Sentences with phrase «businesses and industry groups»

The end of Mt. Gox may be seen as an opportunity for the development of industry best practices; a process that will benefit from the participation of businesses and industry groups such as The Bitcoin Foundation and the Bitcoin Alliance.

A lot of our early work in the area was helping businesses and industry groups engage in small, voluntary transactions for carbon offsets.

As California policymakers consider options to extend the state's landmark climate change laws to 2030 and beyond, 155 businesses and industry groups sent a letter to California Governor Jerry Brown, Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León, and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon in support of the California Low Carbon Fuel... Read more →

The bill is part of a package of court transparency and liability reform legislation put forth by the South Carolina Civil Justice Coalition, a business and industry group, during this legislative session.

NAR and many other business and industry groups support making the Regional Center Program a permanent part of the EB - 5 Investor Visa Program.

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Everyone in the program completes afour - month internship with an area business — important local experience for thethree - quarters of the student body thatcome from abroad — and most complete anapplied business project, a group businessanalysis assignment based on the real - worldexperience gleaned through the internship.Those with an interest in finance can forgothe independent project and instead bolton an optional fifth semester that givesadditional weight to securities, derivativesand investing, covering topics like the mutualfund industry and real estate investing.

While business investors would normally trust Gov. Bruce Rauner, a former private - equity executive, to veto the legislation, the industry's trade group fears the unpopular Republican may cave in an election cycle that pits him against Biss and a pack of other Democratic contenders.

A recent report from industry group Cable Nation drew a direct link between the offline advertising spending and web traffic of pure - play Internet brands — businesses that rely on traffic to generate revenue, in the form of e-commerce or advertising.

«Being in the insurance and financial services industry, I'm always looking for ways to set myself apart, build my business and add value for my clients,» says Randy Rosler, a financial advisor with MetLife's Strategic Planning Group.

Halfway through last year, Jason Kint of the advertising trade group Digital Content Next looked at the total ad revenue booked by those two companies as a proportion of the overall industry, and found that they accounted for about 90 % of all the growth in the business.

The five - day conference — the industry's biggest annual event — features keynotes from Symantec CEO Michael Brown, VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger, Palo Alto Networks CEO Mark McLaughlin, Intel senior vice president and general manager Chris Young and Cisco Security Business Group vice president and chief architect Martin Roesch, among others.

The founder and chairman of Fortescue Metals Group has reaffirmed his commitment to the iron ore industry by increasing his stake in the business, buying $ 6.9 million worth of shares in an on - market trade.

The best way to extend your current skill set is by finding mentors, advisors or a business coach — and a close group of colleagues in the office and in your industry — to share notes with and learn from.

Before she was sworn in as head of the SBA in 2009, Mills was president of the private - equity firm MMP Group, which invested in businesses in the consumer products, food, textiles and industrial components industries.

The Association of Enterprise Opportunity, the industry's trade group, says members help 300,000 businesses each year and have lent more than $ 2 billion in the U.S. over the past 10 years.

With the vast majority of private investment capital tied up in just three states (California, New York and Massachusetts) and a fairly narrow group of industries, SBIC helped spread the wealth to a much broader portfolio of promising businesses.

Millennials are now the biggest group of business travelers, and the industry is having to shift to their different vacation tastes.

It is important to build a network of mentors and advisers so that you have someone to turn to for advice in bad times — try local business groups and industry associations for information about finding a mentor.

A team of researchers from the Harvard Business School and Northwestern University tracked a group of project managers in six different companies across three industries.

The initiative is the brainchild of Next 15, a digital communications group that owns seventeen marketing businesses that span across various industries and services, from digital content to market research to public affairs.

This is a whole new business, says Doug Parker, American Airlines Group CEO, talking about Berkshire Hathaway's investment in American Airlines, and sharing his outlook on the industry.

«The enlarged group would be geographically diversified with a large portfolio of businesses across both regulated and developing markets, with the scale and resources to address the dynamics of a rapidly changing global industry.»

«To break new ground in today's hyper - competitive smartphone and tablet industries, we must take innovation risks — it's the only way to truly change the way people use mobile technology,» Chen Xudong, senior vice president and president of Lenovo's mobile business group, said in a statement.

Depending on the industry and size of the company, a business can spend more than 40 % of its annual freight budget on inbound shipping, according to the Aberdeen Group, a research firm in Boston.

«I recommend routinely tracking what the industry analyst firms like Gartner are reporting about your industry, as well as trade associations and advocacy groups,» says Becky Sheetz - Runkle, author of Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business.

