Sentences with phrase «idea of the new director»

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US department stores have struggled to attract shoppers because they've failed to introduce new ideas, the managing director of Harrods says.

According to Teresa Amabile, director of research at Harvard, creativity is really driven by four separate components: domain expertise, a defined creativity methodology, people willing to engage and company acceptance of new ideas.

U.S. department stores have struggled to attract shoppers in recent years because they have failed to introduce new ideas and products, the managing director of Harrods told CNBC Friday.

I lean toward a system in which each new member of the board agrees to hand in their resignation every six to eight years, with the idea being that some directors will be asked to serve multiple terms it they are uniquely qualified to help the CEO and company build value, but most will be thanked for their service and move on after that time frame.

But, instead of dwelling on the mistakes or disappointments of the last «new product launch,» Star Wars» producers are reinforcing the idea that this time around is a whole new story — new director, new characters, new villains and new reasons to watch.

Placentra, 30, an art director with the Wieden + Kennedy ad agency in New York, said he and copywriter Alex Ledford invented «Dilly Dilly» out of thin air while spit - balling ideas for a Bud Light commercial called «Banquet» that began running in August.

The executive director of Stanford's innovative d.school offers ideas and advice for leaders who must prepare students and employees to thrive in this brave but ambiguous new world.

Every team honored has developed their break through ideas into new market segments, products and services that vastly improve the way we live, work and play,» said Frank Bonafilia, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Edison Awards.

Myself and the directors of the company embrace exciting and new ideas readily.

Moyers's people had swarmed over the Indiana University campus in successive waves of producers, executive producers, directors and associate directors; of lighting people, camera people, sound people and questions - from - the - audience people; had added a participant (Nicholas von Hoffman) to be sure the affair would be telegenic; had phoned the panelists before the event with their own list of topics and ideas; had thrown together a wooden platform just for their cameras, which cameras prevented many in the actual audience from seeing the panelists; had shifted the meeting rooms to meet the exacting requirements for the paraphernalia of television; had fed questions to members of the audience, and instructions «from the truck» to the moderator («move on»); and then had fashioned from 12 hours of tape one hour that might have been made in a New York city hotel room.

With relatively no money to spend on new players over the last three to four years, Inter's sporting director Piero Ausilio pioneered the idea of a long term loan with an option to buy at a future date.

New Castle Director of Food Service Dee Orick said the winter bash luau idea started as a way to help get students through the dog days of winter.

Robb Rehberg, Executive Director of Sport Safety International supports the idea of New York City using its civic authority to help fill those gaps.

This statewide tour involves state Democratic Party leaders — Jay Jacobs (chairman), Charlie King (executive director) and June O'Neill (ex-chair, executive committee chair)-- traveling to communities across New York to solicit ideas from residents and (ostensibly) forwarding the best of those on to the gubernatorial designee and his running mate, Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy.

Former governor and current First Father Mario Cuomo has floated the idea, but New Yorkers clearly aren't ready to talk yet about Andrew Cuomo and the White House in the same breath,» said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

Cuomo says the next director of the New York State Fair should bring the fair management experience and ideas to enhance the exposition.

43North, the entrepreneurial contest that New York State calls the «world's largest business idea competition,» will continue this year with new funding, a new executive director, and a new board of trusteNew York State calls the «world's largest business idea competition,» will continue this year with new funding, a new executive director, and a new board of trustenew funding, a new executive director, and a new board of trustenew executive director, and a new board of trustenew board of trustees.

«From Rahm Emmanuel in Chicago to Eric Garcetti in L.A. and now Mayor de Blasio in New York, they're trying to tackle these extremely large and difficult problems but with limited resources, and not a lot of help from Congress and Washington — so it definitely puts a premium on coming up with good ideas, doing things differently and often raising money in different ways,» said Jonathan Bowles, director of the Center for Urban Future.

Andrew O'Grady, Executive Director for MHA of Dutchess County, said, «Dutchess County Government has demonstrated its willingness to embrace new ideas to make positive changes for our community.

«In both Delaware and New York, the government can have no idea who owns a company,» said Heather Lowe, legal counsel and director of government affairs at Global Financial Integrity, a nonprofit that promotes transparency in the world financial system.

«Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a bonus for new teachers to help pay off their student loans and $ 20,000 extra pay for those doing a good job and voters agree with both ideas,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.

Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, says Kelly has never shown a hint of interest in becoming mayor but New Yorkers seem to like the idea.

New York State Association of Counties Executive Director Steve Aquario did not dismiss the idea out of hand.

«That's the idea,» says Bill Lipton, who was promoted to Cantor's spot as director of WFP New York.

But «NIGMS Director Jon Lorsch, in Bethesda, Maryland, says only a «small minority» [of MIRA awardees] have complained, and that NIGMS was «very clear» that a MIRA would entail less money overall in exchange for an extra year of stable funding and freedom to pursue new ideas not tied to a specific project.

In 2007, he received a National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award to develop and test the idea.

The new shop «is going to help the people who work here move ideas from the laboratory bench to the patient faster and better,» says John Gallin, director of the Clinical Center.

«It's still a relatively new idea that phones are windows into your behavior,» says computer scientist Alex Pentland, director of the Human Dynamics Laboratory at MIT.

