Sentences with phrase «schools getting any of»

Last year, he insisted that new audit rules be adopted as a condition of schools getting any of the $ 7 billion on voter approve bond money — a stipulation that has since been incorporated into the process.

Not exact matches

Funded by alumni from the McCombs School of Business, where it is housed, Texas Venture Labs will selectively take on projects and provide (student) labor to help the firms get off the ground.

When the school year ends, we may take a week or two to ourselves much like someone in any other field; however, at the end of that time, we need to get ourselves back into gear.

After getting at least a secondary school education, you'll need either complete a four - to five - year apprenticeship, or at least four years of work experience in combination with school or industry courses.

«To a large extent globally, rather than just the US, there's still an awful lot of experimentation for schools, and in education broadly, to get a grasp on which OS is most appropriate,» Blaber said.

«We need to know what we're getting into,» warns Wendy Dobson, a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto who has written extensively on China.

They must either score high on the end - of - school exam (which only half of students typically pass) so that they can get admitted to a university and get a reputable job like a teacher or a doctor — or they must marry right away.

That's the kind of question people ask before they even get to academic questions,» Patrick Sanchez, Superintendent of Newark, California Unified School District told CNBC.

There are a many people coming out of law school who are finding it very hard to get a job at a decent law firm.

I am so» PROUD «of MY DAUGHTER SHELLY ~ ~ She has contuined to GET New Accounts on HER OWN ~ ~ Water parks, Swim Schools.

«A business plan is important because it communicates to everyone involved in the organization what the goals are, and how management plans to get there,» says Drew Starbird, a professor of operations management and information systems at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business.

When I got a job at Barnes and Noble in high school, I used my discount to buy a bunch of copies to give as gifts.

Through our mentor network we were able to get in front of one of the top golf schools in Florida.

When Kasia Urbaniak first started a new kind of power - training school for women, she had a tough time getting people to understand what the place was all about.

But the school Wednesday got a hint of validation to the tune of $ 5.5 million in investment in a round led by Cambridge - based venture - capital firm Charles River Ventures and New York City - based Matrix Partners.

While O'Leary's decision also applies to entrepreneurs who are still in school, he stressed the importance of finishing an education to get the skills and contacts that a budding business owner might need later on.

Just as the streaming service can predict whether someone will enjoy a Judd Apatow movie, Brightspace can forecast the grade a user will receive in a biology course and customize the learning experience to increase her odds of getting an A. Welcome to the future of school.

Dig Deeper: How to Build a Culture of Employee Appreciation How to Create a Company Philosophy: School New Hires on Company History Even if you ask some pointed or provocative questions in the interview and get the answers you're looking for, your newest recruit isn't going to be integrated into the company culture on day one.

But all contain triggers that get people talking, says Jonah Berger, marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the bestseller Contagious: Why Things Catch On.

Since the field is highly competitive, getting a job straight out of high school can be difficult.

By the time early - riser Sheryl Sandberg gets to the office at 7 a.m., she's already fitted in an hour of responding to emails, a morning workout at her home gym and dropping her two kids off at school.

«Young people have got the potential to be great employees in a sales capacity, but they're not coming out of school completely job - ready,» says Scarborough.

Schooling is great so you understand the underlying fundamentals of your field, but even then, book smart can only get you so far.

It was hard to get those like - minded peers,» says Gillis, who recently started an undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia's Sauder of School of Business.

Prince William gets a handshake from Frederika Blair - Turner, the headmistress of Wetherby School in Notting Hill as his little brother Prince Harry, 4, smiles, clutching his schoolbag, Sept. 11, 1989.

If you're dedicated enough to get into U of T's MPP program as well as their JD program (law school), you can combine the degrees and complete them simultaneously for a well - rounded law and public policy education.

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies after another deadly mass shooting, this time at a Florida high school in February that left 17 people dead.

«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.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

The irony of spending years in high school and college before getting a job is that what employers want most isn't any specific (or even highly specialized) body of knowledge; they want employees who can learn on the job.

A Harvard Business School associate professor who saw crimson after getting overcharged $ 4 on a $ 53.35 order of Chinese food reportedly launched an email wrestling match with the eatery's owners — and let it be known he had notified «the applicable authorities» of the menu mishap.

When I first got out of Columbia Business School, I wanted to go to work for Graham immediately for nothing.

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

What it really means is getting good grades, going to a great school, getting a job, and then working your way up the proverbial ladder of success.

«We've still kind of got a tale of two cities here,» Villanova School of Business professor Eric Karson said ahead of Macy's earnings.

Even though Pioneer is considered a «high - needs school» and enrolls a large number of English language learners and children of immigrants, every student gets a chance to learn in Jones» high - tech classroom.

They're about as close to commodities as consumer devices get,» Hal Friedlander, co-founder of the Technology for Education Consortium and former CIO for New York City schools, told Business Insider.

A version of this article appears in the September 15, 2016 issue of Fortune with the headline «Getting schooled at work.»

For Kersi Antia, marketing professor at Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario, that's got to change — the sooner, the better.

Bridge schools employ local teachers to use digital, pre-written lesson plans that get distributed across the company's international web of instructors.

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?»

I got a taste of it in high school.

He's fresh off of a hectic morning getting his kids ready for school, then dropping them off in a hurry.

Susan Cain, TED speaker and author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, cites research conducted by Adam Grant at the Wharton School who found that introverted leaders often get better results, compared with extroverts, because the latter can unwittingly squelch creativity by not giving up the reins and letting people run with their own ideas.

In September 2013 he got several job offers — including one, through a contact of his business school professor, at Bizo, a startup that has since been acquired by LinkedIn (LNKD).

When I was a young guy coming out of school getting my first real job, my dad offered me some interesting advice.

Expect more prestige schools to get into this market which, by and large, is the province of unaccredited, for - profit schools.

«We flew people in from Atlanta, Los Angeles, and all over the place, including some of her oldest friends from elementary school that she never gets to see and some close friends that had recently moved across the country.»

«I got kicked out of school for a year.»