Sentences with phrase «of modern corporations»

A law firm with long experience in corporate matters can handle company matters and integrate their industry insights with deep legal understanding of business issues, regulatory issues and strategic needs of modern corporations.

It's gratifying to see that the salesman mentality that infests most of boardrooms of modern corporations is also evident at Random House.

«Investments in CSR continue to rise and they are becoming an integral part of modern corporations.

His salvation of Nissan from 1999 to 2005 remains «one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the history of the modern corporation,» says McKinsey.

The paper does acknowledge that the productivity of the modern corporation must be preserved, but this bald statement is never developed nor are its implications explored.

Not exact matches

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

Netscape created the modern Silicon Valley, where entrepreneurs and venture capitalists could meet at a table on Sand Hill Road and scribble out plans for a multimillion - dollar corporation on the back of a napkin.

The U.S. Supreme Court is clear and straightforward on this, she says: «Modern corporate law does not require for - profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.»

Modern corporations are typically characterized by a «separation of ownership and control» — that is, companies are generally run by professional managers, who manage on behalf of a very large number of mostly - anonymous shareholders.

Family firms (or family - controlled corporations) are a bit of an outlier in the modern business world.

Modern Corporation Marketing When Sloan took over as president of GM in 1923, Ford was the dominant player in the U.S. auto market.

As I argue in my forthcoming book, «The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America,» big corporations (in this case, Facebook) and political interests (in this case, right - wing parties and campaigns) but also ordinary Americans (social media users, and thus likely you and me) all had a hand in it.

How did Swiss Bank Corporation and Union Bank of Switzerland fare following their merger into modern - day UBS?

Adam Smith believed the joint - stock company — the precursor of the most successful form of economic organization in the planet's history, the modern corporation — couldn't possibly work.

Indeed, it misses almost everything essential about the actual workings of the modern industrial economy: the cooperation and trust of millions of total strangers required for efficient industry to replace self - sufficiency; the inevitable centrality of government in the complex human construction of a national or global economy; large corporations with their hierarchies, multiple and shifting purposes and fragile but definite unity.

If modern political flourishing requires us to believe in corporations to return liquidity to the credit markets, then religious flourishing means distributing our earthly investments to the poor, since, in extending charity to our neighbor, we participate in the act of charity that brought creation into being.

The parental state, extending the smothering accomplished by Johan's possessive parents, does to him what the parental corporation does to people we know, or the public schools to children, or the machinery of welfare to modern - day paupers.

Once again, there is a certain verisimilitude to the charge that as many as one thousand modern corporations were involved, a century and a half ago, in one or another aspect of bondage.

Also contributing to an increasingly inhospitable climate for mediating structures have been the special characteristics of the technocrats who predominate in modern governments, political parties, corporations, and mass media.

But concurrently in nuce and eventually massively, centrist, elitist, great - power competitors competitiors to people - power arose and flourished in various forms: robber - baron enterprises grew into modern corporations, a federal government that had discovered how to fight a civil war soon found new fields for the exercise of authority and control Concentrations of power in the political and economic spheres began to deprive the people of genuine political participation while keeping them in the illusion that they still possessed it.

The modern theory, which swept away every authority except that of the State, and has made the sovereign power irresistible by multiplying those who share it... condemns as a State within the State every inner group and community, class or corporation, administering its own affairs; and, by proclaiming the abolition of privileges, it emancipates the subjects of every such authority in order to transfer them exclusively to its own....

Modern Western science and technology has dominated the world, functioning as an essential part of the giant transnational corporations, modern war machines, government organizations and communications Modern Western science and technology has dominated the world, functioning as an essential part of the giant transnational corporations, modern war machines, government organizations and communications modern war machines, government organizations and communications media.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it... ObamaCare is the law of the land and corporations can never have the same right as citizens in any modern society.

Visit Salt Lake is a private, non-profit corporation responsible for the promotion of Salt Lake as a vibrant, modern destination brimming with unexpected dining, lodging, nightlife and entertainment options, a destination well - suited for convention and leisure travel alike.

The new addition to the collection of the Nigerian Railway Corporation comes deccked with modern facilities that make rail travel another exotic experience just as in any part of the world.

Modern Corporation — Business of the Year Louis H. Knotts — Business Person of the Year WNY Regional Economic Development Council — Visionary Award Kathleen A. Granchelli — Community Advocate of the Year Stephen F. Brady — Chairman's Award

Modern Corporation — Business of the Year Louis H. Knotts (Calspan)-- Business Person of the Year WNY Regional Economic Development Council — Visionary Award Kathleen A. Granchelli (YWCA of Niagara)-- Community Advocate of the Year Stephen F. Brady (National Grid)-- Chairman's Award

The traditional labourist message of using state power to seek to protect individuals from the power of capital, and to democratically steer the economy towards meeting the needs of people not of corporations was, and is, an inherently modern one; and a mission around which a progressive electoral coalition could, and can, be built.

