A lot of business is still done over the phone, and much of it is based on trust and existing relationships.

After entering the business world, the author found his father's fishing advice inspiring.

After my graduation, dad's business was getting back on track.

Afterwards, she and her father secured their first business meeting with a supermarket owner, who finally agreed to sell Moore's product—cancandy.

Alice Moore is a teenager entrepreneur, who in may 2015 set up her business ailiecandy.

Athens was more and more looked on as a cooperative business possessed of great wealth in which all citizens had a right to share.

Because of the changes in the timetable, your business studies this morning won't be in room 313.

Besides, businesses seek to appeal to customers' senses.

Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grass-roots Americans are taking part in the movement.

But in order to stay in business, arts groups must produce returns.

But now, with the combination of a better price point and a generally fresher product, they can stay in business.

Companies spend millions hiring top business people.

During the last few years, business executives and book writers looking for a new way to advise corporate America have been exploiting Shakespeare's wisdom for profitable ends.

Empowerment and delegation mean new forms of management control to ensure that the overall business plan is being followed, and that operations become more profitable under the new organization, rather than less.

Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful.

Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business.

First, I want to get a job as a computer programmer, and then after five years or so, I'd like to start my own business.

Frederikke Toemmergaard, hotel spokeswoman, said, \Many of our visitors are business people who enjoy going to the gym.\

Further, Dallas arts and arts-based businesses produce $298 for every dollar the city spends on arts programming and facilities.

Granddaughter Gayle Parks, 31—who works alongside her in the family business—said it remained unknown as to who nominated Irene for the award.

He had owned that business for 15 years.

Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California.

He'll be on a business trip for a week.

How long did James run his business?

However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.

However, instead of taking care of his business, john was often off exploring nature.

I wish I had been at my sister's wedding last Tuesday, but I was on a business trip in New York then.

It interrupted the business of the hotel.

It provides awards for running new businesses.

It would be her business to take care of the dog.

It's a hard business review of your product.

Many businesses started up by college students have taken off thanks to the comfortable climate for business creation.

Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this job was no game for him: he meant business.

Modern businesses have been following his lead, with more tactics.

Moore then used her savings to get her business of the ground.

My father travels a lot to many countries and he is doing business in dubai now.

Picking up her \lifetime achievement\ award, proud Irene declared she had no plans to retire from her 36-year-old business.

Publishers already in business, people who were owners of successful papers, had little desire to change the tradition.

Secret codes keep messages private。banks, companies, and government agencies use secret codes in doing business, especially when information is sent by computer.

Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the south pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography.

She began to host \big bosses\ lunches, where she would try to persuade local business leaders to contribute to the cause.

Summer company provides students with hands-on business training and awards of up to $3, 000 to start and run their own summer businesses.

The arts are efficient economic drivers and when they are supported, the entire small-business community benefits.

The Athenians looked on the government as a business.

The kitemark would help companies develop their business models.

The production of coffee beans is a huge, profitable business, but, unfortunately, full-sun production is taking over the industry and bringing about a lot of damage.

Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996, with three generations of Ans working together.

They are amateur Shakespeare scholars and Shakespeare lovers, and they have combined their passion and their high level contacts into a management training business.

They began as a modestly successful musician group and ended the year as show business legends传说.

They could not bear to work in the family business.

They do business all over the world.

They find that customers make decisions in the first few seconds upon walking in the door, and turn it into a business opportunity.

They make businesses work better and they are a part of the corporate culture we live in.

They offer a platform for business links.

This is something that I learned when I started my own business, which is doing really well.

Two years latter, dad started his own business, which wasn't doing so well.

When I grew up and entered the business world, I remember hearing my first boss say, \We all need to think like salespeople.\

When it comes to the selling of houses, businesses also use highly rewarding tactics.

When the polluting industries argue that we've lost the battle to control carbon pollution and have no choice but to adapt, it's a nonsense designed to make the case for business as usual.

While restaurants throw away tons of food each year, much of it remains inaccessible because of locked garbage containers, health regulations, or business policies.

Without the strength of the family, there is no business.

You start with English as usual, then business studies and after the break, history and art.

The worst fear Leah ever had was the prospect of losing her yoga business.

Business schools grade their students in part on their performance in group projects.

After graduating with a degree in business and accounting, she joined a public accounting firm, married, bought a house, put lots of stuff in it, and had a baby.

Not all your business partners are your soul mates.

Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend, Soupios says.

But not many are able to integrate innovation into their business.

