Sentences with phrase «about economies of scale»

Business is all about economies of scale.

The transmission grid is not about economies of scale, at least once you get past the actual source of generation.

«We're concerned about the economies of scale,» he said.

While district size can bring about economies of scale, research has shown that these economic benefits diminish as size increases and that per - pupil expenditures actually increase when an optimal district size is breached.

Small Schools Operating Costs: Reversing Assumptions About Economies of Scale.

It's about economies of scale.

Maybe you still remember the days when competitive advantage was all about economies of scale, advertising power and service versus price.

Talk about economy of scale!

Not exact matches

All that guff about comparative advantage and economies of scale and the gains from trade wouldn't be very convincing.

The speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.

Impatient speculating about the fate of the coalition and bickering over the economy mask the true scale of the challenge facing Britain's politicians in 2013.

Our argument with the government is about the scale and pace of their plans, and the implications for the health of the UK economy.

Assuming there are few economies of scale, the total cost for completing the three ships would be about $ 380 million.

Surely, he thought, online dating sites had global reach, economies of scale and algorithms ensuring utility maximisation (this way of talking about dating, incidentally, explains why so many behavioural economists spend Saturday nights getting intimate with single - portion lasagnes).

Curtis's free - floating anxieties are intended to connect up with our fears about the collapsing economy, about the safety of the world and our families, but Nichols never loses sight of the small - scale human dramas at the film's core

And this power is not just about achieving economies of scale, it's also about ensuring their requirements are understood and met by providers.

I think this is financially driven, it's to do with budgets and economies of scale but we are not talking about manufacturing industry, we are talking about education.»

They explain what is meant by economies and diseconomies of scale, providing detail about the different types of internal and external economies that a business can face.

Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week about whether common standards create economies of scale for virtual learning products.

Those initiatives include; Let's Get Digital, a scheme to help schools get the most out of technology and incorporating groundbreaking projects with Microsoft and Google; DigiSafe, a centre of excellence for online safety; CyberProtect, founded to protect schools from security threats; SuperCloud which is about helping schools save money through the cost effective harnessing of next generation cloud technologies; SmartBuy, a commitment from LGfL to use its economies of scale to purchase technology and software for schools at a vastly reduced price saving schools money and allowing access to technology that might otherwise be out of financial reach; and Bridge the Divide which is about tackling inequality and supporting those most in need.

A learning mat I have made about challenges of growth including economies of scale.

Given that the typical charter operator in Arizona appears to have about 550 students, while the average public school district has about 4,700 students, economies of scale could explain much of the cost gap.

Ask anyone at Ford or Chrysler about mid-size trucks, and you get the same lecture: Mid-size pickups are nearly as expensive to develop and are thus nearly as expensive to buy as full - size pickups, which enjoy far greater economies of scale.

These labels will give consumers better, more complete information — including expected savings over a five - year period, a fuel economy comparison to other vehicles in the same class, as well as guidance, on a scale of one to ten, about each car or truck's environmental impact.

That's important because those companies have pretty good governance practices in place; BlackRock is aggressive about merging funds to harvest economies of scale, others do share buybacks and so on.

The first wave of ETFs was about attaining economies of scale while implementing traditional market indices.

Only large institutions like these have the resources needed to have any chance at profiting on all four trades simultaneously, and have the economies of scale to keep expenses down (then they don't have to care about capital gains taxes).

Two other global airline alliances, oneworld and SkyTeam, soon followed bringing a multitude of benefits to customers and replicating as much as possible the economies of scale brought about by consolidation.

There is something new concerning me about the global challenge potentially posed by the huge scale and fully anticipated rapid growth rate of the global economy that I would like to understand better.

As a coalition of community groups and individuals concerned about the impact of utility - scale wind power development on Ontario's economy, natural environment and human health, we offer the following -LSB-...]

As a coalition of community groups and individuals concerned about the impact of utility - scale wind power development on Ontario's economy, natural environment and human health, we offer the following comments on the proposed amendments to Regulation 359/09 as per the Regulation Proposal Notice, dated August 4, 2015.

Wind Concerns Ontario is a coalition of community groups, individuals and families concerned about the impact of industrial - scale wind power development on the economy, on the natural environment, and on human health in Ontario.

The End of Nature (1989) The Age of Missing Information (1992) Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (1995) Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single Child Families (1998) Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyous Christmas (1998) Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously (2001) Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003) Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape (2005) The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation (2005) Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007) Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community (2007) The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life (2008) American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (edited)(2008) Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010) The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change (2011) Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist (2013)

Wall Street speculates about how long it will take for «economies of scale» (downsizing, outsourcing, product rationalizations, centralized purchasing, and so on) to be felt.

We are completely integrated in one of the most conservative towns in the U.S., we have created affordable housing arrangements, turned several organic farms around, built permaculture gardens in people's yards, talked to Tea Party members about overturning the Citizen's United Decision, and paid for it all with a sliding scale of tuition fee and exchanges through our Timebank and the Gift Economy.

Today's costs are high; $ 45 / tonne is feasible, but a combination of learning - curve improvements and economies of scale should bring the cost down to about $ 32 / tonne by 2010.

However, as TreeHugger's Green Basics: Eat Local Food points out, the local food concept isn't just about distance, but is about the entire lifecycle of our food, «integrating production, processing, distribution and consumption on a small scale, creating sustainable local economies and a strong connection between farm and table.»

The innovation to bring about the highest degree of competence and the greatest economies of scale never stops.

For years, law firm management consultants have been saying that there are no economies of scale in the practice of law once a firm reaches about 100 attorneys.

Therefore we see for example, LSUC embracing apps, with no assessment as to: (1) their relation to, and impact upon solving the problem; (2) their ability to bring about the economies - of - scale so badly needed in the production of legal services; (3) their ability to serve and sustain the continued existence of the general practitioner; (4) the prevalence (frequency and availability) of the solicitor - client relationship among all of the many and fast - moving developments in the provision of legal services; and, (5) the issues set out above.

Some of the negative feedback about the pricing seems to consist of, «Facebook owns Oculus, Facebook has shedloads of cash, why can't they sell it at a loss and hope to recoup down the line from software and improved economies of scale?»

Let's just hope that Google learned a thing or two about managing supply chains and economies of scale for the Pixel 2.

Smaller banks are concerned about the changing regulatory environment and are trying to find the economies of scale needed to comply with new regulations.