Sentences with phrase «year running the world»

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The small Nordic country has long been considered a haven for women, holding the top spot for gender equality worldwide for nine years running, according to the World Economic Forum.

She's still building name recognition outside the world of tech and, with one House run behind her (she lost), the 40 - year - old has time to continue building her political career.

«They see a world that doesn't exist yet today,» observes Mike Kirkup, a 10 - year BlackBerry veteran who runs Velocity, an accelerator at the University of Waterloo.

Yet earlier this year, Mark Karpelès landed a big new job: chief technology officer at London Trust Media, a Denver - based corporation that runs the largest virtual private network (VPN) service in the world.

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

He began to think about finding a strategic partner in 2006, and thought he found the right match two years later in Dubai World, a large real estate developer that quickly ran into financial difficulties.

«Even if Uber can get 10 percent of that market, in the long run that still gives them a revenue of $ 200 billion [a year], which will make them one of the biggest companies in the world,» says Sundararajan, who didn't divine when he thought this might happen.

Jeet Banerjee, a 19 - year - old serial entrepreneur and college studentbased in Orange County, Calif., says he tries to run through each speech under «real - world» conditions at least four or five times before the main event.

He'd run a team that was a perennial contender, had won the 2005 World Series championship and earned a Manager of the Year award.

A spokesman for the prosecutors in the city of Brunswick (Braunschweig) told Fortune that recent disclosures suggesting that chief executive Martin Winterkorn was aware of the long - running deception of U.S. regulators already in May 2014 — over a year before the company finally admitted it to the world — weren't enough by themselves to justify opening an investigation into the former boss.

Chamath has never been afraid of controversially calling it as it is within the venture world, such as in his late - 2015 piece on what's wrong with venture capital, and is even part of the Golden State Warriors ownership group, which he joined in 2011, during an abysmal 23 - 43 run which seems a lifetime away from two years of triumph.

Carlos Slim Domit — the son of the world's richest man — is considering the revival of the Mexican Formula One Grand Prix, which hasn't run in 20 years.

After seven years running a service business that helps large organizations with multiple locations manage social media and online reputation, my company and I decided to make a leap into the mobile app world.

We've been running a business together for eight years now: We founded Sonic Boom Wellness, a software company in the corporate wellness world, in June 2007 while we were dating.

Gold fever around the world The metal's 10 - year bull run has given rise to all manner of new ventures seeking to mine it, buy it, sell it, hoard it, melt it down, even tell its story.

The duo fleshed out the idea and decided to bring it to Battlehack in San Jose, Calif., the world finals of a hackathon circuit PayPal has been running around the world this year.

You may have missed this, but over the past two years, as Musk has been running Tesla and SpaceX, he's become the world's most prominent proponent of action against climate change.

Becoming Warren Buffett will highlight the modest lifestyle of the 86 - year - old investor, who runs the world's fourth - largest public company, drives to work every day, and lives in a humble home in Omaha, Neb..

This year, the World Economic Forum's luck seems to have run out.

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In just two years, Samsung has gone from an also - ran in the smartphone market to the world's top seller.

The event — which has been happening for over a decade — will run for most of April this year and gives attendees the chance to sample gourmet offerings prepared by Michelin - starred chefs from around the world.

Just last year, Nokia's Symbian operating system was running on 44 % of smartphones around the world.

«If you asked people five years ago if crypto was around for long run, most would say no but today it's obvious it's something the world needs... It could make big impact in financial services,» she says.

MessageBird, which was bootstrapped for six years and is competing very successfully around the world — and will hit a $ 100 million run rate by end of year.

Khosrowshahi is an Iranian - born US citizen who spent the last 12 years running Expedia, the online travel agency used by millions of people around the world.

Next year Robinson, who currently runs the company's newspaper operations, will become CEO of one of the most influential media operations in the world.

World stock markets hovered close to all - time highs on Monday as the best start to a year in eight years showed little sign of running out of steam.

Protests during the test - run FIFA Confederations Cup last year highlighted popular discontent with the cost of staging the World Cup, which has grown to an estimated US $ 11.3 billion in infrastructure spending.

But this year, those Alibaba bears are in a world of pain thanks to its incredible run.

About a thousand years ago, a television commercial for P&G's Olay brand emerged out of Australia that worked so well it would end up being run — accents and all — in much of the Olay world.

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world.

Joel Greenblatt, he is Wall Street royalty, he's a legend in the hedge fund and mutual fund worlds, he ran a fund called Gotham Capital 10 consecutive years compounding it 50 percent a year, those numbers are just off the charts at the end of the decade, he returned money back to investors and said I'm just going to manage my own money for a while, thanks.

Mark Carney may be the highest paid central banker in the world with a salary of $ 1.4 million, the first - ever non-Briton to run the Bank of England in its 319 - year

Economies emerged from World War II relatively free of debt, but the 60 - year global run - up has run its course.

China, however, is already challenging Europe as running the highest current account surplus in history, and in a world in which demand is likely to remain weak for many years, the external sector is unlikely to provide sufficient additional demand.

Running a business in Canada gives you a whole new world of potential tax deductions that you can use to reduce the amount of income tax you have to pay at the end of the tax year or even, perhaps, to get a tax refund.

My work delivering talks and running masterclasses requires me to fly well more than 100,000 air miles per year and use taxis and hotels around the world.

But here's what I've realised after progressing through the senior echelons in corporate land and now for the last 3 years of running my own life and career coaching business, the world isn't going to defend your worth.

It's a massive, complex historical process, of course; but the point to keep in mind is that the post-war world — certainly that world for the U.S. — is coming to the end of its long, 73 - year run.

Pacific Investment Management Co., which runs the world's biggest bond fund, is forecasting that advanced economies will stall over the next year as Europe slides into a recession, underscoring mounting investor concern about the global economic outlook.

It has ran up to $ 71.44 at its 52 week high and currently trading at $ 41.64 almost 42 % lower, kissing almost 5 year low due to slowing world growth but at this price, provides an excellent entry point.

I had the opportunity to move to Busan, South Korea for a year (July 2008 — July 2009) and work with children aged 7 - 14 teaching English as a Second Language, and I welcome the opportunity to have similar experiences where I can contribute or add value to educating the little people that will eventually run our world!

We runs three competitions per year in the US, UK and China to identify the world's top fintech startups.

Women CEOs earned big bucks last year, but there's still very few of them running the world's largest companies.

Much of the debate over the past years about the benefits and the costs global specialization, primarily the rapid advance of China as a major manufacturing center has been less about the financial costs — the $ 12 trillion dollars of additional liquidity that the US consumers offered to the world (the cumulative US trade deficit from 1990 through 2015 compared to the over $ 3 trillion dollars in trade surplus run - up by China over this same period — and more in terms of the jobs lost and the impact of foreign products on American wages in manufacturing.

It's like a related issue: how did the prophets predict with accuracy unlikely events 100s of years in the future, while the world is running entirely by natural law?

And last but certainly not least on our list (we're ready to run over some kids in line, we've been waiting 14 years for this), the sequel to the Incredibles, where Mr. Incredible is left at home to take care of the problems of his three children while Elastigirl springs into action to save the world.

The law of thermodynamics suggests that eventually the world is running down — but not for millions of years.

The story runs through Woodrow Wilson's expansive mission to «make the world safe for democracy,» Eisenhower's World War II «crusade in Europe,» and the long years of cold war struggle against «godless communism.&rworld safe for democracy,» Eisenhower's World War II «crusade in Europe,» and the long years of cold war struggle against «godless communism.&rWorld War II «crusade in Europe,» and the long years of cold war struggle against «godless communism.»