Sentences with phrase «business as an experiment»

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Tips are available to help you rethink vacations as a benefit for your business in other ways as well, including as a laboratory for delegating, a way to examine priorities, and a chance to experiment with remote work tools if you need to connect while away.

The business has also been experimenting furiously, deploying novel merchandising techniques, such as vehicle test - drive simulators and wayfinding apps, in selected stores.

At first, the experiments seemed like business as usual.

Researchers Christine Exley of Harvard Business School, Muriel Niederle of Stanford University and Lise Vesterlund of the University of Pittsburgh recently did a set of experiments related to female aggression in on - the - job negotiations in which, as they write, «we saw that women hurt themselves financially when they followed a blanket recommendation to always ask for more.»

This might encourage you, as a small business owner, to experiment with some of these more generous PTO policies.

Regus has a vested interest in exposing the dark side of at - home work — after all, it operates business centres designed to serve as alternatives to home offices — but the potential disadvantages are worth considering as more and more Canadian companies experiment with flexible working arrangements.

Plenty of idealistic business people read it and, in the case of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh — who had already been experimenting with making the online shoe retailer a hierarchy - free «Holacracy» — embraced it as gospel.

For the most part, the Internet can still be used as a tool for people to start businesses, experiment, communicate and entertain themselves with.

As an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, Mokhtarzada and his two brothers, Zeki and Idris, were experimenting with a rudimentary web design business.

It's what the market demanded and we're putting it out as an experiment just like how we launched our other businesses.

When projects show enough promise as potential businesses, they «graduate» from being mere experiments into independent companies.

The modernized facility, which houses the business library, will include new study spaces, more natural light, both zero - noise and social - learning zones, as well as a «technology sandbox» where students can experiment with digital gadgets, such as 3D printers.

Brian Lang is the founder of Small Business Ideas Blog, where he shares business tips as well as experiments with digital and content marketing tecBusiness Ideas Blog, where he shares business tips as well as experiments with digital and content marketing tecbusiness tips as well as experiments with digital and content marketing techniques.

For corporate innovation, it's critical to ensure an external perspective and to combine it with employees who have the mind set and the skill set to experiment and execute as well as to work from core business.

Cazzete pursuit means serious business as Our Great Leader Sir Arsene said that the best way to create an identity with the way we play football, to get players integrated into our culture, with our beliefs, our values that we felt it would be an interesting experiment to see players grow together with these qualities, and with a love for the club, It was an idealistic vision of the world of football.

My answer: business as usual for the world of the «net, since just about any media presentation we can think of is eventually going to migrate online, at least as an experiment.

This business of heterosexual reproduction and the continued existence of gays in society appears to be inextricably intertwined as demonstrated by the failed Chinese experiment.

But if nothing else, it's served as a controlled experiment, showing that New York's hostile business climate extends beyond its tax code, and shows that other measures are necessary to make the state more amenable to private - sector growth.

«The Parliament has produced a charter for the multibillion - pound animal - research industry to carry on business as usual, with scant regard either for animal welfare or public opinion,» says Michelle Thew, chief executive of the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments.

But in their experiment, the researchers were able to prove, mathematically, that such answers wouldn't get someone any closer to inferring information about any single person or business that might violate privacy regulations — such as whether an employee held a job at a particular workplace, or precisely what fraction of a company's workforce belonged to a certain race or had a certain level of education.

And he hopes to do more experiments to find out whether collaborative projects, such as the Pulitzer Prize — winning «Panama Papers» investigation about thousands of wealthy individuals and public officials investing in offshore businesses for illegal purposes, have bigger effects on public discussion.

In these experiments, subjects were asked about their interest in different majors, jobs, and internships in areas such as STEM, business, social sciences, and the humanities.

In domains as diverse as making a business decision, choosing a hotel, ordering meals, and even participating in experiments, people were two or three times as likely to delegate an unappealing choice on behalf of someone else than one on their own behalf.

