I've also kept a foot in the academic community, recently through researching my book and previously via co-authoring works with Clayton Christensen.

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He spends at least four hours a day online pouring through company documents researching his picks and chatting with other investors.

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Today, buyers spend far more time researching and moving through the buying process before they engage vendors.

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Documents go through many stages, from researching ideas, to outlines, to collaboration, to review, copy editing, approval and publication.

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This Christmas I will not only be researching my gift choices through my smartphone but also using it to swipe the barcodes of presents in store and then tap or wave as I pass through the checkout.

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This is a viable solution for stores losing sales to potential customers who browse in-store but end up researching products and eventually buying through online-only retailers such as Amazon.

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Researching the 1980s recently, I went through a vast pile of professional journals and was struck by the difference between then and now, how appallingly thin, tentative, falsely contextual and philosophically pretentious the work was 20 years ago, while busily declaring itself the new wave.

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The best part of researching this story, however, was the process of combing through the names of cars sold in Japan with odd English titles.

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