Sentences with phrase «at a corporation in»

In order to do this (as well as in order to help defray the costs of their education), the students work one day a week at corporations in Houston, including law offices, accounting firms, doctors» offices, and even other schools.

At this corporation in the future, it does the product development which is directed to the application to electrical * industrial use and the like, keeps aiming toward the commercialization during 2006 years.»

This cover letter is designed to be addressed directly to a hiring manager at a corporation in response to an available job position.

Not exact matches

Its founder and CEO, Travis Kalanick, intoned as much at a Wall Street Journal conference last month in Laguna Beach, California, saying we all need to stop thinking of it as some fully mature corporation.

«The corporation will influence and trickle all the way down to the local coffee shop and local government,» suggested Jeff Holdman, general manager at the New York - based real estate investment firm Intoo, in a phone call with Inc. last week.

According to Jerome Katz, the Coleman Professor in Entrepreneurship at Saint Louis University's John Cook School of Business, the biggest challenge with incorporating as a benefit corporation is in developing credit with banks and financial institutions.

Or, as Christine Bader describes in her book The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, corporations including her former employers at BP may well be «advancing human rights in some ways while compromising them in others.»

Yet earlier this year, Mark Karpelès landed a big new job: chief technology officer at London Trust Media, a Denver - based corporation that runs the largest virtual private network (VPN) service in the world.

The ending of fringe benefits like the golf course are symbols of a larger transition both at IBM and at most American corporations in recent decades.

At least two members must initially be involved in forming the LLC (note that a «member» may be either an individual or a corporation).

It's actually quite a relief to hear from someone with years of experience who has built a substantial, multi-decade career in a major industry at a global corporation (BP / Amoco) instead of a wet - behind - the - ears «expert» who's had about 15 minutes of startup success and no clue about how he or she got there, or what to do next.

(For those counting at home, Amazon — now the fourth-most valuable and the single-most feared corporation in the world — has been in the red for 34 of its 87 quarters as a publicly traded enterprise.)

The difference is that in an S corp, owners pay themselves salaries plus receive dividends from any additional profits the corporation may earn, while an LLC is a «pass - through entity,» which means that all the income and expenses from the business get reported on the LLC operator's personal income tax return, says Ebong Eka, a CPA who also pens his own blog about the world of entrepreneurship at MoneyMentoringMinutes.com.

Hooters Management Corporation, which operates Hooters restaurants worldwide, will hire both male and female servers at Hoots, a new eatery in Cicero, Ill., the Tampa Bay Times reports.

«Some of the fun stuff they've done... I think it puts a bit of a human profile to a corporation,» said Tom Turpin, Randstad Canada's president of technology and engineering, in an interview at the event.

After his presentation, Fullbrook summarized the study's findings for me this way: «Our research shows that CEO pay and performance are largely in sync at Canada's largest corporations, contrary to conventional wisdom.

At a Thanksgiving dinner party in 2012, four Harvard Business School MBA students had a plan: Rather than spend their upcoming summer interning at big corporations or traveling the world, they were going to drive around the United States consulting entrepreneurs with a social purpose on key business issueAt a Thanksgiving dinner party in 2012, four Harvard Business School MBA students had a plan: Rather than spend their upcoming summer interning at big corporations or traveling the world, they were going to drive around the United States consulting entrepreneurs with a social purpose on key business issueat big corporations or traveling the world, they were going to drive around the United States consulting entrepreneurs with a social purpose on key business issues.

According to Breaking Travel News, Giuseppe Bono, chief executive of Fincantieri, said, «These additional orders bring the total number of ships we have built for Carnival Corporation to 61 and confirm Fincantieri's world leadership in the cruise ship sector even at a time of slowing demand.»

Meanwhile, Adidas, which is not often associated with golf in the U.S. (although the German corporation owns TaylorMade, the top golf equipment maker), has branding potential as well at this year's Open in current top contender Dustin Johnson.

That's because founders in Ireland often incubate their ideas at the larger corporations before starting their own ventures.

AI in the future could encourage human actors to make catastrophic decisions, researchers at the nonprofit Rand Corporation said.

Corporations prefer to be seen as apolitical creatures — governments change, and customers come in all stripes — but at this highly polarized and media - socialized moment, it's become mighty hard not to upset at least a few people.

In other words, consumers» rather modest gains have been far surpassed by the profits reaped by corporations making stuff in China at huge reductions in cost and then lowering the price a bit on the finished retail goodIn other words, consumers» rather modest gains have been far surpassed by the profits reaped by corporations making stuff in China at huge reductions in cost and then lowering the price a bit on the finished retail goodin China at huge reductions in cost and then lowering the price a bit on the finished retail goodin cost and then lowering the price a bit on the finished retail goods.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

Due in part to its packaged coffee partnership with PepsiCo, Starbucks now captures nearly 20 % of US coffee sales annually, while the Dunkin' Donuts share has shrunk to less than 10 %, despite the fact that category revenue has been growing at over 6 % per year since 2011, according to the Beverage Marketing Corporation.

Perth - based GR Engineering Services has won a $ 7 million contract for work at Eldorado Gold Corporation's Olympias project in Greece.

