Use any advantage you can get — you have to
research companies like there's no tomorrow.
But while political polling has brought market
research companies like Nanos public attention and name recognition, it's not always positive.
Not exact matches
It seems an absurd question to be asking about a
company like Research In Motion, Canada's most successful and influential tech firm.
The rise of
companies like Uber and Instacart is only part of a larger trend in the ways Americans work, away from full - time employment and toward «contingent» freelance jobs, according to a new study by financial services
company Intuit and consulting firm Emergent
Research.
Though the winners include established firms
like Research In Motion, whose sustained growth has put it among Canada's fastest - growing
companies every year since 1998, the top five are all rookies — a Fast 50 first.
Virtual assistants
like Cortana and Siri will become «genuinely helpful,» Eric Horvitz, Microsoft
Research Redmond Lab technical fellow and managing director, told Fast
Company.
23andMe and Ancestry both have
research partnerships with pharmaceutical
companies that explore things
like the genetics of aging, psychiatric disorders, or lupus.
«We were very religious in the
research of how a
company would grow
like this, «did it fit into the space?»
In August, it raised $ 120 million from investors including Bill Gates to fund
research like the kind being done with LCA, which Bosley told Forbes would be enough to keep the
company running for at least three years.
Some of the strongest national brands and
companies,
like BlackBerry maker
Research In Motion, aren't largely known to be Canadian outside our borders, and there was only so long the country's space reputation could rest on the shoulder of the Canadarm.
According to the Oxford
research,
companies that ply in fine arts, originality, negotiation, persuasion, social perceptiveness and assisting or caring for others are in the least danger of being overtaken by Schwarzenegger -
like T - 800 cybernetic organisms.
His
research, which looks at
companies like Marriott, Harrah's, and Capital One among others, highlights the role of analytics in functions ranging from supply chain and R&D to customer selection, loyalty, and service.
As David Thomas, the senior director of industry
research at BIO, explained to me a while back, one the law's major provisions ensured that «
companies could go and talk to investors more than one time, and not in a very formal setting
like it had been structured before.»
Yahoo,
like other big tech
companies, once maintained a separate business unit dedicated to
research called Yahoo Labs.
And finding alternatives to animal - based products,
like food
research company Hampton Creek has done, can help make the planet more sustainable.
According to a Bloomberg report, this triggered off a frenzy of investor interest that could kick off a new strategy that goes
like this: «Find a
company or industry that is adopting Internet - connected devices, check whether the gadgets are hackable, place your trades and publish the
research.»
Dozens of
companies and
research labs around the world are developing bots that are even more
like humans.
Research firm Cognetics» ranking of regions by start - ups and
company growth shows the Mountain states; the South Atlantic states,
like Maryland; and West South Central states,
like Texas; in the top slots.
«We are looking at investment and
research as leading indicators of who is going to win that disruptive race, much
like investing in the early days of internet technology would have led you to
companies like Amazon,» he said.
However, a researcher at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, Brooke Williams, uncovered that Pfizer, among other
companies like General Motors and ExxonMobil, had given between $ 10,000 and $ 25,000 to the National Bureau of Economic
Research.
For example, Hawke explains how one of the site's customers, Spot Trot, a
company that makes apps for musicians
like Dave Matthews, was
researching how the
company could pitch its app - building service to an entirely new market: professional sports teams.
While the
likes of Beate Uhse and Playboy were each raking in at least $ 300 million each a few years ago while I was
researching my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, the three biggest public
companies pulled in less than that combined over the past year.
Companies like Research In Motion and Nortel have been the exceptions, having created small ecosystems, but both have also fallen from grace, as tech companies often do, reminding us that a single company can not maintain an ecosystem inde
Companies like Research In Motion and Nortel have been the exceptions, having created small ecosystems, but both have also fallen from grace, as tech
companies often do, reminding us that a single company can not maintain an ecosystem inde
companies often do, reminding us that a single
company can not maintain an ecosystem indefinitely.
To get a sense of what that process is
like, at least at one major pharmaceutical
company, we turned to Bob Abraham, Pfizer's head of oncology
research and development.
