In 1984, he was picked to run Houston Natural Gas and engineered a merger with a rival firm in Nebraska to create Enron, which owned the first coast-to-coast pipeline network.
This behavior meant that by the time a rival firm proved that a new market was viable, Motorola would be two years behind the competition and forever a distant follower.
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Though the display resembles a primitive computer game in its blockiness, Dexter Turner, the president of Op Technologies, a rival firm that is developing a similar system, points out that this is quite adequate.
More common are promising molecules that flunk clinical trials and so earn no return at all, or drugs that shine for a few months before being trounced by a better pill from a rival firm.
Three years later the same group is the hottest firm on the Street with client assets and brokers from rival firm flowing in, and all the while providing its struggling Swiss parent company with much needed stability.
Separately, rival dairy firm Dairy Crest is to shut down a processing plant in Birmingham and three distribution depots in Oxfordshire.
Lehman Brothers shares swooned Tuesday, falling as much as 14.5% and touching their lowest levels since the blow up of rival brokerage firm Bear Stearns.
Most important, the agency argued that the landlord had breached the terms of their agreement by leasing space in an adjacent building to Gersh, a rival talent firm.
Part of the dispute revolved around a 750-space underground parking garage that WME would have had to share with a rival talent firm, the Gersh Agency, which had recently moved into a building next door.
In May almost 360 people lost their jobs when rival call centre firm Garlands went into administration.
The proposed merger of Irn Bru-maker AG Barr with rival soft drinks firm Britvic is to be investigated by the Competition Commission.
Cambridge Display dominates the large-molecule segment, having just acquired its main rival, a British firm called Opsys.
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Her instinct was to leave a spot for another VC in part to prevent the firm from backing a rival.
Webvan Group, one of the new online grocers, will benefit from the problems of Peapod, an older firm and its chief rival.
But since EE's 4G announcement, rival networks have sought to undermine the firm's offering.
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Engineering firm Dyson has accused German rival Bosch of placing a mole within its headquarters in Wiltshire.
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An insider jokes that Morgan's underperformance relative to Goldman is a public-relations ploy to ensure that the firm remains more popular than its rival.
The company had also lost its place as the world's biggest employment firm to Adecco, a European rival formed in 1996 by the merger of Adia Interim of Switzerland and Ecco of France.
George W. and his brother Jeb--a Florida real estate investor who was generally regarded as the political comer among the Bush kids--had doubts about Atwater's loyalty because his consulting firm was doing work for Bush rival Jack Kemp.
"This is the most complex undertaking ever attempted in software, " says William Coleman, who cofounded Oracle rival BEA Systems and now runs server-tech firm Cassatt.
The combination would rival Disney as the world's biggest media firm.
Firm X knew about her Monday meetings with rival venture capitalists--and wanted to preempt them.
It has raised more money since its founding in 2003 than any rival in China, according to Preqin, a research firm.
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The South Korean firm has pursued dozens of claims against its rival in courts across the globe, but has only succeeded in a minority of the cases.
Microsoft would love to come to a similar deal with the European Commission, which last month ruled against the firm, and with RealNetworks, another software rival that is suing it.
The firm has also been slammed by resurgent sales at dominant rival McDonald's.
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