The most likely scenario is what regulators call "runoff, " where the bond insurer doesn't write new business and simply operates on the premiums earned from its existing book of business.
The second problem is that social media generates business, and reps will either leave a company which keeps them from building their book of business or they will go broke and quit.
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While 91% of advisors have at least one fee-based account in their book of business, the still remaining overall high percentage of transactional business illustrates that fee-based business has a very long way to go.
When I glanced over the agenda this evening, I was surprised to learn that the conference seems to focus more on energy management than DR, especially given that EnerNOC has built such an impressive book of business in the DR space.
As we have stressed over the past month or so, if 2013 proves to be as bumpy as we think it will be, ensuring that you keep your current book of business satisfied will be one important key to at least maintaining your business.
For instance, if a San Francisco broker-dealer wants an equity sales trader with both a series 7 and series 63 certification (exams that designate a particular knowledge set and the ability to get state registration to solicit debt and equity orders), and a transferable book of business, they can tailor a search for exactly those needs on StreetID.
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Amazon is determined to put book publishers out of business and squeeze to death brick and mortar book sellers.
Gene Marks is owner of Marks Group, a technology consulting firm, and author of The Streetwise Small Business Book of Lists.
Finally, the acquisition binge has left Danaher with a mountain of goodwill on its balance sheet--goodwill being the excess of the purchase price over the book value of the acquired business.
But I think that when we look back at the history of the e-book market one of the classic business school cases is going to be how stupid it was for publishers to sue Google.
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"Its management information focused on the performance of the firm's mortgage book and the profitability of the business, rather than on treating customers fairly, " the FSA said.
Combined with the mass merchandisers, this 37 percent of the book market represents the heart of the business and the focus of much effort on the part of publishers.
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While Andy Milligan, a partner at business consultancy, Caffeine, and author of football business book "Brand it Like Beckham, " said that club owners, the Glazers, may go into "overdrive" in the next 24 hours to reassure global stakeholders that the club's stability, on the pitch, is not at risk.
Welcome to the world of Mark Yost, a Chicago-based sports business writer whose new book, Varsity Green, lambastes the business of college athletics as corrupt, unethical carnage of the highest form.
Q4 sales jump 22% on the strength of its e-book business, but earnings and 2013 outlook fall short of analyst expectations.
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"People get passionate about grammar, " says Mr. Appleman, author of a book on business writing.
His was the statist world of business book gurus, not the entrepreneurial reality of high-tech's mean streets.
For example, Amazon should have come out of the book business.
So, it could be that the main purpose of the book is to help business people become more conscious so that as they become more conscious of the things that they sort of do unconsciously, they can defend business better, and they can have businesses that are actually more successful as well.
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Its book business sprouted out of 17th Street Productions, a book-packaging company Alloy bought in 2000.
Check out the description of this business book, Switch, by Chip and Dan Heath.
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Starr's agencies began to book business on behalf of other insurers, including ACE (run by Greenberg's son EvanGreenbergEvan Greenberg) and Berkshire Hathaway.
Amazon is transforming into an electronics and apparel retail powerhouse as its old core business of book and DVD sales slows down.
Hed spent half a lifetime in the bruising business of book publishing -- much of it at the top of the heap.
Co-starring Josh Gad ("1600 Penn, " "The Book of Mormon") as business partner Steve Wozniak, the film focuses on Jobs' celebrated role in pioneering the personal computer.
The shrinkage of the printed book business - particularly in non-fiction - has also led the publisher setting up ad-funded websites Honest John - for car enthusiasts, the Complete University Guide and home-grown veg site Allotments.
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All this may be great fun for foodies, but the attraction of Mr Barlow's book is that he goes well beyond the business of eating.
In fact, argues Nicholas Carr, the former editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of the new book The Big Switch, those Web applications are signs of a fundamental change, a shift from the desktop to the Web that could redefine computing--and Google's business model.
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