Sentences with phrase «university study this year»

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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).

A five - year study by Brittany C. Solomon and Joshua J. Jackson of Washington University in St. Louis found that a spouse's personality has a significant impact on one's occupational success.

In 2004, a psychology study by researchers at the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina found that for every inch you stand above the national average, you could earn an additional $ 789 (unadjusted) per year.

After completing her gap year, she plans to attend Harvard University as a sociology and African - American studies double major.

She also pursued studies at Oxford University during her Ivy years, and took a year off in 2011 to film.

Zach Sims founded Codecademy two years ago, after dropping out of Columbia University, where he was studying political science.

According to the study, authored by Vivek Wadhwa, an Indian - American entrepreneur and academic, who is currently vice president of academics and innovation at Singularity University, the proportion of immigrant - founded companies across the country has fallen nearly 4 % in the past seven years.

Matt Zimmerman, assistant professor of sports media at Mississippi State University, who has been studying the growth of the gaming industry in recent years, sees the potential in a company meant to help e-sports devotees improve.

In recent years, a few fascinating studies at Harvard, Princeton and other top universities shed new light on body language and how to use it at work.

In 2014 — seven years after the suspected Russian hack — engineers at the University of Michigan studied Estonia's online - voting system and concluded that determined hackers — such as Russian operatives — could feasibly penetrate it, creating fake votes or altering the totals in order to rig elections «quite possibly without a trace,» they wrote in their report.

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.

In addition, the university has seven different combined degrees — this year marks the introduction of a joint MBA and library and information studies degree.

So Schnidman Medbery, who studied computer science at Columbia University before spending two years with Teach for America in rural Arkansas, decided to create software to help teachers track and analyze student performance.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

Last year The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center began clinical trials on the efficacy of SuperBetter to treat traumatic brain injuries, and the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center greenlighted a randomized controlled user study of the game to treat depression.

Some 40 percent of Americans make New Year's resolutions, but only about 8 percent of us achieve them, according to a study by the University of Scranton.

«Based on a series of studies performed by our team over the past 5 years, this «dose» of exercise has become my prescription for life,» Benjamin Levine, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern who wrote the study, said in a statement.

People form many of their financial habits by seven years old, a 2013 University of Cambridge study found.

A new study by the American Association of University Women sheds some light on the gender wage gap by examining the earnings of men and women one year post-graduation.

A year - long study conducted by Duke University discovered huge benefits of virtual reality technology for paraplegics.

Einstein worked at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Studies for approximately 20 years.

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.

After dedicating most of her college years to studying politics and government, she switched gears as a senior and decided to pursue an MBA at Vanderbilt University.

And a year is not soon,» says Emily Godbey, an associate professor at Iowa State University who studies and writes about how humans respond to disasters.

«An independent study by Harvard University's Dr. Bruce Western found that Ready, Willing & Able graduates are 60 % less likely to be convicted of a felony three years after exiting the program.

In a study of diets like Weight Watchers and Atkins that allowed for such flexibility, doctors and dietitians at Tufts University looked at 160 overweight people ages 22 to 72 on the diets over a one - year period.

The relationship between homeownership and wealth held true even in the years surrounding the mortgage crisis, which wiped out trillions of dollars in home equity and caused over 4 million Americans to lose their homes, researchers for Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies found.

I got a scholarship to Oxford University to study philosophy, but after about a year, I decided I didn't want academics.

He stayed home with his grandparents while his father and mother studied computer science at a university in Moscow in the years following the Soviet Union's collapse.

Regardless, the study has begun well ahead of the first planned American CRISPR trials, which won regulatory clearance earlier this year (and are being funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker) but are unlikely to begin until 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania.

Exactly how health and wellness impact a company's profits, particularly in Canada, may soon be better understood: the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business School has recently launched a five - year study of the subject, working in collaboration with the Sun Life Wellness Institute.

Tory Higgins, a professor of psychology and business at Columbia University, has spent more than 20 years studying what makes people reach their goals.

Meanwhile, a study out of Oxford University last year found that in the near future artificially intelligent technology could take over nearly half of all U.S. jobs.

Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, has been studying this phenomenon in frustration for years.

The Ivy League school located in upstate New York was the first to establish a four - year hotel - administration school, and it was the first university in the US to offer an American studies program.

A few years ago, researchers from Indiana University studied the television viewing habits of nearly 400 preteens for a year.

While their projections are usually rosy, more than half of these businesses will fail within the first four years of operation, according to a 2012 University of Tennessee study.

According to a study conducted at Oxford University in the U.K., roughly 47 percent of the jobs in the United States could potentially be replaced by automation over the next 20 years.

Military hackers are among the most talented, and rewarded, people in North Korea, handpicked and trained from as young as 17, said Jang Se - yul, who studied with them at North Korea's military college for computer science, or the University of Automation, before defecting to the South six years ago.

Despite its flaws, however, the program has paid off — at least according to a 2010 study by Queen's University economics professor Roger Ware, which concluded it contributed roughly $ 2 billion a year to Canada's economy and helped ease economic challenges.

«It's definitely cheaper to promote from within,» she says, citing a 2011 University of Pennsylvania study that found external hires took two years to catch up to the performance level of an internal hire.

That key intuition comes from Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, of Columbia University, and Linda Bilmes, of Harvard University, who've been studying the matter for years trying to bring some method to the madness of accounting for the budgetary and broader economic costs of war (which remains, by their own admission, a bit of an educated guess).

Musk started studying physics at Queen's University in Canada, transferred after two years to the University of Pennsylvania and got a second bachelor's degree in economics at the Wharton School.

A study from Michigan State and New York University earlier this year used computer simulations to show that such prints could be compromised by dummy prints.

In fact, one Boston University study of 19,000 people concluded that for every additional 10 micrograms per cubic meter of bad air, your brain ages about two years.

She is originally from Italy and has lived one year in Toronto, Canada, where she studied Journalism at Ryerson University.

For the 1950 - 1951 academic year, the estimated average cost for a man to study at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia was $ 1,690, according to the Columbia University Archives.

A year of studying for a Master of Science in Financial Economics at Columbia for the 2017 - 2018 academic year will run you an estimated $ 91,760, according to the university's website, with $ 58,512 for tuition and $ 21,375 for housing.

A study conducted by Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis projected that 40 percent of the current Fortune 500 companies will face extinction in 10 years.

(As the parent of a first - year university student off to study tuba performance, I'm in no position to lecture anyone on practicality over passion.)