We can lead people to eat less while helping the restaurant business.

The sugar industry is overtaking alcohol and tobacco business in generating profits.

The idea of gamification was practiced by some businesses more than a century ago.

It is the focus of the modeling business.

It has proved to be key to McDonald's business success.

Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education, explains Kevin Werbach, a gamification expert who teaches at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

A number of companies have sprung up—GamEffective, Bunchball and Badgeville, to name a few—in recent years offering gamification platforms for businesses.

So like any other business, you have to make choices.

Handicrafts are big business.

When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children, he insisted it would solve three problems at once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population during a severe depression, and stimulate the restaurant business.

They tend to have a lot of experience themselves in the technology business.

The researchers argue that task-based organizing tends to be undervalued and under-supported in the business culture.

Laws can restrict or ban voting, access to public housing, and professional and business licensing.

It may prevent your business and career from advancing.

It does not pay much attention to business startups.

Her business went bankrupt while she was in prison.

Build a wide and strong business network.

Avoid arguments with business partners.

Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company’s decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.

It’s been in business nearly a century.

Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education, explains Kevin

Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend, Soupios says.

The government built the bridge directly from the airport to the Songdo International Business district.

000 people living in the business district and 90,000 residents in greater Songdo.

A bridge with big, light-blue loops leads into the business district.

A business professor says that a future city should have easy access to international transportation.

A company should find ways to innovate not just in products but also in functions, business models and processes.

And that's the probe Songdo has become a popular Korean city —more popular as a residential area than a business one.

Banks and car manufacturers are glad for the extra business in tough economic times.

But critics say the digital access codes represent the same profit-seeking ethos (观念) of the textbook business, and are even harder for students to opt out of.

However, the business had been in trouble for years.

In 2011, a University of North Carolina business professor named John Kasarda published a book called Aerotropolis: The Way We'll live Next.

Instead, topping the list of reasons, about four-in-ten Americans point to a double standard for women seeking to climb to the highest levels of either politics or business, where they have to do more than their male counterparts to prove themselves.

It's been in business nearly a century.

It's not yet the futuristic international business hub that planners imagined.

Just because emails are a quick form of communication, it doesn't mean emails, especially business emails, should be written using informal, shortened forms of words.

Just building a place as an international business district doesn't mean it will become one.

Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company's decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.

Maria McCartney has been in the mobile ice-cream business since 2005.

Meanwhile, there are complaints that poor service at London's major airports is discouraging foreigners from doing business in Britain.

Only about one-in-five say women's family responsibilities are a major reason why there aren't more females in top leadership positions in business and politics.

Some profitable areas such as the DVD publishing business will survive.

Songdo's backers contend that it's still early, and business space is filling up—about 70 percent of finished offices are now occupied.

Songdo's popularity lies more in its quality of life than its business attraction.

The city's current mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, has ridiculed UNESCO and told it to mind its own business, while continuing to support the cruise ship industry, which employs 5, 000 Venice residents.

The global business EFK was born.

The government built the bridge directly from the airport to the Songdo International Business district.

There was a great need for furniture and my grandparents saw a business opportunity.

They are reportedly meeting with lawyers to see how best to take the business forward.

They tend to have a lot of experience themselves in the technology business.

We've surveyed business communication consultants and etiquette experts to come up with the following guidelines for effectively using the alternative ways of delivering difficult messages.

While 53% believe men will continue to hold more top executive positions in business in die future, 44% say it's only a matter of time before as many women are in top executive positions as men.

cut the salary of senior executivesrelocate some of its chain storesadjust its promotion strategiesreduce the size of its staffTo experiment on its new business concept.

The state's facilities management project team is still in the process of developing its business justification and expects to have that completed and available to the public at the end of February, Martin said.

The design objective and the business commitment were to sportswear, and the distinctive traits were problemsolving ingenuity and realistic lifestyle applications.

It poses a potential threat to the retail business in the U.S.

Data on management expenses at the college system and in other state departments will be part of a business justification the state will use as officials deliberate the specifics of an outsourcing plan.

It concerns not only us sociologists, but also economists, politicians and business people.

This is really about trying to cut through the confusion that consumers have when they are buying a product and that businesses have when they are selling a product, said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.

They can easily see through the businesses' tricks.

The bills in both chambers would create health insurance exchanges on which small businesses and individuals could choose from an array of private plans and possibly a public option.

Mr.Wilhelm said the excess of labels made it difficult for businesses and consumers to know which labels they should pay attention to.

