Sentences with phrase «first year researching»
He spent much of that first year researching ways in which he might narrow the achievement gap he saw.
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The economists who did the research for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York concluded that average workers see most of their earnings grow during the first 10 years of their career and begin to stagnate after age 35.
According to the chart below — not to mention every single piece of research written by Hussman over the past year and change — the first qualification has been more than met.
«The first year,» Sally says, «we researched the kind of bars we wanted to make.»
About three out of every four smartphones sold during the first half of this year ran on Android software, according to the research firm Gartner Inc..
Nike's share of the U.S. sport footwear market slipped to 53.3 percent in the first six months of 2016 from 55 percent a year ago, while Adidas's rose to 6.3 percent from 4.2 percent, according to market research firm NPD.
Though the winners include established firms like Research In Motion, whose sustained growth has put it among Canada's fastest - growing companies every year since 1998, the top five are all rookies — a Fast 50 first.
Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist turned hedge fund manager who is also a former Facebook executive, has built up some credibility since his first appearance last year at the conference, which benefits pediatric disease research: Amazon stock is up some 34 % in the meantime.
«As firms attempt to adapt to ever - changing political and technological circumstances, global M&A (mergers and acquisitions) has stuttered over the summer, following a strong showing in the first half of the year,» Jonathan Klonowski, research editor EMEA at Mergermarket, said in a statement.
That's the first finding in this week's economic research wrap, which also looks at changes in the way women have spent their days in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance - sheet normalization.
Research published in February shows that 2016 was the first year in which the iPhone dropped in the rankings of smartphone sales in China, falling from 15 percent of market share to 11 and selling fewer units even as demand for smartphones grew.
In this in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.
But earlier this year, a separate report from Counterpoint Research found that the iPhone was not the top selling smartphone in China in 2016, the first time Apple had been unseated since 2012.
Overall, food service industry traffic has been flat the first half of 2016, according to data from industry research firm NPD Group, and is expected to remain weak for the rest of the year.
The first chart shows what the Hang Seng looked like in the immediate and long term after the Tiananmen Square protests, from a note shared by a Credit Suisse research team led by Andrew Garthwaite last year.
Not only did the vast majority Americans» net - worth tumble during the recession, for 93 % of households, it continued to slide during the first two years of the recovery as well, a recent study by the Pew Research Center found.
After graduating, he spent the first 14 years of his career working toward that goal, rising to head of research at the Bank of Canada, before leaving for a short tenure in the private sector.
Advertising spending on Facebook's eponymous service grew 48 % in the first quarter compared with the same period a year earlier, he noted, citing data from advertising research firm Merkle.
The reality is that every woman's pregnancy is different, as science writers Tara Haelle and Emily Willingham make abundantly clear in their meticulously researched book, «The Informed Parent: A Science - Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years».
In this all - new in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.
Research firm Deloitte expects 2016 to be the industry's first billion - dollar year.
Richard Swart, who directs research into innovative entrepreneurial finance at the University of California, Berkeley, does not forecast sharp growth for crowdfunding, at least for the first few years, partly due to regulatory costs.
A drop in installations in regions served by SCE and PG&E between the first and second quarters of this year mostly involved U.S. installer SolarCity, a GTM Research analysis of installation data showed.
PC sales fell 3.5 per cent last year, according to the research group Gartner Inc., the first annual decline in more than a decade.
He spent five years researching and developing prototypes for his first Dyson vacuums before they were ready for the world.
Video streamers aren't falling behind on entertainment — so - called «cord - cutters» watched about 100 hours of video per month during the first half of this year, estimates the Internet research firm Sandvine.
Private money going to startups more than four years past their first funding round «has grown by a factor of 20 since 1992,» according to an academic paper published last year by the California Institute of Technology and Cornerstone Research.
He also said that the Nomura's research found shipments of non-Chinese smartphones out of China (which are mostly iPhones) fell 9 percent year - over-year in the first quarter.
According to research firm NPD Group, these are the top - selling toy properties for the first half of the year.
Nowadays, it seems, a new business is apt to be a Compaq or MIPS kind of thing, hitting the ground fully capitalized, fully researched and developed, fully located, fully staffed, and fully positioned to rake in a few hundred million dollars within the first three years.
Excluding proceeds from the equity financing completed in the first quarter and excluding other financing - related amounts (interest and royalty) and without the company's high level of research and development payments, most of which relates to advancing the REDUCE - IT study to completion this year, net cash outflow in the quarter ended March 31, 2018 was approximately $ 0.1 million.
«Research says that 40 percent of things you remember from college happened in the first six weeks of starting your freshman year,» says Heath.
Referring to research done before me, and my own two - year interview - based first - hand study, I found that people are, in fact, more creative in startup companies.
Its rankings are based heavily on a company's long - term financial results and — for the first time this year — take into account its environmental, social, and governance performance as measured by investment research firm Sustainalytics.
«During the first eight months of 2016, Apple saw its smartphone market share remain at a record low compared to the last few years,» Counterpoint research director Jeff Fieldhack wrote.
«I've been covering whiskey for 20 years, and this is the first time I've seen significant growth in bourbon whiskey,» says Donna Hood Crecca, the senior director of the Adult Beverage Resource Group at Technomic Inc., a research firm.
Any organization that wants to still be in business five years from now needs to take the time to research and learn about their audience so that they can properly segment, target and implement an audience - first marketing approach.
When Bill Gates created Microsoft Research (MSR) 25 years ago, some of the very first work focused on AI, including speech, natural language and computer vision.
Research indicates that by 2007 the percentage of nonprime mortgages that went into default within their first year rose to 10 percent compared with 3 percent of such loans originated in 2003.
One year after its first «America» label summer promotion experienced a solid launch, but couldn't apparently sustain itself, a repeat of that campaign is off to a gradual, but seemingly more sustainable and successful, trajectory, according to YouGov BrandIndex, the only daily brand consumer perception research service.
When I was doing my first keyword research 4 years ago, I had no idea how substantial is a number of relevant keyword suggestions for the process.
Zcash is the first protocol of its kind, and is the accumulation of years of academic research, hard engineering work, and diligent security work.»
That same year, Shockley and seven other scientists founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the «first silicon device and research manufacturing company in Silicon Valley,» as a plaque marking the spot in Mountain View reads today.
«For the first time in many years, we are beginning to see levels of card fraud decreasing, providing a needed reprieve for exhausted consumers and financial organizations,» says Andrei Barysevich, Director of Eastern European Research and Analysis at digital security consulting firm Flashpoint.
In a recent set of data released by research firm comScore for the second quarter, RIM with its BlackBerry OS is revealed to have lost 1.6 percentage points from its 12.3 percent share in the first quarter of the year in the US.
The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) undertook a study examining the extent to which the non-housing assets of certain retirees changed during their first 20 years of retirement (or until death, if earlier).
Before entering the venture capital business, Bill spent four years on Wall Street as a top - ranked research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston focusing on personal computer hardware and software.
equities research analysts anticipate that First Community will post 1.38 earnings per share for the current year.
«This first patent grant by the European Patent Office marks a major milestone in Nchain's ambitious research and patent program, which started approximately two years ago,» Nguyen explains.
In the first half of this year, investments run the gamut from patient engagement tools, to in - home connected fitness equipment, to clinical research platforms.