Sentences with phrase «in firm culture»

Are there conversations you could have with others in your firm that might produce some changes in your firm culture (others might be feeling the same way you do or are actually looking to improve the firm culture)?

Beyond the regulatory issues, the divide between lawyers and non-lawyers is also deeply rooted in firm culture, though to be fair, there are examples of law firms out there slowly coming around to the idea that multi-disciplinary thinking might not be a bad idea.

These changes in firm culture (s) will cause changes in the personal and financial relationships, i.e., from «fraternal values» to «business values.»

At the same time it is deeply embedded in our firm culture that we want to contribute to causes, which we feel are important, such as protection of the environment, world peace and children in need.

Execute these practices in a firm culture where team play and individual responsibility reign and you will have cash, not work - in - progress and receivables.

Execute these practices in a firm culture where team play and individual responsibility reign and you will have cash, not WIP and receivables.

Document Management Systems are much more complex and involve a significant change in firm culture.

Sandro Contenta of the Toronto Star has an extensive article on Heenan this weekend, where he focuses instead on the shift in firm culture,

As skilled professionals, lawyers are motivated by peer recognition, peer evaluation and the opportunity to work in a firm culture with clearly articulated priorities and values.

We offer a place to build a career performing sophisticated legal work for valued clients in a firm culture that encourages diversity and community service.

She's careful to note, however, that the wide variation in firm cultures plays a strong part in whether overbilling takes place at a particular partnership.

Not exact matches

Matt McIlwain, the managing director at Seattle - based investment firm Madrona Ventures, further suggests the city's overall attitude is in line with how the company operates: «It has a very can - do, growth - oriented attitude, which aligns with the Amazon culture,» he says.

But their reputation is still in need of repair, and as a firm known for consulting, its future reputation will be paramount to the company's success, Dirker said, and a change in corporate culture will be just as vital as regulatory compliance.

Though it has no experience in the entertainment business, the firm said it «remains committed to providing premier content with a diverse workforce in a safe environment founded on a culture of respect and creativity.»

Get comfortable with the firms» culture and most importantly, the time they will dedicate to service your business in a prompt manner.

The changes, and the culture of regular reinvention that enabled them, earned platinum status in Deloitte's Canada's Best - Managed Companies program, a recognition given to firms with seven or more years on the list.

* The RBL Group and firms like it provide advice on human resources, leadership, and organization and so might be more helpful in scaling your company culture as you grow.

Even the best recruiting firm in the world can't win you great hires if you have a poor company culture.

Washkewicz says his firm grip on Parker's business and culture have been good for the company — too many times, he says he has seen «outside hires come in and ruin a company or a product line.»

The small details of running a business, managing workplace culture and making large investment decisions were not in his purview, according to those who worked at the firm.

It leads to high turnover, decreased innovation — with the bully focused on bullying and the one being bullied afraid to be vocal in the organization — and a harder time hiring highly - qualified professionals, as word gets out about your firm's toxic culture.

Damian Collins, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee, said U.K. lawmakers «may well» approach other tech firms in their inquiry.

Despite the shift, Stumpf said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that there «was no incentive to do bad things» at Wells and laid the blame on the employees rather than the culture of the firm.

The head of human resources at the billionaire Steve Cohen's hedge fund is leaving four years after he was brought in to help repair the firm's culture in the wake of an insider - trading scandal.

These firms display all the hallmarks you might expect of high - performing businesses in 2017: smart strategies, strong processes, great corporate cultures, solvency.

Further, the company is without a chief financial officer, and has yet to fully implement the recommendations of an internal workplace culture investigation, the venture capital firm said in the letter, released on Twitter.

The theory, popularized by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen in his 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma, warns that successful companies are inherently vulnerable to being «disrupted» by new entrants, and the only way to avoid such a fate is to replicate the risk - taking, pizza - devouring culture of upstart firms.

The firm's hard - driving, solution - oriented sales culture has produced a new set of clients in a space that may seem to have little in common with energy giants and others in infrastructure.

