Sentences with phrase «economic schools of»

A concurrent session at Breakthrough Dialogue debated different economic schools of thought with respect to how ecomodernists think about growth, innovation, and the environment.

Ideological precursors of the market, the modernization schools, (both the sociological school of Marion Levi and the Economic School of W W Rostow) measured civilization in relation to the preferable distance from nature.

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Some of those schools, however, have been accused of creating as much economic harm as help: students have reported falling deep into debt to pay for classes that they said had failed to deliver what they had promised.

As the economic environment continues to soften, many young professionals are contemplating returning to graduate school so they can «take shelter» during the downturn and be set to reenter the workforce as the job market turns around a couple of years from now.

Joe Seiner, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, recently told me he believes certifying Uber drivers as a class ignores the different «economic realities» that affect drivers who approach Uber as a full - time job or career and those who use it for occasional income supplementation.

The Shannon School of Business offers the only MBA program in North America with a specific focus on community economic development.

The organization, along with three economists from Columbia University, the University of British Columbia and the London School of Economics» Center for Economic Performance, created the report using data from the Gallup World Poll to reveal which countries are happy and why.

The program is capped with a business trip abroad, where students meet and learn from local executives, tour businesses in a number of economic sectors, and participate in a consulting project with classmates and students from international host schools.

Its long - term goal, according to senior director of data science Jim Baer, is to build the «economic graph,» a totalizing representation of «every opportunity in the world, and every worker, every school, and every entity.»

Such an option would raise the costs of exporting to the EU for UK firms and it would decrease the access to EU markets for UK companies, a joint research paper from the London School of Economics and the think tank Centre for Economic Performance stated.

Around the main table, from left: Ontario Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure Giles Gherson; Joris Myny of Siemens Canada; Michael Sinnaeve of Magna International; James Cowan, editor of Canadian Business; Eric Kiisel of ATS Automation Tooling Systems; Tony Elias of Valiant Corp.; and Paul Boothe of Ivey Business School.

She has a master's degree in business and economic reporting from New York University and a bachelor's degree in economic history from the London School of Economics.

Stern School of Business economist Nouriel Roubini, a former Clinton administration adviser, told the crowd not to expect any economic growth for at least two years.

«Right now, it's really hard to get a firm handle on a total figure [for] what kind of economic activity the sharing economy encompasses in Canada,» notes Sunil Johal, policy director at the Mowat Centre, an Ontario - focused public policy think - tank at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Governance.

Of that group, 65 percent attributed this belief to discussions they've had with their parents about saving and 41 percent credited having learned about the economic recession in school.

Republicans talk of sparking economic growth rates in the range of four per cent, but models run by non-partisan forecasters, such as the Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania, predict only a modest increase over the shorter term.

The World Economic Forum is launching an ambitious new project to bring a value - based model to health care — and it has the backing of some of the world's biggest medical names, including the CEOs of Medtronic, Novartis, Kaiser Permanente, and thought leaders like Harvard Business School's Michael Porter.

However, the distortion of the debate by Trump and other politicians creates a danger that resources will be misdirected from more pressing infrastructure needs, such as aged water pipes leaching lead and schools - or from projects that will have a considerable regional economic impact.

«Business schools must equip the next generation of leaders with the knowledge, skills and perspective they need to meet the global economic, environmental, humanitarian and policy challenges of the future.»

Mauro F. Guillà © n of the Wharton School and Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and Sandra L. Suà ¡ rez of Temple University's Department of Political Science explore the economic and structural factors that affect the growth of the Internet in different countries in their paper «Developing the Internet: Entrepreneurship and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective.»

Part of that decline has been due to difficult economic conditions after the financial crisis of 2008, but part of it is also due to simple demographics: The baby boomers are hitting retirement age, and young people are more likely to go to college or graduate school, meaning that fewer people will want to work.

Mischa Kaplan is an Ottawa - based economic development advocate, a regular contributor to the Ottawa Citizen, and an instructor at the Algonquin College School of Business.

Yet judging by its school system — perhaps the most important indicator of a country's future economic performance — this Swedish model's looks appear to be fading fast.

Very real challenges exist when it comes to the school - to - labour market transition and the generation of workers entering the labour market are being irreversibly scarred by poor economic conditions.

