Sentences with phrase «of university leaders»
He served as executive director of the Center for Respect of Life and Environment (CRLE) in Washington, DC, from 1989 to 2007 and was director of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF) from 1997 to 2007.
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Researchers from the National University of Singapore and Arizona State University looked specifically at humility in leaders and found that humble CEOs foster more effective, profitable teams.
Yale University's Chief Executive Leadership Institute surveyed 87 corporate leaders last week on aspects of the economy and politics, from the U.S. tax bill to recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Meanwhile there's a big demand for products that can analyze large sets of data, with more than half of all business leaders saying data analysis is critical to their success, according to a recent report from Boston University.
«In our celebrity focused culture, a young star like Emma Watson has the power to amplify important social messages,» says Katie Hood, a senior fellow at Duke University who teaches a «Women as Leaders» course and who recently became executive director of the anti-domestic violence One Love Foundation.
To that end, we have teamed up with the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flagler Business School — a recognized leader in online business education — to create an innovative executive certificate program called: Change the World: Leading with Purpose.
THESIS: Dominant leaders need strong boards Jianyun Tang Assistant professor Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty of Business Administration, Saint John's, Nfld.
It's something of a West Michigan trademark — in Grand Rapids, the names of philanthropic business leaders are imprinted on the civic landscape through the buildings they commissioned, among them the Fred M. Keller Engineering Laboratories at Grand Valley State University.
A recent study from the University of Aveiro in Portugal reveals that humble leaders actually make their teams more creative.
And that's exactly what a growing number of leaders and leading organizations from Airbnb and Pixar, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been doing: reducing their strategies to one sheet of paper.
Indian - Americans have become political leaders (including two governors), university professors, and the CEOs of household - name companies like PepsiCo and Microsoft.
The original paper contains a wealth of links to studies conducted by businesses, universities, industry associations and the military that supported early - 20th - century leaders as they embraced the short week.
It is also, naturally, yet another opportunity for university leaders to learn something about leadership themselves; unfortunately, that lesson must take the form of learning - by - painfully - doing.
The establishment of trust between South Korean President Moon Jae - in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be the most important result from today's summit, says Jasper Kim of Ewha Womans University.
One 2011 study out of Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Western Ontario found that disagreeable leaders had higher salaries and were considered more formidable managers than agreeable ones were.
So she enrolled in the Global Supply Chain Leaders Program, a dual - degree executive MBA program at the Kenan - Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
In the midst of a week where Rob Ford, the Mayor of Toronto, admitted driving while drunk, was censured by his colleagues, and defended himself against accusations of sexual misconduct in the crudest possible terms, the author and university professor Richard Florida noted «Toronto's business leaders lie silent,» as the chaos continued.
Under Silagadze's leadership and vision, Top Hat has become the market leader in student engagement software, and is used by millions of students at three - quarters of the top 1,000 colleges and universities in North America.
Barnes & Noble University offers a range of free and low - cost online classes on everything from using Microsoft Word to becoming an effective leader.
Leader Perioperative Immune Health Initiative, Department of Anesthesia Stanford University School of Medicine
And the alt - right leader told the Miami Herald he plans to combat the campaign by having «volunteers» hand out tickets, instead of having the university distribute them, as was originally planned.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in Alachua County on Tuesday three days before a scheduled speech by white nationalist leader Richard Spencer at the University of Florida, which is located in the county's capital of Gainesville.
As a former lawyer, business leader and now president of Bentley University for the past seven years, I can say that based on my personal experience, this stereotype couldn't be further from the truth.
FORTUNE — Hundreds of students, business leaders, and investors crammed into the Shell Auditorium at Rice University on Thursday evening to watch the Rice Business Plan Competition elevator pitch contest, arguably the most dramatic event at the university's three - day business plan extUniversity on Thursday evening to watch the Rice Business Plan Competition elevator pitch contest, arguably the most dramatic event at the university's three - day business plan extuniversity's three - day business plan extravaganza.
Consider inviting local lawmakers, university sociology or economics professors, or business leaders for a forum discussion on paving a way forward in the midst of discrimination in the workplace.
