Sentences with phrase «education at all of its company»

Starbucks, feeling the heat after the arrests of two black men in one of its shops last week, plans to hold racial - bias education at all of its company - owned U.S. stores next month.

Not exact matches

That's why Andre Dua, who counsels local governments and schools in his role as a director at McKinsey & Company, says there's plenty of opportunity for disruption in education finance.

Norrie, who studied geography and physical education at the University of Alberta, first landed at Mica's sister company, Island Lake Lodge, as a mountain guide in 1998.

Even though he was on the fast - track at elite consultancy Bain & Company, he left to launch an education nonprofit — one of the most innovative in the world.

At the beginning of Jim Koch's new book about his adventures building the Boston Beer Company, our hero bails on a Harvard MBA to spend three years leading grueling, off - the - grid excursions for the famous outdoor education program.

While a background at a consumer tech company might seem like an odd fit for an education startup, it actually makes a lot of sense, said Modi.

After garnering feedback from more than 80 Kaplan executives and technology experts, and tinkering with their revenue models, design plans and presentation speeches for three months at Kaplan's New York City offices, the teams behind these disruptive education technology companies have learned their fair share of business lessons.

«When the same people are controlling pay at a number of companies, that can cause a direct ratcheting up of pay,» says Eleanor Bloxham, who heads The Value Alliance and Corporate Governance Alliance, a board education and advisory firm, and is a regular contributor to Fortune.com.

A recent summer job at a marketing firm identified a big gap in Smith's education: he had to use computer coding as part of his job of updating the company's blog entries and he had no idea how.

Through her work at Emerson Collective, Laurene has been a longtime leader in areas of education, immigration, social justice and the environment, and has demonstrated that she shares Ted Leonsis's belief in a double bottom line philosophy: that the companies that do best are those that do good in their communities.

At the top end of the soloist market, «we see independent professionals and teams that come together on a project basis,» says George Gendron, former Inc. editor and founder of the Solo Project, a media, research, and education company for independent professionals.

Stephen Halpin is a Manager of Trade Education & Mixology at The Patrón Spirits Company.

It is interesting that a company so well - regarded for acumen, education, technology, etc. etc. would end up so ill - regarded as the result of a long period of subpar performance,» Munger, 94, said at the Daily Journal's (DJCO) annual meeting.

It means that the riches will be split among the select few who have the education and skills to be at the heart of the new decentralized company.

Previous roles have included: Vice President and fixed income Portfolio Manager with The Haverford Trust Company; Managing Director with Evergreen Investments» Customized Fixed Income group; liquidity products trading at JPMorgan and a member of the bank's «financial management education» program.

SoFi is one of the leading new financial technology companies based in Silicon Valley that not only reviews your credit score and income / debt ratios, but also looks at the quality of your education and quality of your work institution.

With offices in Northbrook, Illinois, Santa Monica, California and Ann Arbor, Michigan, MK Capital invests in companies at all stages of the funding lifecycle, with a strong sector focus on digital media, data center automation, software, and education technology.

Founder of industry publication Blockchain News, partner at ICO services collective CryptoAsset Design Group (helped raise over $ 200m +), director of education company Blockchain Partners (Oracle Partner) and ICO event organiser at leading industry event CryptoFinancing (first ICO event in Europe)- Richard Kastelein is an award - winning publisher, innovation executive and entrepreneur.

At Babson College, Kevin also teaches entrepreneurship for MBAs and for executive education classes and leads workshops on helping companies scale and increase engagement of their employees.

Baratunde Thurston, a director's fellow at MIT Media Lab, Fast Company columnist and former digital director of The Onion, replied, «Online training and certification will grow significantly in part due to the high expense of formal higher education along with its declining payoffs for certain occupations.

These benefits include providing employees with up to $ 5,250 in tuition reimbursement and, through a partnership with Guild Education, the company offers reduced - cost courses and degree programs at a number of colleges and universities.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

In September, permanent secretary of Malta's Ministry for Education and Employment Dr. Frank Fabri signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Learning Machine Technologies to implement the company's Blockcerts system at the nation's institutions of learning.

Strong investor interest in mergers and acquisitions for education companies is likely to continue for the second half of 2015, after a record - setting first half of the year in which the value of transactions reached $ 6.11 billion — 29 percent higher than the same time last year, according to Peter Yoon, a managing director for education at Berkery Noyes, an investment bank.

Founder of industry publication Blockchain News (acquired in 2017), partner at ICO services collective CryptoAssets Design Group, director of education company Blockchain Partners (Oracle Partner)- Richard Kastelein is an award - winning publisher & entrepreneur.

