So whatever emerges from Southern Cross's crisis must surely be a business whose basic structure is far more robust, where there is no doubt about it's ability to cope in bad times as well as good.
Named a New York Times bestselling business book, Basic Black is now in its eighth printing.
Now he wants to tackle the tough issue of keeping basic business information current and relevant.
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HSBC, argues that the difficulties are cyclical and the basic business model is not broken.
In fairness to consultants, basic business principals can certainly be applied across various industries.
Microsoft has yet to launch an online version of its basic business software and would not comment.
It opens with a semester of basic business soft skills, teaching theatre, presentation techniques, and transactional analysis.
Many Chinese companies still struggle to understand basic business procedures, even things as simple as attending board meetings.
"We're a basic business, so you have to give that impression, " he says.
Which is, I think, something of a problem for the basic business model.
They pay statutory royalties to rights-holders, and subsidize the basic business through advertising.
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For Major League Baseball, the basic business model hasn't really changed since 1869.
Purely on basic business grounds, without even having to consider whether Apple has bullied or pressured people into it.
Buffett's best hope is that Gen Re can restructure its investment portfolio to offset the problems with the basic business.
About 60% of Cipro revenues come from the United States, and that basic business is not going away any time soon.
The tax relief will be a significant gain for AMT as it owns plenty of real estate in its basic business.
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We have to get more towards basic business principles like brand lift.
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These potted versions are helpful enough, but once again they take up space that the basic business of atlases maps could more valuably use.
First, Sprint Nextel also needs fundamental changes in its basic business model.
Bizarrely, in terms of basic business tools, the iPhone still lacks a simple way of cutting-and-pasting chunks of data from one software application to another.
The students attend a 2 month program, learning basic business economics, retailing, and communication skills, culminating with the development of a business plan for a local business.
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In 1951, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad branched out beyond the basic business of mail-order Christmas tree decorations, ballpoint pens and bird seeds and added a catalog-only furniture business.
"It's not Einstein stuff, it's basic business principles, " says Kahn.
If someone does not have a notion of even the basic business of the banks and what they do they should not be allowed to partake in trillion-dollar decisions.
And Microsoft has made one simple and seemingly small change with the upcoming Internet Explorer 10 which could have very large implications for the basic business environment online.
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All the websites operate the same basic business model: they make it easy for sellers and buyers of services to find each other, they arrange for payment and they take a cut.
Eric Duffelen, of Towers Perrin, a large compensation consultancy, reckons that there is now little difference, at the most senior levels of big business, between basic salaries in Britain and the United States.
In his book, he breaks down the concept of Facebook for business to its basic elements, walking businesses through the fundamental steps of how to set up a functional page and what to include.
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It was basic business and economics applied to higher education, and the result was a bold set of recommendations that has sparked a fervent debate over the relative value of various bachelor degree programs.
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And as more facts emerge about the history of under-provisioning and risk-taking at Quinn Insurance, it is hard not to conclude that Sean Quinn should have taken that most basic business advice to heart and stuck to what he knew.
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