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Corporate-owned life insurance in the United States

Pejorative names for the practice include janitor's insurance and dead peasants insurance, the latter of which refers to the plot of Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls.


Aalto University School of Business

The CEMS is a strategic alliance of 27 member schools around the world and over 75 corporate partners.

Albertsons

In areas where this program was in effect, it was widely advertised over television and radio by corporate spokeswoman Patricia Heaton.

Ann Maxwell

The last one that she read, Corporate Affair by Stephanie James (a.k.a. Jayne Ann Krentz) made her fall in love with the genre.

Arlene Stuart

Following on from a stint at 1548 Forth 2 presenting a weekday lunchtime show and a phone-in on Sunday mornings, Stuart now co-presents the weekday breakfast show Boogie in the Morning on Forth 1 alongside commercial and corporate voiceover work.

Aspen Technology

Over the past few years, under the leadership of Mark Fusco, AspenTech has attempted a corporate turnaround strategy.

Basel I

Assets of banks were classified and grouped in five categories according to credit risk, carrying risk weights of 0% (for example cash, bullion, home country debt like Treasuries), 20% (securitisations such as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) with the highest AAA rating) 50%, 100% (for example, most corporate debt), and some assets given No rating.

Celebration of Lights

In September 2012, Chief Executive of Allegheny County Rich Fitzgerald announced that he was cancelling the Celebration of Lights due to inability to find corporate sponsorship.

Consumer-generated advertising

Joel Moss Levinson won 11 consumer generated marketing contests, and earned more than $200,000 in money and prizes, by creating corporate jingles and short commercials.

Cotton made in Africa

Further stakeholders supporting CmiA in an advisory capacity are Accenture, Avery Dennison, German Agro Action, German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), McCann Erickson and the World Wide Fund For Nature.

Dagsbrún

, as well as most of the Icelandic media company Norðurljós, making it the largest corporate network provider in Iceland, offering mobile and fixed telephony and high-quality data networking, with a large footprint in the residential broadband and TV market.

David Kershaw

Kershaw qualified as a Solicitor at Herbert Smith, London and practised corporate law in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group of Shearman & Sterling in New York and London.

David Pitt-Watson

He also co-authored The New Capitalists with Stephen Davis and Jon Lukomnik, which describes how structures of corporate governance can help ensure companies work in the interest of the millions of individuals who own their shares.

Elaine Wan Chan

Elaine has also collaborated with Selena Tan to write hits for W!LD RICE's musical productions including Aladdin (2004), CinderellaH! (2003) and the first 3 installments of Dim Sum Dollies amongst many other corporate projects.

Eugene R. McGrath

McGrath was a member of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, the Development Advisory Council for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the National Academy of Engineering, and the New York City Public/Private Initiatives.

Fred Sutherland

In retirement he became Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism for the Province of Manitoba and then Corporate Vice-President Human Resources with McCain Foods.

Furniture Style

The magazine was based in Lincolnshire, Illinois, at Vance Publishing's corporate headquarters; it was founded in October 1996.

Gamaliel Onosode

An Urhobo man, born and raised in Sapele a suburban city in the current Delta State by a disciplined father, he sometimes credited the strict family background and practice as being a complementary factor in his success as a disciplined civil servant and corporate administrator.

GameSpy

In 1997, corporate strategist Mark Surfas licensed GameSpy 3D from Spy Software, and created GameSpy Industries.

Graniterock

Outstanding Corporate Campaign Gold Level 2001–2002 — United Way of Santa Cruz County

Grass Range, Montana

Thomas Siebel, corporate officer and owner of two ranches in the Grass Range area.

Hakon Lunde

He was a board member of Elkjøp from 1963 to 1983, Norges Handels- og Sjøfartstidende from 1970 to 1978, Det Norske Oljeselskap from 1971 to 1989, a member of the supervisory board of Norges Bank from 1990 to 1993 and of the corporate assembly of Oslo Sporveier from 1996 to 2000.

High Justice

Pournelle's view of corporate mega-projects is similar to that of Robert A. Heinlein as expressed in stories such as The Man Who Sold the Moon, or more recently in the work of Tom Clancy.

Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit

These consortium members included the three commercial partners GE Corporate R&D, Kitware, Inc., and MathSoft (the company name is now Insightful); and the three academic partners University of North Carolina (UNC), University of Tennessee (UT), and University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).

J. Barry Griswell

He has been inducted into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame, is a recipient of the United Way of Central Iowa Alexis de Tocqueville Society award, a 2004 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, a 2004 recipient of the Central Iowa Philanthropic Award for Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser, and a 2006 recipient of the Business Committee for the Arts Leadership Award as well as a 2008 recipient of the American for the Arts Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award.

James Carson

James S. Carson (1874–1960), American corporate executive and Spanish–American War veteran

Java Green

Java Green is operational at different locations including educational institutions like DA-IICT,SRM University and IIM Bangalore, hospitals like KDA Hospital, Mumbai and Fortis, corporate offices like DAKC, Mumbai and IBM, Reliance Web worlds and Spencer's retail.