Mr. Jiwan has served on numerous boards of directors and advisors, including: (i) Future Finance Loan Corporation, a European private student lender that has helped students at over 130 universities fund their education, where Mr. Jiwan is a co-founder and non-executive Chairman; (ii) BFRE, a Brazilian private real estate finance company, which was subsequently sold to affiliates of BTG Pactual; (iii) GP Investimentos, one of Latin America's leading private equity firms, where he served on its shareholder advisory board; (iv) NewPoint Re, a Bermuda - based reinsurance business; and (v) Kaletra QD product development program with Abbott Pharmaceuticals, where he served on the Joint Oversight Committee.

WeWork then took its learning drive one step further at the start of 2018 and partnered with digital education company 2U to provide online graduate programs to students.

Stephen Halpin is a Manager of Trade Education & Mixology at The Patrón Spirits Company.

But you wouldn't know it by listening to an angry coalition of high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the food.

Consider WeeCycle as your charity of choice this year and host a fundraising event at your company or school to promote teamwork and social education.

In addition to her private coaching practice, Juliana has supervised the production of courses at the leading edge, nationally acclaimed personal growth and online education company Evolving Wisdom, where she served as the Program Director for the inaugural launch of the Conscious Uncoupling 5 - Week Program to Release the Trauma of a Breakup, Reclaim Your Power & Reinvent Your Life.

«Companies employ developmental psychologists to craft their message and tell kids, particularly in the preteen years, «You're in charge, you make it happen, this is your identity,»» says Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., a professor of education at Colby College in Maine and coauthor of Packaging Girlhood.

Kevin Hanna, area Manager of External Affairs at AT&T, noted the company has committed $ 400 million in philanthropic projects for education programs.

Apparently, this is part of a broader investigation into the for - profit education industry by the AG's office, which is reportedly opening investigations into at least five education companies that operate or have students in the state.

As a result of the commitment of the major companies to locate at Nano Utica, the $ 125 million facility is being expanded to accommodate the new collaboration, with state - of - the - art cleanrooms, laboratories, hands - on education and workforce training facilities, and integrated offices encompassing 253,000 square feet.

The company was honored for its Literacy for Life partnerships at Schools 8 and 20, for its philanthropic focus on education, and for its support of city students through philanthropy and personal volunteer engagement.

Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo joined Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown, members of the Western New York State Delegation, Erie County Legislators, Buffalo Common Council Members, representatives of diverse sectors including tourism, business, education, cultural institutions, health care and developmental disability advocates at a rally at Kleinhan's Music Hall to voice their support for enabling ridesharing companies to operate throughout New York.

A former small - time operator on the edge of the seventies self - help movement — he once ran the Institute for Emotional Education — Lindenauer was Manes's bagman at Parking Violations, largely in charge of collecting bribes from various private companies engaged in the always - booming New York City parking - ticket business.

But in their experiment, the researchers were able to prove, mathematically, that such answers wouldn't get someone any closer to inferring information about any single person or business that might violate privacy regulations — such as whether an employee held a job at a particular workplace, or precisely what fraction of a company's workforce belonged to a certain race or had a certain level of education.

«There is no doubt in my mind that if companies openly shared data, the development would go faster and the cars would take off,» says Sebastian Thrun, CEO and co-founder of online education provider Udacity and a self - driving technology pioneer who formerly worked at Google.

She knew a physicist who did educational outreach (but had just lost his grant, so he couldn't offer me any work), who knew a space scientist (who did no outreach or education at all), who knew a geologist (who occasionally volunteered in the schools), who knew an evolutionary ecologist (who worked for a nonprofit with no money at all), who knew the director of another local nonprofit educational company.

On 29 September, AAAS hosted a lively online discussion on Reddit's «Ask Me Anything» (AMA) forum on implicit bias in science — a discussion Smith joined, along with Shirley Malcom, AAAS» director of Education and Human Resources programs, Caleph B. Wilson, a biomedical scientist with Cellectis, a biopharmaceutical company, and Avery Posey, Jr., an instructor in the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

Companies find Ph.D. graduates «highly employable,» and some are «very keen to employ Ph.D. s,» says Jackson, a visiting professor at Kingston University Business School and a senior fellow of the National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling.

They have written on passion and on managing career advice overload for Inside Higher Education, co-written a textbook chapter, taught multiple sector - specific courses, consulted on diversity issues at companies and organizations throughout the country, and held numerous counseling and program development positions in their over 20 years of professional experience.

He is also the co-founder of Voyager Expanded Learning, an education services company that focuses on at - risk students.

According to Brian St. Pierre, R.D., Director of Performance Nutrition at Precision Nutrition, an education and consulting company (precisionnutrition.com), plant foods aren't absolutely required in the human diet.

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Given that 5 — 15 % of women of reproductive age have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)(American Academy of Continuing Medical Education), I think it's fair to say that I'd be in good company at a barbeque picnic.

At the same time, this simultaneous entrepreneur is also CEO of QuaraCORE, a creative design agency in Chicago, where she uses her passion in creative graphic design and education inspire and help companies to get to the top of their game.