Sentences with phrase «than the university of»

Other than the University of South Carolina, whose business school also focused on international business, Thunderbird was in a singular position to capitalize on the growing interest in global management.

To start with, the NFIB's measure is a better predictor of future economic growth than the University of Michigan's indicator.

- What made him so confident that he could teacher himself better than the University of Michigan professors could?

A study out of none other than the University of Cambridge found the same engagement of several brain areas — all involved in reward and motivation — in people with compulsive sexual behavior as previously found in people struggling with drug addiction.

And few people have peered farther than University of California, Santa Cruz, astronomer Greg Laughlin, science's leading soothsayer.

Last time I lived here, my social life didn't go further than University of Baltimore's library.

Feeling worried for me after reading my post suggesting that Mark Zuckerberg hand out his $ 100 million to Newark parents, a friend alerted me to a study about a similarly «crazy idea» — by none other than University of Chicago economist John List.

Imagine being accepted to a school with more competitive admissions than the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA)-- when you're a sixth - grader.

Indeed, private nonprofit colleges enroll more students than the University of California.

Though I am not a Ph.D., I did pass my comprehensive exams and oral exams from UC - Davis, an institution far more prominent than the University of Iowa, at least as far as applied economics goes.

Not exact matches

Today, Qualtrics has more than 9,000 customers, including 65 % of the Fortune 500, federal agencies, and more than 1,800 universities.

In a study of more than 5,100 adults, researchers from the University of Illinois found that those who were the most optimistic were 76 percent more likely to have health scores in an ideal range.

Apple has been ordered to pay more than $ 500 million in a long - fought patent dispute against the University of Wisconsin - Madison's patent - licensing division.

«What we might be identifying here is something much more to do with help - seeking behavior than anything to do with a psychiatric illness,» University of California, Los Angeles professor of psychiatry Jonathan Flint told The Guardian.

Yet, according to a study by Deloitte University Press, more than a third of firms struggle to instil purpose and passion in their staff.

Social customer service company Conversocial partnered with New York University on research that found that more than one - third of all tweets to companies were about customer service issues, but that only three percent incorporated the company's Twitter username with the @ symbol.

To figure this out the team out of the University of Rochester asked 75 volunteers to do nothing more complicated than sit, alone, in a comfortable chair for 15 minutes without their devices.

A 2010 University of Brasilia study found that 1 in 5 Brazilian women under 40 — more than 5 million women overall, or about 22 % of Brazil's population — had had at least one abortion.

Universities and the federal government have programs that provide more help than many inventors could otherwise dream of affording.

Lisa Kramer, an associate professor of finance at the University of Toronto, worries that if people think of investing as a game, rather than as a way to save for retirement, then portfolio construction could become just another table to play.

A widely - cited 2007 study by the University of Arizona found the average office desktop carries 400 times more bacteria than the a toilet seat.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

The current cohort at the University of Alberta's MBA in natural resources, energy and environment is 10 % larger than the previous one, while the school's Fort McMurray MBA for oilsands workers is up nearly 35 %.

Microsoft and the China University of Technology and Science taught a computer network how to take an IQ test, and it scored better than a college postgraduate.

In 2011, a poll by Pepperdine University concluded that more than 60 % of small - business loan applications were denied.

The data sat quietly in archives for decades until, in 2012, University of Edinburgh neuroscientist Matthew Harris and his team managed to track down more than 600 of the original participants in the 1950 study, then aged 77.

Researcher Ruta Aidis, a fellow at George Mason University, gave Canada (and Australia) an overall score of 69 out of a possible 100 — just two points less than the No. 1 - ranked country, the United States — in the 31 - country survey, commissioned by Dell.

The oldest law school in Canada, McGill, ranks just under U of T. Its highly regarded law journal is cited by The Supreme Court of Canada more often than any other university - affiliated journal, and McGill law graduates regularly make up a quarter of The Supreme Court's annual clerkships.

He was interested in doing more than just owning buildings; he graduated from Carleton University's School of Architecture in 1997, at the age of 75, and later donated $ 5.5 million to the program.

One key limitation of the recent Fitbit study, says Dr. Vincent Thijs, an expert on stroke at the University of Melbourne's Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, is that it demonstrates only that the tracker and algorithm can detect persistent or permanent atrial fibrillation, rather than paroxysmal AFib (or short, sudden spasms).

«Strategic alliances are definitely becoming crucial in building businesses of all kinds and at an earlier stage than ever before,» says Gene Slowinski, director of strategic - alliance studies at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Management.

Moreover, within conscientiousness are the narrower traits of self control and «grit,» which University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth has found to be more integral to children's scholarly success than IQ.

A poorly trained, poorly disciplined person at the age of 45 is harder to teach than a young person just out of a university.

As for the significance of handholding, Dalton Conley, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, told The New York Times in 2006: «It's less about sex than about a public demonstration about coupledom.»

They also are realists, of course, perhaps no one more than Jim Kim, a former university president and groundbreaking physician.

«Highly conscientious employees do a series of things better than the rest of us,» says University of Illinois psychologist Brent Roberts, who studies conscientiousness.

If you want to hit the world of work sooner, you might want to pick a UK university where the courses are generally three years long, rather than the five you have to do in France.

Pitch your company to several firms and try to simultaneously line up more than one offer, says Noam Wasserman, an entrepreneurship professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business (and a member of Inc.'s advisory board).

Researchers at the University of Michigan who followed 2,300 adults for up to a decade reported in 2008 that even common work irritants interfere with good rest more than long hours, night shifts or fears about job loss.

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.

A University of Iowa study found that workers who were provided with a portable pedalling device under their desk were able to concentrate better at work, more likely to report weight loss and take fewer sick days than co-workers who pedalled less.

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.

«Parents who respond to their children's emotions in a comforting manner have kids who are more socially well - adjusted than do parents who either tell their kids they are overreacting or who punish their kids for getting upset,» child psychologist Nancy Eisenberg of Arizona State University said in an interview.

Quelling terrorism requires a lot more than military action, says Meghan O'Sullivan, Harvard University professor of international affairs, providing insight into the growing crisis in Syria and U.S. options in the region.

When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.

Once you've filled your plastic cup — this affair is more backyard barbecue than society event — there's the meet and greet, an opportunity to check out the credentials of those around you: an aerospace industry executive, the economic development chief for a western U.S. state, a dean of engineering for a prestigious American university, several D.C. think tankers, lobbyists, lawyers.

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

In a large review of studies published in the Journal of Nutrition, Purdue University scientists found that whole tree nuts and peanuts have roughly 15 % fewer calories than the figure calculated using the Atwater method.

The crux of the problem, Richard Mattoon, a senior economist at the Chicago Fed and a lecturer on real estate at Northwestern University told Canadian Business, is that dividends and capital gains make up a much larger share of top earners» pay than they did in the past — and that part of their compensation package tends to be very volatile.

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..