Sentences with phrase «corporations is in focus»

NEW DELHI: The question of conflict of interest among academics who serve on various boards or councils of private corporations is in focus yet again with Nestle admitting that it does offer to pay members of its Creating Shared Value (CSV) Council $ 25,000 per annum.

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Apple is increasingly trying to make headway in selling its devices to corporations, an area in which it has previously played a supporting role as it focused on the consumer market.

«So you're both supporting the case of an investment belief — that these corporations will do better than the market, because they are long - term focused — and you're also creating a new trend that would support corporations in general to think more long term,» says Winslow.

The majority of the activity around harnessing the technology is focused on bringing A.I. to businesses, not consumers, according to panelist Gayle Sheppard, general manager for Saffron Technology within Intel Corporation's new devices group, but consumer - oriented A.I. is expected to grow in the future.

Speaking at the American Institute of CPAs last week, IRS Small Business / Self - Employed division head Faris Fink said the agency will be shifting its auditing focus from corporations to small - business partnerships, which have grown significantly in number over the last six years.

To drive down energy costs for businesses and families, we've focused on inexpensive and cleaner - burning natural gas, and last month, Calpine Corporation broke ground on a new power plant in Dover that is expected to serve about a quarter of a million homes.

Jollibee Foods Corporation's aggressive international expansion includes a focus on Canada, where Filipino food is seeing a rise in visibility with several higher - end Filipino restaurants opening in recent years, as well as a major grocery store catering to cooks of the cuisine.

Universities setting up contracts with corporations need to be vigilant in their mission to generate and transfer knowledge, but they should not assume that companies are focused mainly on tying up intellectual property.

Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman is looking for ways to bring more focus to her company after a historic split in November, separating the unit that targets corporations with servers, storage and services from the business of printers and personal computers.

Prior to joining Sherpa Capital in January 2017, Stacey was Associate Director of Investor and Public Relations for Cerus Corporation (NASDAQ: CERS), a biomedical products company focused in the field of blood transfusion safety.

VPE was established in 1989 and, according to its company profile published by Reuters, has previously focused «on exchange - based and over-the-counter trade of financial instruments for private investors, institutional traders and financial corporations.»

The most recent study in 2015 focuses on S corporation ESOPs by Dr. Robert J. Carroll.

In this text, we are going to focus on the cryptocurrency mining business and the frustration it causes for avid gamers around the globe, in addition to how the highest two GPU corporations Nvidia and AMD are dealing with the difficultIn this text, we are going to focus on the cryptocurrency mining business and the frustration it causes for avid gamers around the globe, in addition to how the highest two GPU corporations Nvidia and AMD are dealing with the difficultin addition to how the highest two GPU corporations Nvidia and AMD are dealing with the difficulty.

Japan Gold Corporation is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused solely on gold and copper - gold exploration in Japan, holding 32 prospecting rights and 178 prospecting rights applications in Japan over 17 separate projects.

Prior to joining XPV, Tyler was an Associate in the Leveraged Finance Group at CIBC focused on event - based and cash - flow lending to support North American financial sponsors and corporations.

Previously, Mr. Satchu spent 12 years in New York City where he was a General Partner at Fenway Partners, a US$ 1.4 billion private equity firm focused on acquiring leading middle market companies typically from families or large corporations and a Financial Analyst at Merrill Lynch in the High Yield Finance and Restructuring Group.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

S - One Holdings Corporation has launched S - One Labels & Packaging (S - OneLP), a new division focused on providing products, service, technical know - how and integrated products to digital printers in the labels and flexible packaging market.

Fort Greene Focus article on BP Adams rallying with UFCW Local 2013 members whose jobs in Fort Greene were outsourced by the Cumberland Packing Corporation.

Scharff says she believes the timing is also right, the Occupy Wall Street movement has focused the debate on the influence of large corporations in society, and she says there's also been a lot of attention drawn to recent Supreme court decisions, like Citizens United, which ruled, essentially, that when it comes to campaign contributions, corporations are people, too.

The new organization — which would be empowered by the US Supreme Court's controversial 5 - 4 «Citizens United» ruling in June, which gave corporations the green light to run «issues advertising» targeting specific candidates on TV and radio — would initially focus on state Senate races in hopes of seeing the Legislature's upper house return to Republican control, said a source familiar with the planning for the group.

«Kachikwu is focused on delivering on the reforms currently being implemented in the petroleum sector under the leadership of President Buhari and Acting President Osinbajo in line with his duties as Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Chair of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

The statement signed by its spokesman, Mudoch Agbinibo, said, «We are going to support any collective / negotiation team emerging from the Chief (Dr.) Papa Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, Niger Delta elders and genuine stakeholders conference to engage with the Federal Government of Nigeria, representatives from the home countries of all multinational oil corporations and neutral international mediators that will be focused on achieving the short, medium and long term frameworks and objectives to de-escalating conflicts in the Niger Delta.

Schneiderman's office will be partnering with Enterprise Community Partners and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation — two nonprofit organizations focused on creating affordable housing in the U.S. and community development — to facilitate the program.

