Sentences with phrase «focus of groups in»

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Deep policy divisions appear to exist between the business and labor groups: The report cites the «majority» of members preferring to focus on issues outside trade deficits in favor of a «mutually beneficial» trade deal, sentiments to which the labor union representatives dissent in favor of promoting U.S. investment and jobs.

Setting up a company and culture that allows people to do what they do best (Mastery), in the way that they think will bring about the best results (Autonomy) focused on something that is meaningful (Purpose) as part of group aligned in values (Connectedness) is what drives a great and powerful culture.»

As COO of Zillow Group I'm often asked how we compete in this insanely competitive tech environment — what perks do we focus on, do we have compensation wars, what differentiates us?

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

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.

But while participating in a focus group on Belle Jolie lipstick with fellow members of the steno pool, she quietly shares a brilliant campaign idea.

As the chart shows, the focus for products and making money during the next three years involves Facebook's ecosystems, while video, search, groups, and the family of apps such as WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram come into play in the next five years.

In our case, since Iodine provides health information online, we can do some of this by analyzing our Web traffic through Google Analytics, some through services like UserTesting.com, and some with old - fashioned focus groups, people you invite in and then watch as they click awaIn our case, since Iodine provides health information online, we can do some of this by analyzing our Web traffic through Google Analytics, some through services like UserTesting.com, and some with old - fashioned focus groups, people you invite in and then watch as they click awain and then watch as they click away.

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.

Prior to Sucampo, he served as Chief Scientific Officer of Ambrx Inc., a clinical - stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of antibody - drug conjugates (ADCs) that was acquired by a consortium led by Fosun Pharmaceutical Group in 2015.

«Jeb Bush has a big interest in Latin America, and I expect he would follow in the footsteps of [his] father and brother in being more internationally focused on trade issues,» says Todd McCracken, president and chief executive of the National Small Business Association, a business advocacy group.

Once you outline several levels of criteria, you could have a focus group test a variety of shakers in different realistic situations to see which designs work best.

This is a unique group of investors who are focused on building out bitcoin and blockchain technology, assisting startups and companies with developing in specific areas like compliance and regulation, payments, security, identity, smart contracts and more.

Instead of spending your time creating an elaborate business plan or relying on a focus group, entrepreneurs need to continuously test their business ideas and be willing to adapt quickly in order to stay competitive.

«We expect investors will ignore the EPS slowdown given one - time hurricane effects and the focus on benefits from corporate tax reform,» a group of the firm's strategists led by David Kostin wrote in a client report, noting that optimism around tax measures was crucial in the S&P 500's ascent to new records last week.

Transport and logistics group Toll Holdings has announced that its marine logistics business will focus on the offshore LNG sector, after completing the sale of several operations in northern Australia and Asia.

After the site rewrite was complete, the design team was ready to show off the product of more than a year of sketching, designing, focus - grouping and in - office testing.

Preventing the display of sensitive data in plain sight — say an employee seeing a confidential record as they walk by a colleague's computer — is the focus of Kate Borten, founder of Marblehead Group consultancy and a member of the Visual Privacy Advisory Council.

In the abstract safety of a focus group, we were probably fulsome in our enthusiasm for TargeIn the abstract safety of a focus group, we were probably fulsome in our enthusiasm for Targein our enthusiasm for Target.

BERLIN, May 2 - Volkswagen's labour leaders should focus on staff - related matters and not get involved in other aspects of management, the head of the carmaker's controlling shareholder group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

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.

Some top - level executives understand this, enforcing various strategies in an attempt to ensure meetings remain a constructive use of employees» time and resources: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, reportedly maintains focus by sticking to a strict, bullet - pointed schedule, while Amazon's Jeff Bezos employs a «two - pizza rule,» which keeps meetings small enough so that two pizzas can feed the entire group.

«There is no more clarity on new products or changes in operations,» Richard Adams, owner of Franchise Equity Group, a consulting firm focused on McDonald's franchisees, told Buzzfeed News.

In 2012, Chick - fil - A became the focus of a political maelstrom because of its donations to anti-LGBT groups.

Other companies with world - class R&D groups built radical innovations only to see their company fumble the future and others reap the rewards (think of Xerox and the personal computer, Fairchild and integrated circuits, Kodak and digital photography, etc.) Common themes in these failures were, 1) without a direct connection to the customer advanced R&D groups built products without understanding user needs, and 2) the core of the company was so focused on execution of current products that it couldn't see that the future didn't look like the past.

