At the time, I lived in Summerland, BC, a 40 minute drive from the Kelowna
based firm I work at.
Not exact matches
The most critical person to hire in the customer service schema is the manager, says Andy Fromm, president of Service Management Group, a Missouri -
based firm that
works with retail and restaurant chains on improving customer service, since employee turnover is directly driven by manager turnover.
He previously
worked at China Renaissance, a China -
based investment bank, helping startups raise capital from venture capital and private equity
firms.
He
worked his way up in various
firms, eventually co-founding a Calgary -
based exploration and production company, Grad & Walker, in 1986.
One biotech
firm, Ossianix, is already hard at
work developing a VNAR -
based drug - delivery system, in collaboration with the global pharmaceutical company Lundbeck, which focuses on drugs for brain disorders.
For instance, a study from America's Best 401k, a Scottsdale, Arizona -
based firm that
works with retirement plans, reviewed fee disclosures for 11 insurers and payroll companies that specialize in plans with less than $ 10 million in assets.
«By shifting to a more collaborative
work environment, the knowledge industry has opened a veritable Pandora's box, full of countless interruptions, distractions and other evils,» wrote Jonathan B. Spira, an analyst with Basex, a New York —
based research
firm.
Ben Dutton, president and CEO of the Casman Group of companies, said about half of the 200 workers employed by his Fort McMurray -
based general construction
firm are already back in town and
working on restoring heating - ventilation and other systems for commercial and industrial customers.
Dimon wants the bank to prepare for the worst - case scenario in the negotiations between the U.K. and the European Union, which would prohibit financial
firms in London to
work with EU -
based customers.
«It's clear that the buyer wound up with something not quite what it thought it was buying,» says Kip Witter, a vice president at The Brenner Group, Inc., a Cupertino, Calif. -
based financial management and advisory
firm that
works with Silicon Valley tech companies.
It's a huge sales opportunity that Target can't afford to mess up, says Jeff Doucette, general manager of Field Agent Canada, a Calgary -
based retail consultancy
firm that
works with Target Canada suppliers.
«Before the internet and globalization, you could drive a business on a few successful market launches,» says Ken Tencer, CEO of Spyder
Works, a Toronto - and NYC -
based business consulting
firm and co-author of two books on innovation — The 90 % Rule and Cause a Disturbance.
As Vigorate Inc., a Toronto -
based digital marketing
firm discovered, pursuing exports in uncharted regions requires careful discovery of what
works and where.
After only a single day of
work, McClure and his team at his California -
based security
firm, Cylance, gained access to the entire building.
Engineering
firm Civmec has won about $ 50 million worth of contracts for
work on the east coast, following its recent acquisition of NSW -
based Forgacs Engineering.
Your mind could have drifted thousands of miles away, but as long as your body showed up to
work at Dallas -
based tax
firm Ryan, that was all that mattered.
On March 7, after being fired as National Security Adviser, Flynn belatedly filed a FARA disclosure that revealed that, through his
firm, Flynn Intel Group, he had
worked in 2016 on behalf of Inovo BV, a
firm based in Netherlands and owned by a Turkish businessman with links to the Turkish government.
Whitman told local media that HPE plans to
work with the Singapore Economic Development Board, local universities, and venture capital
firms to identify Singapore -
based startups that specialize in areas in which HPE is also investing.
«We learned that there's a gap on prototyping mass productions,» says founder Lucas Wang, who is also the CEO and co-founder of Taiwan -
based venture capital
firm, TMI, which
works with a number of international original design manufacturers.
The consulting
firms, which
worked on a pro bono
basis for Kellogg, studied the full - time MBA, part - time MBA, and executive education marketplace.
But your computer desktop is a
work surface, too, says Monica Friel, president of Chaos to Order, a Chicago -
based professional organizing
firm.
«Firing fast never
works,» says Dane Atkinson, CEO and co-founder of SumAll, a New York City -
based business analytics
firm.
In a strange twist, Nintendo is apparently
working with a San Francisco -
based venture
firm named Scrum Ventures to identify startups interested in creating Nintendo Switch hardware.
The most effective way to do that, he adds, is by
working with other
firms based on the ground; Kinova leverages a network of distributors around the world to better convey its brand message, conducts business according to local customs and — crucially — does it all in local languages.
But top - down policies won't bring about meaningful change, warns Yost, founder and president of the
Work + Life Fit Inc. consulting firm based in Madison, N.J. Instead, she recommends that companies adopt a «partnership» approach, encouraging employees to suggest arrangements that fit their own needs while still ensuring that work gets done — and gets done w
Work + Life Fit Inc. consulting
firm based in Madison, N.J. Instead, she recommends that companies adopt a «partnership» approach, encouraging employees to suggest arrangements that fit their own needs while still ensuring that
work gets done — and gets done w
work gets done — and gets done well.
