Long-term, Combs's business acumen won out, with Knight ending up in prison and bankrupt.
"Both funds effectively went belly up after Shkreli's purported stock picking acumen turned out to be a charade.
Whatever his motivations, it is sad to see Mr. Koh, with all his acumen, stretched out on a legal limb so long and so thin that one can almost hear it cracking.
But because women largely shared their knowledge with each other, their expertise and acumen missed out on getting a prominent place in the historical record.
Trump bragged about his intelligence, touted his business acumen, laid out areas in which he thinks American domestic and foreign policy is wrong, and again raised questions about whether the president really is a U.S. citizen.
But because women largely shared their knowledge with each other, their expertise and acumen missed out on getting a prominent place in the historical record -- or a place at all.
Many South African entrepreneurs impressed me with well-thought-out, strategic acumen on things like marketing and strategy, but I met fewer sheer lovers of programming like Heunis.
Even so, he showed considerable acumen in setting out and conceptually clarifying the fundamental concepts of economics (wealth, value, labor, money, efficiency, etc)., in bringing out the difficulties involved in cross-cultural and trans-historical comparisons of wealth, and in analyzing the various cases of market failure, from monopoly to collective action problems to negative externalities.
Next spring, Acumen will bring out my little book Are You an Illusion?
After a half-century of coaching, it strains credulity to suggest that Paterno's football acumen suddenly leaked out like air from a deflated ball.
