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- Understanding Mail-Order Sales
- 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...
- Articles 2007-11-09
- Trailblazers on the Internet
- 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...
- White papers 2000-07-06
- Detroit Bailout: Compassionate or Cuckoo?
- Most of us can agree that three CEOs asking for federal bailout money in Washington D.C., cups in hands, shouldn't arrive on three huge corporate jets. But nasty public relations aside, should American automakers receive a $25 billion check from taxpayers? For two heroically divergent views on...
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- GrafTech International Ltd. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you, sir. (Operator’s instructions) And we’ll take our first question from Brett Levy with Jefferies and Company. Brett Levy - Jefferies Hey Greg, how are you? Craig Shular Morning Brett, how are you today? Brett Levy - Jefferies Not bad, not...
- Earnings calls 2008-11-04
- Advantages Of Starting Your Business While You're A Teenager
- Do you know that many successful entrepreneurs these days start at an early age? There are many distinctive advantages of starting your business early. If you're still hesitating about starting your business 5 or 10 years from now, you may want to reconsider as starting young gives you a couple...
- White papers 2007-08-27
- The Advantages And Disadvantages Of ERP
- There are a number of powerful advantages to Enterprise Resource Planning. It has been used to solve a number of problems that have plagued large organizations in the past. At the same time, it is not without a number of disadvantages. Being able to weigh the two will allow a...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Winning Interview Techniques - Your Advantage
- When preparing for interview, it may come as a surprise to some interviewees, but many of the interviewers you are going to meet are pretty much useless and most of the others are totally unprepared or incompetent. They are not the ruthless, efficient inquisitors you may think they are; this...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Ira Vs Roth Calculator
- This calculator can help you decide whether the Roth IRA would provide an advantage over a deductible IRA for your own situation.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Advantage Of Early Investing
- The Advantage of Early Investing tool is designed to show you how you can take advantage of the power of compounding to achieve your personal retirement goals. Virtually every guide to personal investing will tell you that the best way of meeting your retirement goals is to start early, invest...
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Capacity Dynamics And Endogenous Asymmetries In Firm Size: Online Appendix
- 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...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- eSalesTrack~s Secure Hosting for Your Information~s Safety
- eSalesTrack is hosted using the latest, state-of-the-art in data storage and access technology. Of course the data is important to all persons. This is the reason eSalesTrack is hosted on Soleran's impenetrable data network. One can also take advantage of Soleran's secure hosting environment without using any of the company's...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Are There First-Mover Advantages in B2B eCommerce Technologies?
- 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...
- White papers 2002-12-09
- Jurisdictional Advantage
- 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...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Foreign Licensing of Records: Licensing Your Music Overseas
- 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...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Global Strategic Management
- 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...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Methods for Going Public
- 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...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Some in Congress Want to End FPI's Advantage
- As we wrote a few months ago BAE and the Federal Prison Industries FPI are in competition over helmet manufacturing. U.S. government contracting rules mandate that the FPI be favored when it comes to awarding contracts. This is one of three special types of companies that receive this...
- Blog posts 2009-01-01
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- Humana Presses Its (Medicare) Advantage
- Unlike its health-insurance competitor WellPoint, which looks to be ceding its turf in the management of government-sponsored health plans as quickly as it can, Humana remains heavily dependent on managing Medicare and Medicaid plans that account for close to 70 percent of its total membership. And it has a new...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Humana Scores With a Surprise Turnaround in Medicare Advantage
- Humana charges seniors more for its Medicare Advantage plansâ€"and yet still they come! This was the prime revelation of the insurance company’s first-quarter earnings report: Despite raising its premiums by 4 to 11 percent and instituting premiums in areas of the country where Humana formerly had none, its Medicare Advantage...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Medicare Advantage: Brief Overview of History, Regional PPOs, Facts-at-a-Glance
- This white paper examines the history of Medicare Advantage, regional Medicare Advantage PPOs, local Medicare Advantage plans, participation and enrollment, benefits and premiums, and Medicare Advantage facts-at-a-glance. The Medicare Modernization Act MMA expands the existing options available to Medicare beneficiaries to enroll in private health plans. The MMA expanded the...
- White papers 2005-02-01
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