Think of the communications market as a pyramid with the globe-trotting, cost-is-no-object executive at the top.
Ackman, who has called Herbalife a pyramid scheme, expects the shares will actually hit 0.
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Most seem to believe, nevertheless, that the company may well be a pyramid selling company.
The definition of a pyramid scheme is seemingly straightforward: Cash comes in from recruits.
You often think of the poor as a mass of people at the bottom of a pyramid.
Ackman may end up being right about Herbalife, a company he says is operating a pyramid scheme.
You can see that it goes in, and there's sort of a pyramid or a triangular shape.
Unlike legitimate multilevel marketers with a product of reasonable value to sell, a pyramid's product is a facade.
Ackman has gone incredibly public about his short position on Herbalife which he called a pyramid scheme.
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They stand at the front of the crowd, you could say, or at the peak of a pyramid.
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Psychology courses introduce students to Maslow's "hierarchy of needs, " a pyramid diagram created by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow.
In late 2012 he announced a massive short position in Herbalife, declaring the nutritional supplement company a pyramid scheme.
What I can say is that a pyramid scheme, by definition, is unsustainable.
There are also doubts over the introduction of a pyramid system, which was also aired in the McLeish report.
Drawing a pyramid on a piece of paper, Nedoroslev draws a line through the top tenth and shades the bottom.
Whether Ackman is proved right or not, the way that CEO Michael Johnson has been compensated resembles a pyramid scheme.
Late in 2012, the activist investor announced a massive short position in Herbalife, calling the nutritional supplement company a pyramid scheme.
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The series of glass-covered cubes proposed for the world-famous gallery have been replaced with a pyramid-like structure clad in perforated brick.
After 18 months of due diligence, we have concluded that it is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme.
Mr Toledo, for example, has been linked to a pyramid savings scandal, and is alleged to have abandoned an illegitimate daughter.
Emblazoned above the text was a round, mysterious symbol: a star inside an omega, hovering over a pyramid surrounded by lightning bolts.
Understandably, the line between what constitutes a pyramid scheme and a legitimate enterprise is not always as clear as one might assume.
When your soul is on the line, distinguishing between a marketing guru and a shyster with a pyramid involves much higher stakes.
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The activist investor turned up the heat in late 2012 announcing a massive short position in Herbalife, calling the nutritional supplement company a pyramid scheme.
Tuesday's offer comes a few months after the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States concluded Usana's marketing model is not a pyramid scheme.
During the CNBC fight, Ackman told Icahn he is free to buy the company if he is so convinced it is not a pyramid scheme.
To see how this works, picture a pyramid at the top of which sits a private holding company owned by the patriarch and his family.
Fortified by a disciplined silhouette and a pyramid of scientifically enhanced cloth, the new fashion fronts seemed to have a stunning victory with new rules to apply.
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Herbalife, which uses a network of distributors to sell its nutrition and weight loss products, has been fighting off claims that its business amounts to a pyramid scheme.
It's believed that Hor didn't reign long enough to have a Pyramid built, but perhaps that could be the next problem solved if there any left over bricks?
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