Sentences with phrase «team of a woman with»

The case was pushed by the legal team of a woman with a doctorate in English Literature.

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A Babson College study reported that in 1999, fewer than 5 percent of venture capital investments went to companies with a woman on the executive team.

Only two years later, in 2013, companies with a woman on the executive team were attracting 18 percent of venture investments.

Years later, when Moffat learned that her wife, Kelly, shared her sartorial angst, the pair teamed up with a tailor to develop a new type of oxford shirt: one that is carefully structured to fit — but not necessarily enhance — the curves of a woman's body.

Now, Keir Dillon and his six - person team at Frends are on a mission to seize a large swath of the market with premium headphones for women that are treated more like designer handbags than the «shrink - it - and - pink - it» products that had plagued the category to that point.

Necole Parker (woman in the front row, on the left, in a suit), the founder of The ELOCEN Group, with her team.

If you're a set of guys looking to start a company, think about women you could team up with — they will see things differently and solve problems you didn't even realize you had.

If that sounds like Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, that's not surprising: Annis has teamed up with John Gray, the author of that vociferously debated 1992 bestseller, on a new book that explores «gender blind spots» in the workplace.

She has reorganized 80 percent of top management with a slew of hires; redirected the product teams to put as much weight on fashion and comfort as on function, and fomented what she called a «consumer - centric» company culture,» reports Women's Wear Daily.

HBF has been a leader in the corporate wellness space with its Run for a Reason event, and it is currently sponsoring Ms Dawson and a team of three other women in their attempt to complete a 1,000 - kilometre cycle race.

Since arriving at the chain in September 2014, Shelagh Stoneham, Shoppers» senior vice-president of marketing, said her team has been engaged in market research and strategic planning that has led to a bigger marketing spend, an increased television presence, more online video and new partnerships with Women of Influence and the entertainment show ET Canada.

In 2011, head coaches for all women's teams in the BIG 10 conference made less than a third of what the men's coaches pulled in, $ 149,000 compared with $ 490,000, according to research from Tucker.

In a panel discussion following a Saturday screening of the film in New York, Sarkeesian — a San Francisco entrepreneur who with her team of four creates the video series Feminist Frequency — addressed possible responses to the online abuse women face from gamers, ex-boyfriends and other venomous sources.

The average salary for a college football head coach in the conference was $ 2.27 million and men's basketball coaches made $ 1.9 million on average, compared with $ 365,000 for the head coaches of BIG 10 women's basketball teams.

Elevating more women and underrepresented minorities to positions of power is becoming a business imperative for the firm, with clients demanding diversity in their legal teams, Erickson says.

The team of professors conducted an online survey of 5,000 Japanese women and men about their childhood relationship with their parents, asking them to agree or disagree with statements like «My parents trusted me» and «I felt like my family had no interest in me.»

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

Now steering the web operations wheel with an enterprising all - women team of Entrepreneur's India edition!

By measuring the dilation of their pupils — an indicator of sexual arousal, as proven by a previous study of his published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Savin - Williams and his team were able to conclude that women were aroused by pornography featuring women with men and women with women.

«We worked with their R&D team to create a lightweight memory foam that molds to the shape of a woman's breast and feels like a second skin,» says Cohen, explaining how the collaboration has led to one of the company's several proprietary design elements.

... Jane Wurwand, founder of the skin care company Dermalogica, is teaming with the microfinance platform Kiva to launch FITE, a provider of microloans to women.

«We did our own analysis of Fortune 500 companies,» he tells CNBC Make It, «and we found that companies that have women in top management roles experience what we call «innovation intensity» and produce more patents — by an average of 20 percent more than teams with male leaders.»

Brad Feld, founder of Incubator Techstars, estimates that women - led companies now make up around 10 percent of TechStars» portfolio, and that companies led by immigrants or minority entrepreneurs make up another 10 percent — but of course they can only work with what teams choose to apply.

Skating a stellar routine in the women's free skate portion of the team competition, Nagasu began with a clean triple Axel and then went on to nail eight other triple jumps, including a triple flip and triple Salchow combination as she helped America claim bronze.

According to PitchBook, women founders won only 2 percent of venture capital dollars invested in 2017, while all - male teams walked away with 79 percent of the pot.

