As a result, according to a survey conducted last year
by Focus Research Systems Inc. of West Hartford, Conn., less than 7 % of American small businesses (those with fewer than 500 employees or less than $ 25 million in sales) used on - site computers.
DuPont is helping the packaging industry make gains in sustainability
by focusing our research and development on four properties that significantly reduce environmental footprints:
Importantly, our study suggests that,
by focusing research exclusively on adults, it is likely that we will underestimate the number of species vulnerable to decreasing levels of oxygen in the marine environment.»
By focusing your research on a smaller number of businesses that fall within your circle of competence you can do a better job on your research.
Courts can take shortcuts
by focusing their research on salient indicia of state practice in the form of treaties and important decisions from international tribunals, but those examples usually seem to tell only part of the story.
Not exact matches
It highlights
research carried out
by an international team of psychologists that
focused on determining the boundaries of the extrovert advantage, and they found a big one.
Viome is the first subsidiary of BlueDot, another company founded
by Jain, which will
focus on licensing technology from
research labs.
Recently, Equilar, a
research firm that
focuses on board recruitment, put together a Gender Diversity Index and predicts that the board of directors on the Russell 3000 list — the 3000 largest companies based in the United States — will achieve parity, with a membership made up of 50 percent women and 50 percent men,
by the fourth quarter of 2055.
By comparison, marketing
research tools like
focus groups can be expensive and may not target the right people, while market questionnaires or surveys generally do not give potential customers a chance to try the product.
The team behind the announcement is not the first to attempt something of this nature, and previous efforts
by other companies have been criticized for having too little
research behind them or
focusing too much on detection rather than treatment.
The event, called Catalyst Canada Honours, is run
by Catalyst — a nonprofit organization that is
focused on expanding opportunities for women in business — and the group has been
researching woman at work since its inception in 1962.
Frustrated
by the lack of knowledge doctors could give them, Frey decided to shift the
focus of his
research.
While conducting
research for their book, The Mind of the Leader, Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter interviewed more than 1,000 leaders and found that practicing mindfulness, meaning a
focus on the present, achieved
by meditation and other techniques, helped those leaders engage with their employees, create better connections and improve company performance.
Walmsley, who took over a year ago, is
focusing on rebuilding GSK's drug pipeline
by overhauling
research and appointing heavyweight outsiders, such as veteran Roche scientist Hal Barron.
While Holoubek
focused on building her colleagues» capacity to function without her, and Downey thrived playing it
by ear, Danah Boyd of Microsoft
Research took a slightly different tack, actively looping collaborators into the planning process.
As a
research - based thought leader whose reputation for client
focus is recognized industry - wide, its business model is founded on strong client engagement backed
by comprehensive competitive insights driven
by data.
Joint
research by Harvard Business Review Analytics and EY's Beacon Institute shows that companies
focusing on purpose to drive performance see higher profitability.
This can set you up also for more long term reputation rehabilitation
by forcing a
focus on Turing as a
research and development company — not a pharma hedge fund hybrid.»
Next time you need to make a decision, spend some time thinking about how much and what type of information you really need before getting carried away
by your
research and tripping yourself up
by focusing on irrelevant data.
The charges took specific aim at the Internet
Research Agency (IRA), a notorious Russian «troll factory» which
focused on sowing political discord during the 2016 election
by using internet bots to spread fake news and pro-Donald Trump propaganda on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms.
Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi's
research is
focused on these flow states that optimize our performance
by finding that balance between challenge and skill.
A decrease in Chinese production of dysprosium highlighted
by research commissioned
by Northern Minerals, has placed an increasing
focus on the company's Browns Range rare earths project.
«As they struggled to figure out what made a team successful, Rozovsky and her colleagues kept coming across
research by psychologists and sociologists that
focused on what are known as «group norms» - the traditions, behavioral standards, and unwritten rules that govern how teams function when they gather... Norms can be unspoken or openly acknowledged, but their influence is often profound.»
According to a study (PDF) of 1,000 full - time office workers commissioned
by Energy
Focus and conducted
by Wakefield
Research, 69 percent of participants reported problems with office lights including glare, brightness, and excessive flicker.
Research by the University of Southern California, which explores what happens when our brains are at rest, reveals that when our minds wander they engage in a form of neural processing «that is relatively suppressed when attention is
focused on the outside world.»
Technorati, a site
focused on helping people find great blogs and content specific to their industry or topic, was recently ranked as the fifth - largest social media site
by comScore, an internet market
research company.
Geoff Blaber, vice president of
research and market analysis firm CCS Insight, says that
by leading off the conference with a
focus on security and privacy, but pledging the only way to overcome those challenges is to continue to build services, Zuckerberg successfully «walked the tightrope.»
A MERE two per cent of Australian businesses with an Internet presence reported a profit from transactions generated from and through their websites during 1999, according to a study
by Marketing
Focus research team leader Barry Urqhuart.