Jordan A. Thomas

In both 2013 and 2012, the Ethisphere Institute named Thomas to its listing of “Attorneys Who Matter,” which recognizes leading practitioners in the world of corporate ethics and compliance.

José Carlos Semenzato

The holding presided by Semenzato has a number of other affiliated companies: Editora Raízes (a publishing house), a printshop, Star Brindes (a gift manufacturing company) and ProfSat (a satellite-based distance education and corporate communication company, in society with the Universidade de Uberaba).

Juan Mauricio Wurmser

His years as a corporate marketing executive include early assignments with the Guatemala subsidiaries of Warner Lambert, Avon, and Colgate-Palmolive, before joining British American Tobacco in 1978, a company that he served for 15 years in Guatemala, Panama, Spain, Mexico, and Argentina before returning to Guatemala as President and General Manager of its local subsidiary.

Junichi Tazawa

After he finished his high school career in Yokohama, Tazawa was not drafted by any of Nippon Professional Baseball's 12 teams, and joined the company team of Nippon Oil in the corporate league, unaffiliated with the NPB.

Keep America Beautiful

Elizabeth Royte author of Garbage Land, describes Keep America Beautiful as a "masterful example of corporate greenwash," writing that in contrast to its anti-litter campaigns, it ignores the potential of recycling legislation and resists changes to packaging.

King Report

King Report on Corporate Governance - three reports (King I, King II, King III) detailing the South African corporate governance code

Lewis A. Coser

In contrast, the non-coincidence of economic and political disenfranchisement among Quebecers reduces somewhat the severity of their conflict with English Canada, especially with the rising prosperity of the French Canadian new middle class operating in the public sector and corporate world.

Luke Toyne

His live event hosting includes public entertainment, corporate networking, media workshops and marketing campaigns including 'Robots Live' - the roadshow tour of Robot Wars, Carphone Warehouse, Virgin and Derren Brown's dating experiment for Trick or Treat on Channel 4.

McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure

Based on the McDonald's fast food franchise and four of its corporate mascots from McDonaldland (Ronald McDonald, Hamburglar, Grimace, and Birdie the Early Bird), the game follows the adventures of Ronald McDonald in an attempt to find four pieces of a treasure map, and ultimately, the treasure to which it leads.

MediaPark

Among the corporate firms at MediaPark are EMI Music Germany, Radio Köln and Westdeutscher Rundfunk studios of 1LIVE; among the cultural institutions are a large multiplex cinema (Cinedom), the Filmbüro Nordrhein-Westfalen, the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, the musikFabrik and SK Stiftung Köln with the Akademie för uns Kölsche Sproch (Academy for our Kölsch language).

National Junior College

Chen Show Mao, Partner in the Corporate Department of international law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell and Managing Partner of their Beijing Office.

Normand Cherry

In early 1990, Cherry took part in plans to modernize the manufacturing firm Valmet-Dominion Inc. (a unit of the Finnish company Valmet) and relaunch its corporate office in Montreal.

North Shore Connector

Other businesses and attractions served include the Del Monte corporate headquarters (600 employees), Equitable Resources (450 employees), the SpringHill Suites Marriott Hotel and other nearby hotels, Stage AE North Shore Amphitheater (Indoor rock club plus outdoor amphitheater with lawn for 5,500 visitors opening December 2010), the Andy Warhol Museum (90,000 visitors), and many other night spots and restaurants.

Paula Cox

Paula A. Cox is a corporate lawyer, having served as a lawyer for ACE Limited as their Corporate Counsel and previously as Vice President and Senior Legal Counsel of Global Funds Services at the Bank of Bermuda Limited.

Pledge drive

Although the federal government of the United States, primarily through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and corporate underwriting provide some money for public broadcasting organizations like National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), they are largely dependent on program fees paid by their member stations.

Recession

Economist Richard C. Koo wrote that under ideal conditions, a country's economy should have the household sector as net savers and the corporate sector as net borrowers, with the government budget nearly balanced and net exports near zero.

RTÉ Board

The RTÉ Board is a seven-member body which makes policy and guiding corporate direction for RTÉ, Ireland's state public broadcaster.

Safenet

Sean Price, Corporate Vice President, Business Development

St Catherine's Court

After her divorce from Flynn and marriage to American film producer James Keach, Seymour rented the manor as a film set, recording studio and latterly country house estate/hotel for corporate events and weddings.

St. Clair Entertainment Group

It also has corporate offices and representation in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver.

Teresa Isaac

In 2006, Isaac ran for reelection but lost to political newcomer and Lexington corporate attorney Jim Newberry.

Web portal

The early hosted portal companies such as Hyperoffice.com or the now defunct InternetPortal.com focused on collaboration and scheduling in addition to the distribution of corporate data.

William J. Baroody, Jr.

Baroody's brothers include Michael Baroody, a corporate lobbyist, and Joseph Baroody, a former leader of the National Association of Arab Americans.

Xylem Inc.

The corporate history of Goulds Pumps began in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, when Seabury S. Gould purchased the interests of Edward Mynderse and H.C. Silsby in Downs, Mynderse & Co., a pump making business which had started up in 1840.


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