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30 Nov 09
Companies More Prone to Go 'Vertical' - WSJ.com
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"The historical view of vertical integration was that you had complete control of the supply chain and that you could manage it the best," says Bain & Co. consultant Mark Gottfredson.
Today's approach is more nuanced. Companies are buying key parts of their supply chains, but most don't want end-to-end control.
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Johnson Controls Inc., another big auto-parts maker, last year bought a 70% stake in the interior-product business of bankrupt supplier Plastech Engineered Products Inc., to guarantee supply.
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15 Jun 09
Does Hewlett-Packard Need a Dose of Anarchy? - NYTimes.com
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Silicon Valley is not known for creating lean organizations, and he’s as good as we have ever seen
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Since Mr. Hurd arrived, H.P. Labs has whittled down the number of projects it tackles at any given time to 30, from about 150. Prith Banerjee, the director of H.P. Labs, has dismissed the castoffs as interesting science projects and championed the survivors as big bets with the most commercial potential.
28 Aug 07
A nation of outlaws - The Boston Globe
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Representative Frank Wolf of Virginia delivered one of the more stinging counterattacks last month, warning that the United States "must be vigilant about protecting the values we hold dear" in the face of China's depredations.
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China may be a very different country, but in many ways it is a younger version of us. The sooner we understand this, the sooner we can realize that China's fast and loose brand of commerce is not an expression of national character, much less a conspiracy to poison us and our pets, but a phase in the country's development.
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13 Aug 07
A New World Disorder for Debt Traders - WSJ.com
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Investors are also discovering that subprime loans were used as collateral for some short-term commercial loans that are part of a $2 trillion market that banks and investors turn to regularly for quick doses of cash when they need it.
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His firm's research shows that companies with deteriorating financial fundamentals have done significantly better than those with improving fundamentals during the past three weeks because hedge funds are unwinding their best bets.
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