Like successful businesses, traditional universities can improve their financial fortunes by realizing scale economies.
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The mere existence of significant scale economies has not forced either to become a true multinational.
This gave Cemex important scale economies, enhanced its pricing power in its home market and parried Holderbank's thrust.
Frankendodd creates a huge regulatory overhead that in turn leads to scale economies.
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It therefore lacks the scale economies enjoyed by the big boys of the truck business, such as Scania and Mercedes.
It knits the acquisitions into the Ahold information network and introduces purchasing and logistics scale economies to the stores its buys.
Manufacturing scale economies were assured because more than 3, 000 planes were to be sold 2, 443 to Uncle Sam and the rest to his NATO allies.
Dealing with a larger and more intrusive government is another example where scale economies can justify a larger sized firm to support these costs.
Not only must companies choose the right locations for long-term growth and scale economies, they must segment and cluster those locations appropriately given the company's specific business model.
"This business rationale is to build critical mass and scale economies in a business that is more and more driven in global economic scale, " he said.
Together the Coke and Heinz bottles share a common materials platform that, as others adopt it, will result in growing scale economies, lower unit costs and more stable materials supply.
But they are gains nonetheless, and they are probably an understatement: no one knows the value of the likely scale economies, productivity gains and extra variety that freer trade brings.
With a combined production capacity of more than 4m vehicles a year, Fiat will also get some vital scale economies for its platforms, powertrains and the electrical components made by its Magneti Marelli subsidiary.
The spread of consumer spending power across China means that a company must constantly expand its geographic footprint--but the requirements of scale make it extremely critical to cluster locations appropriately to ensure competitive scale economies.
Scale economies come into play in other areas, such as reinforcing its brand by making a global marketing effort and helping its bottlers, most of whom are independent, learn from the experiences of their counterparts in other countries.
Noting that average employment per firm seems to have been trending up and that the largest 50 firms increased their asset size as a share of GDP from 70 percent to nearly 130 percent since 1996, The Economist speculates that more firms may have grown beyond a point where scale economies were beneficial.
Up to now, those scale economies of fuel efficiency and of capital cost in these large generating units have been so great as to be able to absorb the additional cost of transmission and distribution and still be lower than any competing form of electrical generation (except of course where plentiful hydroelectric generation could be built).
Given the sovereign debt turmoil in the Eurozone and the approaching debt problems for the US (as the US debt-to-GDP figures escalate over 100% by mid-2012 without accounting for state unfunded pension liability), debtor nations will find it difficult to finance large-scale consumption economies any longer.
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But in the past these new technologies have first found markets in Europe because its market is technologically unified, enabling not only economies of scale but also, and more importantly, economies of network.
Industrial-scale units house thousands of animals, cutting the cost of production through economies of scale.
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As in any declining industry, there are powerful incentives to seek shelter in economies of scale.
But just considering economies of scale actually under-estimates the compliance advantage of large corporations.
So even if economies of scale were infinite, bigger banks would not always be better banks.
Together, the Iranian and Turkish markets might give Proton a chance to achieve economies of scale.
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Companies and organizations coming together to collaborate on innovation, shared visions and economies of scale.
They start tweaking their value chain and pursuing greater efficiency through economies of scale.
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To make any money in the child care business, you need economies of scale.
Cybercriminals tend to seek economies of scale: the easiest attack with the largest number of victims.
Manufacturers expect continued cost reductions though economies of scale and supply chain cost reductions.
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