Employees at Bain & Company, a global management consulting firm headquartered in Boston, rave about its «incredible culture» and its «incredible people [who display] a mix of intelligence but also humility that you don't find at other top consulting firms.»

This is partly down to the corporate cultures created by hot firms such as Google and Facebook, but a lot of it comes down to profits: according to McKinsey, organizations whose employees are connected see a 20 - 25 % increase in productivity - an incredible advantage in today's competitive atmosphere.

Established in 1995, the mission of the Partnership Committee is to steward the firm's culture as defined by our Business Principles and standards, preserve the spirit of partnership, promote and enhance the benefits of partnership, and advance the long - term success of Goldman Sachs through the cultivation of its current and future leaders.

The firm that helped with the IPO was Stratton Oakmont, whose raucous culture and conduct was immortalized in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street.

The firm culture was steeped in the idea that once a client was rich, the objective was to keep the client rich first and foremost; return was secondary.

Being significantly invested in our stock over time, as part of an individual's compensation, advances our partnership culture of stewardship for the firm

Team Shasta believes that it's important to «bring people up in the culture of the firm and move people along,» said Rob Coneybeer, co-founder and managing director at Shasta Ventures.

Limited partners play a critical role in shaping culture at firms by way of their capital allocation processes and influence.

Benjamin Franklin's ideas of frugality and prudence when it came to saving and investing inspired the name of our firm back in 1947, and his valuable wisdom has continued to shape other aspects of the culture here at Franklin Templeton Investments, including our commitment to Corporate Citizenship.

These successful entrepreneurs - turned - venture - capitalists often prefer to establish their own firms in partnership with other like minded partners and decline to join established firms where they would have to adapt to a culture and a partnership which they played no role in creating.

Around the time that the bank agreed in 2010 to pay $ 550 million to settle charges it improperly sold a product linked to subprime mortgages, chairman and Chief Executive Blankfein launched a global review to strengthen the firm's practices and culture.

''... if [a Wall Street firm's] senior management and board would like to study a culture that does put clients first, they should hop in a limo and go 110 miles southwest to Valley Forge, Pa. — the home of The Vanguard Group.»

This dilution is an issue in publicly traded stock market firms, but it has been historically addressed by keeping the size of the ESOP modest compared to the rest of shareholders (most ESOPs in stock market companies are under 20 %) and by establishing a corporate culture where employee stock ownership is likely to increase the performance of the firm so as to offset the modest dilution of profits per share of non-employee shareholders.

My employer (LinkedIn) has a very positive West Coast culture in line with other Silicon Valley firms.

This is consistent with national survey reports from the General Social Survey where employee owners report that they have greater job security and lower likelihoods of being laid off in the previous year compared to other employees.29 When faced with recessionary pressures, employee ownership firms may retain workers to sustain a workplace culture based on cooperation, information - sharing, and commitment to long - term performance.

«There's reason to trust the firm, which earns an A grade for its culture in Morningstar's Stewardship methodology.»

For instance, Chinese firms have to be aware of roles of trade unions and labour laws that differ from those in China; be respectful to the diversity and equality that are the reality of Canadian culture and society; and be environment friendly that reflects Canadians value.

Under its firm - and developer - based approach, the CDRH could «pre-certify» eligible digital health developers who «demonstrate a culture of quality and organizational excellence based on objective criteria, for example, that they can and do excel in software design, development, and validation (testing).

«We are disappointed to see that Uber has selected a team of insiders to investigate its destructive culture and make recommendations for change,» they wrote in an Medium post published on Thursday, referring to the fact that Holder's firm has close ties to Uber and he previously advocated against fingerprint - based background checks for Uber drivers.

Generally speaking, the culture at boutiques works more in favour of clients than the big firms, but there are some terrific funds at the big firms — ultimately you need to study each fund in turn and decide on their individual merits.

Uber hired Albarran's law firm to conduct an investigation into its culture in the aftermath of former engineer Susan Fowler's essay on her experience with sexism and sexual harassment at the company.

A recent gender - discrimination trial — in which Ellen Pao, a former junior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, sued the firm — exposed elements of a male - dominated culture in which women are sorely underrepresented.