Several industry segments make use of high-end computing including life sciences, energy, scientific research, defense, manufacturing and finance.
Rather than the conventional structure which focuses on generic business fundamentals, these new MBA degrees contain content tailored to specific industry segments.
Having customers in a broad swipe of industry segments--education, government and health care--ensured KI's relative success in a business-furniture market that collapsed in mid-2000.
In fact, this investment thesis holds true for most industry segments.
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Infosys Ltd. is a consulting, technology and outsourcing company, which provides end-to-end business solutions thereby enabling clients to enhance business performance, delivered to customers globally operating in various industry segments.
The company's industry segments are primarily financial services and insurance comprising enterprises providing banking, finance and insurance services, manufacturing, enterprises in the energy, utilities, communication and services and retail, consumer packaged goods, logistics and life sciences.
The company operates primarily in a single industry using several segments that create value by offering a variety of solutions that include, either singularly or in some combination, technologies, systems, products, services, software and financing.
Problems previously restricted to segments of industry are now presenting themselves in a much broader setting.
As the dominant player in the industry it competes in all segments of chip production equipment, whereas most of its competitors specialize in individual areas.
But the combination of two good companies is not always a good thing and when they bridge separate segments of an industry the results rarely meet the expectations of the acquirer.
"SUVs are a strength for Ford globally and here in China, the SUV segment is one of the fastest growing segments in the industry, " said Joe Hinrichs, president of Ford's Asia Pacific and Africa region.
There are four segments of the security industry: network, end point, data, and users.
In the early 1990s, Samsung was a weak participant in segments of the electronics industry.
Harry Winston Diamond Corp. is a business with assets in the mining and retail segments of the diamond industry.
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After the past summer, we know that the prepaid phone market is actually more vulnerable to consumer anxiety than many other segments of the telecom industry.
Additionally, the lack of clarity in its strategy in the smartphone and tablet market, the fastest growing segments in the semiconductor industry, has also been a cause of concern among investors.
The iPod, and related iTunes store, revolutionized the music industry, as has the iPhone in smartphones and iPad for tablet computers, for an impressive and lasting impact on three different segments of the technology industry.
Christian Noyer, the governor of the Bank of France, echoed those concerns last week, warning that the tax risked "destroying entire segments of our financial industry" as well as having "highly counterproductive effects on government borrowing and the financing of the economy" if it wasn't designed carefully.
The ICD market is one of the fastest-growing segments of the medical devices industry.
Our industry is rapidly becoming decentralized with different segments that have different needs.
It was Bill Gates who foretold the success that digital would create as the fastest growing segments of the online entertainment industry.
As EMC targets the unified storage market, among the fastest growing segments in the data storage industry, the firm has the opportunity to further expand its leading share in the external data storage market (in GB).
This is what real competition is all about and serves as a testimonial to the fact that government involvement in health care does not put the kibosh on free markets in medicine in the segments of the health care industry where a consumer driven approach can actually work.
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Here are four key segments of the health care industry poised to take advantage of new benefits under the Affordable Care Act as well as rules and regulations that will bundle payments to medical care providers, rewarding those who provide higher quality medical treatment and lower costs health services.
In more than 25 segments for "Lou Dobbs Tonight, " she exposed misdealings in the mutual fund industry.
"We've departed from industry convention in many of our premium product, marketing, sales and service approaches, and it's worked out pretty well, with Genesis and Equus now delivering a nine percent retail market share in their premium segments, higher than the five percent retail share Hyundai brand achieves in the overall industry, " said John Krafcik, president and CEO, Hyundai Motor America.
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Celebrity red-carpet entrances, features on famous horse owners, and segments on fashion, hats, and fancy cocktails are pretty much de rigeur in mainstream coverage and industry PR campaigns.
"Last year at CES 2012, Broadcom introduced the industry's first 5G WiFi chips and committed to enabling the adoption of the technology across all wireless product segments, " said Dino Bekis, Broadcom Senior Director, Product Marketing, Wireless Connectivity Combo.
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Today, we are delivering the industry's only 6-watt1 SoC that has key datacenter features, continuing our commitment to help lead these segments.
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Second, the smartphone industry becomes increasingly fractionalized with major players churning out devices that bundle together different product characteristics which cater to different market segments.
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