Sentences with phrase «past decade of success»

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Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

I've had my eye on Israel for several years now, since working on my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, and learning that much of the country's economic success over the past few decades has been the result of a meshing between technology and the military.

Having been involved as a consultant to numerous startups over the past decade, I have seen some fail, some achieve a modicum of success, and some make it big.

The author of a book called The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence has studied the shop for decades and built a mini-industry of lectures and workshops that aim to help other businesses emulate its success (past clients have included TD Bank, BMO and the Cactus Club Cafe chain).

But on October 5, the New York Times released an extensive report alleging that Harvey Weinstein, co-founder of Miramax and one of the entertainment industry's most powerful executives, has spent the past three decades using his position to sexually harass women by dangling the promise of future success.

That anticipation is at the heart of the ecommerce success over the past decade.

In addition to recognizing the 2016 Top Corporations, WBENC will unveil the Women of Distinction and honor past leaders, WBE Stars, and other influential contributors who have enabled two decades of success.

With funding to the tune of $ 500,000 from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch's foundations from 2005 — 2011, and $ 1.4 million from Exxon Mobil this past decade, it shouldn't be a surprise that ALEC has had many successes in its 40 years of existence.

There are various studies that have tracked the probability of success of technology startups over the past decades, such as MIT's Edward Roberts.

Both parties have achieved limited success in pockets of the province at certain points over past twenty years, but support for both parties has dwindled over the past decade.

Having spent much of the past decade teaching lawyers around the world to manage their projects, I've come «round to a different — and I believe clearer — way to frame that definitional issue: What does success look like?

Arsene Wenger brought an end to a lengthy silverware drought when his side defeated Hull City to win the FA Cup in May but the lack of major success over the past decade has certainly led to a fair amount of the Arsenal faithful demanding the former AS Monaco manager step down or be axed.

I went to Northwest and despite a solid amount of success on the field they haven't sent many kids to D1 programs in the past decade.

No - one can tell if the successor of Arsene would bring immediate success or a prolonged period of development in order to do so, but let's face it we have hardly been setting the world alight this past decade or so bar an FA Cup Or two.

Over the past decade Arsenal have dramatically fallen in terms of success, there's no denying it.

Over the past decade, Porto have won 25 trophies, while racking up over 400 million in sales, highlighting the most unique model out of any European club, allowing great success while remaining financially responsible.

While there might be doubts over how long such a model can be sustainable — and it certainly will take continued full professionalism and great competence in every department of the club, from finance to scouting — so far its success is undeniable and really the only case of a club from a small market having continued success in European competitions over the past decade.

The use of metamaterials for electromagnetic cloaking has been intensely studied in the past decade and has achieved some successes.

In any case, even if the libertarian - minded succeed in taking control of the debate on the Right, it still won't guarantee the long - term success of their ideology: the real world is dangerously messy, and we've seen a lot of evidence over the past few decades that perfect ideas don't always work as planned when they're applied to actual people (see: markets, free).

Despite successes in curbing tobacco use over the past four decades, it still is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.

The Bloomberg Administration bases the success of stop - and - frisk on a statistic — in the past 10 years, the city's murder rate has dropped by 50 percent compared with the prior decade.

«I think one of the big environmental success stories of the past decade has been the reduction in deforestation in the Amazon, within Brazil,» Spracklen said.

In fact, the brain's capacity for inventing new information - processing schemes is thought to explain the success of artificial cochleas, which have been implanted in the ears of approximately 100,000 hearing - impaired people around the world in the past few decades.

Despite the great success and high visibility of the Hubble Fellowship program over the past decade, enhanced support of postdoctoral associates — both grant - funded and portable — is needed in many areas of astronomy and astrophysics, including ground - based astronomy, instrumentation, and theory.

A comprehensive study of biodiversity indicators over the past decade [116] reveals that, despite some local success in increasing extent of protected areas, overall indicators of pressures on biodiversity including that due to climate change are continuing to increase and indicators of the state of biodiversity are continuing to decline.

We're at a critical juncture now where we're applying the knowledge of the past three decades and building on what we've learned from the dramatic successes of the last few years.

«The first digital decade has been a great success», he said of the past 10 years.

By Bob Bloom Over the past few decades, a fair share of movies has followed the trajectory of an older woman who, in her younger years, was either a success or on - track to a prominent career, only to be sidetracked by falling in love, marriage and children.

