Pitching effectively means not only conveying enthusiasm, a clear business model and value proposition, but it also means showing you are coachable and committed to your venture.

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In fact, its Large Cap Value model lists Exelon shares among the most attractive investments it found.

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It's a model, all right--for destroying value.

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ClearStory Data, a startup that has not revealed its capabilities, has declared that it will be in the business of providing a platform and user model that makes it easy and intuitive to find high value external data from numerous trusted sources and cross-pollinate this data with private and corporate data for fast, richer analysis.

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Increasingly, corporations are turning to a shared value model, in which companies work in alignment with society rather than against it, producing mutual benefits to both the community and the corporation.

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Deborah Williams, from the organisation, said the model's value was "greatly added to" by the number of listed buildings it records and the fact it is set within the grounds of a Grade II listed pub.

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Additionally, it is likely that banks will change their customer banking model, charging additional fees for checking accounts and other value-added programs as they seek another source of revenue to cover the decrease in debit card revenues.

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The fundamental model we teach MBAs for thinking about manufacturing is the value chain, a simple model that describes the value adding steps that take a low value material like iron ore and turn it into a high value product like a Ferrari Testarossa.

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