It's an idea that met a wall of opposition when Kelly Brownell, cofounder and director of Yale University's Rudd Centerfor Food Policy and Obesity, suggested it in an op - ed in The New York Times.

«It was uplifting to hear all those ideas, but there was not adequate time [after] to sift through it all,» says Stewart Prager, director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in New Jersey, who was not on the report panel or FESAC.

Richard Lipton, director of the Montefiore Headache Center in New York City, says triptans were developed in response to the older idea that the dilation of blood vessels is the primary cause of migraine; triptans were supposed to inhibit it.

What's new in the high school unit is the addition of ideas about the relationship between matter changes and energy changes,» said AAAS's Jo Ellen Roseman, Project 2061 director.

«Our findings are consistent with the idea that an imbalance of protein synthesis and actin dynamics contribute to physiological problems in FXS mice,» explains New York University Professor Eric Klann, director NYU's Center for Neural Science and the study's senior author.

The program has three major components: the Director's R&D Fund, which develops new capabilities in support of the Laboratory's research initiatives, the Seed Money Fund, which is open to all innovative ideas that have the potential for enhancing the Laboratory's core scientific and technical disciplines, and the Named Fellowships, open to outstanding doctorate - level candidate scientists and engineers to achieve experience in areas of science and technology of national importance.

«The program continues to support high - caliber investigators whose ideas stretch the boundaries of our scientific knowledge,» said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. «We welcome the newest cohort of outstanding scientists to the program and look forward to their valuable contributions.»

«The purpose of the Kavli BRAIN Coffee Hour Series is to get people from diverse disciplines talking to each other, to energize new ideas specifically related to the BRAIN initiative,» said Dr. Eric Chudler, CSNE executive and education director.

Of course, the idea that a plant - based, minimal - meat meal plan is good for the mind is not new, says Keith Fargo, PhD, director of scientific programs and outreach at the Alzheimer's AssociatioOf course, the idea that a plant - based, minimal - meat meal plan is good for the mind is not new, says Keith Fargo, PhD, director of scientific programs and outreach at the Alzheimer's Associatioof scientific programs and outreach at the Alzheimer's Association.

«The idea of having a menstrual period every month is an outdated mind - set,» says Adam R. Jacobs, MD, medical director of the division of family planning at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City.

The future of blockbuster films such as these lie with directors like Coogler (and Patty Jenkins, and Taika Waititi), ones who are bringing much - needed new life and ideas to the superhero genre.

This film isn't the work of a director who has an idea for a documentary and decides to gather new footage or mine soundbites to make what they want.

Director Anna Rose Holmer had a new idea for a coming - of - age story: tell it with movement and dance.

The idea behind the new credit was to put one person, other than the director, in charge of the visual elements of the film, so as to unify the design and end all the usual turf battles that a production had about the visuals.

by Walter Chaw Taking up right where the first film leaves off (and a familiarity with Clive Barker's Hellraiser is probably necessary for its enjoyment), Hellbound: Hellraiser II, which still lists Barker as an executive producer, boasts of a new director (Tony Randel) and a new screenwriter (Peter Atkins, working from an idea by Barker).

At the film's recent press day, McCarthy, Falcone, Sarandon, Gary Cole, Mark Duplass, Nat Faxon, Sarah Baker and Kathy Bates talked about how the project first emerged, what sparked the idea for the story, how growing up in Illinois informed McCarthy and Falcone's comedy, what the stellar cast brought to the movie, their characters and how improv colored them, working with a first - time director, Sarandon's new look, the convincing couple dynamic between Bates and Sandra Oh's characters, Sarandon's selfie with Geena Davis that went viral, and the possibility of a «Thelma & Louise» sequel.

I've been an Abel Ferrara junkie ever since a friend showed me Ms. 45 at NYU, so the idea of contributing to the Ferrara Blog - a-Thon felt like a duty to one of our greatest unsung directors, but as I told Girish and Aaron Hillis before a press screening of Quinceañera at this year's New Directors / New Films series, «I don't do cliquedirectors, but as I told Girish and Aaron Hillis before a press screening of Quinceañera at this year's New Directors / New Films series, «I don't do cliqueDirectors / New Films series, «I don't do cliques.»

is a deliriously biblical portrait of the artist as a godlike monster (for the record, I liked it), this new film by Paul Thomas Anderson offers a more graceful and far more complicated version of the same idea... Quiet, moody, and deeply perverse (I'll say no more), this fascinating movie reminds us that Anderson is the kind of alchemist - director who can turn somebody ordering breakfast into a classic scene.»

On the day of the event, Chang Chen even revealed that director Wong Kar - wai would often have inspirations out of the blue, as he kept adding in these new ideas to the film.

Part of the appeal of the Kingsman movies is the way director Matthew Vaughn and his co-screenwriter Jane Goldman keep throwing new ideas at the audience.

Last week, Netflix announced the directors and stars who will make us all feel bad for how much we love our phones in the third season of Charlie Booker's sci - fi / horror anthology series Black Mirror, giving us an idea of what that batch of new episodes will look like.

New «Making Toy Story 2» Meet Director John Lasseter, along with other members of the Pixar team, and discover how they drew inspiration from ideas they developed for the original Toy Story in order to bring the world of Buzz and Woody back to life.