Hedge fund manager David Einhorn says there is a corporate equivalent today: Apple.
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Is empire building and the pursuit of category dominance a healthy thing, or the corporate equivalent of the road to Perdition?
By the standards of 2013, that positively marks it as a small time operation, the corporate equivalent of a three-card monte scheme.
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By compensating executives for the brilliance of their deals, rather than their long-term profitability, Enron created the corporate equivalent of a boiler-room scam shop.
The corporate equivalent of science fiction, dream cars made people believe that the future was speeding toward them, and that the present was swiftly receding.
That's interesting, because Bristol is now a very different company from what it was last year, having spun off one division, agreed to sell another and bought a third--the corporate equivalent of major surgery, adding and removing organs that are each worth billions of dollars.
Right now, the Verde disposal looks like the corporate finance equivalent of a huge looming car crash.
Typically, older workers would sign up for Medicare Part A hospital coverage at no cost but not opt to pay for Part B doctor coverage or Part D drug coverage while equivalent corporate coverage is in place.
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We started with the familial equivalent of a corporate retreat, a pajama party with our daughters, during which we voted on a list of values.
In the meantime, I guess women will have to take another lesson from the male-dominated corporate world and practice the equivalent of companies hiding their assets in offshore accounts.
That's because selling a credit swap is equivalent to buying the corporate bond on margin.
Hong Kong has no general income tax, only a salaries tax, a corporate-profits tax and its equivalent of a property tax.
Halo is, in short, the videoconferencing equivalent of flying in the corporate jet.
The slow uptake is especially striking in comparison to their eager use of equivalent Chinese social media for domestic corporate communications.
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Mr Greenlaw says the closest precedent was in 1968, when individual, corporate, excise and payroll taxes collectively rose by the equivalent of 3.1% of GDP, mostly to pay for the Vietnam war and to damp down inflation.
For a top-bracket taxpayer, that was equivalent to as much as 12% on a corporate bond.
The ability to take risky bets is actually what researchers at Cambridge University identified to be the key differentiator among entrepreneurs and people of equivalent IQ and experience that find success in the corporate world.
In some ways, Google represents the internet-era equivalent of Bell Labs or Xerox PARC legendary corporate research outfits that shaped the evolution of technology in earlier periods.
But it is hard to see how it can keep track of the ever-growing traffic that passes through or leaves big corporate IT systems, for instance through a simple memory stick (which plugs into a PC and can hold the equivalent of dozens of feature-length films).
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