Sentences with phrase «benchmarking study of»

The study explores different perspectives on paternity leave, including a survey of more than 1,000 fathers from nearly 300 different organizations (primarily well - educated professionals); a benchmarking study of paternity leave policies at leading organizations; and a review of global paternity leave policies and practices, as well as U.S. states that have enacted laws to provide paid parental leave.

Two research studies were also conducted to help inform this process: a postsecondary faculty judgment study; and a benchmark study of the SAT, ACT, NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA tests.

The Commonfund Benchmarks Study of Independent Schools is one of the finest examples of this work.

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And while Macdonald did not look into it, other studies have pointed to another major influence China has had lately on many countries, including Canada: how its high savings rate and mounting foreign currency reserves, much of it invested in benchmark U.S. government debt, have depressed interest rates around the world.

Numerous studies contend a growing number of middle - income workers will not be able to replace the benchmark 60 % to 70 % of their pre-retirement income once they leave the labour force, in large part because of the lack of pension coverage.

The end result of this benchmarking was a salary arms race: between 1936 and 1980, the average CEO salary increased from $ 970,000 to $ 1.1 - million, according to a 2010 study.

Forrester's benchmark study detailed that «87 percent of marketers struggle to produce engaging content.»

Additionally, a study by Inmoo Lee of the KAIST College of Business, Yuen Jung Park of Hallym University, and Neil D. Pearson of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign found that companies that completed buybacks outperformed the benchmark prior to 2001.

To better measure the success of the companies on Inc.'s 2017 Founders 10 list, EY studied median benchmarks for the biotechnology, life sciences, pharmaceutical, and technology sectors at the time of their IPOs and one, two, and three years later.

Between 1980 and 2005, U.S. buyout funds, one of the main categories of private equity, heavily outperformed the S&P 500, according to research from Chris Higson at the London Business School, with about 60 % of the funds he studied beating that benchmark index.

We wanted to find out, so as part of our 2016 Sales Benchmarking Report, we took a close look at the Quick Ratios of the high - growth SaaS companies in our study.

The first thing we wanted to do was to see if the participants in our study lined up reasonably well with Mamoon's benchmark of 4 as a goal for promising SaaS companies.

The study showed that Kansas, while not the cheapest state in the U.S. in terms of the benchmark mean, had some of the smallest rate differences within the state.

Despite a perception among some investors that impact investing necessitates a concessionary return, the Impact Investing Benchmark has exhibited strong performance in several of the vintage years studied as of June 30, 2014.

In fact, the Content Marketing Institute's (CMI) 2015 study, B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends — North America, noted that 32 percent of marketers were using print magazines as one of their content marketing tactics versus 27 percent using digital magazines.

The overarching research objectives of the National Financial Capability Study were to benchmark key indicators of financial capability and evaluate how these indicators vary with underlying demographic, behavioral, attitudinal and financial literacy characteristics.

Forty two percent of companies surveyed in Demand Gen's Lead Nurturing Benchmark Study had been developing lead nurturing campaigns for more than two years.

The study also found that long - term annual returns of the MSCI KLD 400 Social Index, which comprises firms scoring highly on environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, outperformed the S&P 500, a benchmark of the broader US stock market, by 45 basis points, since its inception in 1990.

What the CMI / MarketingProfs Benchmark Study did indicate is that those organizations with a documented content strategy had a better rate of effectiveness.

As an example, a recent benchmarking study on the software industry concluded that it took on average of five years for an emerging software company to reach $ 10 million in revenue.

A new study examines six benchmark indexes that write S&P 500 ® (SPX) index options, comparing their performances with those of traditional stock, bond and commodity benchmark indexes.

As the world prepares for GDPR enforcement, a new Privacy Maturity Benchmark study finds that 65 percent of respondents say their organizations experience sales delays because of data privacy issues.

This is remarkable in light of the study's primary conclusion: Truly active funds (defined as funds with Active Share of 80 or greater) do outperform their benchmarks on average even after fees and expenses.

This case study has viewed SEA of India in terms both of what it does and how it does it, benchmarking it against a model of best practice published by the UK's Trade Association Forum and also drawing on a previous ITC study visit with East African sunflower associations

These overall cost reductions are more impressive in the context of rising freight costs, which were up 11 percent from 2008 levels, according to a study released today by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), the 2010 Logistics Benchmark Report.

In this study, we provide up to date costs of establishment and production and profitability; benchmark indicators for evaluating the viability and sustainability of organic avocado production.