Finance Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

Deborah Brooks, Co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Elli Kaplan, Co-founder and CEO, Neurotrack Dr. David A. Kessler, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Bill Maris, Venture Capitalist Dr. Olivier Oullier, Neuroscientist & Former Head, Global Strategy in Health and Health Care, World Economic Forum Mary Varghese Presti, Executive Director, Emerging Services, athenahealth Moderator: Dr. David Agus, USC Introduction: Dr. Doug Nemecek, Chief Medical Officer, Behavioral Health, Cigna

Location: North River Arthur Kroeber, Head of Research, Gavekal; Editor, China Economic Quarterly Wu Guodi, Chairman, China International Energy Group Xiang Bing, Dean, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business Xu Niansha, Chairman, China Poly Group Corporation Zeng Qinghong, Chairman, Guangzhou Automobile Group Moderator: Eunice Yoon, CNBC

Mr. Block currently serves on the World Economic Forum's Information Technology Community as a Governor, the Board of Trustees for Carnegie - Mellon University, the President's Advisory Council at Carnegie - Mellon University Heinz Graduate School and the Board of Trustees at the Concord Museum.

In general, the Canadian education system must be adjusted to nurture economic value - creation competencies (business, marketing, sales and relationships) from early years in school and throughout university studies, and thus build confidence, a spirit of leadership, and competitiveness in the future generation of Canadians.

Amar is a Post-Graduate Research Fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and a graduate of the London School of Economic's Gender Institute.

Turning to investment managers and their non-reaction to the threat he feels Fed action poses, Rodriguez then said they «do not appear particularly concerned with, [or] worried about, the finer nuances of an academic debate between two different schools of economic thought.

One of them, the Advaith Foundation, runs schools focussed on economic inclusivity.

Moreover, an increasing number of graduate students are emphasizing social impact alongside economic rewards when choosing where to work after school.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

Amidst the economic crisis, Delvinia has a number of new client wins including: Rogers Media, Greenfield Ethanol, Pelmorex Media (The Weather Network), Homeserve Technologies, Canada Post Corporation, The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation and Richard Ivey School of Business.

Indeed, the World Economic Forum in its recent competitiveness ranking lists the UK among the top three countries in the world for «the most technologically - ready» economy, quality of scientific research institutions and management schools, strong intellectual property rights, and at the very top for foreign ownership of companies.

In a carefully researched article (Yale Journal of Regulation, Summer 2001), Yale Law School professor Roberta Romano summarized studies on the economic impact of splitting the chair and CEO roles in U.S. companies (where combined CEO / chairs are the norm), finding that there is no statistically significant difference, in terms of stock price or accounting income, between companies that split the roles and those that don't.

Laura D'Andrea Tyson, an economics and business professor at the Haas School at the University of Berkeley, told a panel at the 2016 World Economic Forum that the gender parity debate is wrongly focused on fairness.

The Creative Destruction Lab leverages the Rotman School's leading faculty and industry network as well as its location in the heart of Canada's business capital to accelerate massively scalable, technology - based ventures that have the potential to transform our social, industrial, and economic landscape.

He is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the Columbia Business School, the Board of the Institute of International Finance, the Monetary Authority of Singapore International Advisory Panel, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Economic Club of New York.

Whatever their economic merit, the cheques are clearly good politics, argued Ian Lee, an assistant professor of public Policy at Carleton University's Sprott School of Business.

I've enjoyed your insights since grad school at AU...... 25 years of solid economic analysis from you and Dean Baker and Mark Weissbrot.

Baroness Sharon Bowles, Member, House of Lords; Nonexecutive Director, London Stock Exchange Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, Partner, Dechert LLP; Leader, Inspiring Girls Campaign Baroness Jennifer Jones, Member, House of Lords Moderator: Ngaire Woods, Founding Dean, Blavatnik School of Government; Professor of Global Economic Governance, University of Oxford

It's only when you get into the modern era you stop reading about debt... and the economic models that are taught in the schools leave debt out of account.

Economic Value Management has been selected as a Featured Book Recommendation or «Recommended Read» by numerous publications including, among others, Harvard Business School's HBS Working Knowledge, CEO Refresher, Directors Monthly, Global CEO, The Corporate Board, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Valuation Issues, On Philanthropy, Accounting Today, Cost Management, and The Journal of Accounting and Finance.

Universities such as the Harvard Business School, The London School of Economics and MIT have researched the effects of Start - Up Chile as an economic development strategy among others.

First, the method is agnostic as to what the money is spent on, so money spent cleaning up an oil spill looks remarkably similar to money spent building a new hospital or school in terms of economic impact.

The properly measured economic return to community college has to take into account the counterfactual outcomes that entrants would face in the absence of community college, rather than compare community college entrants to students who enter university programs after high school.

He is currently serving as Faculty co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and is Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics» Centre for Economic Performance.

He decided to take a stand, he said, not only because of the economic implications, but also because he could not ignore the human toll that deportation would take on people who have been working and going to school legally and have mostly known only one country — the United States.