Advantage Capital Development is engaged in investing in small public and private companies that may be good targets for spin offs. Co. also provides business...
The advantages of working with one's internal staff are pretty obvious. Assuming service levels are equivalent, internal service providers typically have significant price advantages. And even when prices are comparable, there are two key reasons why insiders have the advantage over outsourcing vendors: continuity and vested interests. Internal staff has...
First Advantage CREDCO, a leader in credit reporting solutions, sought to improve sales productivity. First Advantage considered consistency by deploying enterprise CRM, but balked at the steep licensing and implementation costs required to tailor the system to its needs. Based on an executive's previous success with Salesforce CRM and the...
Mail-order sales continue to flourish, in part because companies can attract customers without incurring overhead costs such as retail space and related expenses. Specialty catalogers — particularly those that sell niche items like hand-made apparel, kitchen equipment, luxury items, and organic foods — have enjoyed considerable success. This article looks...
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The objective in this paper is to define jurisdictional advantage, the recognition that location is critical to firms' innovative success and that every location has unique assets that are not easily replicated. The purpose is to be normative and policy oriented. Drawing from the well-developed literature on corporate strategy, it...
Cost/Benefit Considerations and Asymmetric Industry Structures Asymmetries arise and persist provided that one firm has a strategic advantage over the other. The tangible form of this advantage is that one firm can get the other to stop investing; the authors have shown that this is the case under price competition...
There are several different options available to companies desiring to go public. Each has its own advantages, disadvantages, state and federal requirements, time constraints, and costs. Careful consideration should be given as to the method used to achieve a public company, and the advise of professionals should be sought. There are...
During the last half of the twentieth century, many barriers to international trade fell and a wave of firms began pursuing global strategies to gain a competitive advantage. However, some industries benefit more from globalization than do others, and some nations have a comparative advantage over other nations in certain...
This article focuses upon how to avoid the premature death of an existing “permanent” life insurance policy. A high percentage of existing “permanent” insurance policies will not make it to the finish line. They will fall apart before the deaths of those they insure if the insured lives a long...
Recently, "Dot-com" startups relied on the well-known concept of "First-mover advantage" to justify huge marketing expenses and large financial losses. The idea was that once the firm had gathered customers, it would keep those customers because it had a first-mover advantage. But was that assumption valid? The authors' analyzed whether...
The article refers to music licensing. If you are an artist or indie label, one way to significantly expand your universe is to license your master recordings to record companies outside the United States. There are various advantages of doing so. Aside from the obvious advantage of generating additional record...
The article defines moral advantage. Everyone knows a modicum of ethics is called for in any business--cannot cheat the customers forever and get away with it. The article also suggests the common way of thinking about morality in business the way it goes. Topics like the three faces of morality;...
Once the most prestigious location for a CEO, the corner office is giving way to less formal space, allowing easier access to and for employees. CEOs are moving away from formal hierarchy into a more team-based approach, and many have downsized their former corners or have integrated the space into...
In hyper-competitive markets, companies try to gain advantage by deploying surprise strategies through which they secure first-mover advantage, or the advantage of introducing goods and services to the market prior to their competitors. Competitive Intelligence CI specialists, corporate analysts, and strategic planners try to unveil these strategies. The authors' have...
There has been a lot of talk recently about the myth of a first-mover advantage on the Internet. Constant innovation could be a means of keeping a first-mover advantage. However, if the innovations are based primarily on copy able intellectual property, the result could be more a boon for lawyers...
Forward Operating Base FOB Keenan, which lies in the village of Zumbelay, about 15km from Gereshk, Afghanistan, was captured by The Mercian Regiment last year. The mud and stone walls of the former farmer's compound bear the scars of erratic Taliban small-arms fire and Rocket Propelled Grenades. When...
From Beretta [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This new Beretta shotgun features an innovative locking system with break-open action that allows operation in complete safety during competitions. The second round is not hidden inside the magazine tube. Instead, it is always visible in its side cartridge carrier. Available in...
SDL (LSE: SDL), the leading provider of GlobalInformation Management GIM solutions, announced today the launch of aworldwide language service provider LSP partner program. Modeled afterthe successful Idiom LSP Advantage Program, the SDL LSP partner program isdesigned to work closely with LSP partners who leverage SDL GIM technologyto increase the...
Pinnacle Systems, Inc., the consumerdivision of Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), today announced that as aresult of its ongoing strategy to make video editing and sharing easy forcasual users, its customer base is moving beyond the enthusiast marketplaceand gaining more users who are new to video but want to take...
Expert Group, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: EXPT) announcestoday that the company has been approved by the Florida Department ofFinancial Regulations as a Correspondent Lender. A correspondent lender is an institution which has the capacity toauthorize loans on behalf of a mortgage lender. This type of mortgagelender acts as the agent of one...