It will drive producers of chemical fertilizers out of business.

In poor, dry regions, untreated wastewater is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.

Each business acts its own way in green labeling.

David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product claims.

Businesses compete to produce green products.

Agriculture is a water-intensive business, accounting for nearly 70% of global fresh water consumption.

About once a week, I have a client that will bring up a new certification I've never even heard of and I'm in this industry, said Kevin Wilhelm, chief executive officer of Sustainable Business Consulting.

find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.

No business likes to admit that it sells addictive poison as a lifestyle choice.

Many countries are racing against each other to increase their business and strategic influence on Antarctica.

It will prove to be a profitable business.

Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow explains that when people feel the pressure to be always on, they find ways to accommodate that pressure, including altering their schedules, work habits and interactions with family and friends.

Welcome to the third lecture in our series on the future of small businesses in Europe.

Professor Henderson, could you give us a brief overview of what you do, where you work and your main area of research? I have many Business English students.

They spend a lot of time building strong connections with businesses.

It was about ready to start regular business.

\About once a week, I have a client that will bring up a new certification I've never even heard of and I'm in this industry,\ said Kevin wilhelm, chief executive officer of Sustainable Business Consulting.

\The state's facilities management project team is still in the process of developing its business justification and expects to have that completed and available to the public at the end of February,\ Martin said.

\You hear that you shouldn't take all these photos and interrupt the experience, and it's bad for you, and we're not living in the present moment,\ says Kristin Dehl, associate professor of marketing at the University of Southern California Marshall Schoo

According to the International Business times, electric car sales are expected to increase as Volkswagen is still recovering from its emissions scandal.

And welcome to the third in our series of business seminars in the program Doing Business Abroad.

As marketing professors Silvia Bellezza, Neeru Paharia, and Anat Keinan recently explained in Hazard Business Review HBR, leisure time was once seen as an indicator of high social status, something attainable only for those at the top.

But as a business strategy, I'm afraid there is no stopping.

By the end of 2013, Nokia had sold its phone business to Microsoft.

Data on management expenses at the college system and in other state departments will be part of a \business justification\ the state will use as officials deliberate the specifics of an outsourcing plan.

David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product cl

Either way, taxpayers have no business paying for students' college education.

Farrant and others in the resurrection business got together last year to discuss the best species of resurrection plant to use as a lab model.

Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow explains that when people feel the pressure to be always \on,\they find ways to accommodate that pressure, including altering their schedules, work habits and interactions with family and friends.

However, this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg as smart buildings and even cities increasingly become the norm as leaders and business owners begin to wake up to the massive savings that technology can deliver through connected sensors and new fo

I learned it all starts with the business model.

If I want to continue ahead with this dream of only my own business, I have no other choice.

In poor, dry regions, untreated waste water is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.

Many residents have backgrounds in engineering, business and academic circles.

Most people in the business would agree that consecutive interpreting is the more stressful.

None of them have ever complained that we're putting them out of business or anything like that.

Online security cameras, intelligent lighting and a wealth of sensors that control both temperature and air quality are offering an unprecedented level of control, efficiency, and improvements to what were once classed necessary costs when running a busin

Plagued by long delays, perpetual mismanagement, and ever saw ring costs, the airport has become something of a joke among Germans and a source of frustration for local politicians, business leaders and residents alike.

Recently though, I turn my photography hobby into a small business.

That is the fact that not everyone is British, not everyone speaks English and not everyone does business in a British way.

The design objective and the business commitment were to sportswear, and the distinctive traits were problem-solving ingenuity and realistic lifestyle applications.

The message to young people who might not otherwise be able to afford to break into the business is, \You can purchase this $3 million piece of land here, because I'm guaranteeing you today you'll have 1, 000 Bison on it.\

The protein supplement business is found to be thriving.

The size of the loan I ask for, or the type of business I propose.

They didn't really articulate any position regarding the actual business plan.

They fear I will default on any business loan I'm given.

This generated little commerce for downtown businesses in the evenings, which made business and generating tax revenue for municipal upkeep difficult.

Twenty years ago, the Urban Land Institute defined the two types of cities that dominated the US landscape: smaller cities that operated around standard 9-5 business hours and large metropolitan areas that ran all 24 hours of the day.

When tim Joseph started his business, he found grass-fed products fell short of demand.

You know, forecasting's become a very hazardous business so I don't want to commit myself too much.

