Sentences with phrase «schools and businesses do»

Electa Live has introduced a new pricing model for schools and businesses doing one - on - one tutoring sessions.

Not exact matches

I don't have a lot of time in between my business and school to pick up and read physical books.

Of course, while you could engineer people to be more persuasive, «there's no way to shoot out a virus and make people do what you want,» NYU School of Medicine Director of Medical Ethics Arthur Caplan told Business Insider.

With a newly achieved MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a well - paying consulting job waiting for her in Toronto, Angela Strange decided to do something risky instead.

Justin McLeod: It started just because I was coming out of business school at the time, and I was about to go back into management consulting where you don't meet that many new people, you're traveling a lot.

Cofounders Karla Gallardo and Shilpa Shah met while touring prospective business schools, and while they ultimately did not attend the same school, they reconnected over their shared vision to create a lifestyle brand with a «fewer, better» philosophy.

When she didn't find that company, she applied to Harvard Business School and started working on the idea for Stitch Fix during her second year there.

Harvard Business School classmates Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss started Rent the Runway after noticing Hyman's sister didn't want to spend a lot of money for a dress she would wear only once to a wedding.

Although poaching does happen, Alan Middleton, professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business at York University and former board chair of ABC Life Literacy Canada, says employees feel a greater commitment to workplaces that have invested in them.

I get really excited about it, and I don't know where it comes from, because in art school they told us, «You can't do the business.

If you look at most companies in the world, they abide by that rule they're taught at business school: Stick with your onions and don't stray.

This gap between the immense curiosity about leadership and the few hard and fast rules about how to do it well has spawned an entire industry dedicated to pedaling dubious leadership «truths,» Stanford business school professor and author Jeffrey Pfeffer warns in a recent McKinsey Quarterly article.

Three high - profile business people have resigned from the board of Perth Modern School, just weeks after two other board members did not seek re-election, as the fallout from a governance dispute and a review by KPMG continues.

And while the book doesn't have anything useful to say about Canadian business leaders, it does raise some interesting questions about what's going on in Canadian business schools.

«You just don't know what's going to happen when you get out there and do something like this,» said Paul Argenti, professor of corporate communications at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

But the first lesson of business school is to tap into your natural network, and veterans, who have often spent years overseas cut off from regular society, often don't have the contacts they need to make the transition into civilian business.

She's made sure to listen all along the way: «I feel like I've gone to undergrad business [school] sitting in meetings and just doing business and learning and asking questions.»

As Bloomberg notes, rival apparel companies like Under Armour (UA) and Adidas (ADS) are likely to enter the bidding for the lucrative Texas contract — which could be worth more than $ 15 million per year — once it comes up for grabs, which means Nike will face some fierce competition if it wants to keep doing business with the school.

The professor at Arizona State University's business school and author of The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, asks her clients, «What are the things you would never do at this company to get a client, to keep a client, to make sure you met your numbers for the quarter?»

Look for two or three people with whom you don't compete and who don't work with you and use them to form your own «board of directors,» a strategy promoted by Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Jeffrey Pfeffer.

The tech industry, with it's army of engineers and eggheads, is the most dynamic and chattered about sector around, so - called «quants» are the new media superstars, and even something as old - school as farming is being radically disrupted by new, smarter ways of doing business.

When I left medical school I couldn't find a job, let alone one in my field, so I did what any entrepreneur would do and started a business.

Researchers Christine Exley of Harvard Business School, Muriel Niederle of Stanford University and Lise Vesterlund of the University of Pittsburgh recently did a set of experiments related to female aggression in on - the - job negotiations in which, as they write, «we saw that women hurt themselves financially when they followed a blanket recommendation to always ask for more.»

«Seymour Schulich had gotten me involved putting some money into the Schulich School of Business, where I'd done my MBA, and that would have been the first what I'd call «large donation'that I made,» McEwen recalled in an interview.

Most of the kids we help at Futurpreneur don't have any business experience: They are fresh out of school, and this is their first real job experience.

You know there's no — there's no like business school like, «oh we'll do a discounted cash flow or we'll look at a property, and we'll look at the rents and the market.»

