They will, for instance, require new personnel in areas that create value, such as business design, business analysis, and financial development.

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This decline in LCD prices has hit Corning especially hard as the LCD business constitutes nearly 53% of its total value, according to our analysis.

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In the final analysis earnings do matter and are the basis for determining the value of a business and its stock.

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Otis elevators and escalators is the largest business division of United Technologies, constituting nearly 30% of the overall company value according to our analysis.

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EMC, which owns a majority stake in VMware, installed Microsoft veteran Maritz as chief executive, and also hired Pat Gelsinger, formerly of Intel, as the head of the value-added software (like security and database analysis) that EMC puts atop its core storage business.

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