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For decades, vertical integration meant ownership. According to Michael E. Porter's seminal work Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, companies sought to reduce costs, ...

Anaheim drug maker Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc. is making a move toward “vertical/backward integration” with its buy of a contract manufacturer in Canada. The maker of H.P. Acthar Gel said earlier ...

One of Aesop’s Fables, “The Hen and the Golden Eggs,” was a story of a cottager and his wife who had a hen that laid a golden egg every day. Believing the hen contained a great lump of gold, they ...

Before COVID-19 turned the aerospace and defense (A&D) manufacturing and aftermarket worlds on their heads, a key issue clouding suppliers’ outlooks was how much encroachment to expect from Airbus, ...