Schwab figures that he can afford the paneling and the flowers if he can translate his low-cost strategy to the advice-giving business.
Still, there is the potential that scientists could one day determine the right mix of calories and nutrients to promote better sleep, which could become a low-cost strategy to curb obesity and heart disease.
In the face of their intense campaign, "for Gilad" according to a poll published last month by Maariv, only 41 percent of the public agrees with their surrender at all cost strategy and 51 percent opposes it.
Yet its low-cost strategy dovetails with the needs of many carriers that are looking to expand smartphone sales and the lucrative data-service contracts they bring to customers who aren't willing to pay for marquee devices such as Apple Inc.
In an influential 1993 paper Narasimhan Jegadeesh, now a professor at Emory University, showed that a so-called zero cost strategy of buying stocks with the best six-month performance and shorting stocks with the worst six-month performance returned 12% a year.
Since Southwest Airlines (nyse: LUV - news - people ) pioneered its low-cost strategy 30 years ago, no-frills operators in the United States such as JetBlue (nasdaq: JBLU - news - people ) have captured a 25% share of the passengers in domestic air travel and a 15% share of the revenue.
The problem with the low-cost provider strategy is that while Amazon is subsidizing the cost of incentivizing consumers and businesses to go online to shop or use cloud services, its competitors are building comparable capabilities.
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An international business faced with a pure global market environment where consumers derive value from global characteristics only must pursue a cost leadership strategy.
Apple is increasingly pushing its AppleTV through a low-cost device strategy, while Microsoft is leveraging its position in the gaming market with the Xbox to become more a full fledged player in digital distribution.
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But while it has so far relied on a low-cost manufacturing strategy for its success, it is shifting gears as a restless work force and the results of its one-child policy threaten its manufacturing advantage.
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In 1998 Folz began to rationalize the entire assembly operation by introducing a cost-cutting strategy.
Ericsson's changed fortunes from both the reviving tech market and its cost-cutting strategy present a contrast with 2002.
Deputy Paul Luxon said longer term costs had fallen, so the overall cost of the strategy would not rise.
Dubbed "Georges the cleanser" for his aggressive cost-cutting strategy, Mr Plassat said that he would continue to cut waste and streamline operations.
Investing in actively-managed mutual funds that charge high fees can lower your standard of living in retirement by as much as one-third over a low-cost index fund strategy.
Even if we give them the benefit of the doubt and believe they maintain such a policy for idealistic reasons, the fact is such a strict environmental policy is also a great cost-control strategy.
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America's biggest airline, American Airlines has prepared a glide path down to Chapter 11 by laying out a cost-cutting strategy and a financing plan before it asked its workers to agree to wage cuts.
The capital cost for the waste strategy infrastructure is higher than originally reported in February.
Calderoli claimed a "demented strategy" cost driver Fernando Alonso the title.
The projects are: rigorous enforcement of trade rights, formulation of a national industrial strategy, cost-benefit testing of environmental rules, and reorganization of the space exploration program.
Many of the strategies developed during this phase are not particularly in-depth, and more nimble agencies may not be able to account for the cost of developing this strategy without some sort of guaranteed return on that investment.
This is the lowest cost and least speculative investment strategy of the four methods.
Now he argues that his approach could end up being both lower risk and lower cost than ImClone's strategy.
Governments should thus treat deployment as a strategy for accelerating cost-reductions, not reducing emissions, since the latter would require subsidy levels that governments and publics have shown little willingness to support.
Strategy should drive cost, not the other way around.
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We earned their business and achieved what we set out to achieve: unit volume growth in our core crops, a successful implementation of our agricultural productivity strategy and sustained cost-discipline across our operations.
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This strategy could keep your cost lower and give you more transparency.
The Central bank took action, created a deluge of liquidity by printing massive amounts of money and bought treasury bonds as a strategy to keep borrowing cost low.
These considerations should limit scheduled low-cost airlines to a successful niche strategy, mainly on routes to and from the United Kingdom and possibly to and from a few other Northern European countries.
The House vote supporting military intervention was hedged about with conditions and provisos: it required the president to explain the precise nature of American interests in Kosovo, the cost of intervention, his exit strategy, and so on.
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