Sentences with phrase «from studying up»

It's a subject most of us could benefit from studying up on, but in an interview Vanderkam explained that when it comes to thinking about personal finances in a constructive way, entrepreneurs generally have a leg up over salaried workers.

Not exact matches

«We could throw up a quick study for an entrepreneur for $ 10, and within a day get a lot of feedback from different people about how heavy or light, fast or slow a logo would be,» he says.

Also, as data was only collected over a few months, it's unclear whether this was a one time «pop» in aggressiveness that resulted from study subjects being worked up about the election, or whether the change in negotiating tactics will hold steady.

But if these results from an admittedly small study hold up, and your mainly concerned with maximizing shuteye, you should probably also consider penning a to - do list before bed.

The study, published by the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20 % annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011.

A new study from CreditCards.com found that 74 percent of parents with adult children, defined as 18 and up, are continuing to help them financially.

(Studies show this will dissuade people from striking up a conversation).

According to a recent study from Kaiser, to make up for the loss of CSR payments, insurers would have to jack up the price of premiums by an average of 19 % more than the current projected increase for 2018.

And as the number of telecommuters increases (studies suggest about 35 % of employees do some telecommuting, up from about 20 % four years ago), attitudes toward productivity are also changing.

A study in the British Medical Journal suggests that if you're over 50, the best results come from combining aerobic and resistance exercise, which could include anything from high - intensity interval training, like the seven - minute workout, to dynamic - flow yoga, which intersperses strength - building poses like planks and push - ups with heart - pumping dance - like moves.

According to an April study from Kaiser, to make up for the loss of CSR payments, insurers would have to raise premiums by an average of 19 % more than the current projected increase for 2018.

A multi-year study from Syncapse shows that brands» social media fans spend up to 190 $ more annually on their products than non-fans.

The study, released Monday, shows performance shares were used as CEO rewards by 51 % of companies surveyed last year, up from 47 % the previous year and 41 % in 2011.

Today, 23 percent of women earn more than their husbands, up from 4 percent who did in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center study released this week.

According to a study released by Battelle Memorial Institute, Research and Development (R&D) spending in China this year is likely to reach $ 284 billion, up 22 percent from 2012.

«Ottawa isn't really keen, I think, on having the provinces all start up their own pension plans because it starts to break up the federation a bit, it starts to create barriers to people going from one province to another looking for employment,» said Thomas Klassen, a York University political science professor who studies pensions.

The average American has a credit card balance of $ 6,375, up nearly 3 percent from last year, according to Experian's annual study on the state of credit and debt in America.

I have seen many studies that say this and you probably know this from experience: top workers seldom use up all their vacation days.

The bottom line finding from the Facebook study: «People leave jobs, and it's up to managers to design jobs that are too good to leave.»

That's one conclusion you can draw from a new research study, titled «Firming up Inequality,» published this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

In follow - up studies, they found that motivation boost from uncertainty only occurred when participants were focused on the process of pursuing a reward and not the outcome.

Data from a recent BrightScope / ICI study show that in 2006 78 percent of all plans offered an employer match, and as of 2014, that was back up to 77 percent.

«I suffer from dyslexia and couldn't keep up with my studies as a teenager.

An MBO Partners study in June estimated that the number of independent workers in the U.S. will hit 47.6 million by 2022, up 3.1 % from 40.9 million such workers now.

According to a new study by research provider Custom Products, the number of crimes committed by people over 60 is soaring, with 35 % of arrests for shop - lifting involving the retiree demographic, up from 20 % in 2001.

In a study from Pymnts.com, 5.5 % of iPhone users said that they had used Apple Pay at participating retailers in June, up from 4 % in March and 4.5 % in October 2016.

Verizon is still generally seen as having the fastest and most widely available network in the US, though a recent study from the mobile - analytics firm OpenSignal found that T - Mobile has largely caught up when it comes to average speeds.

After performing the same happiness - inducing activities, the people who signed up for the happiness study — the group Lyubomirsky saw as more «motivated» to become happier — gained more from the study than those who signed up for the other exercise.

A first - party study like this obviously has to be taken with a few grains of salt, but the Nest does make it easier to keep your thermostat at less wasteful temperatures when you're away (whether it's automatically or manually from your smartphone), and it gives you useful info on how much energy you're regularly chewing up.

A study from the Penn Wharton Budget Model in October estimated that Trump's tax cuts would boost GDP by 1.12 % and push jobs up by 11.7 million more than what would have been expected without his plan by 2018.

In fact, 29 percent of millennials are saving more than 10 percent of their incomes, according to a recent Bankrate study, up from 22 percent in the year earlier.

Now a new study from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government has come up with some fairly compelling ammunition to support this view.

Phase I funding — which allows up to $ 250,000 for an academic idea, such as decoding the genetic sequence of a protein or studying targeted drug delivery by using magnetic nanoparticles — is available from federal funding and foundations.

A new Poets & Quants study shows that MBAs are leaving campus with six - figure debt loads from at least 13 prominent business schools, up from only two schools in 2011.

I have jumped up from my desk when a co-worker said there was a Dratini outside,» the UNH masters student studying computer science writes in a direct message on Twitter.

Data from a study put together by the McKinsey & Co. and Lean In show how men are promoted up, while women fall by the wayside.

«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.

From a business perspective, yes, according to a new series of studies out of Stanford that was recently written up by the university's GSB news under the hilarious headline: «Researchers: A Few Bad Hair Days Can Change Your Life.»

The study is patient - funded; participants, who range in age from late 30s through 80s, must pay $ 8,000 to take part, and live in or travel to Monterey for treatments and follow - up assessments.

Students graduating from for - profit colleges end up making less money than before they walked down that stage to get their diplomas, according to a new study.

After dosing study subjects with approximately the amount of tryptophan you'd get from a turkey dinner, the researchers paired up participants and asked them to play a simple game involving dividing a small pot of money.

In February, Robert Fodosejevs and Ying Tsui, electrical engineering professors at the University of Alberta, received $ 430,650 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to study ways to speed up fusion ignition in collaboration with the National Ignition Facility in California.

A new study, which analyzed more than 20,000 conversations on Reddit, found fairness showed up in nearly 80 % of conversations in topics from business to politics.

Another study reported that nearly one in four respondents with income from $ 100,000 to $ 150,000 said they probably couldn't come up with $ 2,000 in 30 days to cover an unexpected expense.

Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist and author of «The Rise of the Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness about new ways of doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.»

The study also notes a rise in the number of mineral - only sunscreens on the market — representing 34 % of the products EWG tested in 2017, double the number from a decade ago — while adding that those products often hold up better under the EWG researchers» scrutiny.

A striking 46 percent of renters ages 25 to 34 — the core of the millennial population — spend more than 30 percent of their incomes on rent, up from 40 percent a decade earlier, according to a report by Harvard University's Joint Center of Housing Studies.

For the study, Torys» researchers analyzed all the proxy circulars filed in 2015 (up until to May 10) from 179 companies listed on the S&P / TSX index (or 71 % of the index).

PsyBlog recently rounded up a long list of them culled from a journal article on the subject (though the post notes that some of these ideas are only supported by preliminary studies and require more research).

Seventy percent of hardware start - ups die off or become «zombies» after raising outside funding, according to a new study from CB Insights.