So what does it tell us about the value of thought leadership?
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In our view, the problem is more exactly the internalisation of shareholder value pressures, and to illustrate the point we present below a kind of thought experiment about a different Apple (without shareholder value) which was willing to accept lower margins and employ more US blue collar labour.
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As long as there was uncertainty about the long-term value of the Swiss franc, speculators who thought the currency undervalued had an incentive to buy francs in order to profit from the appreciation, pushing the price up in the process.
Back in the heyday of using trusts for shifting income, if a trust contained one of those powers, like the power of the grantor to withdraw property from the trust and replace if with property of equal value, someone who thought the trust was being used to shift income, would consider that power to be a defect.
But at the end of the day, it's a financial instrument that banks thought had a lot of value, and we've learned over the last year that they don't have that much value.
Garret FitzGerald, a pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania, said that he thought the move would help recapture the lost value of the drug to some patients.
Contra Ross, the takeaway here is that the economic value of Facebook is a little less than people thought in the beginning of the week, but still an awful lot.
Many of the YouTube also-rans thought the larger site's purchase would increase their value in the eyes of potential acquirers.
The study reveals that what marketers consider to be high-value engagement is not always thought of in the same way by consumers.
But there's another school of thought that seems to be the Obama approach: The value of bipartisanship is determined by what you give up in order to get it.
Memories are not held in their entirety in the brain like old movie clips, but are maintained as a kind of chemical residue of the original perception, which could be thought of as a hash value or remainder, but not a one-way algorithm at all.
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For women entrepreneurs who value relationships within the company, the mere thought of correcting employees can be paralyzing.
Hoarders hold onto items, even those things with no intrinsic value, and feel enormous distress at the thought of throwing anything away.
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Transport Minister Sadiq Khan rounded off the session by telling the committee that he thought that PPP had proved good value to customers, as it had led to the improvement of services on the Underground.
The design of a product that gives full value to the consumer in an emerging market and serves his needs requires a different thought process altogether.
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While Buffett is usually thought of as a value investor, the strategy I base on his approach has a big growth component, looking for firms that have decade-long histories of increasing EPS with few annual declines.
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"Scrabulous has created value for the product in a way Hasbro would have never thought of doing, " says Wharton's Fader.
But the Information Age, which had all the makings of a soulless IQ Age, has turned out differently than expected -- call it a Network Age, which commoditizes IQ and pushes value to speed, creativity and the kind of derring-do once thought reckless.
They thought that they were entitled to a charitable deduction for the value of the burned down house.
The thought of making sense of the social web, let alone extracting any value from it in realtime, is daunting.
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The IMF would quickly learn the value of sound money, and stop acting like those early 19th-century surgeons, who thought using anesthesia for an operation would weaken a patient's character.
By using thought leadership content on the web, search engines provide quick and prized determination of the value of the content.
If they thought the Bank of England could deliver a rise in what people earn relative to the nominal value of their respective debts, they would vote for that.
Dr Brady thinks that the growing of rubber in the Aztec empire was probably much more extensive than had previously been thought, as was the production of balls, which may have served as the store of value for an entire economic system.
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