Sentences with phrase «at some of their schools into»

Despite this alternative, St. Charles still had trouble getting students at some of their schools into gifted programs.

Not exact matches

«I worry this will turn immigration itself into a poison pill,» says Vivek Wadwha, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, and an Inc. columnist.

When the school year ends, we may take a week or two to ourselves much like someone in any other field; however, at the end of that time, we need to get ourselves back into gear.

«We need to know what we're getting into,» warns Wendy Dobson, a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto who has written extensively on China.

Justin McLeod: It started just because I was coming out of business school at the time, and I was about to go back into management consulting where you don't meet that many new people, you're traveling a lot.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Alan Middleton, an assistant professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business, believes that's what pushed the company into this year's Top 10.

Sometimes, says Howard Lin, a professor at Ryerson University's Ted Rogers School of Management, wading into foreign markets is the only way to build economies of scale large enough to sustain growth.

John Payne, a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, said the financial decisions being revealed in the CNBC Millionaire Survey reflect a basic behavioral finance lesson he has been drumming into the heads of business students for years.

Robert Kozinets, director of MBA specialization in global retail management at York University's Schulich School of Business, says none of the challenges experienced by Target so far have been out of line with what should reasonably be expected of a brand making its first foray into international territory — certainly not a powerhouse such as Target.

It turns out that many of them — at least the ones based in New York City — went into finance from one of 10 schools.

While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

A recruiter called his house in the Florida panhandle at 10:30 a.m. on a weekday in the midst of a senior year in high school in which he would fail a class and realize he didn't have the transcript needed to get into a four - year college.

That's now the case for hundreds of students at the University of South China, which according to a number of news outlets has essentially barred those who are in their second year of the school's civil - engineering program from selecting their specialties; the program is broken down into seven of them.

«So we have trusted third - parties — banks, PayPal, Apple now is getting into that whole thing,» observes Tapscott, speaking at an event marking the launch of the 20th anniversary edition of his book, held at the Rotman School earlier this month.

That shift was also evident at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill's Kenan - Flagler Business School, where 18 students went into tech, up from 12 in 2013, said David Vogel, who leads career development and employer relations for the undergraduate business program.

The poll comes at a time when the number of deadly school shootings has reached 18 thus far into 2018, reawakening debate over gun control laws and school safety initiatives.

The second - oldest business school in the US, the Haas School of Business was named for Walter Haas, who was an undergrad at Berkeley and grew Levi Strauss & Co. into the world's largest apparel manufacturer before his death inschool in the US, the Haas School of Business was named for Walter Haas, who was an undergrad at Berkeley and grew Levi Strauss & Co. into the world's largest apparel manufacturer before his death inSchool of Business was named for Walter Haas, who was an undergrad at Berkeley and grew Levi Strauss & Co. into the world's largest apparel manufacturer before his death in 1979.

When you encounter a group of strangers with outstretched hands, your mind turns into a scared 9 - year - old at the school talent show.

At the University of Texas» McCombs School of Business, the percentage of students who took jobs in the technology and finance fields was «neck - to - neck» this year for the first time, said Velma Arney, McComb's director of BBA career services, with 12 % of students heading into technology and 13 % going into banking.

Speaking at schools and community centers across America, I was inspired to write this book when I saw an underserved need for a guide that would show aspiring and current entrepreneurs how to leverage their personal habits and goals to make themselves into the type of person a successful entrepreneur is.»

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP)-- Packed into five old school buses, hundreds of Central American migrants arrived at the US border Sunday for a rally, to be followed by a planned mass attempt to apply for asylum, in a direct challenge to the Trump administration.

Friendless and bored at his new school, Maiffret dropped out of 10th grade, dyed his hair various colors, and soon hooked into on - line hacking circles.

So much so that only a few months into his deanship at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business he was already dropping jaws and drawing stares of disbelief.

After the mine ended his sniping career, he established the Marine Sniper School at Quantico, teaching Marines how to «get into the bubble,» a state of complete concentration.

