firms — Sir John Templeton at Templeton Mutual Funds, Warren Goldring at AGF, Bob Krembil at Trimark, for example — but their investor - led ethos ebbed away.

Thankfully, at the time, I was a consultant for one of the «Big Four» accounting firms who could afford lawyers for the work visa process.

Roughly 60 students would apply for one or two consulting spots at each of the big firms.

A recent summer job at a marketing firm identified a big gap in Smith's education: he had to use computer coding as part of his job of updating the company's blog entries and he had no idea how.

«It took them a long time, but Nintendo finally realized that the $ 30 billion mobile gaming market in 2015 is too big to ignore,» said Peter Warman, analyst at video game research firm Newzoo.

There's nothing wrong with that at all Simon says, but even to accomplish that goal you need to have a firm understanding about which tools you can use to become a big player in the market.

The bigger issue, of course, is the barrier to entry for individual investors: Private equity firms typically have a minimum investment of $ 5 million or more, and at one point, the best firms were so popular, they were demanding as much as $ 250 million.

Jon Salas, 28, recently took a big pay cut to leave the «cardboard dry culture» at a multinational human resources consulting firm where he felt isolated from bosses and colleagues.

At a time when big corporations, and financial firms in particular, need to show commitment to inclusiveness to attract top talent, State Street seems to be doing everything right — but isn't moving the needle very far or fast.

It took a mere six months at a (then) Big Eight firm for Gregory Muzzillo, just out of college at age 23 and trained as an accountant, to decide he «was not keen on a career path that demanded such a drawn - out process to make partner.»

Ramani, who's led teams at Oracle and other big firms, shared a story of being «mansplained» and how it changed her career outlook at AOL and Adweek's MAKERS conference in September.

«For me the biggest challenge is the regulatory uncertainty in the US and the future of US - China relations,» said Miranda So, a Hong Kong - based partner at law firm Davis Polk.