Sentences with phrase «in schools and in the lives of»

At all levels, undergraduate to doctoral, we prepare educators to make a difference in schools and in the lives of students.

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To help determine whether it will result in a real improvement in the lives of garment workers or in business results, Levi's has enlisted Harvard's School of Public Health to rigorously measure and study the initiative.

People use online dating because they feel like they're not meeting enough of the right kind of people in their daily life, and if they were, then they wouldn't use an online dating site, that's why you don't use it when you're in college or a lot of people don't use it when they're in grad school because you meet so many great people all the time, I wouldn't join an online dating site, but it's when you don't have those opportunities to have those interactions that people feel the need and I think things like Hinge, and even Tinder to some extent, allow you to meet just a lot of people so that you don't have to go through that process, which is a lot more effort, to do an online dating site.

The decision also weighs in the favor of entrepreneurs and investors who live outside places like Silicon Valley, where old - school networking and personal connections are how financing deals typically happen.

He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life in London, an empathy adviser to organizations like Oxfam and the United Nations, and a former teacher of sociology and politics at Cambridge University.

The study sampled both parents of high school students intending to go to college, as well as the students themselves, to determine overall outlook on college expenses, money - saving habits, and life after college in today's workforce.

Although poaching does happen, Alan Middleton, professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business at York University and former board chair of ABC Life Literacy Canada, says employees feel a greater commitment to workplaces that have invested in them.

Kurzweil has appeared in Inc. magazine numerous times (he let us scan his brain and told us how to predict the future) and is the leading advocate of a school of thought called the singularity, which says, essentially, that humans will eventually turn into robots and live forever.

In their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisionIn their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisionin Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisions.

On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

«Right now, there is absolutely no question that there is an association between having a history of repetitive hits to the head and later - life neurodegenerative disease, and in particular chronic traumatic encephalopathy,» says Dr. Robert Stern, professor of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and director of clinical research at BU's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center.

Both of my parents are American, but we lived in France, Democratic Republic of Congo and then Kenya until I graduated high school.

In his new book Leading the Life You Want, Wharton School professor Stew Friedman identifies four key spheres of life: family, work, friends and community and health (mental and spirituLife You Want, Wharton School professor Stew Friedman identifies four key spheres of life: family, work, friends and community and health (mental and spiritulife: family, work, friends and community and health (mental and spiritual).

Yousafzai has been advocating for Pakistani women and children since the age of 11, when she documented in a BBC blog life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule during a time when girls in the region were prohibited from going to school.

For older children, letting them feel in charge of creating and choosing potential solutions is an important skill to develop as they learn to navigate life, lessons and school.

I got to sample a lot of food from the places that we lived or visited and during my middle school and high school years in Nairobi, Kenya, where I went to an international school.

«I realized that I wasn't going to be able to have the kind of life people have in the States — a good house, a nice car, maybe a summer house — if I finished school and went to work for a company,» Fuks says.

Each of these suggestions will not only create better leaders, but can help children perform better in school and develop better personal relationships throughout life.

Schulich, who was born in Montreal and lives in Toronto, calls the collection of schools bearing his name a «composite university.»

«Keep in mind that not every tipped employee is living the lifestyle of a New York City server,» says Miranda Kitterlin, an assistant professor at Florida International University's school of hospitality and tourism management, in Miami.

The days of living in the transactional old school sales economy with only the right hook and message are gone.

Typically, incoming presidents have allowed a grace period for politically appointed ambassadors to leave the country so that they have time to transition their children out of schools and prepare for life back in the US.

Students shouldn't borrow more in loans than they'll make in their first year of employment, said Jeff Selingo, author of «There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow.»

A penchant for holding onto everything that might come in handy in the future, plus a generally nomadic existence (home to the midwest for the summers, back to New York for school semesters), meant that I lived in a semi-permanent state of bare - boned survival and clutter.

He survived the Rwandan genocide, dropped out of school, and lived out of a suitcase selling computers in Uganda at age 15.

As she and her husband struggle to find the best school for their daughter, «I worry about the experiences she'll have early in her life on the other side of town where the parks are picturesque and pristine and none of the other kids have beads and braids like her, and how that might impact her culturally.»

Hillenmeyer went to Vanderbilt University and Northwestern's Kellogg School of Business and lives in the northern suburbs of Chicago.

