But, as Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, author of an extensive study of the subject, points out, even successful departing bosses often try to ease the pain of re-entry into normal life by demanding to keep the trappings of their heroic stature: limousines, offices, private jets.
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The next is that this variation has little to do with things you might suppose would explain it: class sizes, hours of study per subject, and spending per pupil.
An examination of British federalisation would make an interesting subject of study, as would an analysis of the role of a dismembered Britain in world affairs.
The full report, based on a comprehensive review of scientific study on the subject, is due out next February.
Inspectors also warned that increasing numbers were entering Britain on visas designed for short periods of study which were not subject to the same checks as those for longer courses.
The great failures of the subject tend to come in macroeconomics, the study of the entire economy in aggregate.
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How this general principle plays out in particular, though, is the subject of eager study.
That Mr Moody is constantly being upstaged by the subject of his study is not surprising.
Of course, this study is subject to the caveats that it: (a) only involved one decision making task and (b) only involved undergraduate students.
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The mysterious archipelago, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986, and has since become the subject of ornithological study, archaeological fascination and popular intrigue.
The university was the subject of a study in 2004 by computer chip maker Intel which showed how the use of notebook computers had increased from 1.2% of students in 1999 to 35% just four years later.
These samples, which remain in good condition after more than 30 years, are now the subject of intense study, because they are a snapshot of maternal health at the time of pregnancies whose babies are now well into adulthood.
By 2007 that had fallen to just 10, 600, and although it's recovered a little to 13, 600 last year, that's at a time in major growth in overall applications, so the percentage of students looking to study the subject has fallen from 5% to 3%.
The cultivation of virtue has become a hot subject at universities, along with the related study of the civic institutions (the church, the family, local voluntary associations) which are thought to foster virtue best.
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His attitude regarding the responsibility to help others led to the hiring of thousands of Black employees, women and Latinos and is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.
Homosexuality has gone from being a criminal offense that could, and did, send writer Oscar Wilde to jail in England, to a comic staple in movies and TV shows, to a subject of serious constitutional study.
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One suspects that Lansana Gberies' contacts with politicians are rather better than his contacts with the military because this book does not really answer this crucial question - perhaps that should be the subject of his next study.
Exactly how that process happens is the subject of much debate and study and, of course, expensive consulting fees.
It does not have a modular structure and emphasises the virtues of "digging deeper" into a subject - with exams at the end of two years of study.
Currently pupils can sit a series of bite-sized exams as they study a subject.
According to the Wagenaar study, heavy drinkers are subject to a price elasticity of -0.28.
He is an authority on ichthyology, the study of fishes, and has published 25 papers on the subject.
Aravind's innovative approach, the subject of a Harvard Business School case study, has earned it admirers around the world.
On this day Pickens became a subject of Park's ten-year study to measure how brain function changes with age.
The Abacus deal that is the subject of the SEC lawsuit offers an apt case study.
"This generates tension in the listener, " said Martin Guhn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who co-wrote a 2007 study on the subject.
Our collective weariness is the subject of several new books, some by professionals who study sleep, others by amateurs who are short of it.
Manuka honey has been the subject of particular interest, with the results of a study just published by Sydney University finding that it has powerful antibacterial properties, and is even effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
In addition, recruitment of study subjects can be easier in developing countries, where a trial subject may get more than a year's pay to participate or participation could be his or her sole means of being able to get treatment, the authors said.
Read Montague, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has demonstrated that subjects' brains register a preference for Coke or Pepsi that correlates with the product they choose in blind taste tests. (His study is not funded by the cola giants.) The brain of "Subject P" on the monitor in the Human Neuroimaging Lab, for instance, shows he is a Pepsi lover.
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