Sentences with phrase «big big schools»

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This is a high demand area with families as the excellent schools are the biggest draw to this community.

He attended a local Catholic high school and a big public college, the University of Massachusetts.

Telfer is also a big presence on the Canadian case competition circuit, playing host to the first annual Diversity and Inclusion MBA contest in 2016 and sending teams to the John Molson School of Business tournament every year.

A recent study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found such «intertemporal markers» help motivate us in two ways: offering an opportunity to separate ourselves from past «misbehaviour» and disrupting our attention from day - to - day details to focus on the big picture.

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.

For - profit schools have become big business in the United States, especially as the unemployed seek a way back into the work force.

«There really wasn't a big impact from ambition to how satisfied people were with their lives,» Kammeyer - Mueller, a business school professor, told me.

Verizon Communications, among the biggest beneficiaries of the corporate tax cut this year, said it would double its commitment to fostering science, technology, and engineering education (STEM) in schools that lack such resources.

I secured advertising by calling up big brands from the school phone box, telling them their rivals were already advertising with us and playing them off against each other.

It's a conference about big ideas, and the most popular talks of all time cover topics like creativity in schools, body language, and the power of introverts.

Rankings are a big deal for both MBA schools and prospective students.

According to the latest edition of «The Good Schools Guide,» Thomas's Battersea is «a big, busy, slightly chaotic school for cosmopolitan parents who want their children to have the best English education money can buy.»

Manayunk is home to hundreds of college students thanks to its close proximity to six of Philly's biggest schools.

Fall always has that bustle about it — the back to school rush, leaves falling and merchants making their biggest hustles of the year.

Rely on reputation and gut instinct and you'd probably name a familiar list of Ivy league and top - notch technical schools, but new numbers offer some suggestions that may surprise you (and offer campuses with less cutthroat competition from bigger companies).

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

«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 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.

Three years before, as a 16 - year - old high school kid, Dan Price saw bar owners being gouged by big financial firms every time they swiped a patron's credit card.

The back - to - school push is the second - biggest consumer spending event in retail next to the December holidays.

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.

In 2012, quarterback Robert Griffin III (better known as RGIII) got the $ 10,000 fine for wearing an Adidas sweatsuit — bearing a big, old - school Adidas trefoil logo on his shirt — to a postgame press conference.

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.

Having core values when you are a team of three eyes - wide - open, dreaming - big entrepreneurs in business school is one thing.

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.

It wasn't until they opened up beyond the big schools and changed from a «rate your peers» website to an open social network that it really started to grow massively.

Chances are, big purchases are in your future, such as a home, car, grad school or vacation.

Many of the University of Toronto's buildings, faculties and schools are named after major donors, but the structure that houses the Leslie L. Dan Faculty of Pharmacy may be the most impressive result of a big cheque.

«We are getting calls from superintendents from big districts saying their community is demanding answers to how the school is prepared, and the superintendents are looking to us.»

«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.

So how does APT mange to snag talent from MIT, Stanford, Oxford, and other top schools, talent that's also being wooed by bigger name companies?

A Harvard law graduate with a masters degree from the London School of Economics, Wood now presides over what could be the biggest case of her career.

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.

The biggest portion (40 percent) comes from a survey of recruiters, who are asked about how well the schools prepared the students for jobs.

Bloomberg notes that its list «put a bigger focus on the outcome most students want from B - school: the brightest possible career path.»

Starting up when you're 13 may not be easy, but for some it could mean landing big bucks — as ABC's hit show «Shark Tank» looks for fodder on school campuses.

It's also worth noting that Rotman is a big school in Canada's biggest financial centre.

A low - ego leader with big dreams, the 46 - yearold Kopp has recruited social entrepreneurs in 32 countries to become teachers in underfunded public schools.

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.

Both were founded in 2005, the school being the biggest piece of bait national and state governments used to lure Bombardier Aerospace to Mexico.

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The biggest draw, however, is the school zone with homes in the Caulfeild school catchment commanding the best prices.

I can't tell you how many times I have talked to an entrepreneur who, when they were on the verge of making their first senior executive hire, would reference their candidate's prior big - name employer or the big - name school they graduated from.

He read the Billings Gazette and the St. Paul Pioneer Press to figure out which high school students were putting up big points in rural parts of the country.

The tree - lined streets with multimillion dollar homes in these areas provide big lots and privacy, while also being just minutes away from favourite restaurants or «a great Starbucks,» highly regarded private schools, and a short drive to work.