Overall, the typical non-white director serves on 2.2 boards, compared with 1.7 for white directors, according to a study of 1, 400 companies by the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC).
Complexity is the No. 1 issue facing chief executives today, according to a 2010 IBM study of 1, 500 chief executives.
The 2013 U.S. Wireless Smartphone Satisfaction Study--Volume 1 and the 2013 U.S. Wireless Traditional Mobile Phone Satisfaction Study--Volume 1 are based on experiences evaluated by 9, 767 smartphone customers and 6, 759 traditional mobile phone customers.
ENGADGET: J.D. Power: average smartphone satisfaction is up, fights are fierce for second place
The publication quoted a study of 1, 200 executives by academics at the Goizueta Business School in Atlanta.
BBC: Unilever is urging staff to think before they send e-mails
The online study questioned 1, 131 adults, aged 16 and over, about their interest and awareness of both events.
In the study, 1, 369 of the men had prostate cancer, 241 had advanced disease and 162 died from it.
The study analysed 1.5 billion tweets sent by 70 million users in one month to work out where people were.
BBC: Twitter users defeat the distance barrier and reach out
The study of 1, 268 affluent and wealthy consumers tracks the attitudes, lifestyles, luxury category spending patterns and financial services participation in this demographic.
FORBES: The Wealthy Are Saving Much More Than They Are Spending
That's a common approach for the Holy See, said Rooney, author of "The Global Vatican, " a study of 1, 200 years of statecraft by Catholic popes and priests.
The figures favour that view: one German study involving 1, 600 men found that the rate of repeat offences dropped from 84% to 3% after castration.
The study asked 1, 000 adults in Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States about the accessibility, affordability and quality of their national health-care systems.
Simdax, a heart failure drug from Abbott Laboratories and Orion Pharmaceutical, failed to prove it extended survival compared to an older treatment in a study of 1, 327 patients.
As a rule, it's better to hire people who've done something similar before, Khurana says, basing his conclusion on a study of 1, 300 management changes over 17 years.
Immunex and American Home Products, which owns 55% of Immunex, recently began a final-stage study of 1, 800 patients to answer the key question: Does Enbrel prolong the lives of heart failure subjects?
The study of 1, 300 U.S. and U.K. executives, conducted by Rackspace Hosting with support from Manchester Business School in the U.K., finds cloud engagements are delivering positive impacts, from cost savings to more innovation.
FORBES: Cloud Computing Boosts Next Generation of Startups, Survey Shows
In one study of 1, 740 men with high cholesterol, Scottish researchers found that men with high levels of the Lp-PLA2 enzyme had twice the risk of heart attacks, an effect that was statistically independent of their cholesterol levels.
About 70% of women and 57% of men believe an invisible barrier--a glass ceiling--prevents women from getting ahead in business, according to a study of 1, 200 executives in eight countries, including the U.S., Australia, Austria and the Philippines.
Dr Morgan hopes to put some of these new approaches into practice by embarking on a three-year study of 1, 000 university students to deal with some critical unresolved questions, such as whether light users of the drug, who take it seemingly without side-effects, are actually storing up problems for the future.
ECONOMIST: A scientific row has broken out over the effects of Ecstasy
The Framingham Foot Study looked at 1, 370 adults and found strong family histories of the condition.
The study looked at 1, 255 pairs of mothers and children from 1999 to 2002.
The study focused on 1, 519 men from 13 countries who had heart disease.
The Kaiser study looked at 1, 063 women in the early stage of pregnancy.
The study, of 1, 972 children in the north-west of England, also discovered there was little risk of bullies being caught by teachers.
BBC: Bullies were more likely to seek risks, the study found
Those two groups will be drawn from an initial larger study group of 1, 000 current and former players from across the United States.
This is a horrific tale of six young males who, in 2006, volunteered for a phase 1 study for a novel drug, TGN1412.
FORBES: Bad Pharma? Maybe. But Goldacre's Selective Use of Data Is Wrong
The findings come from a study of nearly 1, 000 US people that looked at diet, calorie intake and body mass index (BMI) - a measure of obesity.
Put together by energy consulting firm Wood McKenzie, the study projects that 1 million new jobs will be created by 2018, if U.S. and Canadian energy reserves are fully exploited.
The notion of safeguarding is important because a recent study found that 1 in 9 (11%) of handguns distributed into legal channels in 1996 were found to have been used in crime by 2000.
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