Mayer left school at the age of 12 and stepped into the role of breadwinner at a young age, supporting his parents and four siblings by, among other things, collecting heavy scrap metal for resale during brutally cold Canadian winters in New Brunswick.

For emerging - market companies, the benefits of buying into the West are many, says Andreas Schotter, a professor of global strategy at the Ivey Business School.

«When the central bank promises a smaller payment, reserves are a less attractive investment, so banks will... move away from reserves and into loans,» Reis, an academic at the London School of Economics, wrote in the paper.

«Part of what Li & Fung sells» to retailers «is the right not to attend these meetings or pay into these compensation funds when people die,» said Suri Gurumurthi, a business school professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Tony Rader, the vice president of Schwob Building Company, a general contractor in the Dallas area, said his company has started handing out flyers at sporting events, churches and schools in hopes of luring more people into the field.

Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

All of which helped Kolko build MyEdu into a platform that college students — more than one million of them at more than 800 schools — actually use.

When we were raising our young kids at home, we would try to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, just for the experience of it all — gingerbread house kits at Christmas, school projects on the kitchen table, taco night with all the fixings prepped in bowls.

While friends and family tend to be one - off investors, they pour $ 8 billion a year into Canadian businesses, according to Allan Riding, a Deloitte professor at the University of Ottawa's Telfer School of Management who specializes in the management of growth enterprises.

At Harvard, where the school is pouring more and more resources into it, 34 successful HBS - born companies brought the school to the top of the Poets & Quants» recent ranking.

For the millions of us who stared at Windows XP desktops for hours every day for work and school, there's a certain nostalgia now for the old Windows user interface, before the flat design ethos of Windows 8 squashed everything into neat little boxes that are multicoloured without being that, well, colourful.

«These microapartments were really the private sector's vehicle into some other segments of the school populations with residential needs,» said Jay Brotman, a partner at Svigals.

The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.

One of the valuable things I found at Ryerson was a very underutilized budget for the debating team at the school, and with a friend and some other people at school we really strived hard to build [the team] into something, and we did.

Kenidra Woods, a 17 - year - old junior from St. Louis, was already advocating for more discussion of self - harm and mental health among teens before Parkland, after which she sprang into action to help conduct a walkout at her school in February in solidarity.

Combined, his books have been translated into 15 different languages and are used as textbooks at many schools including Stanford University, Boston University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and The University of Texas at Austin.

Actions that are considered Centennial Planned Gifts include making estate plans through a will or a living trust; creating a charitable remainder trust and naming the Business School as the remainder beneficiary; entering into a charitable gift annuity agreement with the School; naming Columbia as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy or retirement plan; or establishing a donor - advised fund at Columbia.

Zachary Cruz, the younger brother of school shooter Nikolas Cruz, was arrested and booked into the Palm Beach County jail at 6:41 p.m. Tuesday.

«They've hammered that home and inculcated it into every aspect of their operations,» says Kozinets, who heads the global retail management specialization at the Schulich School of Business.

So now it's 2015, I'm 4 months from graduating college, I'm making 70k as a project manager (been working here for 2 months), putting 10 % of my income into my 401k (currently valued at 10k, & 50 % is matched by my employer, i'm at their max for matching), living at home with my parents, I have 3k in CD's, $ 26k in savings, and have no debt whatsoever (paying $ 8k per year for school in cash, so no student loans).

The Capital Markets Institute at the Rotman School of Management fosters a clear understanding of the challenges facing the Canadian capital markets, and the institutional tools that Canada must develop in order to convert those challenges into opportunities to be a leader among the world's small, open capital markets.

Cadie McNaboe, a 17 - year - old senior at Philip Barbour High School, said the gun culture in her area is something she had to take into account, which is why the students will observe a moment of silence and release balloons.

My name is Marcus Simons and I'm going into my fourth year at the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University and this summer I had the opportunity to intern with t...

When I was teaching at the New School already 50 years ago, graduate students were dropping out of the field because they couldn't fit reality into the curriculum.

«The guy was filled with rage,» said a person who has visited the school building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High where Cruz fired a squall of more than 100 rounds from his AR - 15 into classrooms and down hallways at terrified kids.