Mariah Jones, a 29 - year - old resident of the District who studies political science at George Washington University, said she thought Obama should have waited until after the final votes were cast in the primary contests to endorse — though she thought endorsements from top Democratic leaders were predictable.
While teaching organizational behavior at Cornell University for more than 35 years, I've had the privilege of training numerous young people who have now moved on to be leaders in the private and public sector.
In his 2010 book Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders, Scott Shane, professor of entrepreneurial studies at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, suggests that genes don't just influence whether a person will start a business; they may even determine how much money a person will earn.
The University of Washington is also a global magnet for talent, and Silicon Valley investors and tech leaders like Google, Facebook, Alibaba and Baidu rely on Seattle's deep well of technical talent.
The University of North Carolina Kenan - Flagler Business School and Fortune are partnering to offer new executive development certificates and courses for leaders to develop their business expertise using the flexibility of virtual interactive learning.
As Robert Blecker, an economist at American University, notes, «Contrary to the promises of the leaders who promoted it, NAFTA did not make Mexico converge to the United States in per capita income, nor did it solve Mexico's employment problems or stem the flow of migration.»
IT Industry Leader Brett Coryell joined Northern Illinois University on Monday as their first ever Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Information Technology.
Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.
The University of Missouri, St. Louis, is a leader in promoting entrepreneurship whose mentor program will support these entrepreneurs as they build their businesses around St. Louis.
His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.
«The fetishizing of austerity by European leaders, clamping down on growth so severely, may create political backlash that will not be manageable,» said Kathleen R. McNamara, director of the Mortara Center for International Studies at Georgetown University.
Derrick Kiker, Leader, McKinsey Design (Asia Pacific); Partner, McKinsey & Company Jeanne Liedtka, UTC Professor of Business, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia Interviewer: Alan Murray, Meredith Corporation
In 1994, he received the Canadian Business Leader Award from the Faculty of Business at the University of Alberta and subsequently, an honorary Doctorate of Laws.
A graduate of the University of Kentucky, Gregory began his career as an award - winning journalist for the Lexington Herald - Leader.
For example, our Institute for Sustainable Investing helps develop the next generation of long - term - oriented business leaders, in partnership with INSEAD and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, challenging teams of graduate students from around the world to demonstrate how investing can go hand - in - hand with positive social impact.
Major donations have included $ 2.7 million to help finance Burnaby General Hospital's MRI unit and $ 22 million to create Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business, a launching pad for tomorrow's industry leaders.
The expansive network of supporters, sponsors and universities helps diverse individuals attain their business PhD and be in a position to mentor the next generation of leaders.
2013 May Wallace McCain Institute / University of New Brunswick - Entrepreneurial Leaders Program (ELP)
The 2015 Rix Award for Engaged Community Citizenship will be presented to Carole Taylor, a community leader who is well - known for her years of service in municipal and provincial politics (including her role as B.C.'s Minister of Finance), her 20 - year career as a journalist with CTV and CBC, and, most recently, her role as Chancellor of Simon Fraser University until June 2014.
As a sponsor of the Great Canadian Sales Competition (GCSC), Canada's biggest student competition, your company and sales leaders will engage with more than 2,200 university and college students all looking to launch their careers.
Baroness Sharon Bowles, Member, House of Lords; Nonexecutive Director, London Stock Exchange Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, Partner, Dechert LLP; Leader, Inspiring Girls Campaign Baroness Jennifer Jones, Member, House of Lords Moderator: Ngaire Woods, Founding Dean, Blavatnik School of Government; Professor of Global Economic Governance, University of Oxford
Schwarzman Scholars is a highly selective, one - year master's program at Tsinghua University in Beijing that is designed to prepare the next generation of global leaders for the challenges of the future.
A committed leader with an interest in both business and education, Cardenas is a board member of several organizations including Discover The Palm Beaches, the Florida Atlantic University College of Education and the bi-partisan Council of Community Leaders, which seeks to shape public policy.
The full day program showcased women leaders in the fields of robotics, space exploration, energy and sustainability from the University of California and Lockheed Martin.
Development and validation of synthetic bone and soft tissue analogues for surgical training Project Leader: Carolyn Anglin, University of Calgary Department of Civil Engineering Co-researcher: Chad Saunders $ 125,000