Rockwell has placed big bets in the past to preserve its programmable controller business.
Now Mr. Cook is placing some big bets on a new group of executives.
Big bets are a particularly bad way to approach decisions characterized by high uncertainty.
It made big bets on new technologies and acquisitions before fully thinking the problem through.
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It has a high 0.6% management fee and big bets on highfliers like Holly Corp.
The big bets here are based on a sweeping convergence of two different networks.
New billionaire Elon Musk has made big bets in a trio of risky industries.
They have also allowed investors to make big bets, despite putting little money down.
Two prominent U.S. chief executives have big bets riding on the outcome of Boeing Co.
Wealthy punters can place big bets on events involving ill-paid sportsmen in faraway places.
Munos says the companies that have done best made very big bets in untrammeled areas of pharmacology.
Through his Omega Advisors hedge fund, he is currently making big bets on stocks like SLM Corp.
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Cox has been given the mandate to make big bets in mobile and is looking to make deals.
It has a high 0.6% management fee and big bets on highfliers like Holly Corp. and Titanium Metals.
In the 1990s the kings of venture earned their fortunes from big bets on broadband and the Web.
It gives us good latitude to go out and take big bets and do things that are exciting.
Instead they are adopting a more passive portfolio strategy of just selecting a diversified basket of big bets.
The announcement admits that big bets that the company have recently made have so far not paid off.
The focus has been on low-cost productivity improvements, rather than high-cost, big bets.
Two prominent U.S. chief executives have big bets riding on the outcome of Boeing's crisis with its 787 Dreamliner.
In the case of Siemens, which has a mix of energy options, it is placing big bets on natural gas.
This is caused by taking big bets on one or two companies that are often tied to an employer or former employer.
Most auto companies have placed big bets on one or two alternative propulsion technologies while they dabble or play catch-up in others.
Kirk became a billionaire thanks to big bets on two neuroscience drugs: Vyvanse, for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Viibryd, for depression.
His three big bets--the Nextlink national voice and data network, the Nextel wireless service and the Teledesic satellite venture--are now at critical junctures.
The plunging euro at mid-week also did not help, as reports circulated that hedge funds were making big bets on a Euro collapse.
Short-term traders are choosing to cut down risk and wait for greater clarity in the market before making big bets on market direction.
They learned from a venture capitalist on Pioneer's board that many large private-equity firms were looking to make big bets in the energy sector.
Motorola then went on to talk abut its three big bets.
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