Sentences with phrase «school corporate company»

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Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

The company sells software subscriptions to schools and businesses that help teach financial literacy (understanding mortgages and credit, for example), responsible college behavior (involving hazing and alcohol consumption), corporate compliance (like sexual harassment and diversity training), and other programs.

Research from Columbia Business School has shown that 92 percent of employees believe improving their firm's corporate culture would improve the value of the company.

- The company has already reached 70 % (7,000 employees) of its 10,000 - employee commitment for hiring «opportunity youth» (unemployed young people who are not in school) as well as being 25 % of the way toward its even more ambitious 100,000 opportunity youth hiring goal, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, that Starbucks successfully goaded other corporate giants (Target, Walmart, etc.) to join in.

The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.

It's far too easy to believe, in our modern world, that you can graduate from a top 10 school, flawlessly establish yourself in the corporate world or with your own startup, build the perfect team, and either invest in perfect stocks or sell your own company for billions of dollars by the time you're 27.

Hsieh discussed his unorthodox approach to building Zappos — widely praised in corporate circles as a playful, innovative, and zany company with a fiercely loyal customer base — during a talk as part of a business school MBA elective course.

Sean is a Founding Partner of GrowthX, a Silicon Valley - based venture capital fund, market development training school and corporate advisory firm helping companies bring new products to market and reduce the innovation failure rate through capital, talent and know how.

Companies started tying performance pay to «short - term metrics, and suddenly all the things we don't want to happen start happening,» said Lynn Stout, a professor of corporate and business law at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York.

The corporate exodus, however, isn't over these companies» values or their positions on gun regulations, according to William Klepper, a professor at professor at the Columbia Business School — it's simply about prudence.

Still, the takeover sends a message to directors of other companies that their jobs are in jeopardy if they lose sight of their commitment to shareholders, said B. Espen Eckbo, the founding director of the Center for Corporate Governance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

This financial strategy was made explicit by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Jensen, who advocated that salaries and bonuses for corporate managers should be based on how much they can increase the price of their companies» stock, not on how much they increased or production and / or business size.

After college Ashley worked at EngagementHealth, a corporate wellness company, for four years prior to going back to graduate school.

Kozol's description of the corporate presence in and influence on schools makes one wonder whether the public education system in the United States has become a domestic version of NAFTA: an effective way for companies to guarantee access to a steady supply of cheap, uneducated labor.

The company specializes in preparing custom meals for independent schools, universities, retail healthcare facilities, recreational venues and corporate cafés of all shapes and sizes.

The group covered a wide swath of the food industry: from Dow Agro Sciences and the Soybean, Mushroom, and Peanut Boards; doctors from the Cleveland Clinic and professors from Harvard Business School; to representatives from Butterball, Dunkin Donuts, Chobani Yogurt, Wonderful Brands (the company behind POM), and McDonald's corporate dietician.

After graduate school I worked for a small to medium size software company and during the 10 years I was employed in the corporate world, I was fortunate to work in marketing, recruitment, special projects and right hand to the company CEO.

It is by no means an attempt to list all companies serving the school nutrition community, only those that are GSNA corporate partners and have provided us with their information.

A «study» commissioned last year by the dairy industry, and performed by a company that conducts marketing research for corporate food clients, suggested that 35 percent fewer elementary school students drank milk when flavored milk was removed from the cafeteria.

And for the money, which the Department of Justice believes topped $ 474,000 over the course of the bribery scheme to help influence the corporate goals of a Maryland - based power company, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, a school teacher, worked between two and 15 hours per month.

The company has grown into one of the nation's largest privately - owned food and beverage providers for corporate cafeterias, sports stadiums, schools and other institutions.

Now however, we see that a company jumping on the corporate social responsibility bandwagon just for show or greenwashing doesn't fool its employees,» said Dr. Magda Donia, Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa's Telfer School of Management and lead author of the Applied Psychology: An International Review study.

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Laser Tag is the perfect activity for birthday parties, corporate events, camps, youth group events, bachelor parties, after prom parties, school activities, company picnics, church events, fundraisers and more.

The Nation's recent online learning expose, How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools, in its zeal to connect various dots into a narrative of a corporate public education takeover, makes critical errors.

The central space at the heart of the School, designed to resemble the corporate headquarters of a large - scale company, provides an ideal learning space for all students.

The Indian Creek Local School District, which serves Mingo Junction and Wintersville in eastern Ohio, fell on hard times this year when its largest corporate taxpayer, the Wheeling - Pittsburgh Steel Company, filed for bankruptcy and failed to pay its property taxes, said Joseph Aguiar, the district superintendent.

Over the past 18 months, Stefan Pryor, Malloy's Commissioner of Education, co-founder of Achievement First, Inc. (the large charter school Management Company) and corporate education reform aficionado, has moved out all the professional expertise from the State Department of Education's office that is responsible for what used to be called Priority School Districts but are now called Alliance Distschool Management Company) and corporate education reform aficionado, has moved out all the professional expertise from the State Department of Education's office that is responsible for what used to be called Priority School Districts but are now called Alliance DistSchool Districts but are now called Alliance Districts.