The SpaceX Dragon space freighter is open for business today as the Expedition 55 crew begins unloading and activating new time - sensitive space experiments aboard the International Space Station.

Our team has more than 20 years of apparel manufacturing experience for other brands such as JC Penney and Nordstrom's, and over 27 years running businesses delivering a superior customer experience, so rest assured this project is not an «experiment.»

I have interest in running the business in a few different cities, even countries as a short term experiment.

What began as a few experiments among a select number of people has grown into an international business and phenomenon.

As startups develop, they experiment and their market presumptions and business models evolve.

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For the 12 years that Michael Bloomberg served as mayor of New York City, the Big Apple was home to the United States» largest experiment in implementing the business model of education reform — a model based on sink - or - swim accountability overwhelmingly focused on standardized test data.

A formal education program like blended learning will only improve as time passes and more businesses and academic institutions adopt and experiment with its techniques.

Some dealers are offering subscription programs to ensure the retailers remain relevant as automakers also experiment with the business model.

In that vein, as we move into a highly digital landscape in which the print business is dying faster than most will admit (and it is), I think we'll see more and more publishers start to experiment with ePub.

«Tablets were an experiment 12 months ago; today it qualifies as a business,» John Loughlin, Hearst Magazines» EVP / GM, told me last week.

Restivo - Alessi won't go quite as far as her colleague, but she agrees that the publishing industry is «very conservative» in experimenting with new business models in part because of the «healthy growth» in e-book sales in recent years.

For Scribd's part, Adler (pictured), in his address to Scribd readers, posted at 6:15 p.m. at the company's San Francisco headquarters, 2:15 a.m. BST, casts the move as a defensive one in a business that must experiment with its model for survival.

Business Doctors: Management Consulting Gone Wild (Fiction): As an experiment, I self - published my second book to see how easy or difficult it was to bypass the traditional publishing process and reach the readers directly.

As ACS supports open, industry - standard formats publishers remain free to set and pursue their own business models, experimenting and innovating as they choosAs ACS supports open, industry - standard formats publishers remain free to set and pursue their own business models, experimenting and innovating as they choosas they choose.

Partly as a thought experiment and partly because the user might want to use it to run a little business (or might be a contractor rather than employee).

We're going to edit the site on our own, however, and experiment with running it as an independent business.

My friends and family had been calling me a Renaissance Woman for years, and I experimented with using that as my official job title, even printing up business cards.

[Buy the print] Thought experiment: It's easier to be successful when you think of your business as a dialogue, rather than property.

Always at the edge of art and architecture, experimenting with various approaches and practice, this young colorblind artist has earned the praise of both ordinary museum - goers as well as extravagant show - business stars.

Treize, a nonprofit in the Parisian neighborhood of Belleville, set up an artists» record shop as an experiment in production and distribution that was doing brisk business.

Professionals from different fields such as international business, history, medicine, law and even philosophy would leave their «comfort zones» for two hours and experiment in the roles of politicians and advocates to decide for what is good for one or for all nations.

As Planktos CEO Russ George admitted in a 2003 radio interview with National Public Radio in the USA, «It's really more of a business experiment than a scientific experiment.»

This resilient future, already demonstrated in about 20 experiments worldwide and being successfully adopted in Denmark and Cuba, would cost about the same as business - as - usual, but would manage all its risks and maximize customer choice, entrepreneurial opportunity, and innovation.

The German experiment has raised energy costs to households and business, the subsidies are unsustainable, and, as a result, without intervention, the energy supply is unstable.»

In the last several years, as hiring rates have weakened and schools have placed more focus on preparing students to practice, the academic community has experimented with ways to address these concerns of students by blending small - business entrepreneurship with low - bono legal access.

The Times reports that Lord Soley, Lord Norton, Lord Tyler, Lord Lipsey, Lord Dholakia, Baroness D'Souza, Lord Teverson, Baroness Young of Hornsey and Baroness Murphy — collectively to be known as Lords of the Blog — will begin a 6 - month experiment aimed at raising public awareness of the role and business of the House of Lords.