This figure is similar to other companies in the same industry and at the same growth stage.
And the concentration of so many firms working in the same industry is thought to spark creative ferment.
Ferguson's father had worked in the same industry and McLeish remains a good friend of the Manchester United manager.
And I actually turned down deals those first three years if the projects would take up too much time or were in the same industry.
Long term plans rely on relative performance measures such as total shareholder return relative to the average return for other companies in the same industry.
That means, in appropriate cases, barring CEOs and company business units that committed fraud from working in the same industry or receiving federal program dollars.
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Many of these may simply be former employees of larger firms, now doing work sometimes in the same industry and even for the same company.
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The authors looked at whether employee-owned firms in the same industry were more or less stable in their hiring and firing than their less enlightened peers.
That decision is even harder to make when everyone else is pairing off: copycat mergers where one big deal is hastily followed by others in the same industry seem especially prone to problems.
Workers lucky enough to belong to a big-company union that negotiated its annual wage contracts along with those of workers for other big firms in the same industry tended to do better than average.
When the researchers examined this data, which is normally secret, they discovered that a bank represented on a board in one year tended to lend more to other companies in the same industry the next.
McKinsey, a consultancy, recently looked at 89 listed companies in Europe with a very high proportion of women in senior management posts and compared their financial performance with the average for firms in the same industry.
For each stock, StarMine scores the analyst based on the level of recommendation (strong buy, buy, hold, sell or strong sell) and the performance of the stock relative to a market-cap-weighted index of the stocks in the same industry.
Women-owned firms start and grow businesses with substantially less outside financing, according to a Department of Commerce survey of women-owned companies across the U.S. That helps to explain why the average women-owned business has 25% lower revenue than the typical male-owned firm in the same industry.
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In the 1870s America's railroad industry boomed in much the same way as the world's telecoms industry in the late 1990s, only to collapse in a similar heap of bankruptcies, accounting scandals, stockmarket losses and enormous debts.
In 1970, the typical salary in the financial industry was about the same as for equivalent positions in the rest of the economy.
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However, in some cases, although the knowledge is public, the domestic infrastructure or environment cannot support the industry in the same way the foreign one can.
Blankfein, along with Dimon, is one of the few financial industry CEOs in the same job since before the 2008 crisis.
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As a result of U.S. housing starts declining from a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.1 million units in February 2008 to just 505, 000 units in March 2009, as well as the large decline in remodeling activity over the same period, MLWF industry prices, shipments, revenues, and profits declined substantially, as did imports from China and other countries.
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This, Pollin figures, would be four times more jobs than would be created if the same investment was made in the oil industry.
The boss of a firm in a stable or declining industry should probably not be paid in the same way as one in a fast-growing high-tech market.
The attractive rates have attracted business from all over the world including companies involved in e-gaming and the space industry but local companies are unable to benefit in the same way as off-shore business.
Occasionally, comics-industry types assert that comics are good at telling stories in lots of different genres, which misses the big picture in the same way as a dairy-industry type insisting that milk can be made into lots of different flavors of ice cream.
The company said it checked with contacts in the aviation industry to confirm that it was the same plane.
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But at the same time the banking industry was in the High Court, contesting new rules from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) which said that all past PPI sales should be reviewed to uncover cases of mis-selling.
On Wednesday, the same day the Journal released its story on the death of the cupcake, the New York Times published a trend piece on the rise of cold-pressed juice, an industry growing in much the same way as Crumbs and co. did five years ago.
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