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Amy Tangerine Clothing: Growing a Business by Staying Small
Is bigger always better? Amy Tan doesn't think so. While her Amy Tangerine clothing line is available in over 100 boutiques nationwide, she's been very careful to avoid retailers such as Target. Here, Tan talks about finding the right scale for your business, choosing quality over quantity, and staying true...
Tags: Business, Dog And Pony, Amy Tan, clothing manufacturers, Target, scale, Amy Tangerine, Retail
Videos 2007-10-09
Petro Zillia's Nony Tochterman: Fashion Industry's New Model
After making the big time with distributors like Saks Fifth Avenue, award-winning fashion designer Nony Tochterman decided to scale back. Why? After shipping, price reductions and technology expenses, her Petro Zillia line wasn't making any money. Now, she sells online and in select boutiques as well as in her own...
Tags: clothes, distribution, Dog And Pony, Fashion, Management, Nony Tochterman, Petro Zillia, Saks Fifth Avenue, scale, Strategy
Videos 2007-10-01
Selecting the Right Person
In this article, the author presents a 10-point scale of selecting a person to work for an organisation. He explains that the initial 5 points are considered as a Fund Raiser stage and the subsequent points in the scale constitute the Pilot stage. However, he concludes that regardless of whether...
Tags: Scale, RightPath, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2003-01-01
New Business Opportunities for Printed Media: Coated Paper for Coldset Printing
The results of this study showed that customer driven product differentiation process of a printing paper manufacturer requires new kind of testing tools. The traditional tools, which are largely based on laboratory scale testing are too slow and create a major problem and risk when scaling the findings to an...
Tags: Helsinki University, Scale, Printing, Document Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
White papers 2005-11-11
Change The Scale Of The Vertical (Value) Axis In A Chart
Microsoft Office Excel determines the minimum and maximum scale values of the vertical value axis in a chart. You can, however, customize the scale to better meet your needs. When the values that are plotted in the chart cover a very large range, you can also change the vertical value...
Tags: Axis, Chart, Microsoft Corp., Scale, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
White papers
Microsoft's Thirty Percent Solution
Most observers have dismissed the Microsoft-Yahoo alliance as a non-starter for both companies. Yahoo looks like the 50-year-old schnook who took a second mortgage on his house to buy himself a Corvette, while Microsoft seems to be buying an illusory bump in the ComScore ratings game. My...
Tags: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Scale, Search, Productivity, Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Hickins
Blog posts 2009-07-31

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Don't let Diseconomies of Scale Kill Your Idea
One of the main challenges to breakthrough ideas happens because these ideas sit outside the most efficient financing structures.  That's the theme of a long response to my post Silicon Valley is Dead, about the new book "Closing the Innovation Gap,"  by Judy Estrin. In my post, I mentioned the...
Tags: Structure, Protocol, Government, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-09-12
Economies-of-Scale for Real Estate Investment Trusts
This paper outlines a sample of Real Estate Investment Trusts for, using the translog cost function to estimate economies-of-scale and finds significant evidence that economies-of-scale exist for REITs for all years examined. The results show that measurement of scale economies is sensitive to the model used for the measurement. Individual...
Tags: REIT, College Of Business & Economics, Real Estate, Investment, Business Operations, Finance
White papers 1999-04-15
BJ Chemical Case Study: TECHNI-HIB 767 Scale Inhibitor
A gas well in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana was experiencing severe calcium carbonate scale deposition in the water dump valves from the production separator, heater treater, and hydro-cyclone. The scale deposition resulted in restriction in the water-handling piping, resulting in carry-over, causing down time for scale removal. A product was selected...
Tags: Injection, Deposition, Operational Accounting, Finance
Case studies
Efficiency And Scale Economies In The US Property-Liability Insurance Industry
The paper examines efficiency and scale economies in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry. Pure technical, scale, cost, and revenue efficiency are estimated over the period 1993-2002 using Data Envelopment Analysis DEA. Panel data regressions are utilized to explore the relationships between firm characteristics, efficiency, and scale economies. The results indicate...
