Sentences with phrase «at big schools»

He said he believed that one of the biggest problems was the anonymity of students at big schools: «This couldn't happen at an alternative school because their small size encourages closeness between adults and children, and because the schools have conflict resolution strategies.»

A survey of mothers» experiences on Netmums found concerns about children being «overwhelmed» at big schools.

At big schools with lots of grades, teachers often work themselves into silos.

So I am always jealous of all the fun people have getting excited over games at big schools.

He's not the first one of his kind, and there have been coaches like that who have gone on to do very poorly at big schools.

Football teams at big schools make a lot of money.

Then you end up overpaying for a coach who failed at a big school, which does us no good at all.

«At bigger schools, being an athlete had become something to scorn,» Stallworth says.

Also, if a guy from a smaller school or bad team wants a shot at glory at a bigger school (Richard Mullaney, Gehrig Dieter).

«At those bigger schools, unless you're next in line, you're going to have to go to a smaller place, or you've got to take a chance.»

Sometimes at those bigger schools, unless you're next in line, you're going to have to go to a smaller place, or you've got to take a chance.

Well organized clubs at Michigan State and Michigan along with one at independent Notre Dame show that lacrosse is gaining popularity at the biggest schools.

Here are 22 tips from Big Picture educators on how to build intentional relationships with your students, even if you're at a big school.

It can be a really great thing being at a big school but it can also mean that you might not have the same teacher twice or you might have a teacher that has never met you before, that sort of thing.

School counselors can also educate school leadership about how to set a powerful example by addressing students with their preferred pronouns and their chosen name, even at a big school.

Not exact matches

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.

«You can make a big mistake in terms of whom you hire,» says Mikhel Tombak, who directs an innovation program at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, «because you're just grabbing whoever you can.»

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.

That deal followed a coup for Under Armour (which is big supporter of CEO Kevin Plank's alma mater, the University of Maryland) when the company last year reached an apparel agreement with the University of Notre Dame — a deal that school said was the largest ever in college sports at the time.

In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

After graduating from the first Imagine K12 incubator class in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior management.

Complex families are a big driver of the increase, said paper co-author Robert A. Pollak, a professor of economics at the Olin Business School of Washington University in St. Louis.

«The main reason it's such a big deal here is that it's going to affect our water supply,» Aries Yumul, an assistant principal at North Dakota's Todd County School District and a self - identified water protector with the Oceti Sakowin, the proper name for the people commonly known as the Sioux, told Business Insider in November.

«At some schools, sometimes when you give a big donation, you get your name on a building,» a touched Shaw told the Edmonton Journal.

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.

«The biggest single concern is that the U.K. would not be able to replicate the kinds of trade deals it currently enjoys with third parties,» said Geoffrey Heal, a professor of social enterprise at Columbia Business School.

«At the time, it was a huge portion of her net worth, so she was really taking a big leap on me,» says Hague, who was eight months out of York University's Schulich School of Business when she started the company.

Alan Middleton, a professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business, points out that the big banks now train tellers to upsell whenever they've got a customer standing at the wicket or asking a question on the phone.

Holland's eager yet awkward Parker delivers big laughs as he navigates the many offerings in his high - tech suit from Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), tries (and fails) to make a meaningful connection with Stark's assistant Happy (Jon Favreau) by calling and texting at all hours, and debates a high school crush with his virtual assistant, Karen.

While the number one slot on this list will shock absolutely no one and the rest of the top ten contain plenty of big name schools, PitchBook is at pains to point out that, while the most famous schools might produce the most successful founders, the vast majority of entrepreneurs bagging VC funding have more down - to - earth names on their degrees.

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.

FEB. 24: Drops by the Today show and makes up with weatherman Al Roker, who had slammed him for not closing the schools in advance of one of the winter's biggest storms, then joins the rest of the cast for a ribbon - cutting that opens the show's new plaza at Rockefeller Center.

He studied at Harvard Business School and has also held a number of community related board positions including Chair of the Board of Leadership WA and The Big Issue.

UCLA Anderson B - school students bested other MBA teams at this year's North American preliminaries for the Left Bank Bordeaux Cup, one of the biggest amateur wine tasting competitions.

With new deans at Harvard, Kellogg, Chicago, and INSEAD, a boom in MBA admissions consulting, and the first revamping of Wharton's MBA curriculum in almost 20 years, it's been a big year for business schools...

The same three factors that cause measles to spread through a grade school classroom, writes Gladwell, can be used to explain the Hush Puppies phenomenon: (1) contagiousness, (2) the fact that little causes can have big effects, and (3) the way change often occurs at one dramatic moment rather than gradually.

Other universities are watching carefully and will likely follow Stanford's lead, says Chris Lesmes, former director of the Big Red Venture Fund, a student - run $ 2 million investment fund targeting startups at Cornell University and financed by alumni, not the school.

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

Although not every school that's in the Big Ten is in the Midwest, the majority of the schools are, and chances are if you went to one of them, your allegiance to at least one of the school's sports teams is pretty strong.

But bigger prizes at schools such as Rice, MIT, Stanford and Harvard can yield significant seed money: $ 25,000 to $ 100,000.

We take a look at three startups seeking to solve big problems in today's schools.

Pippen, on the other hand, was a late bloomer who played college ball at a small NAIA school via a work - study grant, not a full ride at a big time school.

«The biggest issue for those companies is that the dollar will strengthen, and that will lead to a fall in competitiveness,» says Roberto Rigobon, a professor of applied economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

«Thousands of years of men innovating society and a single generation where women start to do better (in school and so forth) and rather than looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to men.»

For him, that means dedicating time to doing things that he cares about — liking dropping his kids off at school, watching shows with them at the end of the day, and carving out time in the day to exercise and think about the big picture.

So if tuition at Big State College is currently $ 10,000 a year, a $ 5,000 contribution today will buy you 50 % of a year's tuition (or one semester's worth)-- whenever your child is ready to attend school and cash it in.

«There's a concern Amazon might be getting too big,» said Michael Carrier, antitrust expert at Rutgers University School of Law in New Jersey.

«I just think it's so important in this time because we really have such a big and important stage to have our voices heard,» said Aidan Murphy, a 16 - year - old junior who's organizing the walkout at Quincy High School in Quincy, Massachusetts.

So limiting it to $ 2,400 would be a big whack,» Olivia Mitchell, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and executive director of the Pension Research Council, told Yahoo Finance.

Roy D. Simon, a professor emeritus of legal ethics at Hofstra University School of Law, suggested that the practice has helped «level the playing field» by providing resources for people to mount cases against big institutions that would be impossible otherwise.