He and his allies thought of themselves as a firm-within-a-firm, isolated from management, free to pursue their own practices.
She said that up until now, there hasn't been a critical mass of women in venture capital and that women were often working solo isolated inside VC firms.
The empirical analysis does not reject the hypothesis that profitability considerations are important with a number of firm characteristics being isolated as of special relevance, including firm size and the use of complementary technologies and managerial techniques.
Baauer's bass was firm, and isolated in a way that felt rigid.
The Duke and Duchess had risen to greatness not least because of their intimacy with Anne, but the Duchess's relentless campaign against the Tories (Sarah was a firm Whig), isolated her from the Queen whose natural inclinations lay with the Tories, the staunch supporters of the Church of England.
Interestingly, we found that these biosynthetic genes were absent from the "Bifido", "Firm-4″ and "Firm-5″ strains isolated from bees, which provides indirect support for the hypothesis that glycogen biosynthesis is indeed a specific adaptation to the mammalian gut.
This paper suggests that the impact of an individual operations strategy is difficult to isolate from other firm activities, such as its financial management.
How can anyone know when the failure of one firm is an isolated event or the start of a broader conflagration?
A Utah firm, Myriad Genetics, had isolated two human genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, that can contain mutations that predispose women who carry them to breast cancer — crucial knowledge for early detection and prevention.
Harry Jamieson, the owner and sole employee of this firm, is so isolated that even clients who have visited him for decades get lost trying to find his workshop.
