Quotes About Firms

Studies of innovating users (both individuals and firms) show them to have the characteristics of "lead users." That is, they are ahead of the majority of users in their populations with respect to an important market trend, and they expect to gain relatively high benefits from a solution to the needs they have encountered there. The correlations found between innovation by users and lead user status are highly significant, and the effects are very large.

and services-both firms and individual consumers-are increasingly able to innovate for themselves. User-centered innovation processes offer great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems that have been the mainstay

users of products and services-both firms and individual consumers-are increasingly able to innovate for themselves. User-centered innovation processes offer great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems that have been the

We needed skilled and experienced professionals to come in and quickly restructure troubled firms.

Uncertainty can also be bad for the economy as a whole if, for example, firms delay capital investment or hiring until they have more information about their access to foreign suppliers and markets.

But we had agreed in advance to be vague because we were intensely concerned that acknowledging our inability to save Lehman would hurt market confidence and increase pressure on other vulnerable firms.

They condemned bailouts as giveaways of taxpayer money without considering the broader economic consequences of the collapse of systemically important firms.

With these considerations in mind, I agreed with the administration view that breaking up large firms was likely not the best way to solve the too-big-to-fail problem,

All the other students were going to flash firms in London, but I'm a real homebody and was determined to stay in the North-East.

North Carolina enjoys a worldwide reputation as a center for textile research and workers. Our excellent business climate and location offer international firms an ideal place to reach and serve customers in the United States.

Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.

firms are temporary aggregations of people to help them do their producing in such a way as to help others do their consuming.

Sometimes it is in the long-run interest of the business sector to restrict the freedom of individual firms so that they do not destroy the common pool of resources that all of them need, such as natural resources or the labour force.

The idea that big buyside firms are going to come in and trade mano-a-mano with high-frequency trading firms shows a lack of knowledge of the business.

But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.

Encouraging individual firms to develop forward-leaning policies that address sexual harassment is necessary, but alone such prescriptions are insufficient.

After the meeting, RBC conducted a study, never released publicly, in which they found that more than two hundred SEC staffers since 2007 had left their government jobs to work for high-frequency trading firms or the firms that lobbied Washington

By early 2009 the risks and losses associated with more than a trillion dollars' worth of bad investments were transferred from big Wall Street firms to the U.S. taxpayer.

As the bonds were all priced off the Moody's rating, the most overpriced bonds were the bonds that had been most ineptly rated. And the bonds that had been most ineptly rated were the bonds that Wall Street firms had tricked the rating agencies into rating most ineptly.

The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money.

American bond traders may have sunk their firms by turning a blind eye to the risks in the subprime bond market, but they made a fortune for themselves in the bargain, and have for the most part never been called to account.

Singapore is a natural gateway for international firms looking to access Asia and for Asian businesses to access the world.

High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments.

I couldn't understand how they had lost so much money. When you bought stock in one of these companies, what were you buying? A manufacturing company or a derivatives speculator? How could you tell the difference? In each case, the DPG salesmen vowed that they had not sold any of the exploding derivatives. In each case, rumors bounced throughout the firm, then died. It appeared that Morgan Stanley had dodged these bullets, too.