Kola Aluko, a Nigerian energy and aviation tycoon, founded oil trading firm Fossil Resources in 2001, then went on to become CEO of Exoro Energy- an indigenous oil exploration and production firm.
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Pure lets a firm dynamically provision resources to provide a monthly or quarterly or daily report.
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In 1996 Hyundai, a subsidiary of South Korea's Hyundai Group , hired Abraham's recruiting firm, Technical Resources of Huntington Beach, Calif.
But others are sceptical, fearing that the firm lacks the resources to pay for its widespread deployment and that the technology may not work as billed.
His mother runs her own corporate human-resources firm, where Mr. Madrigal had a lucrative job that he quit at age 32 to pursue comedy and acting full-time.
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"If an employee is at the beach but is preoccupied with work and reaching for the phone, it defeats the whole purpose of getting away, " says Rosemary Haefner, of human resources firm CareerBuilder.com, who conducted the poll.
This makes some folk wonder if the firm has enough resources to launch on so many fronts in so little time, and if it might have to divert resources from other products, such as Zyprexa, its blockbuster drug for schizophrenia, thus leaving them more vulnerable to competition.
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Still, Tokyo is the world's most expensive city for expatriates to live in, according to international human-resources consulting firm Mercer.
"You will see another wave of freezes, you expect that, " said Joe McDonald, a principal at Hewitt Associates, a human-resources consulting firm.
According to a new study by Development Dimensions International, a human resources consulting firm, the boss and the workers could hardly disagree more.
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Most companies have published data that you can read to gauge your employer's financial health, says Michael Zwell, chief executive of Zwell International, a human-resources consulting firm based in Glenview, Ill.
In July owned-by-its-managers EnnisKnupp agreed to be acquired by Hewitt Associates, a large publicly traded Lincolnshire, Ill. human resources consulting firm that would rename itself Hewitt EnnisKnupp and be headed by EnnisKnupp boss Stephen Cummings.
"Any company that hasn't started to address mobile recruiting is at least a year behind, " said Elaine Orler, an expert in recruiting technology and president of the Talent Function Group, a human resources consulting firm.
The findings from this survey conflict slightly with another survey I wrote up a few weeks ago: Staffing firm Robert Half Management Resources asked 1, 400 chief financial officers whether they checked in with the office during their summer vacations.
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In order to even get to the stage where a deal is on the table, both sides of a partnership needed to be firm believers that those resources would be well-utilized (be it for generating new revenue streams, building a better product, generating brand awareness, etc.).
Adecco, the giant Zurich, Switzerland-based human resources consulting firm, just ran a survey of 500 hiring managers that found that respondents said they were three times as likely to hire a mature worker, defined as age 50 or above (60%), as they were to hire a Millennial (20%).
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But since real-estate professionals tend to be salespeople at heart and the market for sales aces is growing, making a switch to sales roles in other, more robust industries such as insurance, pharmaceuticals and computer software, is usually possible, says Jay Hargis, founder and managing partner of Talent Insight Group, a human-resources consulting firm.
But for Seventh Generation, CSR has meant putting a stake in the ground on natural resources, staying firm, and leading change.
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In a similar survey last summer by human-resources-consulting firm Mercer, Singapore surpassed Hong Kong for the first time in the cost of living.
We invest a great deal of time and resources developing a firm culture that is dedicated to serving our clients and their families.
Fearsome though it is, Cisco is now up against a firm with technical and financial resources at least as great as its own.
Titan Resources, a firm based in Perth, Australia, believes it can manage to do both, without using any of the physical and chemical processes traditionally involved in purifying ores.
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Corporate Executive Board, for one, signs annual contracts with job sites, but overall, the firm tends to spread its resources among many sites, says Eric Coffey, head of corporate recruiting.
In Nancy Balfour's day, American Survey (now renamed United States) was run on almost military lines, with strict discipline, frugal use of resources and a firm determination to maintain its independence from the rest of the paper.
You need the resources of a large firm to litigate and try claims of that magnitude.
"This is a good move, " said Santosh Kamath, partner, Energy and Natural Resources, at consulting firm KPMG India.
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Shares in Mawenzi Resources, an investment firm headed by Mzi Khumalo, a hero of the struggle against apartheid, plunged by 72% in 1998.
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And on the proposal for a permanent African peacekeeping force, Mr Mbeki said what was now needed was a firm G8 decision to help with resources and logistics.
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