They span the planet, allocating resources as they see fit and competing to win customers.
When allocating resources, forecasts are manipulated to make defensive investments look better than realistic.
But there are ways that mathematics can be applied to the problem of allocating resources to serve customers.
In corporations, decisions about allocating resources are made by people with a vested interest in the status quo.
For planning and budgeting purposes, and for allocating resources, most Japanese companies have accepted the harsh reality of an historically strong yen.
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Installing your brand on social media is not about choosing one or several social platforms and opening profiles, it is about defining objectives and allocating resources.
Of these, the last is probably the most telling, because it is fundamentally opposed to the idea of the market as the best way of allocating resources.
Capital markets are better at allocating resources than governments are.
The country's technocrats, unfortunately, are still holed up in offices in Beijing preparing detailed five-year plans and directing the workings of the economy, allocating resources, pricing goods and awarding contracts.
By many measures, in the U.S. state governments are not performing at optimal levels and are allocating resources to ends that do not accomplish the goal of maximizing the welfare of state residents.
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Its tools bring together forecasting data gathered from operational administration sources, and merges them for further review and analysis by corporate managers, giving them better data to weigh before allocating resources to a given business initiative.
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Generalizing to some degree, the regulatory assault on the for-profit sector has been propagated by individuals who either have a vested interest in diminishing the role of for-profit colleges, or have an ideological prejudice against markets and the role that profits play in allocating resources.
How Will You Measure Your Life? also stresses the importance of allocating resources in such a way that they match the strategy, starting with tales of woe from giants like Unilever and Apple and segueing into stories of friends whose marriages fell apart due to neglect.
By contrast to the USA, where economic resources are, by and large, amassed by genuine entrepreneurs and allocated by market forces, in EU, economic resources are amassed by Brussels and member-state governments acting as entrepreneurs, allocating those resources by political process.
They can justify allocating more resources if making the acquisition work is the most important strategic initiative.
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On Thursday, the five-judge bench ruled that public good must take precedence over maximising revenue while allocating natural resources.
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This is not known as a notably efficient method of allocating scarce resources.
He insisted that it was important to start prioritising and allocating more resources to speech and language in primary schools.
This would be a much more efficient means of allocating university resources, and would better meet the needs of individual employees.
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It recommends allocating limited resources to the most densely populated areas rather than trying to spread them thinly across the city.
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How about this line: Economics is about allocating scarce resources.
Free markets excel in allocating economic resources efficiently and effectively in the production of private goods, in accommodating the discovery and exploitation of genuine business opportunities, creating wealth in the process.
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With the SEC, CFTC, the FBI, the Dept. of Justice, FINRA, NFA, and the state securities divisions why is the Manhattan DA now allocating precious resources to crime on Wall Street?
When our social sector is successful at moving our attention and allocating more resources up the chain from data to information to knowledge and to wisdom, that will truly be an anecdote worth retelling.
According to The Hill, invitations to the Committee meeting say that the intention is to discuss how the feds are responding to the recent rise in autism diagnoses and allocating government resources for autism, in addition to reviewing treatment options for autistic people.
The costs of providing and managing care, as everyone also knows, can be very difficult to control, and the task of allocating the resources necessary to an effective infrastructure of care is one that the current cartel-like system is not doing very well.
Astute corporations are allocating increasing internal resources to CSR investments that feature clear objectives and deliver measurable social outcomes.
Government auditors say the country has lost tens of billions of dollars by mis-selling or wrongly allocating precious natural resources.
BBC: India court says auctioning natural assets not mandatory
The court was clarifying its earlier order which said the government must follow a competitive bidding process for allocating all national resources.
BBC: India court says auctioning natural assets not mandatory
Black residents tend to live in neighborhoods that have higher crime rates, where the police are allocating more of their resources.
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