Sentences with phrase «school study finds»

The most recent national charter school study finds a small positive effect in reading and a small negative effect in mathematics.

A Duke University Medical School study found that half of all presidents through 1974 suffered from mental illness, including bipolar disorder, alcohol abuse and depression.

A recent Harvard Business School study found that the «average CEO spends one in three hours on activities that were not planned in advance.»

A Harvard Medical School study found that blue light exposure at night suppressed melatonin production for about twice as long as green light and shifted circadian rhythms by twice as much.

A Stanford University Medical School study found that after 16 weeks in a moderate - intensity exercise program, subjects were able to fall asleep about 15 minutes earlier and sleep about 45 minutes longer at night.

Indeed, the latest Staff in Australian Schools study found that 90 per cent of leaders in primary and secondary schools were either satisfied or very satisfied with their jobs (although the ratings were lower than in 2010).

But a 2010 U.S. Department of Education charter - school study found that suburban charters, presumably with progressive elements, performed less well than comparable district schools.

Though many return - to - work parents will jump start their previous career, a Wharton School study found that only 39 % take the same type of job as when they left.

Not exact matches

A recent study from the Wake Forest School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina found that listening to music can help people focus their attention, but — and here's the catch — only if it's music they like.

A recent study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found such «intertemporal markers» help motivate us in two ways: offering an opportunity to separate ourselves from past «misbehaviour» and disrupting our attention from day - to - day details to focus on the big picture.

Calling it the «privacy paradox,» University of Michigan School of Information professor Cliff Lamp says in studying social computing he has found that people make a lot of noise when it comes to privacy, but push concerns aside in favor of convenience.

The study, headed by Professor Edward Guinan of the school's astronomy and astrophysics department, initially looked at which crops would thrive in soil that is similar to that found on Mars (based on readings taken by the Phoenix Mars lander and samples recreated on earth).

A recent study of 21,000 business school alumni found that 45 % of entrepreneurs who have graduated since 2010 started their businesses straight out of school, compared to just 7 % among those who graduated prior to 1990.

A new study by Columbia Business School professor Wei Jiang found that the hedge fund filed appraisal petitions on five M&A transactions between 2010 and 2014.

A recent study from Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Accountancy found that firms with poor governance generally prefer to hold more cash.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

«Our findings suggest that frequent e-cigarette use may play an important role in cessation or relapse prevention for some smokers,» Daniel Giovenco, an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the lead study author, said in a statement.

A study out of the Stern School of Business and Harvard University found that private firms grow faster than public ones.

New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

A 2012 study of debt - payoff strategies from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management found that consumers paying off small balances first were more likely to have eliminated their entire debt than those focusing on other strategies.

A number of studies, including a February 2011 report from Harvard Medical School, have found the link between exercise and stress reduction.

A 2010 study by professors from Insead, the Kellogg School of Management, and Tel Aviv University found that people who have spent extended time abroad tend to be better, more creative problem solvers.

A new study by researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden and the London School of Economics finds the effects of roboticization in fact countervail much of the negative media sentiment.

A recent study by the University of Greenwich's Business School found that praise from the boss can actually be demotivating in certain situations.

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 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.

A recent study by two assistant professors at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management found that while consumers» overall behaviour is shifting toward greater social responsibility, the rise in ethical, or green consumption hasn't made people more altruistic.

One study reported in The Conversation found that among Forbes billionaires, 44.8 percent went to and completed a program from an elite school.

A 2012 study from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Cornell University suggests most workers find comfort in traditional hierarchies because they're predictable and familiar, and their asymmetries create concrete «end points.»

For instance, a new study led by a professor of marketing at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business finds that when hiring managers are given a choice between proven ability and apparent potential, they often opt for the excitement of the untested but promising candidate.

In the book Negotiation, Adam D. Galinsky of Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and Roderick I. Swaab of INSEAD in France write: «In our studies, we found that the final outcome of a negotiation is affected by whether the buyer or the seller makes the first offer.

That study, led by William Bozeman, M.D., of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, found that Tasers «appear to be very safe, especially when compared to other options police have for subduing violent or combative suspects... [though] that is not to say that injuries and deaths are impossible.»

When the Australian School of Business studied attitudes toward pay openness, it found that top earners increased their effort and accuracy when their high compensation was known.

The Washington Post reports that two studies found that apple consumption increased substantially when the fruit was served to school kids pre-sliced.

In 2014, the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flager Business School, in partnership with Human Capital Institute (HCI), conducted a study where they found that 85 percent of global companies report an urgent need to develop employees with leadership potential.

A much discussed 2010 study by professors from INSEAD, the Kellogg School, and Tel Aviv University found that «travel and living abroad have long been seen as good for the soul.

A follow - up study looking at six schools found similar results, as apple consumption grew by 70 %.

And some studies suggest they're right: In a paper called «Environmental Disorder Leads to Self - Regulatory Failure,» a pair of researchers from UBC and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business found that «being surrounded by chaos ultimately impairs the ability to perform tasks requiring «brain» power.»

But the machine - learning analysis these University of Colorado medical school researchers used found the opposite result when they looked at red meat consumption among the same Framingham study participants.

A recent study of business school graduates from the University of Chicago found that after graduation, men and women had «nearly identical incomes and weekly hours worked.»

In the study, titled «You scratch his back, he scratches mine and I'll scratch yours: Deception in simultaneous cyclic networks,» researchers from the Rotman School of Management and the Ted Rogers School of Management found that inflated pay is actually caused by something they've labeled the «indirect reciprocity effect» — an unwritten code that can pervade c - suites.

Nearly a third of older workers in the NORC study said they have brushed up their skills through job training or school during the last half decade, which could provide an income boost and help in finding late - career work.

The Institute of International Education, a not - for - profit organization that researches the movement of international students, found that 304,467 American students studied abroad during the 2013 - 2014 school year — the most recent data available.

«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.

One study found that while 60 % of elementary school girls say they are «happy the way I am,» only 29 % of high school girls agree with that statement.

The study also found that a far larger number of business schools are now accepting GRE scores instead of the GMAT.

According to the Fast Company article, «Study Finds Work - Life Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die sooner.

A 2009 study from MIT's Sloan School of Management found that virtual teams working for software companies were regularly outperforming on - location teams, as long as they had the proper systems in place.

In a carefully researched article (Yale Journal of Regulation, Summer 2001), Yale Law School professor Roberta Romano summarized studies on the economic impact of splitting the chair and CEO roles in U.S. companies (where combined CEO / chairs are the norm), finding that there is no statistically significant difference, in terms of stock price or accounting income, between companies that split the roles and those that don't.