Tags: Efficiency, Panel Data Regression, Insurance, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management
White papers 2005-08-20
MOODY'S ASSIGNS FIRST NATIONAL SCALE RATINGS IN SLOVAKIA
Moody's Investors Service ('Moody's') has todayassigned twelve new national scale ratings in Slovakia, following theearlier introduction of a National Rating Scale in Slovakia on June 15th,2006. The rating scale provides a ranking of relative creditworthiMoody's Investors Service ('Moody's') has todayassigned twelve new national scale ratings in Slovakia, following theearlier introduction...
Tags: Moody's Corp.
Research articles 2006-07-16
SLOVAKIA: MOODY'S ASSIGNS FIRST NATIONAL SCALE RATINGS IN SLOVAKIA.
Moody's Investors Service ('Moody's') has today assigned twelve new national scale ratings in Slovakia, following the earlier introduction of a National Rating Scale in Slovakia on June 15th, 2006. The rating scale provides a ranking of relative cr Moody's Investors Service ('Moody's') has today...
Tags: Moody's Corp.
Research articles 2006-07-16
SLOVAKIA: MOODY'S PUBLISHES FURTHER NATIONAL SCALE RATINGS IN SLOVAKIA.
Moody's Investors Service ('Moody's') has today assigned six new national scale ratings in Slovakia, following the earlier introduction of a National Rating Scale in Slovakia on June 15th, 2006. The rating scale provides a ranking of relative credit Moody's Investors Service ('Moody's') has today...
Tags: Moody's Corp.
Research articles 2006-10-24
Riding the Growth Wave: Leveraging Economies of Scale
As established companies already know, it is almost always more efficient to use existing production facilities than to build new facilities from the ground up. As a proven player in your field, you can leverage economies of scale to increase production through the use of existing equipment and people, lowering...
Tags: Economy, Manufacturing, Strategy, Management
White papers 2008-04-23
Saito "Scale Essence"
If you're like me, you love a scale-like powerplant under the cowl of your scale model-the look, the sound; I call it "scale followthrough." Saito seems to have a sixth sense about what we scale and sport-scale modelers want, and do they ever follow through and deliver! Featuring a super,...
Tags: Horizon Hobby Inc.
Research articles 1998-07-01
Google's Varian: Search scale is 'bogus'
Google's Hal Varian would likely have raised an eyebrow at a term paper submitted by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the search market.Varian, currently on leave from the University of California at Berkeley to serve as Google's chief economist, thinks a lot of the arguments advanced by Microsoft in justifying...
Tags: Google Inc.
News items 2009-08-14
How P&G Leverages Its Scale
Competitive analysis of P&G often focuses on hard outcomes like market share, gross margin, and number of patent applications but misses some under-appreciated but nevertheless critical strategies that drive P&G's business.The least understood and most powerful P&Gstrategy is leveraging its scale. Least understood because it is hard to measure;...
Tags: Procter & Gamble Co., Strategy, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Does Scale Efficiency Tell Us Anything About Optimal Scale?
In DEA, scale efficiency is routinely calculated. This measure may, however, tell us very little about whether a production unit is over- or undersized. An empirical case is used to illustrate that, under some circumstances, scale inefficiency may simply reflect that a production unit is producing too little, given its...
Tags: Efficiency, Production Unit
White papers 2005-04-01
Supplier News.(PC Scale Inc house software version conformance certificate)(Franklin Electric Company Inc acquires Little Giant Pump Co)(Bell Equipment Co joins Heil distribution network)(Brief article)
PC Scale earns software certificate PC Scale Inc. last month earned a National Type Evaluation Program certificate of conformance for its latest scale house software version. The NTEP certificate helps assure that commercial devices, including scale...
Tags: Little Giant Pump Co.
Research articles 2006-05-08
Large-Scale Solar Purchasing
The principal objective of the paper was to participate in the definition of a new IEA Task concerning solar procurement and to assess whether involvement in the Task would be in the interest of the active solar heating industry. The paper also aimed to assess the importance of large scale...
Tags: Paper, Crown, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
White papers 2001-10-08
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