For example, Montesano said some of his clients will overlook colleges that are «top feeders» into the country's best law, business and medical schools as well as Ph.D. programs, just because they don't boast a well - known or Ivy League title.

After 11 years of studying the habit, and a lifetime battling it, Steel — now a professor of human resources and organizational dynamics at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business — has become the world's leading authority on not getting things done.

(And to Canadian schools who ignore business school rankings, Horváth has a simple message: «It doesn't matter to me.

Siegel, who has done MBA admissions at both Emory University's Goizueta School of Business and Northeastern University, says it is one of the best pools she has seen since joining the school in the fall ofSchool of Business and Northeastern University, says it is one of the best pools she has seen since joining the school in the fall ofschool in the fall of 2009.

«It can just destroy you if you don't do it right,» says Charles Toftoy, an associate professor at the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management.

At CEIBS and other top business schools, few MBAs start businesses right out of school, but around a third do within 15 years, says entrepreneurship professor Rama Velamuri.

A bit of bonus material doesn't hurt, either: Chris Lynch, the director of recruitment and admissions at Alberta Business School, says he welcomes applications with additional material appended, such as a video that highlights the applicant's background in a fun and creative way.

«I knew I wanted to go to business school when... while watching a movie at home with my wife, she asked me if I had any regrets in life and I realized that if I did not earn my executive MBA now, then I never would and that is something I would have regretted.

What's standing in the way and what can business schools do to step up...

«We all tend to do business with people who are like us in some way,» says Lee, a New York - based serial entrepreneur and investor, and assistant dean at Columbia Businessbusiness with people who are like us in some way,» says Lee, a New York - based serial entrepreneur and investor, and assistant dean at Columbia BusinessBusiness School.

This book reminds me that being naive can be a blessing and to embrace every opportunity following your heart versus what they would tell you to do in business school.»

The school, which was founded in 1919 and started offering an MBA in 1954, took Goizueta's name in 1994, and his business philosophy is now a central part of the school's mission: to develop professionals who will add value to their companies by changing the way business is done.

Columbia Business School professors have even written that dumb is the new smart, citing a willingness to admit what you don't understand and appear foolish as a highly undervalued business skill in this post financial crisiBusiness School professors have even written that dumb is the new smart, citing a willingness to admit what you don't understand and appear foolish as a highly undervalued business skill in this post financial crisibusiness skill in this post financial crisis world.

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

Alternatively, if you want a deeper education, but don't plan to conduct your own experiments, take a look at the Copenhagen Business School's Coursera entry on neuroscience and neuromarketing.

Todd Zenger, a professor at University of Utah's Eccles School of Business, wrote in the Harvard Business Review last year that pay transparency is «far from a panacea... [and] a double - edged sword, capable of doing as much — or more — damage as good.»

Eric Abrahamson, a professor of management at Columbia Business School and author of The Perfect Mess, adds that order comes with a cost: «If you stop to tidy up every time something becomes disordered you'll continually interrupt yourself and never get any work done,» he says.

When I left school and embarked on my first real business adventure, Student magazine, it was at times a real struggle to keep our small group motivated and make ends meet, though we didn't want our readers to be aware of this.

«We can't just be a southwestern Ontario school doing business in our own backyard, as we need to develop skills and knowledge to successfully participate in a global community,» he said.

As a young man fresh out of business school, Phil Knight knew he wanted to do something new and dynamic.

Prizes from business contests run the gamut: A seemingly infinite number of local and business - school competitions offer small - change awards of $ 5,000 to $ 15,000; meanwhile, Rice University doles out six - figure prizes annually, as do accelerators MassChallenge and TechStars.

«This is because people, other than very close friends and relatives, don't seem to relate well to those who constantly share photos of themselves,» lead study author David Houghton, of Birmingham Business School, said in a release.

Meanwhile, the principal of Alvin's school suggested that the father and son get professional help, and referred them to John Cayton, a counselor with the Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto, a family - therapy clinic that does a brisk business in absentee - parent cases.