Since our chief business with them is to enable them to share in a common life we cannot help considering whether or no we are forming the powers which will secure this ability.

DNA testing is also the latest rage many passionate genealogists-and supports businesses that offer to search for a family's geographic roots.

Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly,like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman,could be trusted to know what they were about.

That ruling produced an explosion in business-method patent filings, initially by emerging internet companies trying to stake out exclusive rights to specific types of online transactions.

Such food service operators range from snack machines to large institutional catering ventures, but most of these businesses are known in the trade as “horeca”： hotels, restaurants and cafes.

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods Amazon.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

New skills and unfamiliar business models are needed too.

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct a broad review of business-method patents.

These are disciplines that are going out of style: 22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English.

Members of social networks, for instance, are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them.

Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non- specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.

A turbulent business environment also has senior managers cautious of letting vague pronouncements cloud their reputations.

This top-down conception of the fashion business couldn’t be more out of date or at odds with the feverish would described in Overdressed, Elizabeth Cline’s three-year indictment of “fast fashion”.

After all, it has an ad business too, which it says will comply with DNT requests, though it is still working out how.

The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like ownership structure of the business.

Among the commission’s 51 members are top-tier-university presidents, scholars, lawyers, judges, and business executives, as well as prominent figures from diplomacy, filmmaking, music and journalism.

The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business–friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation.

Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom“.

Mental health is the source of creativity for solving problems, resolving conflict, making our surroundings more beautiful,managing our home life, or coming up with a creative business idea or invention to make our lives easier.

This could add value to their businesses in three ways.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” wrote Milton Friedman, a Nobel prize-winning economist, “That is, to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.”

Researchers admit that their study does not answer the question of how much businesses ought to spend on CSR.

Peretti says the Times shouldn’t waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way.

It’s a really hard thing to do and it’s a tremendous luxury that BuzzFeed doesn’t have a legacy business,” Peretti remarked.

The changes identified by David Graddol all present clear and major challenges to UK`s providers of English language teaching to people of other countries and to broader education business sectors.

If left to themselves, such trends will diminish the relative strength of the English language in international education markets as the demand for educational resources in languages, such as Spanish ,Arabic or Mandarin grows and international business process outsourcing in other language such as Japanese, French and German, spreads.

The challenge of coping with automation underlines the need for the U. to revive its fading business dynamism: Starting new companies must be made easier.

\Carry a book with you at all times\ can actually work, too-providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.

\It's a really hard thing to do and it's a tremendous luxury that BuzzFeed doesn't have a legacy business,\ Peretti remarked.

\The gap is between the jobs that take no skills and those that require a lot of skill,” says Rob Spohr, a business professor at Montcalm Community College.

\They blame it on the manufacturing recession,\ says birgit Klohs, chief executive of The right Place, a business development agency for western michigan.

A Harvard Business School study found that observers consistently rated those who were frank about themselves more highly, while those who hid lost trustworthiness.

Among the commission's 51 members are top-tier-university presidents, scholars, lawyers, judges, and business executives, as well as prominent figures from diplomacy, film-making, music and journalism.

But completeness is no longer a virtue in the newspaper business.

Curbs on business - method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the Federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with its 1998 decision in the so-called State Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual- fund as

Even in traditional offices, \the lingua franca of corporate America has gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago,\ said Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn.

For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon \revolutionize the very concept of money itself\, only to reverse itself several years later.

In a series of four experiments, behavioral scientists at the University of Chicago and the Wisconsin School of Business tested students' willingness to expose themselves to unpleasant stimuli in an effort to satisfy curiosity.

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods.

Peretti says the times shouldn't waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way.

Quotas get action: they \open the way to equality and they break through the glass ceiling, \ according to Reding, a result seen in France and other countries with legally binding provisions on placing women in top business positions.

So have science and general business reporters.

The best model for understanding the growth of CEO pay is that of limited CEO talent in a world where business opportunities for the top firms are growing rapidly.

The cases the court overturned said that if a business was shipping a customer's purchase to a state where the business didn't have a physical presence such as a warehouse or office, the business didn't have to collect sales tax for the state.

Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about.

This argument has attracted a lot of attention, via the success of the book Race Against the Machine, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, who both hail from MTI's Center for Digital Business.

This includes creating a new 'responsibility deal'with business, built on social responsibility, not state regulation.

This top-down conception of the fashion business couldn't be more out of date or at odds with the feverish world described in Overdressed, Elizabeth Cline's three-year indictment of \fast fashion\.