But its main purpose is serious: to reveal the large-scale structure of the universe and thus uncover what happened in the first billion-trillion-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang to cause things to turn out the way they did.
This strategy has precedent, says David Risinger of Morgan Stanley, but the scale and structure of Pfizer's scheme is unmatched.
The company is trying to correct this with large-scale changes in its pricing structure.
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But he notes that the company has kept margins stable due to scale benefits and a pricing structure that is mostly usage based.
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By this stacked structure, large-scale circuits can now be mounted keeping small chip size.
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It began as a church in 537 under the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, eager to go one up on his Roman antecedents by building a structure on an unprecedented scale.
Their shares trade at a discount to the other Italian banks because of their takeover-resistant structure, and they lack economies of scale.
As an entrepreneur or an enterprising employee, look everywhere for organizational models that scale innovation and see if you can adapt their structure to your profession or market sector.
Maintaining a force structure sufficient to engage in large-scale, high-intensity combined arms campaigns and the advanced or specialized assets required to assure access to critical domains is essential to deterrence of conflict, much less war waging.
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In a nutshell, the problems were efficiency and scale, and the solution was bureaucracy, with its hierarchical structure, cascading goals, precise role definitions, and elaborate rules and procedures.
The structure allows Apple to minimize risk and take advantage of scale by having most of its foreign earnings held by one entity.
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Described as a "mega-scale free form printer" by its makers, the massive aluminum structure uses sand, which it forms back into a material that's like marble.
As our management structure has evolved, I found that you can find great scale from the amazing people who work for you your country managers and that gives me the scale to think of the big picture decisions and broad strategy.
And to put some scale on that, if General Motors, for example, had Toyota's wage structure or benefit structure or health care cost, that is roughly equal to five new products a year every year.
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