They promptly turn to Warren Buffett, who lends his substantial financial acumen for their guidance.
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By opting for an outcome-based relationship that caps fees, the CIO can finally demonstrate financial acumen.
Yet aside from his athletic abilities and financial acumen, Gillette has little in common with past protagonists.
If financial acumen is limited in the governing classes, it is at least as rare outside them.
Their financial acumen and communications skills make people with a real-estate background a strong fit for articulating and negotiating insurance contracts with clients, she says.
"They've taken Singapore Airlines as a benchmark for service and British Airways as a benchmark of their financial acumen, " says Fraser Teasdale, head of a Miami airline-management firm.
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Still, he speaks about his financial acumen with unmistakable pride.
Here, Plaintiffs did not establish what percentage of the class was comprised of inhabitants of urban centers and rural areas, persons who did not complete high school, as well as high school and college graduates, those who are impoverished fortuitously and those who are of modest means by choice or avocation, or persons with some financial acumen versus those without any.
What's more, schools can't calculate the moral well-being of their graduates the same way they can quantify financial success or technical acumen.
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She is now living in Manila putting her financial and business development acumen to work to develop alternative building materials and modular housing systems for low income groups.
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Examples around the world suggest that financial capital alone may not be sufficient to spur effective entrepreneurship among people who may lack business acumen, a vetted opportunity, and a network of advisers.
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