There also appears to be illegal in - kind corporate contributions from Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that runs Achievement First Bridgeport.

The Grand Canyon Institute's comprehensive financial analysis found that charter schools were rampant with related - party transactions, a practice where charter school operators did business with for - profit companies owned by the charter holder, members of the school's corporate board or relatives of either.

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

And when «the unwanted» do get into charter schools, the companies running the schools use immoral and unethical tactics to push out students that don't fit their corporate profile.

The evil corporate education reformers target yet another local elementary school for closure and takeover through a bizarre scheme that would have allowed a public school principal to resign his position as a public servant, become president of his own private company and then take over control of both his old school and the new school.

In the company of ED Secretary Duncan and Health and Human Services Secretary Burwell, policymakers, school superintendents, and corporate and community leaders, Obama announced that the Administration is awarding over $ 1 billion to early education.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

A primary solution, according to these education reformers is to remove public schools out of the control of local community school boards and hand them over to boards made up of corporate leaders or even hand them over to private management companies.

It is ironic, to say the least, that since ringing the bell to open the «School of the Future,» Vallas has blown through New Orleans, Haiti and Chile and has now joined us in Bridgeport, while former Microsoft VP Mary Cullinane, who developed a school with Vallas that didn't use textbooks, is now a corporate officer with the company that Vallas is buying his standardized tests and textbooksSchool of the Future,» Vallas has blown through New Orleans, Haiti and Chile and has now joined us in Bridgeport, while former Microsoft VP Mary Cullinane, who developed a school with Vallas that didn't use textbooks, is now a corporate officer with the company that Vallas is buying his standardized tests and textbooksschool with Vallas that didn't use textbooks, is now a corporate officer with the company that Vallas is buying his standardized tests and textbooks from.

C - Corporations, S - Corporations and insurance companies with an Arizona corporate income tax liability or insurance premium tax liability can redirect up to 100 % of that liability to a state approved School Tuition Organization and receive a dollar - for - dollar tax credit for their contribution.

His current and former board commitments include: Board of Directors of the National Investment Company Service Association (NICSA) and the New England College of Finance; Member of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Asynchronous Learning Network; on Board of Trustees of J.K. Mullen High School and Urban College of Boston; Corporate eLearning Advisory Board, Council on Adult Experiential Learning (CAEL); Corporate Advisory Boardmember, Asian American Civic Association; Member, Mayor of Boston's College Success Task Force; Chairman and Founding Trustee, Dorchester Collegiate Academy; Editorial Board, Banker & Tradesman; Chaired Accreditation teams in U.S. and Europe for New England Association of Schools & Colleges (NEASC).

Together with Playworks, corporate partners make a meaningful difference, change school culture and create healthy communities, healthy companies, and healthy kids.

Here in Connecticut, we've become used to daily coverage of the failures associated with the Jumoke / FUSE charter school company and the exploits of charter school champions such as «Dr.» Michael Sharpe, «Dr.» Terrence Carter, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education Steven Pryor, Capital Prep principal Steve Perry, corporate education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas and the others who are pushing the charter school gravy train.

In addition, Malloy's pro-charter school policies are nothing short of corporate welfare for a few select companies.

Mr. Pryor's tenure has been steeped in controversy, due in part to his commitment to the corporate education reform agenda, his leadership style and his relationship with charter schools, most directly with Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that has been the largest single financial beneficiary of state funds to charter schools over the past four years.

Watch the bouncing ball... as the Corporate Education Reform Industry, Families for Excellent Schools, the Coalition for Every Child, Governor Malloy's former press secretary Andrew Doba, Achievement First Inc. and the other charter school lobby groups try to divert even more public funds away from Connecticut's public schools and into the coffers of charter school compaSchools, the Coalition for Every Child, Governor Malloy's former press secretary Andrew Doba, Achievement First Inc. and the other charter school lobby groups try to divert even more public funds away from Connecticut's public schools and into the coffers of charter school compaschools and into the coffers of charter school companies...

The new Achievement First schools was part of a broader strategy on the part of the Hartford political leadership and the corporate education reformers to close existing neighborhood schools in Hartford and give the properties to charter school companies.

As a corporate officer in a charter school company, Comer has a significant and clear conflict of interest.

Friendship Schools is also closely associated with the NewSchools Venture Fund, a corporate funded financial investment company that is «committed to transforming public education through powerful ideas and passionate entrepreneurs.»

If you bank with Webster Bank, Bank of America or any of the other corporations that are pushing Governor Dannel Malloy's corporate education reform industry agenda, the next time you go to the bank, speak with your insurance company or communicate with one of CCER's funders, ask them why they are using the money that they take from us to undermine our public schools and label our children as failures.

Like many charter school management companies, the Friendship Charter Schools Board of Directors is made up of corporate education reform industry executives and their allies.

This past Tuesday (October 13, 2015) former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd - Bennett, one of the nation's leading Corporate Education Reform Industry leaders, pleaded guilty for her role in a $ 23 million kick - back scheme with Gary Solomon and his education reform companies, The SUPES Academy and Synesi Associates.