The company
focuses on cancer drug
research and has a platform for so - called «real - world» data, which can be used to assess the economic value of medicines and is sought after
by drug makers looking to justify their prices to health insurers.
To help readers see pass the short term volatility of the financial market, we aim to bring you a long - term
focused research analysis purely driven
by fundamental data.
These include: C$ 4.5 billion to support
research, training, and infrastructure at universities and colleges; a Strategic Innovation Fund that will provide C$ 1.26 billion for business innovation in the aerospace and automotive sector; a Connect to Innovate Program that will invest C$ 500 million to bring high - speed Internet to remote and rural communities
by 2021; and, C$ 70 million over six years to support agriculture innovation with a
focus on climate change, and soil and water conservation.
His doctoral
research focused on the regulation of the ERK / MAPK pathway
by adenylyl cyclases during long - term memory formation and sensitization to drugs of abuse.
By signing up with one of them, you will save a huge amount of time on
researching and analyzing market data; this will allow you to
focus solely on making smart trades that lead you to consistently making profit.
Since I completed my Rich Habits study in 2008, my
focus has really been to help as many people as possible
by getting my
research out there through my writing (books / blog), media interviews and speaking engagements.
Some entrepreneurs arrive at a final decision
by going with their gut or
by doing consumer
research or testing with
focus groups to see how the names are perceived.
In November of 2014, the Morgan Stanley sell - side
research team that
focuses on the auto industry, headed
by Adam Jonas, made a trip to Detroit to visit the big three automakers.
Many scientific studies, including
research by renowned psychologists Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough, have found that people who consciously
focus on gratitude, experience greater emotional wellbeing and physical health than those who don't.
About the author: JS Kim is the Managing Director and Founder of SmartKnowledgeU, a fiercely independent
research, consulting and education firm that
focuses on gold and silver asset investment strategies as a means of countering the damaging effects of rapidly devaluing fiat currencies worldwide and price - distorted stock market and asset bubbles created
by Central Bankers.
While Canadian biotechnology expatriates are the
focus of this initiative, FACIT continues to attract worldwide leaders in oncology
research to the province, a shared mandate well established by its strategic partner, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
research to the province, a shared mandate well established
by its strategic partner, the Ontario Institute for Cancer
ResearchResearch (OICR).
«RBC GAM's investment approach is characterized
by fundamental
research and rigorous discipline, along with a
focus on risk management and portfolio construction, all within a team - oriented structure,» said Dan Chornous, chief investment officer, RBC Global Asset Management Inc. «Habib and his team fit seamlessly with our approach, as demonstrated
by their strong investment results and stability of returns, with notably solid performance in down markets.»
Due to increasing complexity and length of annual and quarterly financial reports, meeting these criteria requires a
focused effort and, perhaps, significant changes in the way
research is created
by most firms.
When doing keyword
research, one of the best ways to drive organic search traffic to your website is
by focusing on expanders and variations of keywords.
«It would be a pretty huge impact on the auto industry, and also very geographically
focused on certain parts of our auto industry,» said Kristin Dzizcek, a Director with the Center for Automotive
Research, which is funded
by auto manufacturers.
The primer offers investors advice on how to make intelligent decisions
by doing their due diligence and
researching their target investments in order to avoid «schemers and fraudsters seeking to capitalize on the current attention
focused on virtual currencies.»
Instead of labeling the chart with a neutral title such as, «Mortgage Rates
By Race,» like I did with this article, the Pew
Research Center decided to
focus on the negatives and entitled it, «Blacks, Hispanics More Likely To Pay Higher Mortgage Rates.»
Focus groups as well as usability studies can play a role in triangulating
research by being used to gauge the reaction to prototypes and new concepts that may be born out of the combined quantitative and ethnographic
research.
Searching For and Finding Value» 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Charlie Tian, Founder & Director of
Research, Guru
Focus Topic: «What Worked in the Market from 1998 - 2008: Undervalued Predictable Companies» 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Robert Miles, Author & Conference Organizer & Host [USA] Topic: «Portrait of a Disciplined Investor: Beating the S&P 500
by 6.8 % Annually For 25 Years» 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Optional Tour depart from Ayres Hotel LAX to Huntington Library 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Briefing
by the Chief Curator of Rare Books on the history of the Huntington Library and the Munger
Research Center 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Continue to Pasadena 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Charlie Munger's Wesco Financial Annual Meeting [The Pasadena Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA.]
«Enhancements to the Ontario
Research and Development Tax Credit and the Ontario Innovation Tax Credit that are
focused on helping scaling tech firms grow in size and global reach are welcomed
by domestic technology CEOs.
In order to
focus on providing objective, conflict - free
research and analysis to our clients, we do not discuss our policies or recommendations with issuers during the solicitation period (which begins on the date the notice of meeting is released and ends on the date of the meeting), unless we decide to conduct a Proxy Talk with the company, which we record for access
by our clients.
In recent studies
by IBM and other
research studies on CEO sentiments, customer insight and understanding are identified as a top
focus for CEOs.