Sentences with phrase «number of firms who»

Nevertheless, I know of a number of firms who are totally opposed to cloud - based Practice Management Systems because the product developer has much greater control over the customers» use of the program on a daily basis.

Bermans represents a growing number of firms who want to embrace technology, not simply to replace an existing system but, to find new ways of working and servicing clients»

What I find interesting is the hours being put in by trainees at a number of firms who boast about their «9 — 5 culture» and pay very little accordingly e.g. Shoosmiths.

«There's still a surprising number of firms who really aren't quite sure what their strategy should be, and we find that's a very difficult sale proposition for people in the lateral market.»

Sometimes, the selection process was clearly competitive with a detailed evaluation of a number of firms who submitted proposals.

Not exact matches

Former Grant Thornton partner Matthew Donnelly and former Perth Airport executive Fiona Lander have brought to seven the number of external recruits to join Deloitte's Perth partnership in the past five months, offsetting moves by other partners such as Jenn Morris, who has retired from the firm.

«The orientation should begin at the first click of the mouse when someone first goes on the company's website, so by the time the person comes in for the interview, they already know quite a lot about the organization,» says Richard Jordan, a business coach who has been responsible for reshaping the recruiting and orientation process at a number of technology firms.

It's difficult to find firm numbers -; many of the estimates are offered by those who have a stake in the industry.

«You can't simply just set up shop at the border and say, «Here's something I want to do,» says Castelli, an experienced business executive who speaks four different languages and has spent 12 years doing international business development for a number of firms, including Alcan.

Social analytics firm SocialFlow said recently that the «reach» of a particular post on Facebook — meaning the total number of users who see it — has fallen for some publishers by as much as 52 % from January through July.

«We learned that there's a gap on prototyping mass productions,» says founder Lucas Wang, who is also the CEO and co-founder of Taiwan - based venture capital firm, TMI, which works with a number of international original design manufacturers.

«When the same people are controlling pay at a number of companies, that can cause a direct ratcheting up of pay,» says Eleanor Bloxham, who heads The Value Alliance and Corporate Governance Alliance, a board education and advisory firm, and is a regular contributor to Fortune.com.

Losi, executive vice president at the accountant firm Piascik, works with a number of business leaders who have built sizeable organizations, and have the opportunity to run their company through telecommuting.

But some argue there's another, less - well - known threat, in the form of private equity firms who have bought a number of major retail chains in recent years.

«We're seeing a growing number of instances where contractor personnel are being bribed to steal» data from their clients, warns Jay Heiser, a research vice president with Gartner, the IT research and consulting firm, who recently wrote a report on data security.

Even fans of unbridled capitalism have begun to question whether the post-2008 plague of stubbornly low economic growth may have something to do with the way GDP accounts, or fails to account, for a growing number of Internet firms like Facebook and Google who offer their services largely for free.

She joins a number of other top AI researchers coming out of University of Toronto who have gone on to secure positions of importance at major tech firms; U of T AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who heads Google Brain's Canadian operations, is another.

It has raised more than $ 4 billion in outside equity and debt financing; its investors include a Who's Who of Silicon Valley venture - capital firms (Greylock, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz) and a number of high - profile individuals, such as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Below are charts that rank the top 100 firms according to the number of female partners and the percentage of partners who are women.

Insiders point to issuers who have been quoted in the press making comments along the lines of, «The proxy advisory firm is my number one shareholder because they control 50 per cent of my vote.»

And despite Trump's claim that plenty of lawyers and «top law firms» want to work for him, a growing number have passed on a chance to represent a client who contradicts them in public, changes his story repeatedly, expects them to lie and has a history of stiffing his employees.

Former McKinsey employees, for instance, consistently approach strategy from a unique consulting perspective; they take pride in the number of the firm's alumni who become CEOs of large companies.

These drops in the number of advisors, the average number per firm and the advisors remaining who actually help clients plan for retirement, ultimately leaves consumers with less access to advice.

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.

Perhaps the shattering was inevitable, but those who follow these developments closely argue persuasively that his firm intervention at a number of points might have made a big difference.

(Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks, Des Moines, IA, 1/3/08) in fact A list of Obama's own top fundraisers features a number of people involved in the business of influencing government, including the head of a lobbying and public relations firm, the corporate executive who oversees Comcast's lobbying efforts and the chairwoman of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's political action committee, among others.»

