"We watch business movies with our own goals in mind, " says Jack Boozer , an associate professor at Georgia State University and author of Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique (University of Texas Press, 2002).
David Swensen, the well-regarded CIO for Yale University and author of Unconventional Success, highlights co-investment as one of the characteristics of the best money managers.
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Over the last 50 years, the University of Colorado has achieved great success in many sports.
Tebow is a legend in Florida thanks to his success at University of Florida where he won the Heisman Trophy and led the Gators to the 2008 national championship.
Raised on a Utah egg farm, Mr. Covey was educated at the University of Utah, Harvard University and at Brigham Young University, where his doctoral thesis concerned the history of American "success literature, " such as Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.
Although communications technology may have made a dent in the productivity edge of elite schools, productivity is hardly the only measure of success for a university.
Their victory at the University of Worcester was helped by their success from the free-throw line as they had a 80 percent strike-rate, while Newcastle struggled to find their range.
In a recent study, senior business school professors from the University of Cambridge, University of Minnesota, the London Business School and the University of Southern California collaborated to identify the key drivers of success.
Paul Inman, pro vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, said Swindon was "one of those areas that desperately deserves success".
Jack Levin, a criminology professor at Northeastern University in Boston, acknowledges the success of policing strategies, but notes that an ageing society like the United States should expect to experience less violent crime.
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In 1972, Campbell's university began a project to track the success of a group of preschoolers and a similar control group of kids who were not given access to preschool.
The study was conducted by researcher Adam Grant of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, also author of the book Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success.
Last season, after decades of fielding mediocre basketball teams, Harvard was ranked among the nation's top 25 in basketball, and at the heart of the basketball team's success was a program dogged by controversy ever since Harvard hired former University of Michigan coach Tommy Amaker in April 2007.
Like the Prime Minister's Office's apology to Noam Chomsky, Klaffter's action - aside from arguably being prohibited by his own university's constitution - was further proof of the Left's success in appropriating the language and imagery of freedom and tolerance in the service of forces that seek to destroy freedom and end tolerance.
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Georgetown University applications multiplied 45 percent between 1983 and 1986 following a surge of basketball success.
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Yet nobody had explained it in a way that also explained the success of Dell, Wal-Mart and the University of Phoenix.
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Young, talented Chinese geek Zhang Yichi arrived at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom in 2008 to ascend to a new rung of success.
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Every single rat must be eradicated for the programme to be a success, said project leader Prof Tony Martin from the University of Dundee, who spoke to BBC News before setting off.
Colleges like the University of Texas at Austin aim to give students an edge on start-up success.
Today, an athletics arms race ensues as others want to emulate the commercial success of schools like Ohio State, Texas, or the University of Southern California.
Dr Blecher approached the problem from a business perspective - and his university is designed to promote the idea of wealth creation and the sharing of that success.
Prolonged success means increased revenue for the university, often to the tune of millions, so granting a head coach more control is seen as a small price to pay.
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Their first test in October 2007 was a success: An all-electric car plugged in at the University of Delaware and rigged with communication software responded to a signal from PJM for a sudden burst of power to help balance supply and demand on the grid.
Just as energetic is the attempt to nurture a new generation of entrepreneurs. (For 100 years, Michigan coasted on the success of that hyperactive entrepreneur, Henry Ford.) The University of Michigan has a two-year-old Centre for Entrepreneurship, providing classes and other support to students with business ideas.
Morgan McCall, a professor at the University of Southern California, developed a different view that moves beyond the skills correlated with success to a circumstance-based theory.
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Congratulations to USAID and to the university leaders, faculty, students, and staff that will be key to the success of the Higher Education Solutions Network.
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The finding, by noted University of Toronto researcher Donald Redelmeier, is important because it may give us information about whether success, in and of itself, makes people healthier.
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The rap duo Kidz in the Hall is sort of like the Vampire Weekend of contemporary hip-hop: Its members met while attending an Ivy League university prominently reflected in their stage getup and they owe much of their success to the file-sharing footsoldiers of the music blogosphere.
Typically, public employee unions cling tightly to defined-benefit pensions: only a handful of states, including Michigan and Alaska, have had much success moving non-university employees to defined-contribution plans.
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