Sentences with phrase «of less school»

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Rely on reputation and gut instinct and you'd probably name a familiar list of Ivy league and top - notch technical schools, but new numbers offer some suggestions that may surprise you (and offer campuses with less cutthroat competition from bigger companies).

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.

Given that many of those orders face truly hard deadlines — birthdays, Christmas, nursery - school graduations — Levy would be far less upbeat if his customers were griping about messed - up shipments.

Researchers at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom found that parents who set super-high expectations for their teenage daughters — and who constantly reminded them of those expectations — had daughters who were less likely to become pregnant, drop out of school, or wind up in lousy, low - wage jobs.

It means Uber can forgo lofty rhetoric to make itself a less - risky investment, says Arun Sundararajan, who specializes in the sharing economy at New York University's Stern School of Business.

Eighty - six percent of employed millennial college graduates are more likely than those with a high school diploma or less to say they have found a «career.»

Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

While a hungry child is less likely to be able to focus, most of the research looks at kids who are part of school breakfast programs, which means the majority of those kids come from underprivileged backgrounds and may not be getting enough to eat in general.

CrisisGo is a less visible solution to help assuage the panic school administrators are feeling — a sort of emergency response Slack for the education market.

Was part of the reason why you wanted this job to travel more or less, take advantage of benefits like paid graduate school, or even to try a new hobby?

Growth through consumption, or as one of my less charitable colleagues calls it, «The Augustus Gloop School of Economics,» fundamentally misunderstands how economies operate.

The OECD has estimated that 44 percent of American workers holding less than a high school degree work in jobs made up of «highly - automatable» tasks, while just 1 percent of Americans holding a bachelor's degree or higher hold such jobs.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

«The official position of so many jurisdictions now is that they want less solitary,» said Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a co-author of the report.

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.

Since then, the school has handed out more than $ 2 million at a clip of $ 600 per week (or less) to the fellows.

According to Bob Sutton, organizational behavior expert at Stanford's School of Engineering (via HBR), «Scaling is actually a problem of less.»

In a steroid - tainted, reality - TV era, Jeter, the son of two Army veterans, continues to stand out because of his old - school approach: Never offer excuses or give less than maximum effort.

There are effective and less effective schools in all kinds of communities,» he reminds parents.

Conversely, 36 % of Canada's employed labour force falls into the low - risk category, including registered nurses, elementary teachers, early childhood educators, and secondary school teachers — all of which fall within a less than 1 % chance of automation.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

The power of Harvard B - school's class of 1949 was nothing less than extraordinary.

The school plans to put less of an emphasis on its traditional two - year degree program as part of a sweeping strategic review at the school.

Columbia's average scholarships, for example, are $ 10,000 — a third or less of what MBA students get at Harvard, Darden, or the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flagler Business School.

They may not have the cachet of a Columbia or a Wharton, but we found nearly 50 business schools in the U.S. that offer executive MBAs for less than $ 50,000 in total tuition.

Even in its best years, its acceptance rate — often hovering in the 70 % to 80 % range — was much higher than the major business schools, which accept less than 20 % of their applicants.

But school officials claim the results are less likely a sign of collusion than they are a consequence of familiarity.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

By the end of the day Johnson and Bergh had agreed to open 700 similar Levi's boutiques inside Penneys in time for the back - to - school season in 2012 — less than a year later.

At the University of Wisconsin's Business School in Madison, the average debt burden for graduating MBAs was $ 15,481, $ 106,889 less than Wharton's average, while the first - year median comp package was $ 114,694, just $ 31,609 below the median pay for a Wharton grad.

About 35 miles from Google in the beach town of Santa Cruz, high school soccer coach and university senior Michael Vahradian, 21, is ready for less invasive glucose monitoring.

Because of their outsize wealth, the richest schools rely far less on tuition and student fees to pay the bills.

When it comes to healthcare, many good paying jobs can be found with only specialized training often necessitating two years of school or less.

His questioning of the presumed superiority of prestigious schools — students may fare better at less - elite institutions where their self - esteem takes less of a beating — adds a provocative wrinkle to the hot debate over education.

«When the central bank promises a smaller payment, reserves are a less attractive investment, so banks will... move away from reserves and into loans,» Reis, an academic at the London School of Economics, wrote in the paper.

For his part, Blankfein said he did well in school not because he was «some roaring genius» but because he wanted to succeed, whereas most of his classmates couldn't have cared less.

Wagner offers no broad policy prescriptions in the interview to fix these problems in America's schools, but if you're an individual parent or teacher interested in encouraging an innovative outlook in your kids, he has lots of ideas (less scheduled time, more unstructured play or self - driven exploration, for instance).

«A more balanced news feed might lead to less «engagement,» but Facebook, with a market capitalization of more than $ 300 billion and no competitor in sight, can afford this,» wrote Tufekci, an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

South Eugene High School, located in hippie - friendly Eugene, Ore., is situated less than a mile away from the University of Oregon, the city's top employer.

Knowledge@Wharton recently interviewed him about what he found — and the verdict is less than flattering for the usual order of business at many of America's schools.

In both the business world and the arts, you can find schools of thought treating quality and quantity as two isolated, inversely related entities on a zero - sum sliding scale: The more you produce, the less time you'll have to obsess about the quality of each production.

Valdis Krebs of Orgnet explains that «Schools are still stuck on teaching 20th century math for building things rather than 21st century math for understanding things» and suggests that curriculums focus less on the mathematics of engineering (e.g. algebra and calculus) and more on the mathematics of patterns (e.g. set theory, graph theory, etc.).

As a college graduate schooled in accounting, working on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was not my idea of a job, much less a career.

«We found that the more diverse the board, the less likely [a company is willing] to take risk,» said Ya Wen Yang, assistant professor of accounting at the Wake Forest University school of business and a co-author of the study in question.

«Decisions deplete our self - control, so the more decisions we make in a given period, the less energy we have to think clearly and rationally about the next decisions,» says behavioral economist Zoe Chance, assistant professor at Yale School of Management.

But at the end of the year, you write your own ticket if you're talented because now you have experience and it cost you less than your law school loans!

Both are fairly small, intimate experiences with the school entering less than 100 students in each of the past two years — and both are filled with a good bit of experiential learning opportunities to offset the younger age of the students here who tend to have a bit less work experience.

However at a less competitive school, Hartwick College, many in the top third of their class earned math and science degrees and went on to successfully pursue careers in those fields.

«In just less than a month, there have been thousands of schools that have signed up to do this walkout,» McNaboe, from rural West Virginia, said.