Sentences with phrase «business school study»

According to a Harvard Business School Study, «A face - to - face interaction results in 13 times the brand recall compared to a message delivered via a marketing piece.»

Policyowners who choose a life settlement typically receive on average more than four times what they would receive from surrendering their policy back to the life insurance company, or letting their policy lapse (London Business School Study, June 2013).

Surprising fact: During one Harvard Business School study students were asked, «Have you set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?»

A Harvard Business School study entitled «Capital Market Myopia» calculated that industry fundamentals (as of mid-1983) could not then nor in the foreseeable future have justified the total market capitalization of these companies.

Earlier this summer, the New York Times published a story about a Harvard Business School study which suggested people who spend money to save time (rather than spending time to save money) are generally happier.

In Republican - controlled legislatures, the number of laws proposed to loosen gun control increased by 75 percent, where in Democrat - controlled legislatures, the number of laws proposed to restrict gun access increased 10 percent, according to the Harvard Business School study.

A 2012 Harvard Business School study showed that 95 percent of VC - backed startups fail.

According to a frequently cited Harvard Business School study, nine out of 10 startups go bust.

A recent Harvard Business School study found that the «average CEO spends one in three hours on activities that were not planned in advance.»

«In two studies, both from Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In and from a Harvard Business School study, when it came to judging women's work less favorably, the women involved in the study were just as biased as the men,» O'Rourke writes, summarizing Nelson's comments.

Among so - called growth companies, the failure rate is even higher, according to a 2012 Harvard Business School study: About three - quarters of startups with venture backing fail.

According to a Harvard Business School study, the total revenue lost for every star a merchant loses on Yelp!

Not exact matches

Most call centers motivate employees through fear, punishing them for not hitting targets or spending too long on the phone, says Daniel Cable, a professor at London Business School who has studied the industry.

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

This second part of the competition is the subject of a new set of studies recently completed by the Lawrence Centre at Western University's Ivey Business School.

So, people who studied business - production systems or kind of old - school business philosophy maybe are familiar with it.

To help determine whether it will result in a real improvement in the lives of garment workers or in business results, Levi's has enlisted Harvard's School of Public Health to rigorously measure and study the initiative.

Amy Cuddy, a psychologist at the Harvard Business School, has been studying first impressions for more than a decade.

For business school, this is typically reading the newest case study for a class.

And when it comes to the «real world» after school, study after study has shown that gender diversity within boardrooms leads to better decisions, higher earnings, fewer ethical issues — in short, stronger businesses.

The associate professor of human resources and management at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business studies the demands that high - pressure workplaces make on people's time, and how they respond.

At 29, he's already started multiple businesses, won several robotics competitions and is studying for his MBA at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.

The study was presented recently at the 2014 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference at Western University's Ivey Business School in London, Ont., which set out to uncover the factors that «influence variance in entrepreneurial orientation» — risk - taking, innovativeness, pro-activeness — among family firms.

According to a study in the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, researchers from Columbia Business School designed an experiment where they gave cheques to MBA students and tracked how long they took to cash them.

I quit my job, spent time with my dad, who'd had a stroke, and went back to school for business and environmental studies.»

A recent study of 21,000 business school alumni found that 45 % of entrepreneurs who have graduated since 2010 started their businesses straight out of school, compared to just 7 % among those who graduated prior to 1990.

A recent study done by two business school researchers says that social media really can influence the amount of money you spend to the point that you can't control yourself.

A similar strategy for tackling the urge to slack is to practice «productive procrastination,» a term used by Piers Steel, a professor at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business who studies procrastination.

I attended a spectacular conference Friday at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, whose Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State hosts an annual discussion of antitrust and competition issues.

«They wrote a f — ing Harvard Business School case study about me,» he says.

A new study by Columbia Business School professor Wei Jiang found that the hedge fund filed appraisal petitions on five M&A transactions between 2010 and 2014.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

«Strategic alliances are definitely becoming crucial in building businesses of all kinds and at an earlier stage than ever before,» says Gene Slowinski, director of strategic - alliance studies at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Management.

According to a study from the Harvard Business School, guests with «distinctly African - American names» were 16 % more likely to be rejected by prospective hosts than guests with distinctly white names.

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

Ronald Burt is a sociologist in the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business who for more than 30 years has studied the phenomenon of «structural holes,» i.e., gaps within organizations.

«People who wear that kind of clothing feel more powerful,» Michael L. Slepian, co-author of the study and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia Business School, told the WSJ.

The series of studies led by Haas School of Business professor Laura Kay asked pairs of negotiators to rank the effectiveness of their partners, then quizzed female participants about the extent to which they employed social charm.

A study out of the Stern School of Business and Harvard University found that private firms grow faster than public ones.

That scenario isn't science fiction in the slightest, the new study by Sandra Matz at Columbia Business School shows.

The S&P 500 has delivered a 9.5 % annual return going back to 1928, according to a study by NYU Stern School of Business finance professor Aswath Damodaran.

Or, the group focuses on doing deep dives into each other's businesses similar to the case study approach anyone who attended business school would be familiar with.

A recent study by the University of Greenwich's Business School found that praise from the boss can actually be demotivating in certain situations.

The study, conducted by Sameer B. Srivastava, Ph.D. and doctoral student Eliot Sherman at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, found that low - performing women who switched from a male supervisor to a high - performing female supervisor earned substantially less than men who made a similar shift.

After 11 years of studying the habit, and a lifetime battling it, Steel — now a professor of human resources and organizational dynamics at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business — has become the world's leading authority on not getting things done.

But what are the kinds of things business school students and faculty actually study, and what use are they in the working world?

«All of us grow up with a set of expectations about what we're supposed to do,» the study's lead author, Harvard Business School professor Kathleen L. McGinn, tells Business Insider.

He received his BA with high honors in Economics at Princeton University and studied business and finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business before leaving to co-found Metbusiness and finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business before leaving to co-found MetBusiness before leaving to co-found MetaReward.

«Studies show that the slower the tempo, the slower people walk through the store, so the more they put in their baskets and the more they end up buying,» Deborah MacInnis, professor of business administration and marketing at the USC Marshall School of Business, told the Lbusiness administration and marketing at the USC Marshall School of Business, told the LBusiness, told the LA Times.

Jennifer and Devereaux Jennings, married professors with the University of Alberta School of Business, have been studying work - life balance among entrepreneurs for more than a decade.