The result has been a series of studies that aims to benchmark and track the progress of FWRA sectors against their goal of reducing food waste.

The report is the second in a series of reports on the joint GMA / BCG 2015 Benchmarking Study.

«Our goal was to establish benchmark medians and ranges of sales force salaries as a service to U.S. wine and spirit import companies,» said Steve Raye, Managing Partner at industry consulting company Brand Action Team which conducted the study.

According to the UEFA's most recent Club Licensing Benchmarking Report, agents received $ 1.27 billion from clubs across the 2,000 transfers that were studied for the report between 2013 and 2017, an amount that represents only 40 percent of the transfers that took place during that period involving European clubs.

For this study, the team used the average daily intake of the breastfeeding baby, around 150 millilitres of milk per kilo of weight, as a benchmark.

Nearly two - thirds of high schools lack a full - time athletic trainer, and nearly 30 percent have no athletic trainer at all, according to the AT Benchmark Study released by the National Athletic Trainers» Association (NATA) and the Korey Stringer Institute (KSI).

The three recent benchmarks studies capture online program metrics from a variety of nonprofits that focus on a multitude of issue areas.

(According to M & R Strategies 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study, the average donation rate on an email is.08 %, meaning you have to email to tens of thousands of people just to get tens of donations — which is what you'll need to see an significant difference from one approach to another).

Thousands of young Buffalo Public Schools students fell further behind in key literacy benchmarks as they progressed through the district's early grades, according to a study from 2006 to 2011 ordered by a former superintendent.

Drawing on the services of a professional society and identifying pertinent resources from other disciplines including work / family centers and think tanks (see sidebar), literature, and benchmark studies, may well serve to expand the knowledge base and enhance the leadership around work / family issues for postdoctoral associates in the workforce.

«This record represents an important benchmark for the study of the history of atmospheric oxygen,» Higgins said.

Cong Cao, associate professor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, says that China is slightly behind on the 2010 benchmark, but on track to meet the 2020 goal.

The lower bound of the study is an important benchmark worldwide; in 2015, the international Paris Climate Agreement set a global target of constraining warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

An unprecedented study titled, «Lifecycle Assessments of Railway Bridge Transitions Exposed to Extreme Events,» published in Frontiers in Built Environment, benchmarks the costs and carbon emissions for the life cycle of eight mitigation measures and reviews these methods for their effectiveness in three types of extreme environmental conditions.

This new planet is among the least endowed with such metals that we know of, and because it is so bright it should serve as a benchmark for comparative studies of how and under what conditions planets form.»

«Previous studies have given us a broad set of benchmarks, including the sequence of the entire genome, which makes Candida albicans a great subject for study in microgravity because we have extensive information to compare it to.»

This study is the first to collect baseline coral restoration survival and productivity data at regional scales including data from 1,000 s of individual A. cervicornis colonies, more than 120 distinct genotypes within six geographical regions to develop benchmarks to fully assess the progress and impacts of the region's coral and reef restoration efforts.

«We're at the stage of saying, «OK, these (levels) compared to a benchmark indicate more evaluation need to be done,»» said Wesley Stone, a Geological Survey hydrologist and the study's lead author.

J. Michael Murphy, EdD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Psychiatry, senior author of the JAACAP paper, notes that this is the first study to document the positive impact of a large - scale pediatric mental health intervention using validated mental health measures and real - world benchmarks like end - of - the - year promotion and school attendance.

«Our aim was to establish an adherence benchmark to enlighten further study of barriers to provider adherence and of patient outcomes related to guideline adherence,» explains lead investigator Gregory P. Auffenberg, MD, from the Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago.

Objectives: We propose to develop best - practice guidelines and minimal reporting standards specifically in the context of several regulatory toxicology case studies; e.g. (a) chemical grouping and read - across to supplement ECHA's Read - Across Assessment Framework, (b) discovery of mode of action / molecular key events (within the AOP framework), (c) derivation of Benchmark Doses from concentration - response relationships, and (d) cross-species extrapolation within environmental toxicology.

Other attempts to extract temperature info from a matrix of tree ring chronologies using a statistical fitting procedure have to pass statistical tests benchmarked with reference to the characteristics of the specific data set being studied.

The study also provides theorists with benchmark values for their calculations and simulations of ligated gold clusters.

Abstract: Substellar members of young ($ \ lesssim $ 150 Myr) moving groups are valuable benchmarks to empirically define brown dwarf evolution with age and to study the low - mass end of the initial mass function.