Keyword: competition

Banks and Others Base Their Service On Their Most Profitable Customers (8/31/1999)

Under intense competition, banks pamper their best customers.

Keywords: banks, competition, deposit, fees, good customers, price discrimination

Bundle of Sorrows (6/22/2006)

Merger between firms making complementary components might be anti-competitive if the merged company can price their bundled products lower than the independent component makers.

Keywords: antitrust regulation, bundle, competition, complementary goods, components, discount, European Commission, GE, Honeywell, Justice Department, merger, pricing, profit maximization

Commission Rush (5/9/2006)

Excessive entry of residential real-estate brokers has resulted in lowering the median income of brokers rather than the commission rate.

Keywords: commission, competition, excessive entry, median income, real-estate brokers, realtors, tragedy of the commons

Drinking Experience (6/22/2006)

Starbucks commands premium prices for its lifestyle coffee because of its status cachet.

Keywords: coffee, commodities, competition, demand elasticity, Dunkin’ Donuts, experience goods, lifestyle goods, pricing power, service, social status, Starbucks, value chain

Extreme Image Makeover (6/22/2006)

The successful emergence of once-slighted digital cameras has reshuffled the cast of major players in the photography business.

Keywords: competition, complementary goods, digital cameras, disruptive technology, film cameras, flash memory, Fuji, Kodak, Konica Minolta, photography, product category, product differentiation, Sony

From Brands to Generics - No Monopoly, No Competition (7/31/2002)

By providing incentives for brand-name drug companies to fund expensive R&D, temporary patents for expensive blockbuster drugs inadvertently lead to cheaper generic rivals when the patents expire.

Keywords: bioequivalent, brand-name drugs, competition, Generic drugs, Hatch-Waxman Act, monopoly, patent, prescription drugs

Just-in-time Labor Division (1/14/2006)

Low cost contract manufacturing, online coordination among far-flung service providers and Internet viral promotion have propelled many startups into overnight empires.

Keywords: cheap labor, competition, consumer surplus, contract manufacturing, global labor division, instant company, Internet publicity, just in time, just-in-time, Keen, Kidrobot, outsourcing, promotion, shoe, start up, startup, toy

McDonald Toys Inc. (6/22/2006)

McDonald depends on free toys to drum up sales of mature Happy Meals.

Keywords: advertising, competition, McDonald, profit margin, scale economy, Teenie Beanie, tie-in promotion, toys