Sentences with phrase «focus groups at»

However, just 52 per cent of respondents believed that grouping by ability actually works, according to the report, entitled «Grouping in early years and key stage 1», which surveyed 1,373 teachers and involved interviews with teacher focus groups at four schools.

Summary: This article tells the story of how student focus groups at Kings Middle School in Portland, Maine provided input in shaping the Habits of Work and Learning for the school.

The focus groups at each site were comprised of at least two teacher education faculty members, one department of education administrator, one support staff individual, and one teacher education student.

• Mahalo Answers allows you to hold mini focus groups at a great value by paying users for the best answer.

A focus group at Lionel Wilson College Prep Academy Middle and High School in Oakland, CA taste tests southwest chicken salad with black beans, corn and organic ranch dressing.

On June 6, 2013, I'll be hosting the Mobile Dating Focus Group at the iDate / Mobile Dating Conference in Beverly Hills, where eight singles will be trying to find love from the convenience of their mobile phones.

We recently hosted a focus group at our NYC headquarters and were fascinated to discover that many female users felt pressured to give out their phone numbers.

The singles will be hosted by the Internet Dating Conference, where they will be participating in a mobile dating focus group at Harrah's Hotel on the Las Vegas strip.

Julie Spira, CEO of CyberDatingExpert.com, will host a user focus group at the event.

In a resent focus group at BESA, secondary leaders told us that they were having to reconsider what was being taught and how they could manage these core subjects — often without key staff or time or space in school.

Not exact matches

According to Ed Quattlebaum, founding partner at Polaris - Crux Group, a strategic advisement firm that focuses on helping early - stage innovation companies with capital raising and commercial scaling, one of the most effective strategies to better position you and your startup during negotiation is to acknowledge and address one anxiety that all investors loathe: risk.

«We looked at the potential audience base in Vegas and we think the Raiders have three groups they need to focus on.

Earlier this week, my 29 «Foundations of Entrepreneurial Management» students at Babson College participated in a focus group that led one of my students to remark that she had always thought they were a waste of time until she saw one in action.

A core group of business courses developsskills in management, accounting, leadershipand sustainability, providing a base forthe more specialized, industry - focused content.New changes are afoot at Guelph, too.An MBA in sustainable commerce will soonjoin the other three streams.

Apple would have done better to focus on China's regional trends rather than develop the payment service for a global market, says Kitty Fok, managing director of the China group at the market research firm International Data Corporation.

Cole, the group president of FOCUS Brands, the parent company of brands like Auntie Anne's, Carvel, and Cinnabon, wakes up every morning at 5 a.m. and checks her calendar, all of her major social media platforms, news sites, blogs, emails, and any other messages that may have come in overnight.

The event, called Catalyst Canada Honours, is run by Catalyst — a nonprofit organization that is focused on expanding opportunities for women in business — and the group has been researching woman at work since its inception in 1962.

While sitting at your desk, focus on a muscle group that feels especially tight.

A lawyer, he was senior counsel and vice-president at ABB Group, a Swiss engineering giant, and then had a string of titles, including strategic development director, at AMEC, a big London - based project - management company focused on the energy sector.

When it comes to the obstruction portion of the investigation, Mueller is said to be focused on three main episodes: Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey last May; the drafting of a misleading statement about the purpose of a June 2016 meeting between Don Jr., Trump's son - in - law Jared Kushner and a group of Russians at Trump Tower; and the disclosure that Trump considered firing Mueller last June.

Kevin Lynch, vice-chair at BMO Financial Group, says that this change has been a huge advantage for Canadian financial institutions expanding abroad, but he believes that putting the focus on Canada's stability could help any business gain traction.

For focus - group testing, it is smart to engage experienced marketing consultants, who will be adept at moderating the conversation.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

At the same time, Riley was introducing the idea to the rest of the company through employee focus groups and monthly sales meetings open to all employees.

An IPO could lead to softness in SoftBank Group shares for a while as some telecoms - focused investors sell their holdings to buy shares in the newly listed entity, said Chris Lane, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein.

