Word: acumen
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...chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett used his financial acumen to accrue a personal fortune of $44 billion, according to an Associated Press estimate. He most recently made headlines in June by announcing he’ll give $37 billion to charity...
...enough pressure, I didn’t re-enter my NFL betting pool and Chris Simms apparently is not a good fantasy quarterback. So this column may be all that’s left for me in this world in terms of proving my football acumen. I can already hear the grumbling: “Picking 1-AA football games? What does that prove? Who cares?” And to you I say fie! Because a five-year-old could tell you the Colts are good and the Browns are bad. But how many people can promise that...
...accessories brand. "That's where we come in. We can take it to $250 million." Says Burke, who now works as a consultant to private-equity firms, including Global Reach Capital: "There are a lot of great fashion brands that don't have the capital or the business acumen to grow." That's where a private-equity firm can provide them with the money and the right kind of management...
During a four-hour flight delay at London's Heathrow Airport two years ago, Norman Crowley battled boredom by putting his business acumen to use. Crowley is co- ceo of Inspired Gaming Group, a company whose software transforms analogue machines into digital ones. He and several coworkers found themselves staring at a Coke machine that attracted one [an error occurred while processing this directive] customer every 20 minutes. "We thought, this is crazy," it could be doing so much more. Crowley called an old friend, Clyde Pereira, the chief information officer at Coca-Cola HBC, the company's European distributor...
Ultimately, he said, Harvard gave him confidence in his own acumen...