And if a formal market study is required by the franchise organization, ask yourself why.
The stock-market study session attended by Mr. Okutomi in the Tokyo coffee shop was led by 28-year-old Ryo Takebe.
Today, fewer than 1, 500 condos in the Brickell Financial District are on the market, according to a June 2011 market study by the Miami Downtown Development Authority.
In 1999, Commissioner Bud Selig announced that Major League Baseball was conducting an "Initiative on Women and Baseball, " a market study that involved research of female fans and their interest in the sport.
Despite the company's demise, Polaroid's name retained remarkable strength, on a par with Nike's and Disney's, according to a 2003 market research study.
Motista also seeks to be a continuous market research study.
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Compare the above study from the 1990s to a recent market-timing study of industry experts since 1998.
Merck 's Vioxx was pulled from the market after a study showed that it caused heart attacks, something critics had been warning about for years.
Vioxx, the blockbuster arthritis pill, was pulled from the market after a study showed that long-term use doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke.
's Galaxy Tab enter the market, the study said.
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Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Vioxx was pulled from the market after a study showed that it caused heart attacks, something critics had been warning about for years.
The premise is that consistently successful companies start with an external market orientation and vigilantly study customer trends in order to design their strategy.
We study your market and your place in the market and then create a solution for what we perceive as a competitive problem you face.
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But none of the U.S. CEOs has spent a year in China to study the market and ask questions of how they can bring value to local people.
Pharmaceutical companies aren't in the business of selling coffee, and coffee makers don't need a study to market their products -- people who like coffee buy it anyway.
According to Venturebeat, a new study by market research and consulting company found that 135 million people now play games for at least one hour a month, up from 56 million in 2008.
For skeptics who still think this kind of music is a dead-white-male cultural relic, we suggest the very profusion of listening options in repertoire, medium, and listening mode tells us classical is not just very much alive, but a great case study in market evolution.
The common perception might be that given the current economic uncertainty, employees would choose to play it safe rather than chance their luck in a volatile job market, but the study found that MBAs have been willing to risk career moves, with 20 percent of respondents changing jobs, 14 percent relocating and four percent starting their own business.
But, according to a new study, emerging market ETFs may actually have the reverse effect.
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In order to succeed in China, Western Internet companies need to study the China market carefully and understand Chinese culture.
Mr. Boudreaux is professor of economics at George Mason University and chair for the study of free market capitalism at the Mercatus Center.
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Most people on Wall Street, not surprisingly, believe that they earn their keep, but at least one influential financier vehemently disagrees: Paul Woolley, a seventy-one-year-old Englishman who has set up an institute at the London School of Economics called the Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality.
According to a Dalbar study, access to market information may actually hurt the returns of the individual investor.
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Interestingly, while not overtly near-term market-sensitive, a shocker study was released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) Monday.
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The drug was pulled from the market two years ago after a study found that it increased the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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