Sentences with phrase «chief focus of our work»

Similarly, efficacy has been a chief focus of our work at Pearson since 2013.

Not exact matches

Besides, those focused on improving themselves don't work 100 - hour weeks developing SpaceX rockets and Tesla electric cars like Elon Musk, who's actually chief executive of both companies.

Valeant Chief Executive Joseph Papa is working to narrow the company's focus to its dermatology, gastrointestinal and eye care businesses by pruning other assets to repay its debt of nearly $ 30 billion.

Their current fund focuses mainly on Series A rounds, but also seed investments, in a number of fields, chief among them cybersecurity, digital health, and the future of work.

Searching For and Finding Value» 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Charlie Tian, Founder & Director of Research, Guru Focus Topic: «What Worked in the Market from 1998 - 2008: Undervalued Predictable Companies» 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Robert Miles, Author & Conference Organizer & Host [USA] Topic: «Portrait of a Disciplined Investor: Beating the S&P 500 by 6.8 % Annually For 25 Years» 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Optional Tour depart from Ayres Hotel LAX to Huntington Library 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Briefing by the Chief Curator of Rare Books on the history of the Huntington Library and the Munger Research Center 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Continue to Pasadena 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Charlie Munger's Wesco Financial Annual Meeting [The Pasadena Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA.]

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De Blasio praised the work of New York City's Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot, but said that as mayor he would have a deputy mayor focused on the growth of the city's tech community.

Sugarman said critics tend to focus exclusively on her work with Cuomo that began in the attorney general's office and carried over to the governor's office, but not the 20 years she spent as the chief of the homicide and trial division in the Bronx district attorney's office or the 10 years in private practice after that.

Before working for Cuomo, Allen served as then - Newark Mayor Corey Booker's chief spokesman, and vice president of communications and strategy at Mic, a media company that focuses on millennials.

Although they believe that their approach can be extended to other types of distributions, in ongoing work, their chief focus is on applying their techniques to real - world data.

Most of his work focuses on the pharmacologic manipulation of mammalian brain circuits which use the most abundant inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system gamma - aminobutyric acid (GABA) as their chief signaling molecule.

This focus on outcomes has its roots in her experiences in Texas, where during the 1980s and 1990s she was chief lobbyist for the Texas Association of School Boards and worked on several education improvement efforts piloted by business leaders, including a commission headed by billionaire H. Ross Perot.

«I think everybody who's focused on at - risk kids believes you have to restructure schools, because it's just not working,» says Cynthia G. Brown, director of the resource center on educational equity at the Council of Chief State School Officers.

During his first five years as chief of Boston schools, Payzant focused the district on literacy instruction, creating a new team of literacy coaches who worked with classroom teachers in a small set of schools, using money freed up from an «audit» of professional development endeavors that revealed too many disparate efforts around the district.

Ms. Sadia White, Chief Academic Officer of the NPS made this point crystal clear to school leaders in that district when she stated «we do not and will not seek a silver bullet, we will focus on the work of improving instruction every day in each of our schools.

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When Mayor Rahm's appointed school board privatized custodial work at CPS in 2014, Tim Cawley, CPS» chief administrative officer at the time said the deal was, «truly a win, win, win,» He said it would save CPS millions of dollars, free up principals to focus on instruction and result in cleaner schools.

JEAN DESRAVINES (New York, NY), Chief Executive Officer of New Leaders, has more than 15 years of professional leadership experience working with parents and communities on education issues and community development, primarily focusing on improving outcomes for children in underserved communities.

The first two years of work focused on the combustion chamber and making the air flow and fuel burn as efficient as possible, said Jordan Lee, chief engineer for the engine program.

Craig serves as the agency's chief marketing and brand strategist and has provided strategic direction for numerous consumer - focused brands, including: Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods, Kettle Chips, Mortgage Market, Point West Credit Union, Foundation Home Mortgage, Castor & Pollux Pet Works, LoanStar Home Lending, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Market of Choice, Smucker Natural Foods, Franz Bread, and New Seasons Markets.

Searching For and Finding Value» 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Charlie Tian, Founder & Director of Research, Guru Focus Topic: «What Worked in the Market from 1998 - 2008: Undervalued Predictable Companies» 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Robert Miles, Author & Conference Organizer & Host [USA] Topic: «Portrait of a Disciplined Investor: Beating the S&P 500 by 6.8 % Annually For 25 Years» 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Optional Tour depart from Ayres Hotel LAX to Huntington Library 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Briefing by the Chief Curator of Rare Books on the history of the Huntington Library and the Munger Research Center 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Continue to Pasadena 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Charlie Munger's Wesco Financial Annual Meeting [The Pasadena Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA.]

According to Ed Beaulieu, chief sustainability officer of Aquascape, Inc., this year's show will focus on sustainability and working with nature.

Anyway, considering the powered armor focus of the Spartans it's nice to see that someone who effectively helmed that part of Japanese mecha design is now finally making his mark on something originally birthed in the West (though if you ask me the the Master Chief does look an awful lot like Yutaka Izubuchi's work, namely the ARL - 99 Helldiver as well as the GM Sniper II and GM Command).

It looks like the developers have finally figured out what makes the Alien films work and created a game that focuses on reproducing that claustrophobic, isolating fear that makes it the chief obstacle of the game.

