Develop the bank's retail and corporate lending acumen; build an Internet banking presence; streamline back-office systems; expand such high-margin business lines as credit cards, private banking, insurance and asset management; all while fending off new domestic and foreign rivals for its bread-and-butter residential mortgage business.
Many Americans revere her as an arbiter of taste; others admire the business acumen that built a billion-dollar company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.
Page A20 Obituaries ROY L. ASH, 93 He used tough-minded analytic acumen to build a multibillion dollar conglomerate, Litton Industries, and to become a force in the Nixon White House, where he led the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Acumen Fund has built a metrics platform that we call Pulse.
As a collector of great acumen, Mr. Samad Khan built the library with care and erudition over most of his adult life.
Dubugras and Franceschi not only had a big network of startup entrepreneurs in their Rolodex, but they had the fintech acumen necessary to build a credit card business designed specifically for founders.
It's an idea that makes sense to Acumen, whose very DNA was built on blurring the lines between the nonprofit and for-profit worlds.
Even more extraordinary episodes of thievery often go unreported -- the losses are handled informally, outside of court -- to avoid embarrassment for executives whose reputations are built on their financial acumen, lawyers and security experts say.
Donald Trump's entire brand is built on his business acumen -- the man, after all, made billions of dollars for himself and his family.
It would default on one of the great collections of contemporary art in New England, one built early on with extraordinary artistic acumen.
But an extended look at Mr. Xi's past, taken from wide-ranging interviews and official Chinese publications, shows that his rise has been built on a combination of political acumen, family connections and ideological dexterity.