The critical and commercial success of the Will & Grace redo, which has been earning award recognition and has ranked as NBC's highest - rated comedy series, no doubt has helped fuel the current interest in reviving some of TV's top comedies of the past few decades and the ongoing resurgence of the multi-camera sitcom format.

His films exist on the fringes of an industry in South Korea which enjoys massive commercial and international success but, for the past couple of decades Hong, as it is with some of the finest filmmakers, has created his own medium of formally inventive and wholly original films that seem to exist in a genre — perhaps even an industry — of their own.

Of the male - oriented melodramas in the past decade, none has improved upon the mixed martial arts tearjerker «Warrior» — and if its very premise strikes you as an unsustainable paradox, know that its success is in large part thanks to its trio of terrific lead performanceOf the male - oriented melodramas in the past decade, none has improved upon the mixed martial arts tearjerker «Warrior» — and if its very premise strikes you as an unsustainable paradox, know that its success is in large part thanks to its trio of terrific lead performanceof terrific lead performances.

The success has been astounding: over the past decade, the percentage of students meeting provincial standards in the annual literacy and numeracy tests for grades 3 and 6 has risen from 54 % to 71 %, and the high school graduation rate has grown from 68 % to 83 %.

Until now 21 EUROCLIO Annual Professional Training and Development Conferences have taken place annually in the past two decades with a growing success: starting with 60 people from 4 countries in Scotland in 1993, the participation reached up to 160 participants from 45 countries in 2005 in Latvia and 2006 in Malta, 200 people from 50 countries in Turkey and Germany, and 165 people from 38 countries in the Republic of Macedonia in 2013 and once again over hundred educators in and around Europe are expected in the 22nd EUROCLIO Annual Conference for the first time in Denmark for the first time in the history of EUROCLIO.

Reform has had signal successes over the past two decades: increased transparency, higher expectations, more room for creative problem - solving, more options for families, terrific models of tech - inspired redesign, and much more.

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

With the growing popularity and success of eLearning, most organization have implemented Learning Management System (LMS) products in the past decade or so.

In the past couple of decades, federal, state and local officials have made significant strides in tracking the success of agencies they operate.

Seated among the HAA audience during Spence's speech was Kevin Jennings, assistant deputy secretary at the Department of Education and a 1985 graduate of Harvard College, who told an anecdote of his 10th Harvard reunion when he encountered a classmate who had achieved success in the corporate world but was dismayed that Jennings, a fellow Ivy League graduate, had spent the past decade as a teacher.

Ontario is in the process of re-imagining its approach to education, building on the successes of the past decade.

For the past decade, we have found surprising success in helping educators through the proactive method of communication and shared problem solving.

The lessons of London's educational success over the past decade can be exported to other parts of the country, Martin Post, the regional schools commissioner for north west London and south central England has said.

• With the growing popularity and success of e-learning, most organization have implemented LMS products in the past decade or so.

Over the past few years, nearly 6,000 schools across 14 states have used the 5Essentials survey to systematically measure nonacademic factors that decades of research have shown matter most for school improvement and student success.

In conversations about Finland's stunning success over the past decade, many education leaders look at what makes the system work so well — the high bar for entry into the teaching profession, the absence of standardized tests, the embedded professional development and support systems, to name just a few — and ask «Why can't we do this in my country?»

In the Indianapolis warehouse, far from both his office and the schools where the suspect tests were taken, he saw clear evidence of what has become the most widespread episode of cheating ever documented in U.S. public schools, one which has diminished one of the nation's few education success stories of the past decade.

He's been behind much of Ferrari's success over the past few decades, and now he's gone: Luca di Montezemolo's final press conference for Ferrari reveals all.

Duncan Aldred, vice president of global GMC Sales and Marketing, said «GMC's strong growth over the past decade is due in large part to Terrain,» adding that «the all - new Terrain builds on that success, leveraging GMC's proven premium SUV experience to shake up the largest vehicle segment, with a strong blend of design, functionality and engineering excellence.»

Over the past couple of decades, the BMW M5 has toyed with inline six, V8 and V10 powerplants, to varying success.

Gorgeous luxury interiors have been a significant part of Audi's success story of the past decade; the sparse A3 and now this plasticky A5 make me suspect something has changed for the worse in Ingolstadt's purchasing department.

«Tequila Patrón played a significant role in the success of the American Le Mans Series over the past decade, and (Patrón Spirits International CEO) Ed Brown was instrumental in bringing together (Grand - Am Founder) Jim France and (American Le Mans Series Founder) Don Panoz to create what we now know as the Tudor United SportsCar Championship.