Willie Robertson credits some of his business acumen to experience he gained in his 20s after he left the family company to run a children's camp business.
Many, believing they can turn personal passions into careers, don't understand the business acumen required to gain entry or succeed in not-for-profits.
The prince, who gained a reputation for financial acumen by investing in Citicorp, a predecessor of the current Citigroup, when that stock was depressed in 1991, helped complete the first Euro Disney restructuring in 1994 by purchasing shares at the French franc equivalent of 1.52 euros.
Trying to gain management acumen from Spock's ultrapermissive Baby and Child Care could result in running a brokerage house full of people in bell-bottoms eating peyote and handing out IPOs for free on the street.
From an educational perspective, we believe it is important that students gain political acumen by analysing and determining whose health suffers and 'whose power rises under prevailing practices of globalisation' [ 2] in order to consider whether alternative policies - aimed at different dimensions - could have better implications for people's health worldwide.
PAGE A7 Powerful City Lawyer Dies Howard Squadron, 75, gained power by mixing his law practice with liberal politics, support for the arts and public relations acumen.
On Wall Street, when you deny other people money, you are protecting your shareholders, and when you are paid extravagantly, that is simply the cost the firm must pay for gaining your managerial acumen.
As a movement, social entrepreneurship continues to gain traction worldwide, with funds like Acumen specializing in social impact investment.
Skills: such as the ability to network, to think strategically, to gain access to resources, business knowledge and acumen, interpersonal skills and people management capabilities.
Mr. Abramovich, a former Soviet Army conscript, garage mechanic, street trader and toy duck importer, brought his business acumen and cash to the deal, while Mr. Berezovsky used his Kremlin influence to gain control of valuable Siberian oil holdings and to transform them into a new company, Sibneft.
