Sentences with phrase «scale advantage in»

Part of the reason behind this reversal, says Elon Musk, is that at first Tesla was worried that if they didn't protect their technology, big car manufacturers would copy it and then use their massive scale advantage in manufacturing, sales, marketing, etc, to crush them.

Not exact matches

The mall has many advantages in size and scale and every store benefits from the marketing and promotion done by others.

But having multiple products in a pipeline offers advantages, including obvious economies of scale.

The scale advantages are obvious, but the costs of executing another merger and the challenge of folding in yet another culture (and more debt) into this already unwieldy company seem daunting.

WHO: David Shore, associate dean and faculty member at Harvard University, where he teaches the course «Strategic Marketing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Positioning and Branding» RATING: 7 (on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest) «They have enormous equity in the purchase of the Dr. Spock name.

The partnership would allow the two to unlock sales across Southeast Asia, with Geely injecting technology and scale into Proton, while taking advantage of the Asean Free Trade Area (AFTA), which has reduced or eliminated tariffs on autos in the region.

Asked to rank that process in terms of competitive advantage on a scale of one to 10, Ammann said it was a 12.

As these integrated platforms increase in number, more companies will be able to scale IoT solutions to increase competitive advantage.

While this argument can take many forms, it often centers around two separate concerns: whether community institutions have the economies of scale to go toe - to - toe with the biggest banks; and whether the «too big to fail» crowd has unfair advantages that slants the playing field in their direction.

In the context of China's expanding influence and attempts to gain competitive advantages against the United States, the report notes that «China is investing billions of dollars in infrastructure across the globe» as it «exploits data on an unrivaled scale and spreads features of its authoritarian system.&raquIn the context of China's expanding influence and attempts to gain competitive advantages against the United States, the report notes that «China is investing billions of dollars in infrastructure across the globe» as it «exploits data on an unrivaled scale and spreads features of its authoritarian system.&raquin infrastructure across the globe» as it «exploits data on an unrivaled scale and spreads features of its authoritarian system.»

The smaller banks in particular, but perhaps also larger ones, will increasingly outsource «non-core» activities such as cheque processing and computing to specialist suppliers who can take advantage of scale economies.

Examples: a «blocking patent» (keeps out competition); a vanity number (1 -800-WEDDING); a domain name (buy.com); «first - to - scale» advantage (can show they already are the first company to achieve some scale in a new niche).

Considering that WMT already has more scale and margins nearly 4x higher than Amazon's margins, it is fair to say that Wal - Mart has a strong competitive advantage over Amazon as it does over all other firms in the general retail business.

This approach would permit the company to maintain its involvement across multiple lines of business and permit it to enjoy the benefits of scale while mitigating the concern that Amazon could unfairly advantage its own business or unfairly discriminate among platform users to gain leverage or market power.444 Coupling nondiscrimination with common carrier obligations — requiring platforms to ensure open and fair access to other businesses — would further limit Amazon's power to use its dominance in anticompetitive ways.

Basing your business in this global industry cluster brings enormous advantages: Network effects, economies of scale, access to the world's best talent, deep pools of capital, a rich ecosystem of resources and know - how for both startups and mature companies, a nurturing entrepreneurial culture, infectious energy, and strong trust relationships that make the impossible possible.

Rebates generated through Sweden's Premium Pension system will be paid out on 5 May, but only one in 10 users of the system recognise the scale and advantage that the rebates bring them, according to the Swedish Investment Fund Association (Fondbolagens förening).

Bitfury's market share, unmatched computing power, and ability to scale, in combination with a Board of Directors that former hedge fund manager Michael Novogratz and renowned venture capitalist Bill Tai have both agreed to serve on, offers Hut 8 an extreme advantage in a competitive marketplace.

Now I know the companies manage to find some good, hungry vendors out there that will help make the product cheaper, but as soon as the economy turns around and that vendor then gets a chance to reprice the manufacturing of it, you find yourself in trouble because now you've already priced your product low to take advantage of scale of that product.

The company's massive advantages in scale and resources, as well as its brand recognition, still garner investor respect.

Competitive advantages, including scale, existing patents on blockbuster drugs (such as Enbrel), broad geographical and product diversification, R&D, and a strong pipeline of drugs (16 compounds in Phase III trials) give this firm the strengths it needs to fight risks like competition, litigation, and regulation.

Blackstone Mortgage Trust's relationship with the «big brother» (Blackstone Real Estate) offers a huge advantage in which the former's access to proprietary deal flow and property and market information is a valuable differentiator, given the scale of Blackstone Mortgage Trust's real estate business.

