Sentences with phrase «get to school at»

Don't assume that the bus gets to school at the perfect time for a smooth transition into the school day.

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When the school year ends, we may take a week or two to ourselves much like someone in any other field; however, at the end of that time, we need to get ourselves back into gear.

After getting at least a secondary school education, you'll need either complete a four - to five - year apprenticeship, or at least four years of work experience in combination with school or industry courses.

«We need to know what we're getting into,» warns Wendy Dobson, a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto who has written extensively on China.

There are a many people coming out of law school who are finding it very hard to get a job at a decent law firm.

«A business plan is important because it communicates to everyone involved in the organization what the goals are, and how management plans to get there,» says Drew Starbird, a professor of operations management and information systems at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business.

When I got a job at Barnes and Noble in high school, I used my discount to buy a bunch of copies to give as gifts.

By the time early - riser Sheryl Sandberg gets to the office at 7 a.m., she's already fitted in an hour of responding to emails, a morning workout at her home gym and dropping her two kids off at school.

It was hard to get those like - minded peers,» says Gillis, who recently started an undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia's Sauder of School of Business.

Stonecipher's aviation school, which has a waiting list for people anxious to get in, has partnered with the local community college and is the exclusive training program for the Professional Helicopter Pilot Program at Yavapai College.

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies after another deadly mass shooting, this time at a Florida high school in February that left 17 people dead.

«You just don't know what's going to happen when you get out there and do something like this,» said Paul Argenti, professor of corporate communications at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

Next, we'll head to a circus school where you will have a short yoga and core warm - up, and then get on the fabric to try your talents at aerial silks.

For Kersi Antia, marketing professor at Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario, that's got to change — the sooner, the better.

The professor at Arizona State University's business school and author of The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, asks her clients, «What are the things you would never do at this company to get a client, to keep a client, to make sure you met your numbers for the quarter?»

The complete post is well worth reading in full if you're feeling a little at sea at your new school (or if you're hoping to offer some guidance to the college student in your life), but here are a few of his tips in brief in get you started.

So, in between classes, I set up meetings and appointments with students and professors at the business school to share my idea and get their input.

While a hungry child is less likely to be able to focus, most of the research looks at kids who are part of school breakfast programs, which means the majority of those kids come from underprivileged backgrounds and may not be getting enough to eat in general.

It helps doing the simplest things like going to the grocery store before the tourists get here for the weekend or getting your kid out of school early or simply just getting some downtime at the beach by yourself.

Those Happy Meals were a rare treat, and I worked hard to get a good report card or an honor at school just for a visit to the Golden Arches as a reward.

«Malala wants every girl to be in school and every girl to be empowered with the skills she needs to have opportunity in her life, to be employed, to not get married at 14 — and to be a change maker in her community,» says Shahid.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

I drop the kids off at school at 9:00 am and then I give myself until 10:00 am to straighten the house and get the basics done.

And what I've seen at Carnegie Mellon and the Tepper School of Business is that we have students that come back to get their MBAs knowing that they want to start a company.»

Alan Middleton, a professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business, points out that the big banks now train tellers to upsell whenever they've got a customer standing at the wicket or asking a question on the phone.

At a recent Michigan State board of trustees meeting, a Larry Nassar victim came forth and accused the school's interim President John Engler of attempting to get her to agree to a payoff in a meeting without her lawyers so she would drop her civil lawsuit against the school.

A recruiter called his house in the Florida panhandle at 10:30 a.m. on a weekday in the midst of a senior year in high school in which he would fail a class and realize he didn't have the transcript needed to get into a four - year college.

«Writing about race and inequality made me want to explore these issues more deeply, so I'm now getting my JD at Yale Law School,» Jeff says.

Then, after Brown left, the school and the boosters couldn't agree on who to hire and now, at least some of those boosters are wondering what they got for their money.

I'm also in graduate school for my MPA in emergency management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, so the schedule is definitely full and it takes a careful balance to have some time to relax and not get burned out.

Williams - Moore helped her get into a special college program that lets her go to school at night, sometimes bringing her child along.

Rather, when clients looked at their agenda and saw that they had a meeting with the Wexley School for Girls, McAllister wanted them to get excited and to know that it would be the best part of their day.

Say you've got a preschooler at home and you're deciding whether to move to one of two places where you're child would attend different schools.

«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.

We asked the admissions committees at some of Canada's top graduate business schools to share what it really takes for an application to get approved.

The idea for the product came from listening to my kids complain that their blueberries got warm and mushy at school, despite using insulated lunchboxes with frozen gel coolers tossed inside them.

It's more than often the direction you're pointed if you have an idea and talk to any old - school business person, corporate lifer or institutional banker — at least when it comes to getting your startup idea off the ground.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

But back in the day, in 1998, she was just an 18 - year - old computer geek, sitting in her dream class at her dream school, getting the stink eye from her computer science professor and trying not to cry.

Douglas Ready, a senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and the founder and president of leadership development firm ICEDR, explains in Harvard Business Review how to get your employees energized in such situations.

We fail at something, we don't achieve what we set out to do, we don't get what we expected we would, we experience a loss, we get exhausted from our work or school responsibilities.

(poetsandquants.com)-- Things are slowly getting back to normal at the world's top business schools.

«People who go to the right schools at the right time, get to know the right people and get the right interview, that's their path, and they glide over it,» says Baker.

After the mine ended his sniping career, he established the Marine Sniper School at Quantico, teaching Marines how to «get into the bubble,» a state of complete concentration.

«The better able you are to get inside the head of your opponent,» Adam D. Galinsky, professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, wrote in the Harvard Business School's Negotiation newsletter, «the better your negotiated outcomes are likely to be.»

At 19, he tried to get into his dream school Harvard, but it didn't happen.

Eric Abrahamson, a professor of management at Columbia Business School and author of The Perfect Mess, adds that order comes with a cost: «If you stop to tidy up every time something becomes disordered you'll continually interrupt yourself and never get any work done,» he says.

Although she doesn't run right to the office upon waking up at 4:30 a.m., Warrior spends an hour on email, reads the news, works out and gets her son ready for school.