The idea was for Shell to keep growing in an asset-light manner, outsourcing much of the drilling to oilfield contractors like Schlumberger.
"It was an asset-light model that gave us a lot of flexibility, " says Gautam Watve, Renuka's head of strategy and planning.
Liveris' "asset-light" strategy--conjured two years ago in an effort to reposition Dow for more consistent earnings growth--is beginning to look like a brilliant move.
Among his good calls: a yearlong buy on Hub Group (nasdaq: HUBG - news - people ), an asset-light domestic logistics provider.
She is also trying to pursue an "asset-light" strategy to avoid the burden of supporting the capital investment needs of building and owning huge water projects.
But travelling asset-light has not always worked in its favour.
Any strategy should be focused on one thing: getting capital out of the old economy, so that it can be invested in new and growing businesses in an asset-light economy.
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The idea was for Shell to keep growing in an asset-light manner, outsourcing much of the drilling to oilfield contractors like Schlumberger (nyse: SLB - news - people ).
Unlike its highly leveraged competitors that gorged on loans to build up land banks, Godrej Properties has an asset-light business: It owns only 15% of the land that it is currently developing.
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What we need is for the Fed and the Administration to unleash capital trapped in bad real estate to restart sustainable job creation and economic growth in this new, asset-light, Internet-based world.
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This would be a straightforward way to redirect capital out of bad investments and eye sores like dead-end malls, empty stores, and vacant factories, so that the capital can be redeployed into our new asset-light economy.
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"The sale of W New Orleans-French Quarter helps advance Starwood's asset-light strategy, as we continue to pursue opportunities to sell owned real estate at the right time to the right owners, " said Simon Turner, Starwood's president of global development.
With its asset-light, debt-free business model, the transport and logistics company is taking advantage of lower costs and prices, buying up businesses and stretching its reach to become the premier courier service linking the emerging and fast growing Asian and African economies.
The Committee will regularly review the pace of its securities purchases and the overall size of the asset-purchase program in light of incoming information and will adjust the program as needed to best foster maximum employment and price stability.
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