Sentences with phrase «writing professor at»

Cast against type as a creative writing professor at a Pittsburgh college, Michael Douglas gives one of his funniest performances in this adaptation of writer Michael Chabon's poignant campus novel.

Jack and Hank are best friends, both writing professors at some rustic university in some rustic town where it seems like writing professors would live.

Not exact matches

«We need to know what we're getting into,» warns Wendy Dobson, a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto who has written extensively on China.

Karl Moore, a management professor at McGill University who has conducted research on CEOs and introversion, has written that introverts tend to be better listeners.

It was «absolutely unthinkable when I started writing this book,» Mishkin, a former Federal Reserve governor and professor at Columbia Business School, said.

Nor does it do much for employee morale: As Stanford organizational behaviour professor Robert Sutton wrote in his 2007 bestseller, The No Asshole Rule, brutish managers «infuriate, demean and damage their peers, superiors, underlings and, at times, clients and customers, too.»

«What we found is that people who spent money to buy time reported being almost one full point higher on our 10 - point [happiness] ladder, compared to people who did not use money to buy time,» wrote Elizabeth Dunn, an author of the study and a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.

Timothy A. Pychyl, a professor of psychology at Canada's Carleton University, has written on Psychology Today, that identity is «knowledge of who we are.

What happens, according to a paper Martin Schmalz, assistant professor of finance at University of Michigan wrote with Jose Azar and Isabel Tecu of Charles River Associates, is that stock ownership becomes too concentrated when companies like Blackrock or Vanguard, two large managers of index funds, vote the shares of passive funds.

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.

Martti Häikiö, an adjunct professor of social history at the University of Helsinki, who wrote Nokia: The Inside Story, argues Samsung is the company to beat.

«Based on a series of studies performed by our team over the past 5 years, this «dose» of exercise has become my prescription for life,» Benjamin Levine, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern who wrote the study, said in a statement.

Cornell professor and economist Robert Frank, who wrote a book in the 1990s titled The Winner - Take - All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us, made popular the belief that a big portion of the increase in the income gap has to do with the way a global market values its best performers, be they CEOs or athletes or actual performers.

So when three Facebook HR execs, along with Wharton professor Adam Grant, say in the HBR write - up of the findings, that «at Facebook, people don't quit a boss — they quit a job,» you should probably consider whether the same is true at your organization.

Written by Philip Auerswald, a professor of public policy at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy is due out in April, but you can get a taste of Auerswald's most optimistic take on the entrepreneurship and global economy with this video of an animated, 10 - minute talk he gave recently to lawmakers.

«We find that industrial robots increase labour productivity, total factor productivity, and wages,» write lead researchers Georg Graetz, an assistant professor in the department of economics at Uppsala, and Guy Michaels, an associate professor in the department of economics at LSE.

As Mark Thoma, professor of economics at University of Oregon, writes, «When we see income inequality rising, we ought to start looking for bubbles.»

And a year is not soon,» says Emily Godbey, an associate professor at Iowa State University who studies and writes about how humans respond to disasters.

«The next couple of months are crucial for the future of Ireland,» said Kevin O'Rourke, professor of Economic History at Oxford University, who has written extensively on Ireland's role in the Brexit talks.

«The gift date itself on average represents a turning point in the stock's trajectory, with company prices moving lower in the months after a gift is made,» David Yermack, a professor of finance at the NYU Stern School of Business, wrote in a 2008 article in the Journal of Financial Economics.

Philip M. Parker, Professor of Marketing at INSEAD Business School, has created a program that can write a non-fiction book in 20 minutes.

«The main result of this analysis is that the best clients of the aware brokers are significantly more likely than other clients to sell the stocks that the liquidating manager is offloading during the fire sale,» wrote Marco Di Maggio, assistant professor at Harvard Business School.

«The better able you are to get inside the head of your opponent,» Adam D. Galinsky, professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, wrote in the Harvard Business School's Negotiation newsletter, «the better your negotiated outcomes are likely to be.»

«No one should be asked to leave a restaurant, rejected for an apartment or mistreated at work because of who they are,» Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Chicago - Kent College of Law, wrote in an email to CNBC.