«So far, the focus has been on taking short cuts to growth through spending cuts, cuts in corporation tax and cuts in regulation.

The shadow chancellor's pledge to maintain UK corporation tax as the lowest in the G7 — anything below 26.5 % — is one of a number of business - focused policy announcements this week for Labour.

Non-profits such as the Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler management corporations have emerged as a focus in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's allegations that these groups served as vehicles for bid rigging and kickback schemes relating to large construction projects that are part of Cuomo's efforts to use the State University system as a platform for upstate economic development.

You republicans are in big trouble, you won in 2010 because you promised to focus on jobs and have done more damage to the people of your states while helping the rich and corporations!

Today's business edition of the Citi Breakfast Show focused on the successes being chalked by the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and what the Ghanaian market can learn from the IBM in order to be successful.

The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.

The resulting entity was later absorbed back into the parent corporation, prompting further changes in research focus.

His career success began in 2006 at Celgene Corporation, where he was the principal investigator behind a highly interdisciplinary program focused on mass spectrometry - based proteomic studies of placenta - derived populations of stem cells and natural killer cells.

The study zeroes in on a phenomenon known to anyone who's ever had trouble doing the same task for a long time: After a while, you begin to lose your focus CPM Educational Program is a California nonprofit 501 (c)(3) corporation dedicated to improving grades 6 - 12 mathematics instruction.

Well the film was wide release, so it makes sense there wasn't an entirety of focus on the specifics, but I still think it would have worked better if it was more like the trailers professed intentions; doco style, with vignettes of alien / human scenes that emphasized and helped explain, not found footage either, like for example, after talking about Wikus in the past tense, it could focus on him for a bit then move on, but it stuck with him, and the film changed gears, I just thought it would have been better to focus on other things, as opposed to dumbing the plot down to one man and his battle against the evil government / corporation, and still stay in the doco style, it could have worked, no?

Technology - focused coalitions organized by national and regional member associations, corporations like Google, and nonprofits have also been integral in fostering some of these connections among administrators.

The focus of the firm's multiyear studies has been on dozens of public and private K - 12 schools participating in a pilot laptop program sponsored jointly by the Microsoft and Toshiba corporations.

Another report of the mid-1980s, the Carnegie Corporation's A Nation Prepared (see Chester E. Finn Jr., «High Hurdles,» p. 62), sparked a long focus on excellence in teaching in an effort to define what Tom Kean, former governor of New Jersey, termed «what accomplished teachers need to know and be able to do.»

Richard Atkinson and Patrick Suppes at Stanford University founded the Computer Curriculum Corporation in 1967, providing student - focused instruction, and The Open University pioneered large - scale computer - based learning with underlying AI in the mid-1970s.

CSDC, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation with offices in Hanover, MD and Scottsdale, AZ, is the only CDFI in the country focused exclusively on the financing needs of charter school organizations.

Charter Schools Development Corporation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) focused exclusively on the facility and financing needs of charter school organizations, and specializes in assisting new schools, schools serving predominately low income students, and schools in communities with poor performing traditionCorporation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) focused exclusively on the facility and financing needs of charter school organizations, and specializes in assisting new schools, schools serving predominately low income students, and schools in communities with poor performing traditioncorporation and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) focused exclusively on the facility and financing needs of charter school organizations, and specializes in assisting new schools, schools serving predominately low income students, and schools in communities with poor performing traditional schools.

But the standout feature is something you can't actually see — a track - focused suspension system developed in partnership between Nissan, Bilstein and the NordRing Corporation.

It also continues its focus on increasing the taxable income coming out of small business corporations, and raises EI premiums in the same year that CPP premiums are expected to rise.

In the past, the main focus was on managing risks — including risks to reputation and regulatory risks — but now corporations are giving both opportunity and risk approximately equal weight.

In recent years, for example, these predators have shifted their focus from large corporations to smaller businesses, which have fewer resources to fight back and are more vulnerable to attack.

My focus was on the three basic principles that an investor needs to examine before they consider investing in debt issued from a corporation:

Yet it seems unlikely that the current government, which has been focused on increasing the tax rate on Canada's richest one per cent while at the same time putting in place measures to ensure that private corporations aren't inappropriately being used to sprinkle income and retain passive income, would actually consider lowering the inclusion rate, much less abolishing it altogether.

They will always focus on the positive and give you the part of the truth that is in the best interest of their corporation.

The SoftBank Group, is one of the largest technology and telecommunications corporations in the world, focused on mobile communications, broadband infrastructure, fixed - line telecommunications, and internet culture.

There could be deeper psychoanalytics at work, as the exhibition title does recall award - winning 2002 British documentary series The Century of the Self, which focused on Freud (both pater and filia) and PR pioneer Edward Bernays» influence on corporations and governments in public «suggestion».

PDP - 1 Demo Lab features the famous Digital Equipment Corporation's microcomputer PDP - 1 which, in 1959, was possibly the first computers focused on interaction, multimedia, and graphics