7:00 p.m. Keynote Address Bruce Flatt, CEO Brookfield Asset Management Topic: «REAL ASSETS: The Place to Be» Takeaways: The real asset industry and where it is headed; value investing in real assets; Brookfield's competitive advantages of scale, global reach and operating capabilities; and technology and its impact on the business.

Capital One is much larger than EverBank, and its advantage in scale translates to a greater variety of products and better access to branch locations.

These partnering relationships enable IWG to grow in a capital light manner while further reinforcing its significant scale advantage.

Capital One's mortgage business is dwarfed by the volume of lending at larger national banks, but its smaller scale seems to produce an advantage in terms of superior loan servicing.

This combination allows us to consolidate premier assets that seamlessly fold into our drilling program, enhance our scale advantage and reinforce our leadership position in the Permian Basin, all while strengthening our platform for delivering predictable growth and returns.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

The point is that we may judge according to it whether we ought to achieve a better consequence by breaking a promise, by asking whether we would regard it as desirable that regularly when the scales are balanced in a certain way all persons should break a promise of a certain solemnity in order to achieve an advantage of a certain magnitude.

One advantage it does have over the Magimix though, is it comes with built in scales, which is pretty handy.

«We intelligently take advantage of scale as well as my background in business wherever it is useful,» Fakahany says.

We are receiving increased levels of enquiry for wine industry assets and, in particular, large scale warm climate vineyards that can produce high volumes of fruit to take advantage of increased overseas demand for fruit and wine,» he said.

«If you're Proctor & Gamble or Unilever or Kelloggs or Mars this is how you think — you understand consumer needs, you develop products and then you go into mass distribution to get economies of scale to drive an economic advantage over your competitors,» said Mr Parker, who worked for Coles, Tesco and Asda before joining BCG in 2012.

Because producing food «intensively» (on a mass scale, in a location that enjoys advantages of climate and other environmental factors, with the addition of specialized technology, etc.) may, at least in some dimensions, be more environmentally - friendly than areas with less intensified production (because greater intensity often means more efficient).

An upset is on the table for Loyola, but Michigan's size and athleticism advantages tip the scales in the Wolverines» favor.

With Emre Can and Wijnaldum in such advanced positions, Henderson is allowed to actually move to the edge of the box, where he can take advantage of his forward passing ability — which he often scales back when in defensive midfield because of the higher danger and risk of such passes.

As your little one uses her entire body to accomplish these gross motor skills, you can also count on your 2 - year - old becoming adept at climbing and taking advantage of this skill to scale bookshelves, climb on furniture and sit herself in a chair.

«I am proud to belong to a government which provided 10 years of prosperity and social justice on a scale we have not seen in this country... they took advantage of it.

The NBC / WSJ poll also shows Democrats with the intensity advantage, with 59 percent of Democratic voters saying they have a high level of interest in next year's elections (registering either a 9 or 10 on a 10 - point scale), versus 49 percent of Republican voters saying the same thing.

The advantages of PRT are less clear in cities like Boston that already have old - fashioned, full - scale mass - transit systems.

This so - called urban health advantage is usually attributed to better access to health care and improved overall infrastructure, such as clean water, safety and education.But many of the globe's cities are already bursting and actually offer a far worse quality of life to those on the lower end of the income spectrum, whose plights can get overshadowed in large - scale statistics.

The report also provides a closer look at the environmental impact of building roads and bringing in construction equipment to develop hydro power in Africa and South America; the land - use advantages of solar technology; and the costs of large - scale energy storage.

Even a slight edge of 1.4 percent (a measure of the house's advantage in a particular bet) is enough to tip the scale irrevocably in the casino's favor.

When dealing with mutations that confer no selective advantage, says Michael Steiper of Hunter College in New York, «the amount of genetic difference scales to time.»

Anyone with 11 or more contact hours can have such a post, and the advantage over an ordinary part - time job is that you are paid a monthly salary, which is the appropriate fraction of a full 22 hours in accordance with the Department of Education salary scale.

For years, scientists and engineers have synthesized materials at the nanoscale level to take advantage of their mechanical, optical, and energy properties, but efforts to scale these materials to larger sizes have resulted in diminished performance and structural integrity.

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Large - scale storage of low - pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid - scale energy applications offers several advantages over above - ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office.

«The advantage of this system is that, potentially, it could cost only hundreds of pounds and gives resolution at the atomic scale,» says Peter Ivey, who is leading the team at the electrical engineering department in Sheffield.

The proof - of - concept device, which has been presented today, 3 May, in IOP Publishing's journal Semiconductor Science and Technology, takes advantage of the latest nano - scale materials and processes to emit green and red light separated by a wavelength of 97 nanometres — a significantly larger bandwidth than a traditional semiconductor.

Having a strong understanding of the science behind such a large - scale project is obviously an advantage for people working in IM, particularly when it comes to communicating with the parties involved.