Daniel Ives, an analyst from GBH Insights, wrote in a
research note in February that while media giants
like Disney pose a «clear competitive worry» to Netflix, he's optimistic about the
company's prospects.
«In a case
like PRP's,» says Whiting, «where Dr. Chao was the main person responsible for running the
company, directing
research, and attracting investors, you need more insurance than in a case where there are more people near the top.»
While the
company didn't publicly commit to a specific number of new jobs, it quoted market
research that calculated that its expansion in the country will lead to 28,000 new jobs and $ 17 billion in new revenue in Canada by 2022, when calculating all things
like contracts with Salesforce partners and tech bought by Salesforce customers.
«The great majority of U.S. - educated professionals from places
like India and China remained in this country to work at
research labs, universities, and private
companies,» reads a new report from the entrepreneurship - focused Kauffman Foundation, The Grass Is Indeed Greener in India and China.
An SEO
company can help with the other pieces (
like keyword
research and link building).
Research from Carbon Trust, a not - for - dividend
company that helps organizations reduce their carbon emissions, claims floating wind concepts can reduce generating costs to below 100 pounds ($ 153) per MWh, with concepts
like Hywind Scotland lowering costs even further to 85 - 95 pounds ($ 130 - $ 145) / MWh.
Employees can see how many times each function was used but not further details,
like which
company's bonds were being
researched.
Is it a story of public
companies that are so battered by market demands for buybacks that they can't invest in really cool
research like self - driving cars, leaving the market open to private
companies who can?
Morningstar Director of ETF
Research Scott Burns answered that he is more positive and constructive on active management, saying that «the efficiency of the ETF wrapper» will lead more
companies like PIMCO to move into ETFs.
He is also the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y
research and consulting firm, which has helped
companies like American Express, NBC Universal, Ernst & Young, Deutsche Bank, Oracle, Fidelity and Monster better understand the millennial generation.
Bain &
Company research shows that the average Facebook user will «
like» no more than seven
companies or brands.
You need to appear
like you know the
company inside and out, even if you only started
researching them a few hours before your call.
George Scangos, CEO of biotechnology giant Biogen Inc., went further, saying in an interview, «Turing is to a
research - based
company like a loan shark is to a legitimate bank.»
But on Monday, the
company confirmed that it had bought Topsy Labs, a
research company that could help Apple better understand what people are talking about on social media networks
like Twitter.
I have not done the
research but I feel
like this helps compound the growth of my position in this
company.
«You don't
like companies doing drug
research and market based pricing?
The Coinify Innovation Lab provides
research and development services to deliver blockchain - based Proof - of - Concepts,
like in its collaboration with Nets, Europe's largest digital payments
company.
Many will also offer 3rd - party
research analysis from
companies like Credit Suisse and Morningstar.
Like Sonkin, other fund managers are increasingly turning to small - cap
companies with no sell - side coverage, hoping an industry - wide pullback in analyst
research will allow them to buy into more «unknown»
companies before they get on other investors» radar.
Some 53 percent of Americans believe big tech
companies should be regulated by the federal government, much
like big banks are, according to a new survey from market
research firm HarrisX.
He focuses on European small & mid capitalizations where he
likes analyzing under -
researched companies and stocks in «contrarian zipcodes».
Stocks of the aforementioned drug
companies should be
researched for both their takeover potential (specifically INHX, IDIX, and ACHN) by larger
companies like Merck, Bristol Myers (BMY) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ - Free Johnson & Johnson Stock Report).
Our
researching parameters identifies pros and cons of the brokerage house and evaluates them on parameters
like the parent
company, the platform and the website, the bonuses and other benefits, the education and demo account, the deposits and withdrawal processes, the terms and conditions on the site, and above all, the customer service.
At the time I started my position I had done a bit of
research and I really
liked the
company.
We would do a certain amount of keyword
research for those
companies to facilitate searching editorial calendars
like Bacon's (now owned by Cision), or MyEdCals for potential stories and publications.
They suggest, instead, that creating shared value should be viewed
like research and development, as a long - term investment in a
company's future competitiveness.