«Only a small portion of early - stage investment is going to women entrepreneurs, yet our data suggest that venture capital — funded businesses with women on the executive team perform better on multiple dimensions.

When Bills president Russ Brandon stepped down / was pushed out yesterday after an investigation of inappropriate workplace relationships with women, a release said that Kim Pegula was taking over as team president of the Bills and Sabres.

However, in line with what we saw when looking at 2017's dollar volume breakdown between teams with and without women, the interim quarters showed a higher deal count at 15 and 16 percent of all venture deals.

We're teaming up with SELF Magazine for a «Change of Heart» in support of the American Heart Association's «Go Red for Women» campaign!

«He has mobilized a talented advisory team of experts and innovators at EFH that has created opportunities for women entrepreneurs to contribute with valuable products and services.»

In an interview with USA TODAY following the meeting, Jackson said he stressed the need for Uber to hire more women and underrepresented minorities at all levels of the company, from the board of directors and the executive team to rank - and - file workers.

The sweet tooth entrepreneur has teamed up with Rockport for the occasion and has asked seventeen RISD students to design candy versions of Rockport's Janae Pump for women and Day 2 Night Wingtip for men, utilizing some of the 7,000 candies found at Dylan's Candy Bar.

In 1999, the portion of venture capital deals that went to a startup with a woman on the executive team was just 5 percent.

The team is comprised of women all 80 years and older, with their «most - seasoned» player dropping dimes at 92 years young.

«With the support of our Associate - owners, their store teams, our employees and customers, we can make a difference and improve the health of all Canadian women in body, mind and spirit.»

This group of 15 women represents some of the talented executives and practitioner social media smarties that me or my team at TopRank Online Marketing have had the good fortune to work with, collaborate with on projects or meet (IRL or virtually).

Theresia Gouw, whom Time magazine has dubbed one of the 10 most powerful women in technology, is leaving Accel Partners to team with Jennifer Fonstad, who has advised much of the international investing for Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

We just talked about it on Friday with a CEO who has a couple of women on the company's leadership team and basically said, look, we have four men on the board who look alike — white and in their 30s and 40s.

Mitchell points to a 2014 Babson College report that found that the number of early - stage companies with a woman on the executive team tripled from 5 to 15 percent from 1999 to 2014.

VC firms with female partners are more than twice as likely to invest in companies with a woman on the management team (34 % of VC firms with a woman partner versus 13 % of VC firms without a woman partner), according to Diana Report Women Entrepreneurs 2014: Bridging the Gender Gap in Venture Capital.

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GFI aims for diversity in their hires primarily through hiring practices that are intended to help them minimize the effects of bias, such as encouraging staff to score applications anonymously, using generalized ability tests, and meeting applicants only late in the process.88 While they've hired many women, including in seven of nine director roles, they find that their team is lacking in diversity in other ways, and they've met with Encompass to discuss further steps they can take to develop their diversity strategy.89 One staff member we spoke to mentioned that they hoped GFI would be able to begin paying interns, which might help diversify their team by broadening the pool of potential interns who could afford to take a position with GFI.90, 91

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

Chris Duffett was on a street evangelism team with 12 bored teenagers who mostly didn't believe that God could do anything supernatural — but one got a clear picture of a woman in a red jacket with a fur collar, wearing black boots, and with severe stomach pain.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

They also provide employment (along with access to a comprehensive social impact program) to a team of 50 women in Uganda.

The premise is straightforward enough: A woman's husband contracts a fatal illness from a quarantined region known as the Shimmer, so she goes in with a team of scientists to find the source of the Shimmer and save his life.

Their lives were suddenly sparked by an encounter with the Channel 0 news team: the woman in the office receiving a beatific vision of the Channel 0 helicopter outside her office window; the one on the street seeing the News team at work; and the old woman being given help with her parcels by the Channel 0 news anchor.

Go into the parking lot on any given day and you will see: College students lugging heavy cases of bottled water, men in wife - beaters with their brown left arms hanging out the windows of their souped - up pick - up trucks, women in cotton dresses driving a team of horses to the hitching rail (yes, our Wal - Mart has a hitching rail).

There is growing pressure within the Church of England to create a situation in which the episcopal «team» in each diocese always included both sexes, with women accounting for half of all bishops at any given time.