Dallas -
based cyber threat intelligence
firm iSIGHT Partners,
working with the U.S. Secret Service, says it has determined that malicious software has «potentially infected a large number of retail information systems.»
Looking at it, Martin Castellan, co-founder of the real estate management
firm based in Guelph, Ont., had a moment of inspiration: Why not feature people who actually
worked there instead?
You would if you
worked at Vancouver -
based public relations
firm Jive Communications.
Based on anecdotal evidence I've collected after
working in the digital - marketing space for 15 years, I'm confident saying that the vast majority of those hiring an SEO
firm end up being disappointed.
Tom Brandon, CEO of Tucson -
based Work Recovery, sat down with his PR
firm and put together a «top 10» list of media targets.
The duo had previously founded the blogging community Scribnia and also had general business experience: Groetzinger
worked as an associate consultant at Boston -
based management consulting
firm Bain & Co., and D'Souza was an analyst at management consulting
firm Monitor Group in Cambridge, Mass..
He says he decided to
work with the Boston -
based equity
firm because they were «nice people.»
He joined Burger King Worldwide after
working at SIP Capital, a São Paulo
based private investment
firm, where he evaluated investments across a number of industries and geographies.
Barry Itzkowitz, a CPA and director with Midwest -
based accounting
firm SS&G (whom I also
work with personally), says that you need to be focused on timing.
«Companies of any size should understand what the customer experience is,» says Andy Fromm, president of Service Management Group, a Missouri -
based firm that
works with retail and restaurant chains on improving customer service.
My favorite reply so far to the question of how one achieves
work - life balance comes from Brittney Castro, the Millennial founder of a Los Angeles -
based financial planning
firm called Financially Wise Women.
The
firm works with a number of clients now
based in the Innovation District, including LogMeIn, Battery Ventures, and EnerNOC.
Keeping Your Balance is a cloud -
based accounting
firm that
works with clients and provides accounting and payroll solutions.
Last month, a whistleblower who previously
worked for Cambridge Analytica came forward to claim that the British -
based firm had used a third - party app to obtain private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without users» knowledge.
«I have
worked with several HR outsourcing
firms over the past fifteen years and have found that only Execustaff HR offers the exceptional hands - on service, rapid response, flexibility and technology needed by a tech -
based company.
Ripple, which focuses on blockchain -
based cross border payments,
works with many large banks and is backed by
firms including Standard Chartered Plc (STAN.L), Accenture Plc (ACN.N), and SBI Holdings.
Prior to joining Cerberus, Mr. Neporent was an associate and a partner in the Business Reorganization and Finance Group at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, a New York City -
based law
firm, from 1986 to 1998, where he did extensive
work on behalf of Cerberus.
«They have a decent vision, but also face steep hurdles,» said a London -
based executive of a trading
firm that
works closely with manufacturers.
Financial services is seen as one of the main industries that will benefit from artificial intelligence tools and many of the biggest
firms, such as Merrill Lynch, are
working on their own artificial intelligence
based software.
The NYT reports it has seen documents showing that a London -
based employee of the big data
firm — named as Alfredas Chmieliauskas —
worked with the CA data scientists who were building its psychological profiling technology.
Starting in 2013, the New York Times reports that a UK -
based Palantir employee
worked with Cambridge Analytica — going on to gain access to the dataset of 50M + Facebook users the latter
firm obtained in 2014 via a third party personality quiz app deployed on the social network giant's platform.
This past April, the
firm Blossom Finance
based in Indonesia, published a 22 - page
working paper that declares Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies compliant with Islamic financing or Shariah Law.
The new location enables the
firm to
work more closely with entrepreneurs
based in San Francisco and to better serve Norwest's existing portfolio companies headquartered in the city, including Lending Club, Bluenose Analytics, Extole, IFTTT, Lumosity, Madison Reed, Modcloth, Threadflip, Udemy, Zirx and others.
The curriculum leverages the extensive resources and expertise of MaRS, RBC, TMX, KPMG, Miller Thomson and Matter & Co, a UK -
based communications
firm that
works with values - driven organizations.
Bluzelle, a licensed Canadian
firm based in Vancouver, is co-founded by Pavel Bains, a Disney and 500 Startups alum and Neeraj Murarka, who has
worked with Google and Zynga and was recently at Zeroblock, a crypto - startup that was acquired by Blockchain.info.