Instead, many leading firms like Sanford Bernstein have continued insisting that HTC will do just fine.
And leading firms are emphasizing company-wide cost reductions, as strong competition and excess capacity pressure operating margins.
India would also like leading firms in industries including drugs, carmaking and IT to have better access to China.
Most observers accept that injunctions are a vital part of the legal armoury that protects the industry's leading firms.
This is no small advantage in a country whose politicians still fret about leading firms being swallowed by foreigners.
Do they understand that the topple rate of leading firms is accelerating?
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Some of this is likely to continue, says an executive at a company listed on the CAC 40, France's index of leading firms.
The lack of harmony between growing earnings and declining share prices is most evident in the low valuations of leading firms notably, the two stars of the moment.
Growth prospects look good in Asia and Europe, and all of the leading firms apart from Bear Stearns now do a big chunk of their business outside America.
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Still, in 2009, to ensure they had enough cash to weather the financial storm, even leading firms such as McKinsey and BCG held back a chunk of their partners' bonuses.
Meanwhile the centre's 'Youth, Creativity and Urban Design' curriculum, which targets young people aged from 14 to 25, offers academic and vocational programmes in partnership with leading firms and academic institutions.
Even leading firms are succumbing to competition more rapidly.
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To mobilize the right resources and processes to ensure that a higher proportion of their investments will become run-away winners, some leading firms are subjecting their past deals to a detailed forensic examination.
The topple rate of leading firms is accelerating.
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If only a few firms compete in a given product market, if the market is difficult to enter and if all leading firms adopt selective distribution, then competition between brands will not keep prices down and consumers will suffer.
But Jonathan Fell, at Morgan Stanley, says that gradual and uneven implementation means that it may be a long time, if ever, before the treaty affects the leading firms though it may eventually drive smaller players to the wall if the advertising ban deprives them of the, er, oxygen of publicity.
That action facilitated the excesses of the banks, but had nothing to do with the implementation of shareholder value outside the banks, and all the disastrous consequences that followed from that, including massive offshoring, destruction of manufacturing capability, inability to innovate, declining ROAs and ROICs, accelerating topple rates of leading firms, excessive C-suite compensation and so on.
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Some smaller firms see turnover as high as 30%, but leading global firms are not immune.
The crowdfunding industry has arrived and leading financial firms like Asset Alliance are embracing it.
The big five banks snapped up the leading stockbroking firms in the 1990s, becoming universal banks.
The other was Dan Smolnik, a mustachioed 49-year-old tax attorney from one of Binghamton's leading law firms.
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At least the leading British firms can, it seems, keep up with the best of the Mittelstand.
She was smart and talented, and had worked for some of the leading consulting firms in the past.
These transactions were developed and marketed by an interlocking network of commercial interests, including leading law firms, accounting firms and investment banks.
More recently, leading investment firms Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley have announced that missteps in subprime investment caused them to write-off billions of dollars.
The world's top five steelmakers still command only around one-fifth of the global market, whereas the three leading ore firms control 70% of supplies.
Leading tech firms, patent officers, regulators and academics are meeting in Geneva to address whether action is needed to prevent intellectual property disputes "stifling" innovation.
Yet there are signs that leading industrial firms are starting to increase their capital spending, says Jeff Sprague of Vertical Research Partners, a research outfit.
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In 2003 it even formed a partnership with Ranbaxy Laboratories, one of India's leading drug firms, to identify new drugs and conduct early-stage clinical trials.
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