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• Doctorate degrees: 2006-2007

  - 2007-07-12

  DOCTORATE DEGREES 2006-2007 All Disciplines Combined AFRICAN-AMERICAN DOCTORATE--HBCUs vs. TWIs 2006 Rank Institution State ...

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• First professional degrees: 2005-2006

  - 2007-07-12

  FIRST PROFESSIONAL DEGREES 2005-2006 All Disciplines Combined AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRST PROFESSIONAL--HBCUs vs. TWIs 2006 Rank Institution State ...

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• News Briefs.(http://img.jgi.doe.gov/)(survey on-who's doing the most innovative and important research in the fields of human genetics and nanotechnology)(Integrated Microbial Genomes from Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute)(University of Chicago

  - 2005-07-01

  By Elizabeth Tolchin, News Editor Survey of Top Scientists for Study of Research Innovation Elizabeth Tolchin Who's doing the most innovative and important research in the fields of human genetics and...

  Tags: analysis, Argonne National Laboratory, Biotechnology, Department of Energy, genome, Nanotechnology, researcher, scientist, survey, University of Chicago

• Micro data, heterogeneity and the evaluation of public policy Part 2

  - 2005-03-22

  7. TREATMENT EFFECTS The identification and estimation of structural econometric models are challenging tasks, especially for models with dynamics and uncertainty. The value of this research is beyond question. But the difficulty of this task is also clear. The task has been made harder by the empirical findings showing...

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• Strategic Marketing Management

  BNET - 2005-02-01

  Your company's success is directly tied to its ability to effectively position its organization and market its products and services. Drawing on Chicago's latest research and distinctive approach to marketing, this program will assist you in forming and evaluating your company's marketing strategies. Particular attention will be focused on product...

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• Power without Glory: George Stigler's Market Leviathan

  - 2005-01-01

  No arts; no letters, no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short (Hobbes 1914, p. 65). All but the hopelessly naive...

  Tags: analysis, Clark, Craig, economist, Friedman, ideology, income, landlord, liberty, Marshall, theory, University of Chicago

• "A brilliant mind": Margaret Egan and social epistemology

  - 2004-03-22

  ABSTRACT Margaret Egan (1905-59) taught at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago (1946-55) and at the School of Library Science at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio (1955-59). With her colleague Jesse Shera, Egan wrote "Foundations of a Theory of Bibliography" for Library Quarterly in 1952;...

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• Remembrance and appreciation roundtable George J. Stigler : scholar, father, dissertation advisor, referee, textbook writer and policy analyst - 1911-1991

  - 2002-07-01

  I Moss on Stigler as a Historical Subject GEORGE JOSEPH STIGLER is an obvious subject target for historians of 20th-century economic thought. His Theory of Competitive Price (1942) helped shape the development of microeconomics after World War II and his remarkable topics for analysis produced seminal contributions to...

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• US Economists Win Nobel Prize.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-10-12

  Oct. 12--Two American professors were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics yesterday for their work in developing mathematical and statistical tools indispensable for the analysis of the choices that individuals face in the workaday world. James J. Heckman of the University of Chicago and...

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• Quaker Executive Named B2BWorks' CFO; Quaker Oats' Director of Corporate Planning and Analysis Joins Nation's Largest Online Business-to-Business Advertising Network

  - 2000-02-01

  Business Editors CHICAGO--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 1, 2000 B2BWorks, the nation's first full-service, online business-to-business advertising network, announced today that Joseph Lorenz, former director of corporate planning and analysis for The Quaker Oats Company, will join B2BWorks as the company's CFO. Lorenz, who most recently was responsible for developing...

  Tags: analysis, B2B, CFO, E-business/E-commerce, FINANCE, financial, INTERNET, Investment, network, Strategy, University of Chicago