Look around and you will see real options embedded in all sorts of businesses.
Mauboussin, 36, became fascinated by real options as he attempted to explain the valuation of speculative technology companies.
We must also provide real options for those without employer-based health care.
Pricing financial options is daunting, but valuing real options is harder still.
In the end, only two real options are left in the hands of the U.S.: the oil sands of Canada or rethinking the drilling ban.
More than a year ago Mauboussin started talking to scholars exploring real options, like Martha Amram, a managing director at Chicago's Navigant Consulting and a former professor at Boston University.
We need to allow docs to state the truth and advise those patients the real options, not the pie in the sky costly hope they know will have no affect.
To quantify exactly how much it is worth is the point of real-options analysis.
Steele, who faithfully turns to Jonathan Miller for market commentary (Miller is also a Curbed columnist), and Urban Digs for Manhattan real estate news, notes the plethora of local real estate reading options that have sprung up since Curbed launched.
The development of CUDA, a parallel computing architecture developed by Nvidia, the leading GPU company, in 2006-2007, changed everything, said Hanweck, who founded Hanweck Associates, to develop a low latency, real-time options analytics engine to price and manage risk for options using GPUs.
Though it costs an investor real money to buy options on the open market, there is no tangible cost for a company to create some options internally and then issue them to employees.
In April and May, we felt the portfolio faced some real risks but the options market was charging high premiums for downside insurance so we had to be very selective about which risks to insure against.
But the idea of "causal entropy" goes further, suggesting that a given physical system not only maximises the entropy within its current conditions, but that it reaches a state that will allow it more entropy - in a real sense, more options - in the future.
So if options are a real expense, where does the money come from?
Hanweck Associates produces real-time analytics on options and delivers them as a feed.
This superciliousness has translated into political circumstances in the United States (including delegating great responsibility to unelected and unaccountable commissions) and strategic conditions elsewhere that make diplomatic options appear more real and appealing than they are.
By diagnosing and addressing the real issues, understanding contractual options, assessing associated costs and risks, and thoroughly planning for the transition to a new service delivery approach, the buyer can make proactive and informed decisions to enable a smoother migration from the incumbent provider and ultimately drive improved business performance.
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First, the options in question are real morale-boosters for workers, not an insider enrichment scheme.
That General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) will expense stock options is not the real news.
The problem for Mr Darling is that there's so little money to do the alleviating with, that his options for making a real difference to people's pockets in these straitened times is severely limited.
By being something many of the other VP options are not: a real Republican.
None of the options on offer addresses the real issue that financial burdens disadvantage the less wealthy.
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The real estate owners traded rent for stock options, hoping their tenants would create billion dollar Internet companies.
For investors, alternative options have come from regional real estate firms willing to underwrite loans in return for lofty interest rates.
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Now for the early adopters, there is a real opportunity here for HD considering current options for HD movies are slim to none.
But if a person starts with just considering long stocks, bonds, commodities and real estate as being the only portfolio options, then true diversification cannot be achieved.
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Shared interest is especially strong if your employee has real ownership in your company (equity, options, etc.).
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For parents who own a business, such as a consulting firm or real-estate brokerage, there are more options for shifting assets around to maximize aid, Ms. Fox says.
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