In November, Swan Medical's «Sleep in Business America» study revealed that more than 50 percent of some 30,000 employees surveyed at five U.S. corporations didn't receive adequate sleeIn November, Swan Medical's «Sleep in Business America» study revealed that more than 50 percent of some 30,000 employees surveyed at five U.S. corporations didn't receive adequate sleein Business America» study revealed that more than 50 percent of some 30,000 employees surveyed at five U.S. corporations didn't receive adequate sleep.

That lifelong fascination with human behavior has informed his work with the world's largest corporations, first at Amherst Consulting Group, which he founded in 1983 and sold in 1999, and more recently with 180 Partners.

«The Internet is a powerful platform, taking control from gatekeepers and large corporations and letting small businesses and start - ups play a much larger role in creating value for almost every industry out there... this fundamental shift will create an incredible amount of innovation and opportunities for start - ups, and I hope Canada will be at the forefront of this development.»

This article originally appeared at The Build Network and was produced in collaboration with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

Cincinnati - based Mad Tree Brewing was founded in 2013 by Kenny McNutt, a former engineer at aerospace and defense corporation Northrop Grumman, with friends Jeff Hunt and Brady Duncan.

The program, still in early stages of planning, is aimed at both helping janitors maximize efficiency and establishing standards and best practices for the use of robots in janitorial work, according to Brain Corporation.

Nevertheless, like Haskayne, a growing number of Canadian business leaders are sick and tired of watching executives at our big - name corporations play the role of feed keeper in an eat - or - be-eaten world.

Certain proposed transactions, including the divestiture of Humana's subsidiary, KMG America Corporation, the acquisition of a minority interest in Kindred Healthcare, Inc.'s Kindred at Home division by Humana, as well as the acquisition of a minority interest in Curo Healthcare Services by Humana are subject to various closing conditions, including various regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, as well as other uncertainties, and there can be no assurances as to whether and when these transactions may be completed.

By 2000, annual sales at the company — which specializes in what is called asset - management software, which helps municipalities and corporations manage items such as dump trucks and sewer lines — reached $ 90 million.

In Toronto, information on foreign buyers is more scarce, although a report from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in April pegged the rate of foreign ownership in the city's condo market at 3.3 per cenIn Toronto, information on foreign buyers is more scarce, although a report from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in April pegged the rate of foreign ownership in the city's condo market at 3.3 per cenin April pegged the rate of foreign ownership in the city's condo market at 3.3 per cenin the city's condo market at 3.3 per cent.

In large corporations with strict planning routines requiring annual, semiannual and quarterly plans and plan updates, managers spend at least part of their time working on or thinking about a new plan or plan update.

Buffett would eventually build his now $ 73 billion fortune at Berkshire Hathaway, then a struggling textile company that would become a holding corporation with stakes in Coca - Cola, Wells Fargo, and Heinz.

FireEye chief executive Dave DeWall explained that sales of cyber security products jumped last year in light of major hacks on corporations but he doesn't see that trend continuing (at least for FireEye).

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

If you want to know more about how the big guys work out problems, check out Justice on the Job, by David W. Ewing (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1989), a lively chronicle of the creative complaint systems in place at corporations such as Federal Express, IBM, and Northrop.

Supporting government investment in education isn't necessarily a win - win for corporations, at least not in the short run.

Contrary to what many claim to believe, the union representing workers at Zellers stores in Calgary, Alberta, believe that corporations (or businesses more generally) are in fact persons, morally and legally.

We're used to seeing this in corporations, like Jack Welch at GE or Steve Jobs returning to Apple, but it's surprising to see it carried out successfully in a government.

The company also happens to own the largest fleet of privately - owned bomb - sniffing dogs in North America (about 200) stationed at government institutions, sports stadiums, transportation hubs and large corporations.

Speaking at the American Institute of CPAs last week, IRS Small Business / Self - Employed division head Faris Fink said the agency will be shifting its auditing focus from corporations to small - business partnerships, which have grown significantly in number over the last six years.

At a recent Nasdaq luncheon Q&A, Schultz was challenged about his expansive view of «corporate social responsibility»: Was it not the role of the corporation simply to maximize profits for shareholders, who in turn can use the proceeds to do good in the world if they choose?

«You can't just bring [a temp] in for that short a time,» says an HR manager at a large entertainment and gaming corporation out west who asked to keep her name and location anonymous.

«The key is not to trap gains in a C corporation,» says Steve Wiltse, partner at accounting firm Argy, Wiltse & Robinson PC, in McLean, Va. «You want some flexibility by doing the deals in a pass - through entity like an S corporation or an LLC.»

A legion of Canadian corporations recently acquired new CEOs: Guy Laurence joined Rogers (which owns this magazine) last December, one month after BlackBerry brought in turnaround artist John Chen to fix its ailing smartphone business; at TD Bank, Bharat Masrani spent a year (some might say his entire career) preparing to take over for Ed Clark, while across the street at CIBC, internal candidate Victor Dodig was given just six weeks before he replaced Gerald McCaughey.