Any change in the rate of searches for jobs correlates with up and down movements in the unemployment rate, the professors found.

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The professors found that investors can beat the market by about two percentage points a year, after trading costs, but only by piggybacking on the shares of every company that engages in this practice.

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The professors also found that the CEOs, besides being optimistic about life in general, were upbeat about the prospects of their businesses and were more willing to take risks than members of the general population.

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By combining an artist and scientific quest, the two professors at Michigan State University found that a certain type of metal-loving bacteria can transform high amounts of the toxic chemical compound gold chloride from a liquid into solid 24-karat gold.

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The research carried out by two professors over a 14-year period found only two of the 39 children studied grew up to be gay, he said.

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They shared the idea with two of their professors, Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria, and found that the ethos of management-as-profession had been a founding concept of the first MBA course at HBS in 1908.

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But a paper by two professors at the University of Amsterdam has found that gossip helps identify employees who are shirking their responsibility, making the office a more efficient place.

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YCharts searched the world of investing knowledge and found three very smart ones: Professors Louis Chan, Jason Karceski and Joseph Lakonishok.

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Recently, professors Rafael Corredoira from the University of Maryland and Lori Rosenkopf from the Wharton School even found a beneficial effect of your employees being poached by rival firms.

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