NFL Who cares… Dr. Dre +10. CNBC aired an interesting article discussing the recent ban on NFL players wearing Beats by Dre headphones on game…
Month: November 2014
Last year, the Super Bowl was the most watched event in America with over 108 million viewers. However, according to surveys and studies, not all…
Mergers of big companies many times are depicted on TV as a positive thing, a way for both companies to move up in the world…
This year many were doubting if any artist would release a platinum album, but that all changed with Taylor Swift’s “1989,” which is on pace…
NASA’s hiring of SpaceX in September to build spacecraft opens the door for potential entrants into the space exploration industry. Boeing had previously been the…
Over 50% of retail sales in the U.S. are generated from franchises. Many franchises are successful for a number of reasons, including the ability of…
When choosing between manufacturing a product in-house or purchasing it from an external supplier/outsourcing, the two most important factors to consider are availability of production…
Here is a good post on how ease of entry means that if a monopolist tries to exercise market power it disappears quickly. There really…
We usually don’t think about why firms grow to be so large. It is a common assumption that bigger means more profitable, but is this…
Vertical integration’s history as an industrial organization strategy clearly illustrates its hazards and benefits with a long list of bankrupt companies while other firms have…