But they differ from fund managers in a significant way: they actually know the business.
What's unbelievable to me is the impact I can make given that I'm from Detroit, I know the business, I have a reasonable understanding of sports and people.
Later, as Lucent's business imploded, D'Amelio became a key sounding board for other executives at the company, a pragmatic voice for investors about what management did and didn't know about the business environment.
As always, we will deliver what you need to know as the business world hurtles forward.
So I wanted to know how the business was going to distinguish itself.
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But as we all know the newspaper business is in terminal decline, being beaten back by all this pesky online writing.
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Now, economic -- as I said yesterday, I'm not an economist but I do know that the business of predicting the future in terms of economics is tricky.
And they were, time and time again during this trial, when he was on the stand, he would take some example and say, well, you know, we just monetized this by doing X, Y and Z, and it'll be something really complicated, and you know, if you know about business, you know, you know, the notion of monetizing a business that doesn't make any money doesn't make any sense.
You probably know that the sports business has grown a lot more complex in recent years.
They know all the technology business models, understand the value chain and have an extremely strong global network of contacts.
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Much of the decade revolved around entrenching what we know as the core BlackBerry business model, where messaging-focused smartphones ship to large-scale customers.
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How did he know about the franchising business and corporate culture?
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But that's probably one of the reasons that I'm having more trouble distinguishing my jobs, because when your studio is in the house, you know, I pretty smoothly move between, you know, returning calls and doing the business side of things and, you know, recording a song.
All the major oil companies have been working hard at trying to explain to the public, you know, the complexities of this business.
Any family that has spent considerable personal and financial resources preparing for the generational transfer of a business, for instance, will know what the death tax can mean to a family business.
In IT the pressure must be there to actually know the entire portfolio that is supporting the business and measure how fast it can be taken forward.
"It's not just being able to draw it in the virtual reality sense of saying 'here we've reproduced the current world', but to understand the data, to know this is the doorway to a business, this is the path to the stairs... this is a public building, these are private areas, " he says.
Criticism of how business schools may have helped create the end of the business world as we know it would seem to echo Gordon-Howell's point about the need for more emphasis on ethics.
Well, you know, the mortgage securities business has been very profitable in recent years.
Still, Google doesn't yet know exactly "what the business model is for a return on investment, " he says.
You may know the value of your business inside and out, certainly an integral component of a compelling presentation.
You like to hire people who know everything about the way business is done in your industry and culture.
As most football fans now know, it is the business arrangements behind the scenes which often drive what happens on the field.
By now they know the drill: Combine business and some editorial operations at a cluster of smaller papers while attracting big advertisers with a competitive cost per 1, 000 readers.
To do so, they will have to understand more than they know now about the key business processes in their companies and search for the opportunities to improve those processes with the flexibility of the cloud.
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Far from fuelling vanity projects, Ms Christian says services like hers offer a fairer and more transparent way of getting a book to market for people who may not have the business know-how to do so.
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And so my therapist, you know, psychologist was taking me around, trying to just, you know, dip me in a little bit to let me know, you know, this is the business here that you've been in all your life.
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