«Gladiators, like modern professional athletes, could become little corporations,» says classics professor David Potter of Michigan State University.

Ms. Frances regularly speaks for corporations and conventions, and toured with Victoria's Secret as their «Flirt Fairy» on a national tour for the launch of Very Sexy Makeup, and her essays on modern romance, dating, and relationships, first appeared in Flaunt Magazine in her fun insider column, The Hollywood Dating Food Chain.

Under the Skin tells the story of an alien seductress, prowling the streets of modern - day Glasgow seeking out vulnerable, lonely young men with a view to harvesting them for an unseen, unaddressed alien corporation for whom she presumably works.

Scott also noted the most troubling factor of Avengers, and indeed, the whole modern blockbuster genre: The sense that Avengers is not so much a movie as it is an annual product launch for a major corporation, featuring characters that are all «dutiful corporate citizens, serving a conveniently vague set of principles.»

The University of Wisconsin - Madison professor got that number by adding up the components a school needs to have in place to implement Modern Red Schoolhouse, one of seven improvement designs being underwritten by New American Schools, a nonprofit corporation based in Arlington, Va..

Bauman Family Foundation; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Nathan Cummings Foundation; Department of Education, Office of Education Research and Improvement; Disney Learning Partnership; Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; Fetzer Institute; The Ford Foundation; The J. Paul Getty Trust; William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation; Kaplan eScore Learning; John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Mr. Thomas H. Lee; Lilly Endowment Inc.; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Markle Foundation; James S. McDonnell Foundation; Mr. Albert Merck; Museum of Modern Art; National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Education Partnership in collaboration with the Council of Chief State School Officers; National Science Foundation; New American Schools Development Corporation; The Pew Charitable Trusts; Jesse Phillips Foundation; DeWitt Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund; The Rockefeller Foundation; Rockefeller Brothers Fund; The Louise and Claude Rosenberg, Jr..

Teacher union leaders palavering about evil corporations and the rich is a modern - day version of The Emperor's New Clothes.

Executives of multi-national corporations, government officials, and even American and global small business owners who have no plans to do business in India will benefit from the innovative and revolutionary approach to maximizing resources that The Modern Mughal Mentality delivers.

«It shares the story of how the average modern - day man navigates his way through a massive corporation and comes out on the other end in one piece and with his sense of humor and determination still going strong.»

You sign a modern traditional contract as a beginning writer or low - level midlist writer, you must trust the publisher, a large corporation, to watch out for your interests for the life of your copyright.

Delinsky touches on a range of topical subjects: the pressure of modern - day life; damage claims against large corporations; animal refuges; trust funds; intimidation and stalking; infertility and life balance.

This documentary examines the role of the corporation in modern society.

Graham was the father of modern security analysis; a great investor in his own right, businessman (Chairman of the early Geico Corporation) and a Professor at Columbia University where Buffett was enrolled in graduate school majoring in Economics.

Dating back to the Dutch mutual stock corporations of the 16th century, the modern stock market exists as a way for entrepreneurs to finance businesses using money collected from investors.

Indeed, the trouble with modern travel writing is not simply the result of lazy writers, compromised editors and dastardly corporations: It is the cold demographic spawn of magazine consumers, who — in greater numbers than not — happily buy into the illusion of «on - time departures, courteous flunkies, sugar - white beaches, fascinating cities, charming locals, first - class hotels, golden days, purple nights, and «an exotic blend of the ancient and the modern.

Brett Tollman, CEO of The Travel Corporation, shares his delight in the diversity and vibrancy of the modern travel industry evidenced at the ITB, despite the pervasively negative political climate around the world.

Every month a smattering of classic Neo Geo games comes to modern consoles thanks to Hamster Corporation's Arcade Archives program, but some of the system's most unique and unusual games have yet to make the leap.

After Valve Corporation bought the title, subsequent versions of the game were powered by Half - Life's engine, while TF 2 utilizes the modern Source engine.

In 2040, World War III happened, country frontier changed, modern warfare advanced to a new era after Minister of Defense signed a contract with CS Corporation to perform project Dead Target: transform prisoners into super evil combat killers.

Armstrong has exhibited nationally and internationally for the past 30 years with her atrium sculpture in such corporate collections as United Therapeutic Corporation while her artist books are located in the Museum of Modern Art's book collection to the Victoria and Albert Museum book collection.

Brennan's work is included in collections, such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Jose Museum of Art, American Express, General Dynamics, Daimler AG, and Sony Corporation.

An iconic video installation by media artist Paik Nam - june (1932 - 2006) has been turned off due to safety concerns, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art said Thursday.The MMCA said it has unplugged the late visionary artist's video work titled «The More The Better» after a safety check by the Korea Electrical Safety Corporation warned of a fire risk.