Through smart strategic moves--and a bit of luck--Johnson Controls is in a sweet spot these days.
Amazon seems to quickly be making more strategic moves to compete with companies that offer similar services.
Still, it all seems in keeping with Mack's strategic moves in the past.
Stellar results like this have come from a series of strategic moves to attract and retain younger, web-savvy shoppers.
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At that point, major players in the defense sector will need to contemplate strategic moves that significantly change the competitive landscape.
It has also trodden gingerly when it comes to grand strategic moves, avoiding the headline-grabbing mergers embraced by so many of its rivals.
The affinity between finance and international strategy is apparent also the other way around, that is, in relation to financial consequences of strategic moves.
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In these two moves alone, Johnson is using strategic moves proven in the past by Sam Walton of Walmart and by Nordstrom department stores.
Starting in 1993 when Lou Gerstner joined IBM and kept the company intact he embarked on a series of strategic moves to increase its services focus.
The plan appealed to some leading figures, including the Director of Naval Intelligence Admiral John Godfrey, who found Hitler's erratic strategic moves hard to work out.
He believes that with an activist investor holding a big block of stock, MeadWestvaco may be forced to make strategic moves to enhance the value of its stock.
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Schwab's strategic moves have mostly failed to pan out financially.
For every Novartis, which had four new drug approvals in 2001, there is a Bristol-Myers Squibb--which, despite making what appeared to be the right strategic moves, has not introduced a brand-new drug since 2000.
While no one in baseball is showing any signs of sympathy for the Yankees and their current roster deficiencies, a few strategic moves could lead them on the path they have desired for some time.
The complexities associated with the management of organizations whose activities take place in multiple and different countries, separated by geographic distance and time, increase the difficulties of observing and making sense of non-financial consequences of finance-related decisions, as well as of the impact of financial decisions on strategic moves.
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In the span of 24 hours this week, the two most important (for now) publicly traded social networking companies in the world, Facebook ( FB) and LinkedIn ( LNKD), each made fairly minor strategic moves that did a magnificent job of highlighting the major differences not only in their corporate identities but why investors have thus far embraced one and abjectly shunned the other.
How Pakistan manages the return of the nearly two million people who fled the fighting will go a long way to determining whether it can solidify the army's gains in the strategic valley as it moves to retake more-formidable Taliban strongholds in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds consistently building quality ball clubs, the Mets need to make bold moves that are strategic and cost effective.
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They urged a rapid expansion of NATO and the development of a strategic relationship with India, moves that paid off in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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As the United States moves to shore up its strategic position in the Middle East and to prepare for military contingencies on behalf of threatened allies there, the Center wishes to reiterate its view that a most urgent priority in such an effort must be the strengthening of U.S.-Israeli ties.
Nonetheless, the non-financial consequences of finance-related moves, as well as the financial implications of strategic choices, are seldom addressed or discussed.
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Iran's offensive moves in Iraq point to one of the most basic strategic complexities of the entire battle in Iraq.
Strategic options allow companies to hint at and execute radical adjacencies, surprise moves into new markets.
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But it is also due to two moves by the airlines, from the 1990s onwards, that in retrospect were strategic errors.
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However, there was increased confidence after strategic measures by regional governments, including the United Arab Emirate's guarantee on bank deposits and Qatar's moves towards supporting its banking system.
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