Buffett leads Berkshire with a tiny staff of roughly two dozen at its headquarters, and he largely lets the CEOs of all Berkshire's subsidiaries make all the operating decisions.

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You see some 23-year-old who's leading a platoon in hugely dangerous circumstances, making decisions, operating complex technologies.

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Corporations issue stock and are run by a board of directors (or, in smaller companies, a single director) who oversee major decisions and operating procedures.

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Has Joshi brought his knowledge of how decisions get made at operating executive meetings at HP to the Yahoo!

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The good news is that, just as businesses are transforming their processes by investing in technologies such as cloud computing and big data analytics to lower operating costs, increase quality, make better decisions, and boost productivity, schools can do the same.

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It is likely to be upheld in these decisions by the Russian Constitutional Court, operating under the chairmanship of another Old Guard apparatchik, Valery Zorkin.

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Others say they are simply opposed to the government operating on their land and want to make their own decisions about how to protect it.

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My metric and marketing focused process in operating my businesses has allowed me to accurately predict growth and impact of major decisions.

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With the growing fragmentation of operating systems for tablet computers, smartphones and traditional laptop and desktop PCs, CIOs need to make investment decisions about which ones to buy and integrate and, possibly, which ones to stop using.

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