NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EXPECTATIONS OF RETURNS AND EXPECTED RETURNS Robin Greenwood Andrei Shleifer Working Paper 18686 http://www.nber.org/papers/w18686 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 January 2013 We thank Yueran Ma for outstanding research assistance and Josh Coval‚ Jared Dourdeville‚ Sam Hanson‚ Owen Lamont‚ Stefan Nagel‚ Joshua Schwartzstein‚ Adi Sunderam‚ Annette Vissing-Jorgensen‚ Jessica Wachter‚ Fan Zhang and seminar participants
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he can develop his talent for talking into a personal strength such as public speaking. Due to Clifton’s belief of studying talents in individuals‚ he worked with Gallup to start construct the strengths finder. Gallup an organization known for its research on employee selection. To identify these talents‚ Clifton worked with Gallup to design interviews that were given to people in academic and work settings. The interviewed looked at the roles a person had at their
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The impact of organizational culture on performance ANGELA SINICKAS: Developing surveys to measure the impact of corporate culture Corporate culture can help drive business results‚ but it takes a cultural audit to differentiate which elements of the culture can lead to superior performance. Angela Sinickas conducts employee engagement surveys that are specifically designed to measure the correlation between employee behaviors and attitudes that define an organization’s culture and its financial
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correlate of consciousness. The phylogenetic distribution of self-awareness Several studies have indicated that the phylogenetic distribution of self-awareness seems to be limited to primates in the great ape / human clade (Hominidae; in review in Gallup et al.‚ 2002; Povinelli and Cant‚ 1995). The great apes (Hominidae) likely diverged from a common ancestor around 14 million years ago (Hill and Ward‚ 1998). Testing mirror recognition is the most popular and well-studied proxy for self-awareness
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employee engagement front and center and keeping up energy around it.” In 2002 Conant hired the help of Gallup‚ a polling and research firm‚ to better understand his company’s engagement levels. Gallup found that 62% of Campbell’s managers were not actively engaged in their jobs and 12% were actively disengaged. Those numbers were some of the worst for any Fortune 500 firm ever polled. By Gallup standards the ideal level of employee engagement is to have a ratio of 12 actively engaged employees for
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of Dolly‚ there has been ongoing discussions regarding the morally right and morally wrong of human cloning. According to the Gallup Polls‚ by Gallup‚ Inc.‚ as of May‚ 2010 – 63 percent of the adults surveyed believed it was morally wrong to clone animals. With this same Gallup Poll‚ 83 percent of the adults surveyed believed it was morally wrong to clone humans (Gallup‚ 2011). There are two issues involved with human cloning – the morally right and the morally wrong. Those who favor morally
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This is shown when he says “God is dead.” (Miller). Ignorance is shown when Mary Warren says “I am an official of the court and it is weighty work we do‚ Mr. Proctor.” (Miller). A Red Scare example could be McCarthy’s impact on the US 1954 Gallup Poll data (Gallup). People made mindless executions due to a lack of knowledge. The people in The Crucible and Red Scare had their freedom taken away due to fear. In The Crucible the girls who danced in the woods were accused of witch craft. They
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instead of pro-choice. This article discussed and criticized a poll that Gallup‚ a reputable organization ran asking the question‚ “Are you pro-life or pro-choice‚”. According to the author‚ this question is worded poorly and leads to inaccurate results. This article does not help further the debate‚ and only makes people more misguided on the very different meanings of the two words. The author also states that because of how Gallup is a credible organization‚ this makes the question even more deceptive
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registered to vote is in the interval or it is not. 4. According to a September 2004 Gallup poll‚ about 73% of 18- to 29-year-olds said that they were registered to vote. Does the 73% figure from Gallup seem reasonable for the professor’s students? Explain. The 73% figure from Gallup seems reasonable since 73% lies in our confidence interval. 5. If the professor only knew the information from the September 2004 Gallup poll and wanted to estimate the percentage of her students who were registered to
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