The pre-drinking session features Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape and other tech companies, and now the leader of venture firm Andreessen Horowitz.
May became Price Waterhouse firm leader 1910 and won the contract in 1935 for guarding the Academy Awards votes after some raised concerns about the honesty of the process.
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The result: Even senior foreign nationals on assignment to the U.S. often "cannot open a bank account or get a line of credit, " says Ed Hannibal, North American mobility leader at consulting firm Mercer.
So while Kerry told journalists on his trip that the U.S. was prepared to reach out, and even under the right circumstances make a grand overture to North Korea's leader, he stuck firm to the condition that North Korea must first show it's committed to denuclearization.
John Patrick is a senior engagement leader at Kotter International a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations.
The firm is a leader in investment banking, asset management, private banking, private equity, custody and transaction services and retail and middle market financial services.
As British leader, Thatcher took a firm stance with the European Community -- the forerunner of the European Union -- demanding a rebate of money London contributed to Brussels.
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While in Japan visiting customers, I met a brilliant project leader for a Japanese engineering firm who told me about how she has eliminated project-related emails by using their project management software.
Three-quarters of Lazard's revenues are paid back in compensation, a fact that caused much of the initial strife between Wasserstein and Michel David-Weill , scion of the family who founded the firm and the leader of the capitalist group.
When a venture capital firm becomes an industry thought leader investors, entrepreneurs and the industry ecosystem from attorneys and bankers to bloggers and investment bankers recognize the firm as the leading expert in a particular field.
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"You have to act like a leader, " says Torod Neptune, crisis management leader at tech-focused PR firm Waggener Edstrom.
SAP, the largest German software firm and the world leader in enterprise-application programmes.
Ken Perlman is an engagement leader at Kotter International, a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations.
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Dennis Goin is the executive engagement leader of Kotter International, a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations.
Dennis Goin Dennis Goin is the executive engagement leader of Kotter International, a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations.
Not only does being a thought leader effectively differentiate you and your firm from the multitude of competitors, it translates into significantly greater than normative financial returns for the effort.
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First, on May 19th, energy risk analysis leader 3TIER and weather risk management firm Galileo announced that they would be offering financial products to hedge the risk of wind variability.
Western Digital Corp. (WDC) : A lot of investors are sour on this California-based firm, a longtime leader in the hard drive and digital storage business, because of the shift away from hard drives toward solid-state and flash drives.
Finding yourself a member of a minority group in a foreign country can be character building, both professionally and personally, notes Gary Baker, the U.S. global mobility leader for the consulting and accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has offices in 154 countries.
Otherwise, Mr Cardoso risks going into history as the leader who, by failing to give firm fiscal underpinning to the real, squandered Brazil's best development opportunity in more than a generation.
In February Ken Maddock, the then leader of the county council, said the firm was failing to deliver promised savings.
Furthermore, by becoming an industry thought leader, not only is the venture capital firm effectively branding itself, the firm is simultaneously becoming a magnet for attractive business opportunities.
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The basic fracking technology has been around a long time, but in the last few years this technology has made radical progress and improvement, and a leader in that is a Houston-based firm called Carbo Ceramics.
"In Japan, people think that if industry leader Nomura was doing it, every other securities firm must have been doing it, too, " Mr Maeda says.
As leader of Earth's No. 1 oil firm, Raymond naturally spoke.
The firm is also pushing hard to be a leader in the roll-out of devices supporting the 4k standard.
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Hubert Hsu is a senior partner in the firm's Hong Kong office and the leader of BCG's Consumer practice in Asia-Pacific.
My firm is AppCrown, and we are the market leader for cloud computing integration for Wealth Management institutions.
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