The only thing of value here, he says, is the Dubai brand name.
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And the only thing of any great value that anyone can see within Proview is this claim against Apple.
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But that is not the same thing as creating value through ownership of an asset over the long term in a hands-on way.
For one thing, the fact that the value of CVRs is largely dependent on future events presents challenging taxation and accounting issues.
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Axa Rosenberg's model involves thousands of multivariate regression calculations, but it all boils down to the same thing that old-fashioned value investors are looking for: an estimate of fair value, which is then compared with current stock prices.
Inculcating sustainability as a company culture is one thing, but negating the value these future generations of decision makers bring to the table is going to only restrict companies from becoming truly sustainable and therefore their ability to compete in the long term.
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Gold is that very rare thing--it has intrinsic value, but enough of it exists to support an adequate volume of trading in it.
The one thing we all have in common is we understand the value of an inclusive workforce to companies and we have all taken our own risks to prove it to the rest of the world.
The second thing we need to do as fathers is pass along the value of empathy to our children.
What, they asked, is the value of having everyone in one place when such a thing is no longer necessitated by technology?
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The normal thing about advertising is that you, the broadcaster, are offering something of value to the advertiser: access to your audience.
In the extremely inexact science of deciding a soccer player's value, the one thing that most Premier League teams can agree is that they want players with Premier League experience.
Backing away from squeezing every last nanogram of value out of human attention might not be such a bad thing.
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For one thing is clear: this recession has triggered a wholesale reappraisal by shoppers of the value that their habitual brands deliver.
Mr Schulhof says the most important thing is to "preserve the integrity" of the artist, because otherwise the value of their music and products will soon decline.
The first thing to do is to assess the value, both temporal and liturgical, of the objects in the church to determine the appropriate level of deterrence.
In reality it's also a way of delivering new industrial value--that's the more exciting thing.
For one thing, he said, it will be impossible to know the true market value of the best player at each position.
The fact that the assets should continue to appreciate in value and are out of your estate ought to be a good thing.
Just pretend Netflix reverted back to the thing you claim is the best and only real value anyway, but with the addition of video games at an additional small fee akin to upgrading to Blu-ray.
But, with perhaps one in ten American homeowners saddled with mortgages that were bigger than the value of their property, it soon became clear that housing was the main thing holding back the economy.
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear arguments in a case that tests a philosophical question at the heart of modern tort law: If the cost of pursuing a lawsuit exceeds its value to an individual plaintiff, is that a bad thing?
This consists, first, of paying too much attention to the upstream development of new inventions and technologies by scientists and engineers, and too little to the downstream process of turning these inventions into products that tempt people to part with their money, and, second, of the belief that national leadership in upstream activities is the same thing as leadership in generating economic value from innovation.
The last thing Murdoch and Peter Chernin, his operations chief, needed was to play poker with Saban over the value of Fox Family.
More than that, fashion is just the sort of thing Britain is supposed to be good at in this post-industrial age: creative, high-value-added, cluster-based.
"If there is one thing you should take away from this call, it is this: We are working to maximize the shareholder value of this company, and we will not enter into any transaction that does not recognize the full value of this company, " Yang said on a conference call with investors.
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