Firm success hinges on finding ways to increase the effectiveness of interactions between these two groups.
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What the public is getting is a boutique merger advisory and investment management firm whose success--and presumably, value--rises and falls with the skills and sales ability of its senior bankers.
Keys to the firm's success in standing out include dividends from heavy information technology spending that has improved logistics enough to allow the firm to lower prices, and a diverse lineup of jeans and knits that offers something to teens of all shapes and sizes.
Mr Becht attributes his firm's success to its innovative and entrepreneurial culture.
Analysts said that given the impact these sales have had on its profit - the numbers were not a true reflection of the firm's success.
If, say, creativity is key to a firm's success but there are few requests for feedback on employees' creativity, then bosses can tell they have not done enough to communicate their priorities.
And, for all the evidence presented, it fails to provide a definitive answer to the question of whether the firm's success owes more to its brilliance or to its ability to find all sorts of ways to load the dice.
But Circle chief executive Ali Parsa said he was confident his firm would make a success of it.
Although the previous business had not been profitable, Collbio's new chief executive Stewart White said he was confident the new firm would be a success.
Glenmark, a smaller firm, has had success by conducting early research, then licensing its technologies to Western firms with the money to conduct clinical trials.
By letting Konheim focus on the business side, Miller has been free to concentrate on design, a combination that's been a key to the firm's continued success.
But the only firm that achieved any success was Novartis, which in 1998 developed Coartem, an antimalarial drug that combines artemisinin, an extract from the sweet wormwood plant, with a compound called lumefantrine.
Driven by its success, the firm has been looking to increase its dominance in the Chinese market.
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Belief by individuals that they are responsible for the financial success of the firm and therefore deserving of large financial rewards.
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Amex's senior vice president for digital partnerships, Leslie Berland, said that the success of the firm's existing social media schemes suggested that there was "significant power in combining our assets with Twitter's platform".
But Venrock's recent roaring success has strained the firm in some ways.
According to David Stoll, an American anthropologist at Middlebury College in Vermont, part of their success lies in their firm line against alcohol, which is redeeming many people from the ravages of the bottle.
Years of continued success have wedded the firm to its own proven formula and business model, and the new, initially often inferior technology is not something they believe in and particularly want to get involved with.
By way of MasterPass, MasterCard will look to build upon what it gathered from previous efforts and use those learnings in its quest for success, with the firm being quite confident that by securing the right merchants and technology partners, it can turn the "promise of a digital future" into a reality.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, the global audit firm, is heavily invested in the success of the Academy Awards.
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The employees, as well as the firm, reaped the rewards of that success.
But the Note proved a success for the South Korean firm, leading Samsung to announce a larger successor last August.
The theme may have helped its success in China where the firm said it now had more than one million users.
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The fall has been triggered by concerns over future growth of the firm, not least due to the success of rivals such as Samsung which have increased their share of the smartphone and tablet PC markets, which Apple used to dominate.
BYD, a Chinese firm, seems to have Panasonic's success in the world of cameras in mind.
Still, it would be wrong to underestimate Ovi, or the Finnish firm's determination to make it a success.
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