Hartfield is involved with the privately held Ghost Group, and he and his business partner Doug Francis just announced the launch of Emerald Ocean Capital, a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in marijuana businesses in the newly - legal industry.

As more international travelers decide to skip the United States, 10 business associations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Restaurant Association, have created a travel industry group aimed at reversing the growing unpopularity of the U.S. as a vacation destination.

He said he's seen a bit of an uptick in Kraft Group's global business, and believes a price increase — driven by stronger demand — is about to come through in the industry.

Driving the other camp are the tech companies and industry groups for whom the partisan deadlock on net neutrality risks stalling business plans and distracts from other policy debates they'd prefer to be having.

«Show me a company with more than 10 percent of its business with one customer or more than half of its business in one industry and I'll show you a company at risk of being impacted by one company or one industry,» says Paul Weber, CEO of Entrepreneur Advertising Group in Kansas City, Missouri.

«Many in the business and financial sector have taken a «wait and see» approach to the legal cannabis industry,» says Troy Dayton, CEO of The ArcView Group.

His group provides small business banking products and services across a variety of industries, including the healthcare and restaurant franchise industries.

One piece of good news: Business travel tends to slow down in the days before Christmas, and some travelers flying for work are likely to have called off trips booked for early in the week because of the chaos in Atlanta, said Henry Harteveldt, travel industry analyst and founder of consulting firm Atmosphere Research Group.

«Marcelo has done a remarkable job of turning around the Sprint brand and business, driving enhanced network performance, strong subscriber growth and significant cost reductions leading to the best financial results in Sprint's history,» said Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. «Marcelo has also positioned Sprint as a leader in the race to 5G, which promises to revolutionize the communications industry.

Like many in the industry, Russell doesn't know when the program will get regulatory approval, but in the meantime he'd like the government to give business owners a tax deduction on EI and CPP for contributions they make to a group RSP.

«LinkedIn Groups provide a place for professionals in the same industry or with similar interests to share content, find answers, post and view jobs, make business contacts, and establish themselves as industry experts.»

A growing movement of more than 70 business, industry and community groups, representing hundreds of thousands of British Columbians and Canadians, have come together over the last two days to sign a joint letter calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premiers John Horgan and Rachel Notley to resolve the impasse on the Trans Mountain Pipeline project.

Business groups say companies feel increasingly unwelcome in China's state - dominated economy and are being squeezed out of promising industries.

Nine plaintiffs including the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the Financial Services Institute, the Financial Services Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Insured Retirement Institute and four Texas groups, including the Texas Association of Business, filed a similar lawsuit on June 2 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

The plaintiffs include the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the Financial Services Institute, the Financial Services Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Insured Retirement Institute and four Texas groups, including the Texas Association of Business.

The nine plaintiffs in the first suit, filed June 2 in the Texas district, include the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the Financial Services Institute, the Financial Services Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Insured Retirement Institute and four Texas groups, including the Texas Association of Business.

A number of business groups are also arguing against further sanctions, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, several tech groups and trade associations that represent retailers, agriculture, telecommunications, clothing and the auto parts industry.

Errol is the chief industry development officer for Zillow Group and is responsible for industry relations strategy and business - to - business product development and tools in the Zillow Group brand portfolio.

A letter dated Sunday and signed by 45 industry trade groups says that imposing tariffs would only hurt US businesses and consumers and would not be an effective way to reign in China's worst practices.

«We're making progress, but the pace of change in the private sector is so great and the pace of change in government is so slow, even to get a budget passed, let alone get a turnaround in the fiscal situation,» said Joe Brennan, president of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, a lobbying group.

Employers looking to hire job seekers with business degrees traverse a wide range of industries and include companies such as UnitedHealth Group, Worldpay, Xerox, JeffreyM Consulting, PAREXEL, Nielsen, Student Loan Hero, American Express, and Michael Page.

Volkswagen is thus systematically continuing to transform its business and establishing even more efficient Group management in a phase of highly dynamic change in the Company and the entire automotive industry.

«The PBM industry is known for «business as usual» and has been challenged to bring real value to plan sponsors (health plans, ACO's, FFS government programs, self - funded groups).

The group also wants to emphasize trucking as an essential cog in the wheel of the U.S. economy, which the new administration is focused on growing, and see that any changes to trade agreements like NAFTA — which also clearly would affect the U.S. trucking industry and many other businesses — are made with all due consideration.

With these offerings, the CME Group is positioning itself as a market leader in the rapidly - growing digital currency space, «Delivering innovative products and services that meet the market's evolving needs is at the core of CME Group's business, and we are proud to lead the way for the industry as digital assets develop.»