Since video has become a major focus for AOL, Adap.tv, which specializes in video and has dealings with 83 of the top 100 Ad Age advertisers, «essentially provides the technology and the relationships to help facilitate that shift at a faster rate for AOL,» said Telsey Group analyst James Cakmak.

She was previously a Research Intern at the Michael Cohen Group in Soho with a focus on child development, education, and digital media.

Digital distribution enables what Marc Jackson, founder and CEO of interactive entertainment - focused VC Seahorn Capital Group, calls the «disintermediation» of the industry; and it affects too many partners at once for the first parties to jump in as quickly as one might expect, despite the potential profit upside.

The first group of so - called debt hawks sees another Great Recession coming and wants national governments to focus on austerity programs aimed at deficit reduction because rising sovereign debts are behind our current economic woes.

You should test your ad copy and other marketing via surveys, polls, informal focus groups conducted with a handful of your best customers, and direct attempts at selling face to face or to small groups brought together for that purpose, as well as split tests of headlines, offers, and prices via online and offline media.

«We've run out of space,» Zak says, reflecting with Cohen on how far the company has come since uncovering that seemingly small insight at the Craigslist focus group.

From 1997 to 2005 he was a partner at the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, and focused on public debt dynamics while at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.

The staff at Entrepreneur put up a mini-challenge focused on setting S.M.A.R.T. goals on our Facebook Group to help you get on the right track.

When young adults do ask parents for their two cents on saving, they often do so with a heavy dose of skepticism, says Lisa Szykman, associate professor at William & Mary School of Business, who has run focus - group research exploring young adults» personal finance behavior.

«A traditional press release focuses on a product launch or putting a product into seasonal contact, and the main purpose is to either get print coverage or blog coverage,» says Michelle Olson, an account director at New York's The Lane Communications Group, where she focuses on beauty and skin care companies.

The small group of women in these important roles tended to be focused at the largest companies, where pay is higher.

Eke was raised in Nigeria, and soon after arriving at Google in 2015, she noticed there was a need for a Google employee group focused on Africa.

Nicholas Clark has retired as executive director, strategy at Alexium International Group to focus on his young family in the US following the unexpected loss of his wife last year.

The pact could resolve investigations led by a specialized group at the Justice Department focused on mortgage securities cases.

In a study, a group of researchers found that by taking a 40 - second break and simply looking at a computerized image of a green roof, employees» focus on a particular task improved.

Designing these applications to be attractive to women is also just good business, says Meltem Demirors, who recently left her post as a vice president at Digital Currency Group, a cryptocurrency - and blockchain - focused investment firm that she helped launch in 2015.

Luckily, the impromptu focus group began on the other side of the table, so I more or less repeated what someone else had said and escaped without damaging my young reputation at the company.

By now focusing part of the Huobi China on blockchain, the group can tackle both nascent industries at the same time.

Doron Zauer is partner at Indigo Global, which is a tech - focused investment advisory group.

Prior to joining City Capital, David was an Investment Banking Analyst at BB&T Capital Markets in the Aerospace, Defense & Government Services Group focusing on providing financial and strategic analysis, valuation, industry research, due diligence and preparation of comprehensive client marketing materials.

As David Rose eloquently stated, «unless a funding round is being done with completely, legitimately no solicitation at all (ie, no angel - focused web sites, no angel groups, demo days, etc. etc.)... every counsel will be advising clients to go the Title II route.»

Warren Buffett, who passed on the chance to buy $ 5 billion of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. shares at below - market prices, said he's taking a smaller stake in the bank as he focuses on his top holdings.

We do that naturally, both at the workplace and when we work in groups the focus is on what can go wrong.

Those who work in SAC's technology and health - care groups may be deemed especially risky: of nine former or current employees linked to insider - trading allegations while at the hedge - fund firm, seven focused on those industries.

At present, the SEC possesses a working group focused on distributed ledger technology (DLT), while the CFTC has subcommittees dedicated to DLT and virtual currencies.