Sentences with phrase «year to year rankings»

Short term trends are spurious and year to year rankings are not what matters in the end.

Not exact matches

He quickly moved up the ranks in finance while delving into the investing world, starting with growing a $ 500,000 loan from the Continental Bank of Canada to $ 3.5 million in four years.

According to Canadian Business» 2016 Best Jobs ranking, urban planners now occupy the number two position, with an $ 85,010 median salary and 15 % wage growth over the past five years.

Accenture has also worked on ways to get more women into senior leadership positions (they've changed the interview process so that candidates of both genders get to know more members in the executive ranks) and to retain them (implementing a one - year no - travel policy for employees who are new mothers and fathers).

Despite maintaining stable, above - average scores, Canada's relative ranking on the OECD's prestigious Programme for International Student Assessment, which is administered to 15 - year - olds around the world, is slipping.

Qualtrics's co-founders have strong BYU connections: CEO and co-founder Ryan Smith, who ranks at number 12 on this year's Fortune 40 Under 40 list, was a business student there until he dropped out to work on Qualtrics full - time.

In surveys by the UnitedHealth Foundation, Minnesota has ranked among the nation's 10 healthiest states every year since 1990, thanks to a strong statewide health - care network and very high rates of physical activity among residents.

Social media ranks third in technology investments small businesses plan to make in the next two years.

2016 was an especially monster year for Disney at the box office distinguishing it from much of Hollywood as the movie studio continues to close ranks around its core franchises, such as Pixar and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

To celebrate 30 years of the program, we are rebranding what was once known as the PROFIT 500 to the Growth 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing CompanieTo celebrate 30 years of the program, we are rebranding what was once known as the PROFIT 500 to the Growth 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companieto the Growth 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies.

But this year, engineering hires came in second in the «difficult - to - hire» rankings, with 24 percent of entrepreneurs citing them.

But he'll have to wait a few years to find out if he's able to join their ranks.

Amazon was ranked number one, as it was the past two years, and Tesla rose to third from ninth.

This year, the United States ranked No. 18 — falling four spots from last year and five from two years ago — «in part because of the ongoing epidemics of obesity, substance abuse and untreated depression,» according to World Happiness Report co-editor and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs.

Fisher, 38 years old at the time, was regarded as a wunderkind who had quickly risen through the ranks at Target's American command post in Minneapolis, from a lowly business analyst to leader of a team of 400 people across multiple divisions.

The M.N. Nurse Practitioner program at the University of British Columbia, home to one of the top ranked undergraduate nursing programs in the country, requires applicants to have at least three years of clinical experience and a well - demonstrated ability to act autonomously — a critical skill for primary care practitioners.

Sometimes it's an obvious misstep — bankrupt airbag supplier Takata ranked last in the Harris poll this year after the largest recall in the history of the auto industry (and 22 deaths due to the company's products).

When we sent him a list of questions from Inc 500 CEO Todd Parent, whose Extreme Pizza is ranked # 241 this year, his handlers urged him to keep mum.

But officials have said the Air Force will need to train 1,600 a year to stabilize its ranks.

«Idol,» which averaged more than 30 million weekly viewers at its 2006 peak and ranked No. 1 for nine consecutive years, averaged about 11 million last season (still enough by today's standards to land it in the top 20, but with fewer advertiser - favored younger viewers).

The State Business Tax Climate Index, now in its 10th edition, can see notable shifts in the rankings from year to year.

Newspaper reporter was ranked as the worst job for the third year running, and broadcaster also managed to take a top spot on this year's list.

Huawei, the leader in the Chinese market and third ranking worldwide according to Gartner, uses Google's Android operating system on the more than 100 million phones it shipped last year.

The Berkshire Hathaway CEO and legendary investor made the single biggest charitable donation this year, giving $ 2.1 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the form of 16.6 million shares of his company, according to Wealth - X's ranking of the 10 largest philanthropic donations of 2014 published on Wednesday.

This year, his accuracy was down to 87 % for medal totals and 81 % for golds, and just 67 % in ranking the top 12 nations.

He played for basketball powerhouse Midwest City High School in Oklahoma from his sophomore to senior years, a team that was ranked as high as third in the nation during his time, and played competition featuring Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh and Tyson Chandler.

Other tech companies that made the list include Google which ranked highly at No. 5, Yahoo at No. 65, and Apple which descended 48 spots from last year to No. 84.

Research published in February shows that 2016 was the first year in which the iPhone dropped in the rankings of smartphone sales in China, falling from 15 percent of market share to 11 and selling fewer units even as demand for smartphones grew.

He found this new gig to be a complete contrast — and not in a good way — to his old one, and in less than a year, he headed home to Omaha and resumed his rise through the ranks there.

Thanks to this potent combination of business expansion and investment returns, LendingTree ranks No. 3 this year on Fortune's 100 Fastest - Growing Companies list.

The company frequently ranks number one on lists of «Best Places to Work,» like it did this year on Glassdoor, and as it has six years in a row on Fortune.

When asked whether Google would prioritize AMPed news articles in its search rankings in the coming year, Google product manager Rudy Galfi said that the company will use webpage load times as one of many criteria to determine rankings.

A year ago, Keflezighi, then 38, stunned the racing world by defeating a slew of younger and higher - ranked runners to win the event with a personal - best time of 2:08:37.

Michael J. Pearson, Valeant's former CEO, smashed the record for the top spot last year with $ 183 million in total compensation; this year Valeant's new CEO, Joseph Papa, held on to the number - one ranking with $ 83 million.

In last year's, The Economist noted that the ranking had been conducted before the city's downtown riot, which it said was likely to cause the city to «head downward in subsequent iterations.»

To compile the ranking, Google looked at its trillions of searches, filtered out spam and repeats, and identified queries that had the largest uptick in traffic compared with the previous year.

Think of a new manager who rises through the ranks of the company over many years to enter the C - suite.

Amazon employees are ranked according to their performance, and those at the bottom are eliminated each year in a grueling process called an Organization Level Review.

The organization expects to have its Just 100 list — a ranking of the country's 100 best - behaving big businesses — out next year.

For a more representative picture, look to the CEOs of the companies on this year's PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies.

This year's ranking marks the second time Canadian Business has partnered with Aon Best Employers in Canada, using its rigorous methodology (see below) to identify highly engaged workforces.

Vancouverites may be disappointed their city is no longer number one for livability according to The Economist, a ranking it lost last year to Melbourne after almost a decade at the top.

While the rankings have shifted in the past three years, there have been no newcomers to the echelon of the top 25, says Dutta.

There are only so many spots on the list of Canada's Richest People to go around, and with new entrants climbing the ranks, these long - standing stalwarts are off the leaderboards this year:

It has been ranked the best university in the world under fifty years of age, according to QS Top 50 Under 50 2016-2017, and is also 11th in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2018.

For the next six years, I spent time bouncing from magazine to magazine across sales, marketing, and editorial, desperately trying to find my niche in order to rise the ranks.

Centro has been ranked as the city's Best Place to Work for four or five years running in the Crain's Chicago survey.

The Commission said that initial findings of an investigation launched last year showed platforms were delisting products or services without due notice, restricting access to data or not making search result rankings transparent enough.

A few years ago, I watched as my boss at one such title — an offshoot of a brand famous for ranking the nation's 500 largest corporations — proposed to his boss the heretical idea that we cover more startups.

Even being in business for 10 years on the internet, there is always a continual struggle to keep our keywords ranking in the search engines.