Valencia battled back after the break and had a number of chances to pull a goal back but Madrid's defence, with Iker Casillas selected ahead of Antonio Adan in goal, held firm to complete a great night for Jose Mourinho's men, who moved back to within 15 points of leaders Barcelona.

A number of vendors and polling firms also offer what seem to be quite sophisticated microtargeting - based voter / donor outreach, but I've also heard experienced direct mail database people say that the by far the best predictor of a person's propensity to give money to a campaigh is his or her past history of donating — people who've donated before are more likely to donate again.

SUNY Poly spokesman David Doyle said the school had no direct relationship with Howe, but that he is «one of a number of individuals at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna's law firm who are assigned to assist SUNY Poly in legal, business, and strategy matters.»

But a deal with the Senate, where a number of lawmakers are lawyers who work for law firms that represent clients with interests before state, has been more difficult to reach for Cuomo.

But it has spooked a number of firms, especially those who rely heavily on exports.

«He is a senior member of the bar who has conducted himself appropriately, he has run a law firm which has quite a number of practitioners, he is a family man with aged parents and children.

One is Todd Howe, a Washington - based lobbyist, who until very recently was employed by the lobbying wing of the Whiteman Osterman & Hanna law firm, and whose work touched a number of construction projects under federal scrutiny from the Buffalo Billion, to Syracuse to downstate.

Zipline was one of the many companies with cutting - edge technology who met and held discussions with the Vice President and the founders and leaders of a number of Ghanaian ICT firms a few weeks ago during Dr Bawumia's working visit to Silicon Valley, California, USA.

Those preliminary numbers showed Democrat Patrick Murphy, who is vice president of an environmental cleanup firm, with an edge of about 2,400 votes among 331,000 ballots cast.

Commonly available patent law services, she says, fell into two categories: «patent attorney firms who offer a full service [and] completely manage the patent application from start to finish» and «a number of unqualified individuals describing themselves as patent consultants,» Hillis says.

«The Chinese government and Chinese firms are using a number of different strategies to attract and develop talent in clean energy,» said Kelly Sims Gallagher, an associate professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School who follows China's energy and climate policy.

At Xcel Energy, the utility firm with the highest total wind capacity in the United States, the number of forecasting errors has dropped since 2009, saving customers some US$ 60 million and reducing annual CO2 emissions from fossil - reserve power generation by more than a quarter of a million tonnes per year, says Drake Bartlett, a renewable - energy analyst with the firm who is based in Denver, Colorado.

A lawyer who made a fortune as an early investor in the telecommunications firm Nextel and other high - tech startups, Warner has long advocated increasing the number of H - 1B skilled temporary worker visas and «stapling a green card to every Ph.D.» as ways of encouraging innovation.

CHINA DAILY — Feb 25 — An iResearch report puts the number of people who used online dating services in China last year at a whopping 10 million, and to 29 million in 2008, said Hou Tao, an executive of the Shanghai - based research firm.

Misconduct, originally titled Beyond Deceit, opens «by - the - numbers», introducing us to Ben (Josh Duhamel) a dedicated lawyer who spends most of his days and nights working at a New Orleans law firm, determined to prove himself to the firm's big honcho Abrams (Al Pacino) and become a partner.

Zachary Quinto is the young brainiac who gets handed a flash - drive with the scary numbers on it, and whose calculations of what the firm has gotten itself into lead to a late - night emergency meeting of the board, and a last - ditch sell - off.

If you feel you are behind the curve with your preparations, then support is available from a number of specialist consulting firms like Moore Stephens have teams who can help advise and audit your preparation activity.

Students who have a firm mental number line are far more able to manipulate numbers and have a better sense of when they're moving in the right direction in solving math problems.

In fact, there have been a number of studies by researchers who had access to account data from brokerage firms, and some of these are discussed in The Quest for Alpha.

I've done a number of these setups, mostly for one big law firm here in town, and now their in - house IT department give my name out to employees who need someone to do the in - home integration.

So when the fund analyst comes along, whether for a buy - side firm, an institutional fund analyst, or retail fund analyst who does more than just a little number crunching, you realize that the fund analyst likely knows less about what you do than one of your junior analysts.

About 2 million dead people have their identities stolen every year, either because they've been deliberately targeted or because criminals filling out credit applications used made - up Social Security numbers that happen to match those of people who have died, according to a 2012 study by research firm ID Analytics.

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First, it was definitely interesting to see the number of firms and individuals who are active in the social finance space.