Pay transparency will be the focus of tonight's PBS debate show, Point Taken, featuring a panel of guests who will clash over whether it could help narrow gaps in pay between genders, racial groups, and socio - economic classes.

BERLIN, May 2 (Reuters)- Volkswagen's labour leaders should focus on staff - related matters and not get involved in other aspects of management, the head of the carmaker's controlling shareholder group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

«In the short term, costs will increase, but in the medium - to long term, there will be more transparency in the market, and prices may start to come down in time,» said Marcia Wagner, head of the Wagner Law Group, which focuses on ERISA law and employee benefitIn the short term, costs will increase, but in the medium - to long term, there will be more transparency in the market, and prices may start to come down in time,» said Marcia Wagner, head of the Wagner Law Group, which focuses on ERISA law and employee benefitin the medium - to long term, there will be more transparency in the market, and prices may start to come down in time,» said Marcia Wagner, head of the Wagner Law Group, which focuses on ERISA law and employee benefitin the market, and prices may start to come down in time,» said Marcia Wagner, head of the Wagner Law Group, which focuses on ERISA law and employee benefitin time,» said Marcia Wagner, head of the Wagner Law Group, which focuses on ERISA law and employee benefits.

«Based on evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Science.

After a year and a half of testing various brews in focus groups consisting of friends and potential investors, the pair had what Verzello calls «a really great - tasting light beer.»

The group's strategies lost $ 1.8 billion in the first three months of 2018, with the biggest losses in quantitative and Japan - focused plays.

Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the program «the single most misdirected philanthropy in this decade,» according to TechCrunch, while Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg wrote in Newsweek, «Thiel fellows will have the opportunity to emulate their sponsor by halting their intellectual development around the onset of adulthood, maintaining a narrow - minded focus on getting rich as young as possible and thereby avoid the siren lure of helping others or pursuing knowledge for its own sake.»

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.

In fact, the co-founders focus grouped dozens of ideas before landing on spin tops, which ultimately met their criteria for a simply designed, handcrafted piece of nostalgia that was high - quality and made in CanadIn fact, the co-founders focus grouped dozens of ideas before landing on spin tops, which ultimately met their criteria for a simply designed, handcrafted piece of nostalgia that was high - quality and made in Canadin Canada.

STOCKHOLM, Nov 28 - IKEA Group's new CEO will focus on developing new stores and showrooms in city centers as the surge in e-commerce and home delivery dims the appeal of its giant out - of - town warehouse stores.

With that in mind, Dimon said there needs to be bipartisan group of experts focused on fixing healthcare.

In a perfect world, you would probably do both, using qualitative research to create a survey, the results of which might in turn be interpreted using another focus grouIn a perfect world, you would probably do both, using qualitative research to create a survey, the results of which might in turn be interpreted using another focus grouin turn be interpreted using another focus group.

For UnitedHealth Group the focus next year is more about getting ahead of potential competition from tech heavyweights such as Amazon and Apple than getting bogged down in the twists and turns of health reform in Washington.

He was able to keep the discussion largely on the topics he likes to focus on, and he made a number of points that will resonate with progressives, not a small voting group in New York.

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.

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.

There is no limit to the number of sessions in which women can participate; after the first rotation, the groups focus more on growing professional networks and having access to mentors and general community resources.

Democrats have accused Trump of firing Comey to upend the FBI's Russia probe, which focused in large part on whether campaign aides coordinated with Moscow to hack Democratic groups during the election.

Flynn's son also recently drew focus in the Russia investigation because of work he did for his father's lobbying firm, Flynn Intel Group, and legal analysts have said that Mueller's focus on Flynn Jr. could be an attempt to coerce his father's cooperation in the investigation.

For his part, Drummond pointed to town halls, focus groups, polls and visits to ridings are examples of tools policymakers use in trying to assess how various options influence happiness.

Since so much communication occurs through text messaging, we asked Klinenberg — who interviewed hundreds of people in focus groups for the book — what he found to be some of the biggest mistakes people make when texting someone they're interested in dating.

«In the hunt to understand who's visiting our site and buying our products, we perform a variety of time - consuming and complicated tasks — everything from coordinating focus groups to conducting surveys.»

In an experiment with two groups of adults, while one group did targeted ab exercises five days a week for six weeks, the other focused on keeping a balanced «isocaloric diet.»

While putting together Firebrand Group's Future of Artificial Intelligence report for our clients (you can get an excerpt, focused on retail innovation, here), my team and I reviewed nearly 100 brands engaging in some form of retail innovation.