But if you are going to school to become an «entrepreneur» because you live, breathe and dream of starting your own business, it might not be the best option in today's world.

Exactly how health and wellness impact a company's profits, particularly in Canada, may soon be better understood: the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business School has recently launched a five - year study of the subject, working in collaboration with the Sun Life Wellness Institute.

David Hogg, a survivor of that school shooting and a «March for Our Lives» organizer, responded to Santorum's remarks in a broadcast on CNN.

The serial entrepreneur and investor, who serves on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, spent several years as a kid living in Tokyo and fueled a lifelong zest for travel, which his international consulting practice provides plenty of today.

Not only does the ability to capture and recall knowledge make it more likely that a child will excel at school, but having rich, vivid memories of everyday experiences also help children make sense of the world and their place in it, enriching their experiences and building essential life skills.

Despite the grueling hours expected of an investment banker, Columbia Business School's Karl Blunden, 30, was known for his involvement in campus life, winning the school's distinguished scholarship and outstanding service aSchool's Karl Blunden, 30, was known for his involvement in campus life, winning the school's distinguished scholarship and outstanding service aschool's distinguished scholarship and outstanding service awards.

Summary: «Peter Parker tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens with his superhero alter - ego Spider - Man, and must confront a new menace prowling the skies of New York City.»

«If we were smart, not only would we be focusing on encouraging the best technologists in school to go down this path — with programs designed and incentivized — we would be fighting to become the place where the brainpower of the world wants to come to live.

You Have to Watch Out for Yourself It's one of the first things they tell you in business school and you hear it for the rest of your work life: Your role in management is to enhance shareholder value.

The Facebook COO and author of «Lean In» told Harvard Business School's class of 2012 in her Class Day speech that she almost missed her big break in lifIn» told Harvard Business School's class of 2012 in her Class Day speech that she almost missed her big break in lifin her Class Day speech that she almost missed her big break in lifin life.

As Vancouver Sun investigative reporter David Baines revealed in a series of articles, Eker has invited the likes of Milowe Brost, who is currently in prison awaiting trial over an alleged $ 400 - million Ponzi scheme in Alberta, convicted white - collar criminal Nick Thill, Michael Ruge, who was banned for life from dealing in securities by the BCSC, and Nick Lathigee, head of the failed Freedom Investment Club, to present at his «Millionaire School» events and received commissions for steering investors in their direction.

Earlier this month a group of elementary school students traveled to the hub of groundbreaking ideas — «The Garage» at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. — and teamed up to bring the kids» ideas to life.

One of the biggest challenges in the digital health space is proving that groundbreaking new technologies actually live up to the accuracy standards of tested, tried, and true «old school» methods.

Cayton's approach — he has lived in Nepal and melds Eastern and Western schools of thought — also rubbed her the wrong way.

The idea might sound crazily impractical (and for founders with kids in school or other common life constraints, without a whole lot of planning and prep it probably is), but Rustrum points out the benefits aren't just a tan and a lengthy break from your snow shovel.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

«Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community,» the NRA said in a statement.

For example, I live in the Phoenix area, home of Arizona State University and the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Learning the value of calculated risks — like the one we took leaving our home in Tehran; of hard work — like how I battled back after failing out of school; and that people should embrace those who are different from them — the opposite of how the playground bullies treated me; are life lessons that have brought me to where I am today.

Researchers at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government reported in 2013 that in regions with Living Goods distributors, the price of malaria medicine in local shops dropped by nearly 20 percent and incidence of counterfeit drugs fell by half.

Digital Playbook for Entrepreneurs: Creating a Tech Startup USC Marshall School of Business professor Dr. Anthony Borquez will be joined by a special guest lecturer to discuss how technology is changing the world we live in and how entrepreneurs need to adapt to remain successful in an ever changing environment

According to the Fast Company article, «Study Finds Work - Life Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die sooLife Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die sooLife and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die soolife were 15.4 % more likely to die sooner.

I ate up studies (from Facebook and others) that argued the site actually encouraged a certain kind of information diversity, because your Facebook friends are likely drawn from a wider group of people (the guy you went to middle school with, your mom's neighbor, that rando you met that weekend at the beach) than the people you discuss news with in real life.