«This exhibition, many years in the making, is part of the museum's series focusing on Africa's contributions to the history of knowledge — in this case, knowledge about the heavens and how this knowledge informs the creation of spectacular works of art,» said Christine Mullen Kreamer, deputy director and chief curator of the National Museum of African Art.

This conversation, focusing on Frankenthaler's work in the 1960s and 1970s, will include Douglas Dreishpoon; John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, who has written extensively on the artist's life and career; Elizabeth Smith; and artist Clifford Ross, Frankenthaler's nephew and Chairman of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.

In an email to the publication, he said: «I decided to withdraw from FRONT to focus on my other projects, such as the Second Honolulu Biennial in 2019, my role as chief curator at MOCA Detroit, my work for the Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco, and a number of other exhibitions taking place over the next years.

An exhibition catalogue published by the Montclair Art Museum, Warhol and Cars: American Icons, written by Gail Stavitsky, MAM chief curator, is the first to focus on Warhol's Cadillac paintings and other car - themed works within the context of his career.

Curator Jay Sanders has left his post focusing on performance work at the Whitney Museum of American Art to take over as executive director and chief curator of Artists Space, a New York nonprofit.

The First Hawaiian Center exhibition program was the idea of then First Hawaiian Bank chairman and chief executive officer Walter A. Dods, Jr., who invited The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (now Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House) to organize exhibitions focused on the work of artists living and working in the islands, artists born and / or raised here who moved away for training and to develop their careers, and artists from elsewhere who visited Hawai`i and then made work inspired by their experiences here.

Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford and Katy Siegel, professor and chief curator of the Hunter College Galleries in New York, discussed the work of Robert Rauschenberg, dubbed «artist - citizen» in 1976 during his retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum for his dedication to philanthropy and focus on social issues in his art.

His previous positions include professor of theoretical physics and provost at the California Institute of Technology, as well as chief scientist of BP, where his work focused on renewable and low - carbon energy technologies.

«There is no evidence that outside interests affected Pachauri's leadership of the I.P.C.C. at all,» said Hal Harvey, chief executive of Climate Works, a foundation based in San Francisco that focuses on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

We are beginning this work by bringing our working group into conversation with some of the chief architects of prior SRM governance - focused processes, along with some of the leading academics working on climate engineering science, ethics, policy, and law.

[13] Chief Justice James Allsop of the Federal Court of Australia summarised the ethical issues which arise as a result of the conflict the billable hours system creates between the economic pressure on a firm to maximise its profit and the ethical pressure on lawyers to work in their client's best interest: «Only a very slight change of focus needs to be made by a lawyer to change from (a) expecting a profitable return from running as well and efficiently as possible a large case in court, to (b) planning how to make as much money as possible from running the same large case in court.»

Des Hudson, Law Society chief executive, says: «These posts will play a crucial role in promoting pro bono among the profession and developing a more focused approach to this area of work.

Immediately prior to joining Equal Justice Works, he served as Chief Development Officer and Vice President of the EastWest Institute, an international think tank focusing on conflict resolution in the service of global stability.

«This partnership will not only guarantee the future success of the KeepKey brand and product line, but joining the ShapeShift team will enable us to focus on continuing to work on developing better technology and security for crypto - holders, «said Ken Hodler, Chief Technology Officer at KeepKey.

Circle Chief Evangelist Anders Brownworth, who previously taught blockchain technology at MIT, gave a presentation on day two of the 2017 MIT Bitcoin Expo in which he mainly focused on what Circle has been working on for the past few months.

Circle Chief Evangelist Anders Brownworth, who previously taught blockchain technology at MIT, gave a presentation on day two of the 2017 MIT Bitcoin Expo in which he mainly focused on what Circle has been working on for the past few...

ClearCommerce Corp. (Austin, TX) 1/2001 — 12/2004 Chief Technology Officer & VP of Engineering • Designed and implemented corporate strategy focused on product development and market positioning • Worked closely with analysts to evaluate public perception of company and remedy shortcomings • Managed marketing, engineering, technical support, development, and professional services departments • Streamlined company operations and personnel while enhancing productivity and sales

CCSSO's Early Childhood Initiatives program works with chief state school officers, state education agencies and other partners to foster the healthy development, learning progress and school success of young children, birth to age 5, with a special focus on eliminating disparities in learning opportunities and outcomes for young at - risk children by supporting states in integrating early childhood, elementary, second and postsecondary education standards, assessment, data, and professional development efforts to form a more cohesive and powerful 21st century education system.

«My chief focus was to have Hamilton recognized as a potential economic engine of this province and I think some of my hard work is coming to fruition now,» says Marsales.

Craig serves as the agency's chief marketing and brand strategist and has provided strategic direction for numerous consumer - focused brands, including: Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods, Kettle Chips, Mortgage Market, Point West Credit Union, Foundation Home Mortgage, Castor & Pollux Pet Works, LoanStar Home Lending, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Market of Choice, Smucker Natural Foods, Franz Bread, and New Seasons Markets.

My chief focus was to have Hamilton recognized as a potential economic engine of this province and I think some of my hard work is coming to fruition now, I hope I contributed to some small degree to opening up a new view of Hamilton.

«On first blush, the focus of our alliance with Grant Samuel was on valuation, but we are now taking it to another level where we are looking at jointly working on transactions and how we can develop a greater presence in the Asia arena,» says Steven Kaplan, president and chief executive officer of Landauer in Dallas.