Sentences with phrase «calling on businesses»

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is therefore calling on businesses and organizations to take the lead on climate action and urges them to sign the Climate Neutral Now Pledge.

Choose a next step — whether its researching channels of decision - making, setting up a meeting, writing a letter advocating for change or calling on businesses or elected officials to tackle specific social and environmental issues.

SOARING smartphone use in children and a huge hike in public WiFi hotspots has led to a campaign calling on businesses to let customers know their internet is filtered for inappropriate content.

For about a year Perez has been on the Lead On Leave tour, calling on businesses, states and local governments to address paid family leave, even as Congress fails to do so.

«I'm trying to call on businesses that are more established,» said Joe Waters II, of National Bank in Abingdon.

The federal government has called on businesses, local and state governments, and residents of the tourist areas to help fund the program, and the rule of law and political institutions still need to be strengthened, said de la Madrid.

Nora Senior, president of the British Chambers of Commerce, said there was no need for «overbearing government regulation» and called on business to «step up to the task of nurturing the pipeline of women at middle management level on to executive teams».

He also called on businesses to invest more in training, improve working conditions, and seek workers who are under - represented in the labour force.

«And her finance minister has called on business to meet union wage demands as a way to boost consumer demand.

MPs note those most at risk of struggling to find long - term jobs have the lowest skills and call on businesses to do more to raise the skills levels of their employees.

In an event held last night at ESADE, the scientist Joan Massagué called on the business and innovation sectors to manifest commitment to the fight against cancer metastasis.

Tampa Bay's 83 Degrees Media, published an op - ed by Dr. Elaine Liftin, Council President and Executive Director calling on the business community to get more involved to bridge the achievement gap as funds are redirected to School Choice.

If you make personal calls on your business cellphone, you technically can't write off the entire cost of the phone and monthly bill.

I've been a regular guest on the television program Market Call on Business News Network (BNN) for about seven years now.

Finally, the third step I will take is to call on businesses, government, and the American people to meet the goal of reducing our demand for electricity 15 percent by the end of the next decade.

Eminent bishop and Nobel peace prize winner Desmond Tutu has called on businesses to cut ties with the fossil fuels industry, in the same way as they did with South African companies during apartheid.

With Anand Mahindra, Chairman of the Mahindra Group, calling on his business peers to join his companies in committing to the Science Based Targets initiative, there are encouraging signs it is becoming a truly universal movement.

... The third step in my plan to combat climate change is to call on businesses, government, and the American people to make America 50 % more energy efficient by 2030.

This one of a kind outside sales role includes calling on business owners and leaders in a protected territory, educating business owners and leaders on the «We the People Movement...

Call on businesses, family owned dairies, large corporate farms, and exhibit at industry shows / conventions.

Develops a database of qualified leads through referrals, telephone canvassing, face to face cold calling on business owners, direct mail, email, and networking.

Called on business owners, department managers, and purchasing agents to promote Invacare's home medical equipment line.

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One of a number of reasons I stayed out of my business offices and worked at home as much as possible was because when I went to the office, I was «drawn» to listen in on, interfere with or critique every phone call, look at every fax, poke my nose all the way into everything — to the extent that I ruined everybody else's productivity as well as my own.

Most call centers motivate employees through fear, punishing them for not hitting targets or spending too long on the phone, says Daniel Cable, a professor at London Business School who has studied the industry.

The President issued a new call on Congress to pass an ambitious legislative agenda to help small businesses, but some wonder whether it's just hot air.

With the traditional music business crumbling, the band called on Harvard Business School to reinvent its businebusiness crumbling, the band called on Harvard Business School to reinvent its busineBusiness School to reinvent its businessbusiness model

But one of her key findings has held up: The bank, called Pilatus Bank, did depend for much of its business on the Azeri elite.

Big businesses know taking a loss on some products (called «loss leaders») to get people in their stores to buy higher - margin products can work.

Organized as a follow - up to January's Women's March on Washington, the one - day walk - out — called the International Women's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear red.

Businesses advertise on his cabs; not only does he get ad revenue, but his contract with the advertiser requires that they call him first for cab service for their customers.

Cboe has been a notable crypto advocate on Wall Street, teasing additional futures markets for other cryptocurrencies and calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to approve bitcoin - linked ETFs, as Business Insider first reported.

Luckily, the sharing economy means that small businesses have thousands of resources at their disposal (including web designers, IT programmers, call centers and sales resources) on an hourly basis.

For example, a new law passed by the European Union called GDPR will have a major impact on what businesses must do to protect user data.

His goal right now is to stabilize the money - losing handset business, and he said on the call that he would be happy to just break - even on hardware.

Gaetz is one of four Republican members of Congress who have told Business Insider that Trump often likes to give them a call moments after they appear on cable news.

According to Sam Cooper, senior director for Call of Duty in Activision's marketing department, in today's video game business, any successful «AAA» franchise is as focused on post-launch engagement with fans as with the actual launch of the game.

The founder's master plan rests on the conviction that he can turn the PC - based business into what he likes to call an «enterprise solutions and services» business.

NEXT time you are sitting on hold absorbing a business message from the company you just called, you might be surprised to find the engine for that service has been created by Perth group Captivate Gl

-- Business Insider has 72 million unique visitors a month, Springer said on a conference call, although Google Analytics puts the site's traffic at 90 million uniques.

The so - called Cadillac Tax — a tax levied on some very generous health plans provided by some businesses — could go away.

Business analysts (who were young and fresh out of school, remember) were judged based on the percentage of their products that were in stock at any given time, and a low percentage would result in a phone call from a vice-president demanding an explanation.

It also features a special collection of Helpouts, enabling one - on - one video calls with experts to connect small - business owners with gurus in marketing, web design and other fields for quick questions.

While the House calls for an income tax rate of 25 percent on these businesses, the Senate allows entrepreneurs to exclude 23 percent of their income from taxes.

Attend an Open Call where you will be given the opportunity to do a 1 - minute pitch of your business / product / idea to a member of the Casting Team — just like you would as if you were on the show.

«I have always believed that this brand and this business should exist in the US,» Brandon said on the call with employees.

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«We think of ourselves as primarily a subscription business,» he said on the Times» conference call.

That grew into a business called Vortex Medical Inc., which in turn was sold to a public medical device company for $ 55 million in 2012 and was recently featured on the medical TV drama Grey's Anatomy.

He poked fun at what we called his «hilariously useless» guide to playing the xylophone as an example of what not to do, and said content farms should focus on quality, not quantity of content, and that Google will eventually reward those that do with better search rankings, and therefore that it will be better for business over the long run.

Business Insider had on Monday reported that the iPhone maker was testing a so - called mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service in the United States, which would involve it renting capacity from one or more network operators to sign up customers to its own phone and data plans.