Todd Zenger, a professor at University of Utah's Eccles School of Business, wrote in the Harvard Business Review last year that pay transparency is «far from a panacea... [and] a double - edged sword, capable of doing as much — or more — damage as good.»

Warren is also a professor at Harvard Law and has written eight books and more than a hundred scholarly articles dealing with credit and economic stress.

«Political connections appear to have played a role in the allocation of these funds,» wrote Alan Jagolinzer, professor at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School.

«When we look carefully at the twentieth century,» Columbia University professor Wu writes, «we soon find that the Internet wasn't the first information technology supposed to have changed everything forever.»

And it was also several years ago that I suggested you take a look at a book on statistics written by a University of Toronto math professor.

John Kindt, professor emeritus of business administration at the University of Illinois, has written passionately about how playing lotteries and other state - sanctioned gaming has a negative effect on local businesses.

«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.

In an op - ed for The New York Times, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, and David Cole, a professor of law and public policy at Georgetown University, write that many liberals and conservatives alike acknowledge the US criminal justice system needs reform.

University of Texas at Austin business professor Raj Raghunathan wrote a whole book to try to answer this tricky question.

Galen Cranz, a sociologist and professor of architecture at the University of California Berkeley who has long crusaded for more active work environments writes via e-mail: «It will take cultural change in order to make significant change.»

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Since some might wonder, I'll point out that I'm not technically a professional journalist myself — I'm a professor who dabbles at blogging — but I take my independence seriously, and I assure you that the first time anyone in management at Rogers Media (owner of Canadian Business) tries to tell me what to write in this space, that will be the very last day I write for them.

Richard J. Reddick, associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas, writes for Fortune that some people of color might be cynical about Starbucks» response to the crisis that was precipitated by a store manager calling the cops on two black men sitting at a table (after a mere couple of minutes of them not buying anything.)

He continues to write for Inc., The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and other publications, but these days he builds his portfolio around another major holding: he is a tenured professor of journalism and mass communication at New York University.

«We can show that the gap exists,» said Huseyin Gulen, a finance professor at Purdue University who has written about the issue.

As Jone L. Pearce, associate professor at the Graduate School of Management, University of California at Irvine, wrote in «Why Merit Pay Doesn't Work: Implications from Organization Theory,» pay for performance actually «impedes the ability of managers to manage.»

Underreporting the number of people who died from the storm is serious, writes Carlos Yordán, an economist and international relations professor at Drew University.

That was when Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC), U.S. Bancorp (USB) and Wells Fargo (WFC) had their obituaries written by the two most implacable forces at the time in the investing universe — Professor Roubini and Meredith Whitney.

«Clearly, the current regime is not fit for the government's purpose of gaining a social licence to frack,» Michael Bradshaw, professor of global energy at Warwich Business School, wrote in an email.

He has been a distinguished professor of risk engineering at NYU's School of Engineering and written over 45 peer - reviewed papers.

David L. Gould, who had been a professor at the University of Iowa until Hsieh convinced him to move to Las Vegas and take the title «Director of Imagination,» wrote a public resignation letter blaming the layoffs on «a collage of decadence, greed, and missing leadership.»

TEDx Talks wrote: Robin Hanson is a Professor of Economics at the George Mason University in the US and a researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University.

Indeed, Finke said that he's most proud of a series of articles that he wrote last year along with American College professor Wade Pfau and David Blanchett, head of retirement research at Morningstar, that looked at the impact of low asset yields on the sustainability of retirement portfolios.

«Had Howard followed the example of previous political leaders in their dealings with gun massacres, he could have dropped the matter into the abyss of the parliamentary committee process,» Simon Chapman, a professor emeritus at the University of Sydney, writes in his book Over Our Dead Bodies.

«This is not just a nice, smooth process,» said Henry E. Siu, an economics professor at the University of British Columbia, who helped write the recent study about polarization and the business cycle.

«Hurricane Maria's destruction has laid bare the political subjugation Puerto Rico has experienced since 1898,» Adriana Garriga - López, an associate professor of anthropology at Kalamazoo College, wrote.