Despite the advantages of their business model, management companies saw Asia's economic crisis as an opportunity to straddle the line.
As retail investors exit the trade, taking with them their negative sentiment, Citi appears as an attractively valued stock backed by a strong business model and good management.
Mr. DAVID COLE (Center for Automotive Research): It really does represent a fundamental new business model of labor management relations, and I think it recognizes perhaps the most important element of job security is a profitable company over the long term.
Crucial elements of companies with lip-smacking growth prospects: quality product, experienced management team, scalable business model, barriers to entry by competitors and of course, a huge, hungry market.
The company has a strong management team, relatively defensive business model, exposure to infrastructure spending, and healthy free cash flow generation.
Hitachi, in flat-panel TV business, reduce fixed costs through the second half of fiscal 2009 from fiscal 2007, the reduction of overseas operations, including measures to improve profitability through the use of procurement, building a business model that specializes in technology management with low-risk differentiated has been working on.
As well as being the first such center set up by the French-based global bank in its home city, it is also the first devoted to the specific business model of hedge funds and their management structure.
They are more broadly competing with the world's highest-ranked business schools, which tend to have a model of general management.
"Significant management changes have been implemented, a universal banking business model offers its own diversification attractions, whilst cyclical economic exposure and the lack of government ownership also appeal, " he said.
Enabling a risk-adjusted operating model can help companies align their risk management programs with business and regulatory concerns.
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Hany and I convinced the management team of how we thought of the evolution of the business model, not just from a China perspective but also from a U.S. perspective.
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As if the business model challenges were not enough, Best Buy is also dealing with management turmoil at the top.
"It's just kind of a dying business model, " said Jeffrey Klingelhofer, a portfolio manager at Thornburg Investment Management.
"People are still sceptical if the business model of Panasonic will be successful in the long run, " said Fukoku Capital Management's Mr Sakurai.
"We thought we could replicate" the same games business model on mobile as online, said Doug Purdy, a Facebook director of product management, before discovering that developers were building stand-alone apps, tailored to the Android and Apple operating systems.
Yet, I applaud the management of JWT for their willingness to look at where advertising is going and adjust their business model.
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But BD has many of the characteristics of companies Buffett likes to invest in: well-regarded management, entrenched and dominant position in many of its markets, and leverage in its business model that allows it to gain efficiencies and lift profits faster than sales rise.
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