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Economist and Lehigh University associate professor Chad Meyerhoefer says such indexes are better for examining historical data than predicting future events.

«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.

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.

Gaim Kibreab, an Eritrean - born professor at London South Bank University, has studied Eritrea's National Service since its inception, and has interviewed more than 200 refugees across Africa and Europe.

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.»

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).

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.

After more than a decade of research on the use of machine learning to detect disease - causing mutations in DNA, Brendan Frey, biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, this week launched his company, Deep Genomics, to bring the technology his team developed to the public at large.

«The [trend] we found is that students who go it alone run into [problems] more than students who approach [things] as a team,» says Jay Kayne, chair and professor of entrepreneurship at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Researcher Richard Wiseman, a professor at the University of Hertfordshire, has studied and written extensively about good fortune and says it's not chance at all, but a certain way of living that makes some people more serendipitous than others.

«Nothing's worse than traveling to a store and learning they do not have what you wanted,» says Jeffrey Inman, a University of Pittsburgh marketing professor.

«We did studies of what makes one nationality more valuable than another, and of course the British nationality is one of the best in the world,» Professor Dimitry Kochenov at the University of Groningen, who compiled the report, said at a conference in London.

On average, it's about seven times more expensive to get a new customer than it is to get a repeat purchase from an existing client, says Alan Middleton, assistant professor of marketing at York University.

Jennifer and Devereaux Jennings, married professors with the University of Alberta School of Business, have been studying work - life balance among entrepreneurs for more than a decade.

However, David Burkus, associate professor of management at Oral Roberts University and author of the forthcoming book Under New Management, questions whether that obsession with secrecy might do a company culture more harm than good.

Though Groupon and Amazon are included in the list, Mark S. Rosenbaum, a professor of retail marketing at Northern Illinois University, recommends shopping at a physical store rather than an e-retailer.

University of Alberta business professor Andrew Leach says that even absent new pipelines, a long - term differential greater than the cost of moving barrels by rail «doesn't make economic sense.»

Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan and several other institutions, soon shot back saying the stock market performed better under Obama than under Trump at the same point in their presidency.

Susan Long, a professor of quantitative methods at the school of management at Syracuse University, co-founded a Web data clearinghouse called TRAC, which has been tracking prosecutor referrals from virtually every federal agency for more than a decade.

A professor of information engineering at the University of Cambridge, he's published more than 250 academic papers and in 2014 received a $ 750,000 Google Award for an artificial intelligence project.

Christoph Randler, a biology professor at the University of Education in Heidelberg, Germany, found that morning people are often more successful than evening people because, as a group, they tend to be proactive.

Because, as New York University professor Arun Sundararajan told Mercury, the personality of Uber «is very much «we're going to dominate the world, and we're going to ask for forgiveness rather than asking for permission.»»

In 2003, Tammy Kinley, an associate professor in the school of merchandising and hospitality management at the University of North Texas, measured 1,011 pairs of women's pants, and found that high - end retailers» clothes tended to fit more loosely than those in bargain stores.

Tory Higgins, a professor of psychology and business at Columbia University, has spent more than 20 years studying what makes people reach their goals.

Kelly Campbell, an associate professor at California State University, San Bernadino, who studies interpersonal relationships, told me the quality of your relationships generally matters much more than the quantity.

Duke University places an emphasis on research, providing students with numerous avenues to pursue projects through research grants, travel opportunities, and apprenticeships with distinguished professors — and more than half of its undergraduates take advantage.

Last spring, Andrew Eckford, an engineering professor at York University, expressed frustration at being included in Ontario's list of employees of publicly funded institutions who earned more than $ 100,000.

«There is no entity in the world that is more risk averse than a senior marketing person,» says Larry Chiagouris, a marketing professor at Pace University in New York.

«It doesn't really change the landscape significantly other than insulate companies from lawsuits,» said Yaron Nili, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin who focuses on corporate governance.

The likelihood of bitcoin prices falling to $ 100 is greater than that of the digital currency trading at $ 100,000 a decade from now, Harvard University professor and economist Kenneth Rogoff said on Tuesday.

Yale only trumps other schools because its expenditures per student are greater than other schools, Brian Leiter, a law professor at The University of Chicago, argued to National Jurist magazine in 2013.

Gordon L. Flett, a psychology professor at York University in Toronto, says more than 50 percent of today's Western school - aged children exhibit the perfectionist traits hinted at above.

«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.

The authors of the study — professors Jorge Walter (George Washington University School of Business), Daniel Z. Levin (Rutgers Business School), and J. Keith Murnighan (Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management)-- studied what happened when more than 150 executives interacted with old ties about an important work project.

The psychology professor at New York University and the University of Hamburg spent more than 20 years testing her contention that «starry - eyed dreaming isn't all it's cracked up to be.»

«I'm eating healthy because I like the way it makes me feel» or «It's beautiful outside — I'm going to take a walk» are better bets than lamenting your new diet or exercise program, Marc S. Jacobson, a professor of pediatrics at Nassau University Medical Center, tells Parents.com.

«Millennials expect to be recognized much more frequently than members of previous generations,» says Mark Fulford, an MBA professor at the University of Central Missouri.

Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management professor Lauren Rivera's research found that relatively untrained interviewers often look for «potential friends and «playmates» rather than those with the best work experience or job - relevant skills.»

«When you have workers that already possess much of what you need, it makes a lot more sense to retrain them than to go out and hire new workers — who may be more educated — and then wait a year or more for them to get up to speed with how the company operates,» explains Anthony Carnevale, director and research professor of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce.

«The amount of spam I'm getting because of the spammers reacting to the new anti-spam law to reduce spam is worse than any spam I got before,» added University of Waterloo political science professor Emmett Macfarlane.

«While Canadians live in a colder climate, they generally are not less «nice» than Americans,» Antonio Terracciano, a professor of geriatrics at Florida State University, pointed out to the Washington Post, for instance.

«Olympians have the capacity to metabolize fat in a far superior way than the rest of us,» says Benardot, a professor of nutrition at Georgia State University who has worked with Olympic gymnasts, marathoners and figure skaters.

Fuerst, along with fellow University of Miami professors Sandro Andrade and Vidhi Chhaochharia, reported in a 2012 paper that stock returns were 10 percent higher in the November - to - April half of the year than in the May - to - October period.

According to Syracuse University professor Carl Schramm, author of Burn the Business Plan, «Americans who are 35 or older are 50 percent more likely to start a business than are their younger counterparts.»

Helpfully, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign professor Brian Ogolsky has waded through more than 1,000 studies from 50 years of research on the subject, so you don't have to.

He'd «be more versed in Latin poetry than farming,» according to Dina Copelman, associate professor at George Mason University.

Heejune Ahn, a professor at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, similarly found that addicts gravitate toward messaging and social networking apps and use their phones more between the hours of 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. than non-addicts.

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

Professor Malia Mason of Columbia University Business School says using an exact number rather than a round one «signals that you have more knowledge about the value of the good being negotiated.»

«The revenue continues to grow but in particular their costs are growing slower than revenue, which is exactly what you expect in a business like this,» said Jay Ritter, an expert in initial public offerings and professor at the University of Florida.