See side bet on Wiktionary
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"text": "However, even if the harm of using side bets exceeds the benefit, the parties would still have an incentive to place side bets on the outcome of the trial once the jury starts deliberating.",
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"ref": "2007, David Sklansky, Tournament Poker for Advanced Players, page 117:",
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"ref": "2011, Alex Bellos, Alex's Adventures in Numberland, page 314:",
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"ref": "2009, Linda Holbeche, Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy, page 412:",
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"ref": "2016, Allan Cohen, Pramodita Sharma, Entrepreneurs in Every Generation, page 135:",
"text": "A telling example of managing a side bet can be seen in the Garcia Tuñon company of Venezuela, which for two generations had specialized in a General Motors dealership through considerable economic and political turbulance. A third-generation wanted to continue the dealership and related businesses but also to diversify away from the car industry without incurring too much reputational risk. So while managing and growing the core business, he tinkered with Internet-based business opportunities but kept these explorations away from the company brand to preserve the legacy in case they did not work.",
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"ref": "2018, John Marthinsen, Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives:",
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"ref": "2014, Heidi Reeder, Commit to Win:",
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"ref": "2017, Fanny Ginor, Sociological Work: Method and Substance:",
"text": "Any decision about the new job involves a financial side bet the pension fund has placed for him by its rules.",
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"text": "However, even if the harm of using side bets exceeds the benefit, the parties would still have an incentive to place side bets on the outcome of the trial once the jury starts deliberating.",
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"ref": "2007, David Sklansky, Tournament Poker for Advanced Players, page 117:",
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"ref": "2011, Alex Bellos, Alex's Adventures in Numberland, page 314:",
"text": "Craps is also worth mentioning because of the possibility of making a curious side bet in which you can bet with the house; that is, against the player throwing the dice.",
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},
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"ref": "2021, Mark Bollman, Mathematics of The Big Four Casino Table Games:",
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"text": "A telling example of managing a side bet can be seen in the Garcia Tuñon company of Venezuela, which for two generations had specialized in a General Motors dealership through considerable economic and political turbulance. A third-generation wanted to continue the dealership and related businesses but also to diversify away from the car industry without incurring too much reputational risk. So while managing and growing the core business, he tinkered with Internet-based business opportunities but kept these explorations away from the company brand to preserve the legacy in case they did not work.",
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"text": "P&G's speculative side-bet was responsible for virtually all of its losses, and the devil was definitely in the details of this transaction.",
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"text": "Side bets aren't always explicit, nor do they necessarily involve money. A side bet occurs anytime you do something that increases the consequences, or losses, of not staying with it.",
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"ref": "2016, Deborah Blackman, Michael O’Donnell, Stephen Teo, Human Capital Management Research:",
"text": "There is little, if any, literature on the concept of a side-bet reemergence on the occasion of an employee relinking with a previous supervisor.",
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"text": "Any decision about the new job involves a financial side bet the pension fund has placed for him by its rules.",
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