At the beginning of the year, Mozilla revealed a partnership with Spanish firm Geeksphone, with handsets made available to developers.
Or you could spend it as a congressional staffer, walking away from the balance on a big law school debt and into a law firm partnership.
In September, the South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust announced it was going into partnership with private firm Serco and the health watchdog warned the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust last month it had to find funds from elsewhere or face possible insolvency.
Fnac, which is the biggest bookseller in France as well as the biggest music chain, offers e-books and e-readers in partnership with the Kobo firm.
In a research note Wednesday, he recounts how four living chief executives at the party, Bob Baldwin, Parker Gilbert, John Mack and James Gorman, spoke about the importance of the partnership culture to the firm.
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.).
U.K. retailer Tesco this week sealed a partnership with movie-production firm Amber Entertainment to produce and release films based on some of the best-selling books it sells.
Joe Sims, an antitrust partner at Jones Day and former member of the firm's partnership committee, said clients don't mind paying for associates, as long as they feel they are getting their money's worth.
The grip of Goldman's strong partnership culture has loosened since the firm went public in 1999.
Mr. Browning stressed that in this economic environment there really has to be a partnership between the event and the firm.
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So, the tax bill's writers added a provision saying any profit from the sale of a hedge fund, a private-equity firm or other investment partnership would be taxed at the higher rates that apply to ordinary income.
The world's wealthiest took a financial hit last year, but they're on the road to recovery, according to the 2009 World Wealth Report, released June 24 by financial management firm Merrill Lynch in partnership with consulting company Capgemini.
In a private partnership, the people who run the firm, rather than outside shareholders, bear the brunt of losses a structure that discourages reckless risk-taking.
In the UK, Nokia in partnership with network provider O2 and broadcast firm Arqiva, has been monitoring 400 triallists in the Oxford area since October, both in terms of consumer behaviour and how the technology performs.
It used to be that a startup could only get in the door at a big IT shop with significant connections (like a venture backer who golfs with CIOs every week) or by piggy-backing on a partnership with some other, much larger firm.
Lutnick convinced him to change the firm from a corporation into a partnership, to avoid double taxation.
Kinder and Morgan set their firm up as a master limited partnership, an obscure structure that had one key advantage: no corporate income taxes.
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By forming a collaborative partnership with an HBS faculty member, your firm could gain the competitive advantage of finding answers first and, ultimately, make a difference for the world of business.
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Kurtzman acknowledges a partnership with a brand-and cash-rich firm is one way to achieve his goals.
The Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership (GCGPLEP) said it was a "firm commitment" to the scheme.
Philips plans to introduce a hand-held drug-testing device in 2009, in partnership with Cozart, a British medical-diagnostics firm.
Mr Marchionne is adamant that Fiat will not put any of its own much-needed cash at risk, and the Fiat team that has been carrying out due diligence on Chrysler thinks it will be two years before the American firm will feel real benefit from the partnership.
NaiLab was launched in 2011 by NaiLab Ltd in partnership with the crowdfunding platform 1%CLUB and consultancy firm Accenture.
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Dolan Co. was born in 1992, when Dolan formed a partnership with Cherry Tree Investments, a Minneapolis private equity firm, to build a media business.
Goldman's partnership selection already is staggered, but every other year the firm had to choose partners and managing directors at the same time.
The new partnership will see the head office of the prince's firm close and move into Waitrose buildings but will involve no redundancies among the 15 members of staff, the firm said.
The project, which has government funding, was developed by Teignbridge District Council in partnership with Devon County Council, the Aster Housing group and construction firm Galliford Try.
After a decade in the market as a sole trader, in 1894, Michael Marks formed a partnership with Yorkshireman Tom Spencer, a former cashier with a retail firm.
MasterCard Advisors , a division of MasterCard has announced a partnership and investment in Mu Sigma , a high-end analytics firm in Chicago and India.
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John White has also committed not to directly engage with the SEC in its rule-writing, to sell his shares in several investment funds and to change his partnership in Cravath so that he doesn't share in the firm's profits but receives fixed compensation.
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