Sentences with phrase «bigger schools on»

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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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

When you go to design school, you imagine yourself draping fabric and sketching ideas, but the work I was doing for big brands wasn't hands - on.

But on the flip side — a major fall in the rankings or a reporting gaffe — can cost schools big time.

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.

In doing so, he's aiming to capitalize on one of the biggest trends in K - 12 schools: one - to - one computing devices for kids.

LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters)- Carillion collapsed on Monday when its banks pulled the plug, triggering Britain's biggest corporate failure in a decade and forcing the government to step in to guarantee public services from school meals to roadworks.

LONDON, Jan 15 - Carillion collapsed on Monday when its banks pulled the plug, triggering Britain's biggest corporate failure in a decade and forcing the government to step in to guarantee public services from school meals to roadworks.

Forgoing the 6 percent to 10 percent sales tax on items like clothing, school supplies and select electronics can mean big savings for parents, but it also represents an opportunity for small businesses.

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.

«If you're a son of a doctor and want to become a doctor and end up as a pharmacist, it's a big disappointment,» says Laurent Lapierre of the HEC business school in Montreal, who lectures on the Jean Coutu phenomenon.

A pair of notable changes will have a big impact on high school soccer in Florida in the coming years.

Half of the teachers in Palm Beach County schools get the highest rating on their performance evaluations — a bigger percentage than anywhere else in South Florida.

Dr. Stephens has also been highly active throughout her career in industry and community activities, including serving as the Vice Chairman of the Orange County Council and National Board member of the American Electronics Association, now TechAmerica; participating on the University of California at Irvine School of the Arts Deans Advisory Council in the area of Digital Arts; and as a Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Orange County Board member.

The Creative Destruction Lab Rockies (CDL - Rockies) in the Haskayne School of Business wants to talk to researchers and graduate students who are working on potential «next big things» in science and technology that could be commercialized.

He was part of President Clinton's task force on school violence, and today he works with some of the biggest celebrities like Lebron James, Denzel Washington and Jennifer Lopez just to name a few as vice president of sports and entertainment and alumni development for the Boys and Girls Club.

TV is a big brand driver for Old Navy and we're back on that as we look into Q2, and then certainly into Q3, and line up for back - to - school.

After leaving the Justice Department last May, she now teaches a class on cryptocurrency at Stanford's business school, with economist Susan Athey, and sits on the board of Coinbase, one of the biggest crypto exchanges.

«New Democrats are calling on the Liberals to use the Pacific Carbon Trust to reduce the carbon footprint of our schools and hospitals instead of giving handouts to big polluters like Encana.»

VANCOUVER — New Democrat leader Adrian Dix is calling on the Liberals to immediately fix the Pacific Carbon Trust and end the Liberal practice of taking money from schools and hospitals and using it to subsidize big polluters like Encana.

Choosing the right graduate school is a very big deal — a decision that will have dramatic importance on your career.

It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as less than human, stoning people to death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.

On Erik's big day, family, Sunday school teachers and neighbors joined him at church.

In the new imperial division of labor on display in Afghanistan, the Americans do most of the fighting while the Europeans, who have no ideological problems with big government but don't like fighting, are only too happy to take on the soft sides of nation - building: roads, schools, sanitation and water.

As a former High School and college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vatican.

Typical is his recounting of a teenage moment at school in York: «I was sitting in the art room and looking through its big window across to The Minster when I had a revelation just like Saul's on the road to Damascus.

Circa late 1969, the Airplane seems to sense that the generalized radical community needs some encouragement, a pep rally of sorts to get them past all the spirit - draining confusions that had been piling up, and all the minor divisions radicals had made between one another in the course of late -»60s intensity, you know, naturalist communalists v. wired hipsters, pacifists v. biker gangs, Hare Krishnas v. Shamans, old - school SDS - ers v. the new Weathermen - types, angry feminists v. «Ramblin» Man» swingers, Black Panthers v. white hippies, Maoists v. anarchists, health - foodies v. druggies, etc., etc., and to focus instead on the big divide between all of them and the Establishment.

On another local level, try to find the time to become a Big Brother or Big Sister, or volunteer at an elementary or middle school to make sure kids have a good, reliable influence in their lives.

This silly article just paints a big red target on these schools for the right wing religious zealots to focus on.

How are you about using tax money to put a big fat elephant - headed Ganesh on top of your kid's public school, or to buy new Qurans for every single student to study?

So, in the absence of any explanation, we must ask what, in the eyes of our national Education Service, is the big difference between these two constructive diocesan documents on Catholic schools?

Parental choice in general, and Catholic schools in particular, got a big boost when Mayor Giuliani of New York took Cardinal O'Connor up on his long - standing offer to accept a thousand of the poorest and most problem - ridden children in the public schools, those performing in the bottom five percentile.

I get all the hurt, for sure... I see the bigger problem here as the WAY old school church is still being done... The big church method that is so internal, and so focused on a pastor is not healthy.

Because every morning, when she walks with her big brother to school, she passes through dozens of children on the crowded streets of Cochabamba, the second largest city in Bolivia.

If I owned a small cake shop and Topher, Theo Phileo or Salero21 came in and wanted me to bake a cake with Adam and Eve on it and Darwin with a big red «X» through him on it for a school party, I would say no.

My mom would always make a big dinner like meal at lunchtime because my dad would pick me up from school in his truck every day and half my friends would jump on the back of the truck all the way home (many years ago btw and home was only a few blocks lol).

Lately I've been making a big batch of scrambled egg muffins on the weekend for little man to enjoy for breakfast at school.

During the school year, I make a big pot / crockpot of soup every Saturday, for lunch on Sunday, and for lunches and quick meals for the following week.