Sentences with phrase «to academics»

This academic paper from Harvard examines the two primary motivating forces behind most entrepreneurial ventures: money and control.

Enough that the brilliant minds behind Crispr - Cas9 — University of California at Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna, her academic partner Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Germany, and rival Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard scientist Feng Zhang — and the various biotechs affiliated with them are embroiled in an ugly, global patent spat over the rights to the tech.

In the two years since Watson Health launched, it has struck partnerships with an impressive array of academic institutions, such as the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and prominent biopharma companies like Pfizer (pfe), Medtronic (mdt), and Johnson & Johnson (jnj).

Tensions were high Wednesday at New York University's Stern School of Business, as a group of academics, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs faced off during a panel discussion on the future of higher education.

Spotify was hit in late December by another lawsuit seeking a class - action suit filed by David Lowery, the leader of alternative rock bands Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven who is also an academic.

For the intrepid and diehard curious, the dispute at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is an extraordinary lesson in the complexity of academic science.

Because there are so many nuclear power facilities in the Carolinas, 54 business leaders, non-profits and academic institutions have banded together to form the Carolinas» Nuclear Cluster, now part of the Small Business Administration's regional cluster program.

Many of the data scientists employed today have jumped ship from the academic world; they're among the relative few who know what to do with the massive, unstructured sets of data the world is now awash in.

Research published in the Journal of Consumer Research revealed that «consumers want to be happy, and marketers are increasingly trying to appeal to consumers» pursuit of happiness,» a position that continues to be reinforced both in marketing and academic research.

A dense body of academic work demonstrates that one factory job correlates with multiple service jobs.

At a San Jose Bitcoin conference in 2013, the Zerocoin researchers encountered another academic team that would prove a perfect match.

We united for the project whilst at Uni, but after the academic year was over, we all moved to our home countries or decided to travel,» founder Yuliya Kogay explains.

More news on the GBM front: Tomorrow (Thursday) and Friday, the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, is hosting a glioblastoma immuno - oncology research summit in Los Angeles — bringing together top industry and academic scientists to share their research.

A recently published academic paper in the Journal of Monetary Economicsfound that a single trader likely drove the price of bitcoin from $ 150 to $ 1,200 during a two - month period in 2013 on the Mt. Gox Exchange.

Given the number of body brokers that currently operate in America, academics and others familiar with the industry say regular inspections of facilities and reviews of donor consent forms wouldn't place a big burden on government.

Adding to the challenge is that so - called persistence — the tendency of a PE firm's past results to be predictive going forward — has plummeted, according to academic research.

Achieving this sort of training requires the same mixture of academic knowledge and apprenticeship employed by other professions.

But before we can delve into Riggle's advice on how to be more awesome, it's important to answer one glaring question: why does this academic talk like a teenage skater?

She is also a contributor at The Conversation, an independent source of news and views from the academic and research community.

«When I was going on the academic job market, worrying about the campus interview, my friend Matt Seigel told me to just be myself because otherwise, if I got hired as the person I was pretending to be, I would have to keep up that pretense for the rest of my career,» she says.

Each cluster is a collaboration of businesses, non-profits and academic institutions to advance a specific sector, ranging from nuclear energy to agriculture.

Each attempt was met with the same response from professors: «This is not a subject of academic caliber.»

But when it comes to hiring, at least in STEM academics, women have a strong advantage over men.

Luskin's writing was influenced by one of the most cited academic studies on whistleblowers, a 1985 academic report by researchers at the Ohio State University, who conluded that «that whistleblowing is appropriately viewed as «prosocial» behavior, that is behavior that involves both egoistic and altruistic motives.»

The Eastern State Penitentiary, for instance, «actually has become this hub of academic [activity],» said Lauren - Brooke Eisen, senior counsel in the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York think tank promoting criminal justice reform.

Our academic performance on the international stage, once a point of pride among educators, is also cause for concern.

That's the kind of question people ask before they even get to academic questions,» Patrick Sanchez, Superintendent of Newark, California Unified School District told CNBC.

The Liberals last two election platforms felt like they were written for academics, not voters (It didn't help their last two leaders were, well, academics).

Employees who have been at the company for a year, they can be selected to earn up to $ 25,000 per academic year for a nursing degree, associate degree, undergraduate degree, graduate degree, or any job - related degree.

It was a natural move for Gurbacs, an early investor in the ethereum network (he got into crypto back in 2013), whose academic interests in mathematics took him to Williams College, Harvard, and MIT.

Academics have speculated on the multiple reasons that congressional incumbents have enjoyed an advantage over the years.

For proof of this issue's timelessness, peruse this 1990 article about a famous magazine piece, «Gate Receipts and Glory,» that decried the pernicious effects of moneyed sports on academic life — in 1938.

Women's under - representation on boards and in top management positions has long been the subject of academic study and, more recently, public policy.

Nor was he worried, initially, about corporate clients: Qualtrics first developed its product as a tool for academic research.

It's not just me that says that - there are 20 independent academic studies which have come up with the same numbers.

Shorn of human weaknesses like the need to eat or sleep, computers are now speed - reading through not only the vast academic literature but also CT scans, electronic medical records, and mountains of data from clinical trials and genomic studies.

But hark, there's some good news for office muckrakers: Increasingly, academics are finding that gossip might actually be good for business.

Milena Head, academic director of DeGroote's EMBA program, says clichés might still steer women away.

Without a central hub for academics to branch out on their work in Canada, deep learning's southbound pioneers served as pied pipers, bringing their students with them, creating a brain drain.

The growing desire for academic excellence and lack of resources in our school systems are the drivers behind today's boom.

And it isn't just academics who have said this about Friedman.

That was the eye - opening opening of a keynote address given yesterday by the brilliant John Quackenbush, a professor of biostatistics and computational biology at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute who has a dual professorship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and ample other academic credits after his name.

PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

Education Modified provides analytics to help teachers track student progress; Yenko helps non-traditional college students track their academic benchmarks, helping to ensure they graduate.

There are ample footnotes to these short essays, but the writing is anything but academic.

... in 2015, University of Toronto sociologist Melissa Milkie published a study showing that the amount of time children aged 3 to 11 spent with parents had no measurable impact on their emotional well - being, behavior, or academic success.

«We're helping [companies] use Ontario's academic and clinical infrastructure to build an incredible dossier or package of evidence that they can now use to walk into any other major player,» says Khayat.

Until academic institutions confer their seal of approval on this particular function, companies of all sizes will have to get millennials into sales by actively recruiting and training them.

Now a group of academics offer a faster alternative

Academic research shows an inconclusive correlation between having a mission statement and improved financial performance.