Embedding new concepts of value and performance at the organizational and individual levels.

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These concepts of shared value creation and shared value consumption are currently early adopter trends, enjoying niche acceptance and having their first initial success cases.

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The paper compares existing river ecology concepts with current approaches to describe river biogeochemistry, and assesses the value of these concepts and approaches for understanding the impacts of interacting global change disturbances on river biogeochemistry.

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The basic concepts of addition and subtraction, place value, multiplication and division, and how they relate to each other, need to be understood before children can go any further in the subject, he says.

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The concepts of assessment for learning, particularly the value of peer- and self-assessment of work coupled with explicit, written-down or recorded logs of learning, are not recognized as a valuable norm in, arguably, the majority of our planet's classrooms.

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Think of these concepts as the offline equivalent of social media and you can begin to see their value.

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And the value of companies is increasingly tied up in concepts such as brand and intellectual property, which do not observe country borders.

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Consequently, it is not surprising that investors do not understand advanced financial concepts such as differences between stocks and bonds, the role of the stock market, and the value of portfolio diversification.

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